On reflection, and with the benefit of hindsight etc, I have slightly mislead some folks with the Kevin thing. It was a bit of wordplay - nobody died....
Well we agree about being as hands off as possible. In fact all the mods agree about that, because modding is tricky, thankless and tediously time-con...
BC would make a good moderator. Not so much for his philosophical expertise, but for his social and communication skills. We agree about something aga...
Dude, you annoy me to fuck, but I love you like an oyster loves the grain of sand that produces a pearl. I wish you would be a little more considerate...
I don't think that is a good policy, for two reasons. 1. It can't be done; some people are more tolerant of abuse than others. Typically it is a learn...
Have I offended you, or are you a gratuitous shit merchant? I am doing my best. Clearly it has been and continues to be inadequate. Perhaps you can he...
Well some stuff has happened; John Harris has been banned. Lots of comments, and most of them caring and careful. I can't respond to everything, excep...
By hypothesis, that is everyone's thought. The question is though, are you allowed to say so in public, remembering that Kevin is reading this thread,...
I think it's important, but... R D Laing come to mind, with his talk about rules that include a rule that the rules cannot be talked about. No one act...
I am so old that I can remember when the facts of chromosomes were not known. In those days the determining facts were genital not genetic. And they d...
That is a very clear way of expressing things. There is a package called normal whereby if you have a penis then you have short hair, wear trousers, h...
Yes, that's interesting. As if the private and public personas may be the same or opposed. I suppose I was wondering to what extent it is a self-consc...
Let's move on from sexuality to the topic of gender. Perhaps the easiest way to get a handle on this is to consider gender roles. wiki It's a long art...
Yes, indeed. Hopefully we do not need to argue about the notion of fact here. But a reasonable example that one could use is that of sex and gender. W...
But what you haven't said at all, despite many polite requests, is what you mean by 'psychological'. I learned it while at university studying psychol...
I would say that preferences are generally psychological rather than physiological, which is to say that they are states of mind. Sexual orientation i...
No, I know what I mean quite well; what I want to find out is what you mean when you say being Gay or straight is not psychological. You claim to disa...
Well you put the question, and I gave it the best meaning I could. Since I have erroneously mistaken your meaning of the term 'psychological' to be op...
Well perhaps you can elucidate what it means for something to psychological as distinct from physiological, where physiological is a body and/or brain...
Once you add body to brain, every state is physiological, and the distinction between physiological and psychological collapses. Which makes both your...
Well it isn't a physiological state, so I suppose it must be a psychological state. But there seems to be a conflation in the thread of sexual orienta...
Myths are frequently controversial issues. Personally, there are things I don't find worth discussing, and anything is controversial to someone or oth...
I'm not sure what your point is. There's nothing I want to disagree with in what you say, but since you don't mention social constructs... Ok, I'll pl...
Don't contradict my fantasies, peasant! Being trampled stands for what happens to you when you deny a social construct, which is that society rides ro...
Well there is no outside to society for humans, just as there is no air outside the atmosphere. But there is air outside a hurricane, and there is an ...
Of course. Indeed the politician is more caught up in the construct of power and governance than the peasant. When the buffalo are stampeding northwar...
Too many 'isms for my tiny brain; time for a break. But when your bridge/river collapses, who you going to call - a social engineer, or a structural e...
Right. In my view this is a misunderstanding of the normal meaning of 'social construct', which does not mean 'stuff we made together'. I'm happy to c...
I don't understand. In what way is a river the product of our activities? It's all talk on this thread. Nevertheless, what my talk of 'rivers' is inte...
That seems an odd thing to say. A beaver constructs a dam and thereby constructs a lake and diverts the river. The Olympic Committee constructs an art...
The story told from a woman's point of view makes no sense at all. Procreation is something a man does, and a woman becomes. 'Why do it?' makes sense,...
The notion of cause requires time, because cause has to precede effect. It follows (as effect follows cause, or as conclusion follows argument?) that ...
Like the myth of Oedipus? Or Narcissus? I think the unconscious is an unknown known, and one neurologist's woo is as flakey as his brother's. Religion...
C. No suffering thing wants to suffer. I can't be bothered to draw the diagram, but label your circles 'living things', 'things that suffer', 'things ...
You're missing the point. We're unique, bats, and stars, and fish are unique. What is advanced and what is retarded depends on where one is going; and...
But through stars, it has achieved hotness, and through fish it has achieved swimming. To convince a fish, you need an argument that self-awareness is...
I watched it. I already read the story, heard a radio adaptation, and saw at least one other film version. A real classic, and that was a suitably atm...
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