So Trump would like some nazi generals. They did have pretty stylish uniforms. It's not like Trump has any use for unquestioning loyalists who would f...
What I find weird is that looking from the outside, Harris seems to be doing well while Trump seems to get less coherent every day, while waxing poeti...
In general, I would agree. However, I do think that it's going to be hard to address the topic of illegal immigration without some preliminaries on ho...
I wouldn't say that. Tooze does not claim that the entire sequence of events is part of an elaborate long term US strategy. He acknowledges that in Uk...
I see where you're coming from. I think that fundamentally, my personhood in at of itself must be considered an a-priori conclusion. I experience myse...
Yeah but balls aren't self-aware. I am though. Yes fair enough, but I would still argue that even an unconscious mind is a mind. The neuron firings of...
Yes, being a person entitles me to define a person. How else would it work? It's neither incoherent or circular. The argument is quite simply that sin...
But I'm not a dog. I do know what I am. That's one of the things that makes me a person. Indeed there's not. But in that particular conversation, we h...
Yes, because I am a person. And? I didn't claim any brain makes a person. Some brains do though. I did not claim evolution is arbitrary. The concept o...
I don't know, that doesn't strike me as a particularly honest response. Regardless, we can clearly conceive of things that don't physically look human...
A good point, but then resemblance is not a sufficient criterion either, since a dead human body still resembles a person pretty exactly but isn't a p...
One way of looking at this is that "culture" is simply what remains of a statistical difference between two groups once you have eliminated anything m...
And? Once again you leave things hanging by suggesting you have an argument but not making it. So yes I would point to my body and yes there's a causa...
Is this supposed to mean that there's no evidence for personhood? Or are you just hung up on the word "soul"? I've already said I'm not using it to re...
I think that if you conclude that a body without a working brain is a person, you should examine your premises. All those doctors doing organ transpla...
But it would still be me right? You haven't answered the question clearly and I would really like a direct answer. If a cell without a brain is me, th...
So if I'm shot in the head, nothing relevant changes right? It's still me. No different than a broken arm. The DNA of my cells would be the same, most...
It's arbitrary that communication is part of what makes a person? Hardly. Yeah yeah, no-one is in doubt about the biology. But "I" wasn't around, was ...
If they don't respond, you need some kind of other evidence that they're thinking. I think at least some other species need to be considered. Some pri...
An actual person is an actual person. Someone you can meet and talk to, and who responds. Morality ought to concern persons, subjects. I don't see how...
So, if no actual person forms, then how does morality come into it at all? So, argumentum ad populum? I don't know whether I was ever a fetus. I have ...
I'm missing a step in your argument here. I can agree with the first statement, but to get to the second you'd have to establish a duty, in principle,...
Using birth is arbitrary in the sense that it doesn't really match up to the moral situation precisely. There are arguments to be made for using this ...
I mean everyone recognises a dividing line between subjects, which have moral standing and objects, which do not. There is not strictly any empirical ...
What else would a "human being in it's earlierst development" refer to? It cannot refer to the actual person that eventually forms after birth, as tha...
That's begging the question though. The whole problem is that you have to assume that human beings are around as disembodied souls waiting to exist fo...
Why would I be unable to deal with that? Yes most everyone assumed that Russia would easily prevail over Ukraine if it committed serious resources (at...
Oh I agree wholeheartedly. From my perspective what's happening here is that you're showing me a guide to the city of Bordeaux and telling me it's a g...
A note more relevant to the actual situation: Apparently Putin announced a few days ago that Russia is planning to change it's nuclear doctrine: AP Ne...
Yes, obviously. As I pointed out normally this is common sense that does not need pointing out. But since you are constantly twisting everyone's words...
Or your very idiosyncratic perception of events is simply not the same as other people's. I can't think of a specific example for what you're describi...
I didn't say it was the highest priority. It's one common argument. Bodily autonomy is specific to things that affect the physical substance of your b...
I do agree it's a bit of a weird (and perhaps stark) legalistic fiction. But it does highlight an important consideration with bodily autonomy: We gen...
Given that you state in your next paragraph: It seems like you do see the practical reason. Indeed all the hard evidence we have seems to suggest that...
The common argument here is that bodily autonomy is a defensive right - you have the right to refuse interference with your body, but you don't have a...
I don't remember anything of the sort. You're switching back to full on propaganda here. Deciding what your interlocutor is saying sure makes arguing ...
Why are you so convinced that you alone have correctly understood what she was referring to? I'm genuinely confused whether you just don't understand ...
I think the problem here is that you're focusing on the content, the false or misleading statement, when the actual reason to worry about misinformati...
I have always thought that the use of the term illusion presupposes a conclusion that's not supported by the premises. An illusion is specifically a p...
Is that really a necessary conclusion though? Responsibility, guilt, justification are not ontological categories but ultimately human judgements. Fre...
I think most people would sacrifice a person if the stakes were that high. However, the wisdom of the general rule that noone should be sacrificed for...
I'm aware of some regulatory approaches (e.g. by the EU), but they're very general and concerned mostly with data protection, which does not sound lik...
I think a judge's beliefs about a case are entirely personal beliefs. Indeed it's the judges task to do the judging. A judge must be personally convin...
What metric are you using here to assess how "good" a decision is? Well I think you're going to have to elaborate because as it stands it's hard to fi...
You have already quoted the parts of the paper that make clear that it is analysing a course of action where the US intensifies it's efforts. I'm not ...
It doesn't say that. You quoted it yourself, it said the US could become more vocal and increase lethal aid. How, specifically, has the US done either...
I think what we can conclude from this is that self defense cannot be justified without accounting for intent. This, to me, is less a problem with the...
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