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Sometimes they do. but the point of my example is to illustrate the principle of proportionality. One should not risk one's life for something trivial...

I love it when you speak strictly. :love: But loosely, it's a protection racket, eh? You can get behind with your payments, but eventually ...

What is this "point" you speak of as if words can have it in some way - clear or obscure?

And would he be wrong to think that?

Are citizens responsible for the crimes of their leaders? They are, in general, the victims of the crimes of their leaders. That is, to the extent tha...

Ah, if you guys had only participated in my thread on The Laws of Form, you would have discovered that such self contradictory sentences are formed by...

Well back in the day, I was involved with a collective that supported a women's health group that was being trained by a maverick doctor in secret in ...

What makes you think they aren't? Some of us are so smart we can walk and chew gum at the same time! For example:— https://thephilosophyforum.com/disc...

"Look, the other guy does it too." seems like a weak defence in law, and an even weaker justification in political discussion. This principle works bo...

Explains Trump's popularity - he's always there!

We infer it from playing peek-a-boo as very small persons with entertaining adults. You guys have such short memories!

Yes, It's almost as if the Chinese government had planned it. Their population will decline as productivity increases, stabilising at a level their ag...

Yes. That's the nature of prediction. Like the timetable predicts the train times, but sometimes shit happens instead. So ignore the timetable?

I have no proposals. I expect famine, pestilence and war to do the job with maximal disorder and cruelty.

Of course it is not what the science shows. Science models, and models predict, However, the common sense prediction that humans would respond to the ...

Billions will die. The human population will crash. We are in overshoot, and the planet cannot sustain us in our current numbers or lifestyle. The sug...

Come back and say that when you have extinguished your self, o aged fungus.

You may be right. what has Trump said though? https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/13/politics/donald-trump-israel-netanyahu-diplomacy/index.html

If that's the case, your democracy is as hollow as ours, and voting is a farce. One might as well be in Russia., where the war criminal always gets el...

I can tell the difference. And I choose the madman fraudster over the war criminal. Or I would, if I got to choose. And with that ringing endorsement ...

At least you get a choice. In the UK we get to choose between a supporter and facilitator of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and another supporter and ...

It's a hard choice - between a narcissist con man and a supporter and facilitator of genocide and ethnic cleansing. I think I prefer the nut-job mysel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/2021-articles/worlds-largest-study-of-global-climate-related-mortality-links-5-million-deaths-a-year-to-ab...

Sorry, Sloppy quoting on my part. Will adjust.

Therefore there can be no changes in space alone. Therefore your screen is blank and you are me.

Yeah, and when did you stop beating your wife?

You are wrong.

That is very true, and appropriate to this and many other threads too: Ukraine, Palestine. Trump... Stilt would be nice to have a chat about the conse...

No, big oil pays them well.

You'll be banning fish from swimming, next. There's a long tradition of young girls kissing frogs and hoping. It's human nature.

You make him sound almost like a politician!

The golden rule? "Those that have the gold make the rules."

018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kavu_vuD2QM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTZoQ6_h0Q

Teachers of double think are twice as good as ordinary teachers and will raise a whole generation of very stable geniiasses.

017 That first sentence is a fine double knot. LET: "The Hegelian dialectic" = "a reflection of reality itself " LET: "Not the Hegelian dialectic = "a...

016 Time. "There's too much confusion. I can't get no relief." I'm just not having Einstein's block time. He was never reconciled to quantum mechanics...

point of order. Ecosia is my greenwashed google substitute. Get it today, folks, and plant some trees while you search Think e-flux is the publisher. ...

Nevertheless, @"Hanover" is entirely correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WpwHE-d-Y

014 Freedom. Our man is a bit confused about this. That's my impression, anyway. Because the story Hegel is telling seems to make freedom exclusively ...

What is an isolated person in the context of child development? One has to be raised by someone surely - wolves at the least?

Ecosia showed me this, which reassured me I am not entirely alone: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/34/68360/hegel-and-freud/ One commonality is that bo...

013. Master and Slave dialectic. I listened to this twice and really struggled. Reading the text, (in contradiction to my title) the penny dropped, or...

Yes. Climate scientists who get too pessimistic argue themselves out of a job, one way or another. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2022/01/1...

Cheers. Another voice, another perspective. 011 The Hegelian Dialectic Here is a paper on Marxist dialectic as the result of his "inversion" of Hegel....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWUJ8Lvl-U

Have you heard the one about Schrodinger's cat? Ridiculous! how anyone can be scientist after that is beyond me. I would say it is not that intelligen...

There is such a lot to understand here that is very unfamiliar to Westerners. But this one phrase stands out as explaining much about what you have be...

005 - 009 There's plenty of interesting stuff here but I'm not learning anything much about Hegel, so if anyone wants to comment feel free, but I'm go...