Seeing how the bit from the video is focused entirely on a first impression, where personality never enters the picture, I don't see how it could show...
This kind of thinking might be related to a pervasive cultural trend to treat all kinds of relations as commerical relations, could it not? In which c...
Sure, prejudice of this kind is hard to avoid, though it's possible to be aware of it. But it's hardly a guarantee of a specific outcome. Beautiful pe...
You can play all kinds of word games like this, but none of this actually serves as an argument that all representation must be intentional. You're ju...
"Representer" is a word you just made up, and phonetic similarity to "representative content" isn't an argument. The term "representative" denotes a r...
This premise is about "awareness" and much of the argument following is about "knowledge", but you don't seem to define either term here. You seem to ...
Yeah, but "life", by which you presumably mean the process of evolution, is dumb. It needs diversity to survive because it cannot and does not predict...
If I'm allowed to let my imagination just run wild a bit, here's one way things might have turned out: Some HG bands return to the same locations fair...
So let me simulate a little conversation between our two positions: I say: Bread is important for people, I think people should have a right to bread....
Does it work this way for other rights? Doesn't restraining or injuring or even killing someone who is about to kill someone else violate their genera...
I'm not sure I find this really convincing. After all that mistrust of strangers would seem to work just as well without such rigid thinking. But perh...
The universe that is the model in our minds can not be, because we cannot list an infinity of things. That does not mean that that which is ontologica...
I was more thinking of things like black and white in-group / out-group thinking, the halo effect, and the tendency to treat admissions of mistakes as...
But you narrow the extend to that right to a few specific cases. You don't delineate a general right of free self-expression of actualisation. You're ...
I did not want to claim that we have a similarly unique tendency towards hierarchy, only that we also have this tendency, which seems to explain a num...
Has he not given me the right? Everyone has the right to force other to respect what's theirs. So since everyone can demand respect from everyone else...
Well, AFAIK, HG societies do have hierarchies, they're just relatively flat and come with little coercive power. Humans seem to have evolved pretty cl...
It's flawed because it's vague and you're not supplying any argument for why we should accept your conception of compulsion, why it should be avoided ...
From your previous posts, you seem to only be concerned with certain types of compulsion, where I cannot threaten someone with a slap on the face, but...
But who could be convinced by such a viewpoint? I don't think you can even live according to a standard of "all compulsion is bad", unless you are a h...
It has nothing to do with needing to do it. I want to do it. So do most other people. Most people prefer a technological civilization with all their c...
It should perhaps be noted that the alternative to money is not bartering - bartering presupposes a basic notion of money, though not necessarily of c...
But that's not true in historical terms. Power has repeatedly be decentralized as well. The idea that individual actions are unchecked until a law con...
And that's perhaps the answer to the question of why statism reigns. States may be historically contingent, but they're not an accident, and if we loo...
Us, hopefully. I really can't make heads or tails out of this kind of criticism. Yes history exists. Do we have any other options apart from starting ...
I don't know. This seems like the reification of a category to me. History is driven by the contingencies of situations and the long-term evolution of...
Ethnicities are socially constructed though. It sounds like you're arguing some kind of "ethnic essentialism" where the world can only ever consist of...
Theft and robbery rely on a distribution of goods sanctioned by some higher authority. "People who like the state are servile and obedient". Yes, nice...
You always face consequences for your decisions. How much those impact you depends on your circumstances. If you're well off and live a sheltered enou...
Yes, you may have "options" but that doesn't make spending the money in any way optional. The landlord, the train you take to work, the supermarket yo...
Censorship is the suppression of ideas before they can be disseminated. The ideas that are supposedly being censored by the "left wing woke pc brigade...
You can also evade the tax authorities and live in a cave. Theoretical options abound. But you must eat, have shelter, etc. So in a practical sense yo...
I'd say the analysis would have to be multi-dimensional. As @"tim wood" pointed out, a stereotype is always impermissible in the context of a formal, ...
Technically VAT is paid by the store, they just add it to the price. And indirect taxes like VAT are trash and ought to be abolished except for specif...
Your philosophical training was apparently insufficient to distinguish a reference from an appeal to authority. But it is quite obvious that you have ...
Piketty argues that seeing it merely as "people voting against their interests" is mistaken. Every system is propped up by ideology as well. The ideas...
Oh yeah, that's an even better story. You're right. Mostly because this debate is a microcosm of debates about economic policy elsewhere. Very little ...
The problem is you're basing your views on your ignorance. A lot of things "seem" to you this way and that, which is a nice way of saying you don't re...
It's genuinely baffling to see someone so confidently make an argument from ignorance. It's bad because it damages social cohesion, in ways that are a...
I have pointed out elsewhere that inequality is not simply "different outcomes". But regardless, the problem isn't that some theoretical amount of ine...
Well that's essentially what I mean by ideologically motivated ignorance. It wasn't intended as a personal insult. I have my own ideologically motivat...
Oh the middle class isn't growing right now, but it was essentially invented in the mid 20th century, a period of high tax rates. Yeah, I understand t...
That's because the left you are talking about are not the left they were 40 years ago. Taxation can absolutely work to combat inequality, and has done...
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