Does justice exist? Is life fair? Life is patently not fair, and in the sense that justice does not prevail, it does not exist. It exists though, to t...
So you might be able to decipher that I am a poster on a philosophy forum, and yet not know what I had for breakfast this morning. Smart dude, Kant, I...
I am advocating an absolute defence in law for the right to tell the truth. If you speak the truth I defend your right to free speech. But you don't s...
If you think your call out on twitter will change the judiciary or any other thing, then you are sadly deluded. If twitter even had a reputation for h...
If the judges are corrupt as a whole, there is no solution. If everyone lies all the time, there is no discernible truth. If you are telling the truth...
The story you tell is rather inconsistent; limitations on the freedom of speech are always limitations on speaking the truth in the interests of lies ...
And you are wrong. But there is no problem with you expressing your opinion on any media. You have lost the truth as even a concept, and been reduced ...
So you are saying - that my talking about the importance of truth is irrelevant, because neither side values the truth? You are complaining because I ...
Truth cannot be established, because it has historically not been sufficiently valued, has not been protected, and rewarded, but has been betrayed and...
Are we having a conversation? I don't understand what you are saying. Americans cannot agree about their elections and do not trust the results. Their...
I assume you think that, and by and large I disagree. Obviously I cannot totally disagree. But I think we can, and that we need to, find the truth, ag...
I'm absolutist about freedom to speak the truth. If there is a fire, shout fire, publish and be damned! Freedom to lie, to make promises and not keep ...
This is the way of facts. My keys are in my pocket. This is a true fact because my keys are in fact in my pocket, and that is the truth. It is self-ev...
That's a bit complex; here is not really the place to go into it, but very briefly, identification is making a connection of identity of any sort I am...
It's a fairly simple language and has many root words in common with English, because the last invasion of the French was never repelled. Far from bei...
One projects oneself into the future, and identifies with the imagined future self. Thus hope and fear arise together as acts of imagination - one fea...
"Taking candy from a baby is wrong." has the grammar of a proposition, but it does not have the meaning of a proposition. It has the meaning of a comm...
I don't think it's irrelevant. It explains that, and why, murder is wrong but war is right, why there are the moral strictures there are and how they ...
What does it even mean for a moral claim to be correct? "You ought not steal candy from a baby." certainly doesn't mean you don't steal candy from a b...
No, I am not there. No I am not commenting. I am elsewhere and resisting.You reduce me to the words and then point out the contradiction, and that is ...
Poetry seeks to overcome the weakness of words - easily given, but sometimes as easily broken - by invocation. One calls into being something that was...
A bit of good news -ish. photosynthesis reducing the CO2 levels in the ocean and potentially allowing more absorption from the atmosphere as currents ...
The argument is that moral claims are never true. But notice that truth is a value. In the world of thought and words, truth is the value. A lie may h...
I used to keep a cow, and there are two rules in the safety manual. 1. Don't stand between the horns and the wall. 2. don't lie down between the hoove...
And then there is silence for a moment, until the answer is given: "It stops." And when the answer is given, it is clear that it has not stopped. And ...
I am an anarchist, and as such, I do not accept that there is any rule preventing the making or imposing of rules. If you don't want to obey anyone el...
I have more than 50 discussions, and I cannot remember ever having a poll or a question. If you don't want a question or a poll, I think the trick is ...
I tend to disagree. But my point is that there is a natural understanding of intent relating to deliberate acts and unintended but perhaps foreseeable...
We inflict collateral damage, which is an unfortunate and unintended consequence of our military humanitarian efforts. They murder innocent civilians....
That should help stabilise the population, and improve sexual morality at the same time. I hear the Dogger bank has already gone under - something to ...
I don't think it's completely a matter of class, but also, and perhaps more so, of occupation. If a life-guard fails to save a drowning man, we tend t...
Ever since Machiavelli, the morality of the rich and powerful has been completely different to that of the folk. We do not judge them by our own stand...
That is a strange island you live on. It looks a bit like the Americas with that canal between. Greens are necessarily fascists. People are dumb and h...
It's going to decrease, not increase. It would increase if there was more land than ocean, but there isn't. All the land is islands, big or small, and...
Me too. Text is linear, a journey with a beginning and an end; but a map is an infinity of potential journeys, each a different tale, that the-map rea...
Time for some more outrageous propaganda. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/getting-closer?fbclid=IwAR1Wvtzz3bT3Ar_x8sSuPtpwSEQWxIF4KLIQhuylm64j...
Arne Naess. Contribution studiously ignored. Audre Lorde. Contribution studiously ignored. But what did the Romans ever do for us? https://www.youtube...
Contribution to what? Curiously, the list of the great and the good so far on the thread seems to leave out the philosophers of environmentalism, of f...
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