Can't be bothered to read actual posts? Thread titles make a good dialogue: What are facts? I am an Ecology MeToo Welcome to The Philosophy Forum - an...
I'd say it's a deal like. It's a ritualised symbolic kiss, and there is no erotic subtext in the versions I've seen. It's not the kind of material tha...
Kissing is not necessarily sexual. I kinda think when Grandma kisses a sleeping infant, it's not sexual - unless it is. Or when she kisses farewell th...
So breasts are attractive but not exciting. Then semi nakedness does not excite male passion and does not lead to rape, which I think counts as "doing...
Can I suggest that it is the obsessive covering of breasts that makes a glimpse so exciting. "In olden days a glimpse of stocking..." Why are beards n...
This comment alerts me to the fact that you are distinguishing healthy and toxic shame. But elsewhere, you seem to forget that healthy shame exists. I...
I am deeply ashamed of my inappropriate emotional manipulation, but shame on you for shaming me. You at least should know better. ;) I think that your...
Indeed. 'Crusade' is perhaps a tad hyperbolic, but it seems inevitable in a topic like this that there will be some unpleasantness. Nobody has been bu...
Like the man said, it's all about context. If the context is The Last Leg, a show hosted by disabled comics, disability jokes and gross insults betwee...
Well you are certainly acting injured, but it brings me no satisfaction, at all. Funnily enough, I had thought that at least the second half of my pos...
You've had a straight answer. Don't be so paranoid. Having espoused zero tolerance, I wished to clarify that my zero tolerance was a social matter mor...
Is it a fine line, or is it apples and oranges? Perhaps you can point to where I said that? But am I talking to rational people? If I was, I would exp...
No, we treated the whole world to the benefits of our superior civilisation, sometimes against a little resistance, and with insignificant input from ...
Yes, but it might have value otherwise. If I say I believe in truth, justice and love, It is not that I believe that these things prevail as a matter ...
Yes, I agree that is her point, and I agree that some shit is smellier than other shit. There are grades of it. But it all belongs in the toilet, and ...
If one throws a brick at a sheet of ordinary glass, one is unable to make precise predictions about how it will shatter. One can be pretty confident t...
When I was a lad in days of yore, there were a thousand schoolboy jokes about the foolishness of the Irishman, always called Paddy,who always worked o...
Well in the sense that the authoritarian stance is so ubiquitous that even you seem to think it is a natural attribute of science, it is inevitably im...
More so of the sciences than the humanities. There is no place in science for 'Believe me, I know because I'm a teacher/authority.' Prove it, demonstr...
Less of that 'we enlightened' if you please. :D The enlightenment is a disease I refuse to catch; as a direction of travel, it is a fine and noble thi...
But, but ... Here's some radical claim: there can be no dialogue severed from truth, because there would be no connection between one speaker and the ...
It always puzzles me why people are quite contented with the dictum that you can't get an ought from an is, but discontented with the dictum that you ...
That's what I'm getting at. The change I want to make is to create a way of interacting that is not building empires You say I must play empires to st...
No. I don't want to start a movement, not everyone does, I don't need capital etc. I don't want to play monopoly, or empires, I want to play happy fam...
I might want to add a few more provisos, but suppose someone doesn't want to become wealthy and influential, suppose they want to teach, or nurse, or ...
Ok, an outline... Ag's individualism is empowering to each individual, whereas the sociological view is disempowering. (non absolutely). However, the ...
If it were a startlingly new perspective, one might uncritically applaud the goal, but the amoral sociological perspective is the spectacles 'we' have...
If one happens to wear specs, this can easily enough be managed, but removing one's eyeball to examine it is not so sensible. Instead, use the mirror ...
You seem to want to distinguish between xenophobia justified in terms of nature, and xenophobia justified in terms of nurture. But both can only be ju...
If you only look in one place, you will only see one thing, and you might be under the impression that writing, paper, printing, decimal notation, sug...
No it's not a society built on laws, it's a society built on the violent oppression of some by others. And you are not concerned about the plight of w...
It's all about common sense. Sometimes it really is harmless. But the testimony of thousands and thousands of women is that quite a lot of times it is...
Yes, but it seems you are not so troubled by the greater injustice of the status quo, to which the mob is a rough and ready balance. The situation whe...
The same way one decides what is up and what is down. Sometimes it can be difficult, but usually it's bloody obvious - just look where the shit lands,...
This. People don't want to hear about stuff, because it is painful and they might have to change. I don't know the dude, but he is saying what needs t...
The Sun's appreciation of a large pair of tits has never been in question, but it is not my go-to source for an understanding of sexual politics. http...
Wasn't Schopenhauer a student of Eastern philosophy? The Useless Tree - Chuang Tsu Shih the carpenter was on his way to the state of Chi. When he got ...
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