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Because when bad shit happens, other people have to clean it up.

No. Health and safety is generally a pain that folks have to be coerced into; motorcycle helmets, seat-belts, chainsaw protection, keeping fire exits ...

Free speech? Where do they have to wear them? Sounds more like a health and safety at work issue to me.

So I am English, male, middle class, and white. These are historical and biological facts, but they also have a social meaning. It would be silly for ...

If it became at all widespread, it would have a transformative effect, ending division between 'us' and 'them'. I can't begin to imagine how pleasant ...

It seems fairly obvious that it is neither possible or desirable to discard one's genetic and experiential history. I think it likely that this is not...

You have the paradox backwards; there is no contradiction in knowing of oneself that one is burdened with self, but only a contradiction in knowing of...

Doubt is knowledge the way atheism is a religion.

It's a big topic, and it's called "epistemology". Plato: anamnesis. Descartes: Doubt. Wittgenstein: certainty. Gettier: rational true belief. This is ...

You haven't been paying attention, then.

Yes, I was.

Are these pellets what the poets refer to as 'nuggets of wisdom'?

It's really simple, Harry, I already told you, I meant exactly what I said. I intended to say what I said, and that is what I meant. No, Harry. the me...

There is much equivocation as to what belief consists of. Part of my creed is that I believe in a hearty breakfast, and I don't lose my faith whenever...

Even less can I take credit for that. Have you tried Chinese?

I hardly think I can take the credit for that. Your confusion is internal to you.

As far as I'm concerned, that answers the question quite definitively. Only two thousand years ago, Jesus was preaching. So global warming will perhap...

It is immoral to bring anti-natalist threads into being without their consent; they are inevitably miserable recitations of global negativity, third r...

I haven't said I intended to confuse anyone, and I deny that I intended to confuse anyone. In fact I specified when there had been some discussion of ...

I don't know, what is the bottom limit? Did those words cause any confusion? If so, why? Was there some problem with their reference? Are you followin...

Yes, I thought it was that. But you're not very good at it; mainly you succeed only in frustrating, not confusing.

Yes, what do you use them for?

I meant exactly what I said.

It's a shorthand, don't take it literally. But what I am saying is that the methodological turn of scientific psychology is a turn to treat humans as ...

I'm not sure it's known at all. I fear it may be a bee confined entirely to my own bonnet. I don't think it is a positive thing at all. If you treat p...

Immigrants are usually natives that have moved.

The data has been around for a long time - as long as we've been around to collect it. The prime difficulty is that our psychology is radically altere...

When a Harry spurge psychic dilemma because five sideways, misusing symptom communicates upside. But all that's by the bye; The point is can you under...

It is isn't it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-changing-culture/201510/are-mental-health-issues-the-rise

David Smail, he da man. And he's got my essay on counselling on his website, so a man of taste too.

So your intended meaning causes you to use the word "look" rather than the word "banana" because ... you speak English and know that "look" has the me...

Skepticism. I don't believe it!

"Meaning" can mean intention. But the meaning of a word is not the intention of the word, because words do not have intentions. "Meaning can also mean...

I bow before science because the miracles work.

And would they not do so by seeing what use they made of their sounds? Is conveying concepts not a use? I always like to draw attention to the vast am...

You are clearly in great need of absolution. Try a Catholic website.

I ABSOLUTELY do not. You are confusing being dominant with being domineering. Dominance has nothing to do with appearance, but is simply the fact of a...

I think you're wrong to think I'm wrong. If I am dominant, I don't have to ask if others are submissive, it's not relevant; I am dominant. If one is l...

Really, guys, who cares what women generally are or aren't? What about mackerel? Are they generally dominant or submissive? Are you a man or a fish? S...

It's not a simple yes/no answer, it depends on - everything. Other things being equal, a trade is supposed to benefit both parties, and other things b...

I have to declare an interest here as an ex drug-crazed hippie, But I think you have the right of it, by and large. Schizophrenia is already a conditi...

Frozen is dried? Not in my supermarket.

It's like dried water; really useful, except for the slight drawback that it can't possibly exist.

Good job people don't think that, eh?

Monopolies have nothing to do with it, though they produce other problems. Take food: From here.

Yes, that is rather in my mind at the moment.

That's a very easy question, Question. An ungoverned market will deal mainly in pigs in pokes. To prevent people being poisoned by the food they buy, ...

Why? Rights are themselves cultural innovations. Take property rights for example. They predate the declaration, but the abolition of slavery extended...

You might well disagree with this or at least find it exaggerated to the point of vacuity. Nevertheless, that it makes sense to say it illustrates tha...