Ah, so this whole spiel about Gandhi and whether or not truely "peaceful" protest is possible was just some cover for you soapboxing about how BLM is ...
So, is this about protest movements in general or about specific protests? If the latter, I think it'd be helpful to know the context, as you see it, ...
One might well argue that without and underlying threat of a less peaceful alternative, a peaceful protest is not a protest at all. This does not nece...
It's weird to use the term "authority" here, because it specifically invokes the argument from authority fallacy. Now it's only a fallacy in a deducti...
But you should be allowed to pool your money to buy fighter jets and bomb some people into submission as retaliation for the past and present deeds of...
Yeah that's interesting data. Thanks for posting the quote. The percentage of laypeople who (consciously or otherwise) subscribe to some form of corre...
Not really. Noone denies that you still have free will if I put a gun to your head and ask you to hand over your wallet. You can choose death, after a...
I'm not starting an argument. I'm ending yours. But your earlier said this: Why don't you tell is what your axioms are regarding countries, the morali...
It's ironic to the point of hilarity (you know, if the topic wasn't dead children) that you criticize the notion of "countries" and "ownership" and us...
In lieu of a definition of "fact" set out in the OP, I went with what I consider most close to a layman's understanding of the term. Fact is a common ...
What are facts? There are many theories on the subject, but put in deliberately simple language I'd say the defining characteristic of a "fact" is thi...
It's weird to claim that responsibility for the effects of your actions is an "exception to free will". This seems to assume the "free" in "free will"...
All quite true. Institutions are really at the core of democracy, and not necessarily just those we usually associate with politics. Lots of agreement...
Sure. It's just interesting that the principles that it specifically enumerated did not include something so central to the US (not just the US of cou...
Government is meant to execute the will of all members of the population. Because there wills will never overlap completely, it should find compromise...
Here's a thing to keep in mind: if everyone who disagrees with you looks biased and dishonest to you, it's exceedingly likely you are yourself biased ...
See you would be more convincing as an advocate against police brutality if you didn't feel the need to point to "circumstances" of George Floyd's arr...
Obviously, all facts should impact the evaluation. But then one can do good things in one area and bad things in another, and those don't cancel out. ...
These refer to different kinds of inquiry. Tertuillian was a theologian, and his position is essentially preaching. Aristotle is more referring to an ...
That's a bit like saying wetness is forced upon water. It is true that every individual finds themselves embedded in relations which they are not able...
I don't know what it means to have "no useful concept of self-realisation". Who has a useful concept of self-realisation and where did they get it? I ...
I never label entire countries or people as "evil". I have opposed such views in this thread. But to say that morality doesn't properly apply in the c...
If the greeks had wanted to keep it, they should have done a better job with their empire. Not the Turks fault they lost most of their empire to some ...
That's an absurdly transactional view of morality, imo. Morality doesn't apply based on some tit for tat where your wrongs are covered by those of som...
Because the mosque just happens to be on temple mount. No religious significance whatsoever. Is "true philosophy" the name of your stand-up-comedy rou...
Both. That should be obvious, right? No-one seriously believes people are either 100% in control all the time, or never in control. The basic principl...
Why are you bringing up the abolition of private property? I was responding to your claim that "wealth redistribution is an emotion-based knee-jerk re...
On the one hand, you insist on a historical perspective, on the other hand you write of anti-Semitism as some disease that suddenly infected the regio...
Just because it's intuitive to many doesn't mean it's wrong. From a democratic perspective, there is majority support for wealth distribution almost e...
Meanwhile, the Manchester Guardian bafflingly headlines this as "Israel air and ground forces hit targets in territory as death toll climbs". A very r...
There are no strict content standards here. In fact most of it is laypeople arguing with varying degrees of knowledge and rhetorical ability. Some rea...
It's true that callous disregard for human life in pursuit of ideological purity is often a hallmark of revolutionaries (the ones that ended up in pow...
Why not? Because the optics are more important to you than lifes? Because you can't bring yourself to face the reality? It's not out of concern for th...
And what you want is for people to just die. You want more people to be killed, either because you like people dieing, or because you cannot face the ...
No, what I want is practical measures. "Civilized" doesn't come into it. Once again we're doing theater. Should I preface all my posts with a denuncia...
No, I understand the implications of my own words precisely - that it's better to die rather than to die and cause more pointless death on the way. I ...
I'm sorry, I though you were going to show me where I said I'd prefer Palestinians to "lay down and die in silence"? But of course all you can offer i...
True. Now it's only one tiny step from this conclusion to the realisation that yes, it actually matters whether or not the rocket attacks help. But th...
So, does firing rockets at Israeli cities help actual Palestinians, or does it simply kill them faster? Does saying that Israeli citizens are "in the ...
And yet you found it necessary to lie about me repeatedly. Weird to lie about nothing. Oh and also you fantasized about lining me up against the wall ...
You're the one who insists I'm "enabling genocide", that I'm sitting in some ivory tower, divorced from the actual situation. You tell me how what I'm...
I'll just repeat what I said: Do you imagine that calling me names and fantasizing about committing violence is somehow helping? Ah yes, I'm just a sy...
I don't see how you imagine that attributing to someone the "right" to commit useless violence helps them. That's precisely where it takes place. I'm ...
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