Right. So the only important countries in the world are the USA, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark. I guess Asia doe...
The "lying is always wrong" example Marchesk brought up is commonly used in this way. Let's assume you have a deontological moral philosophy that argu...
Exactly, though that particular example is also a cautionary tale about how easy it is to misunderstand a philosophy if you only look at a thought exp...
The way I see it, that kind of thought experiment is more a tool to check how the moving parts of a philosophy work in extremis. If the result is absu...
I didn't. Though your blustering is amusing. So when you said you liked arguing, what you meant was you like to insult people? What does that have to ...
This is a case in point, isn't it? If your goal is to offer harsh criticism, what may end up happening is that in your efforts, you misunderstand. And...
But leftists don't say that you're not allowed to think about postal voting corruption. They're saying there is no postal voting corruption, which is ...
Talk about ego. This reads very much like self-aggrandizement, displaying yourself as some paragon of truth and reason because you're harsh. What you ...
The issue I see with your line of reasoning is that it seems to me that if someone is hell bent on torturing you for eternity, and has the means to do...
Are you familiar with the concept of belief in belief? If this was any other topic, I'd say you asking the question is a performative contradiction, a...
We are here, yes, but none of us got here on our own. We are social animals and if we're talking of "us" as a species, our social structures predate u...
No, that's not my argument. We are social creatures, and probably do a lot of signaling. My argument is that you have no reliable way to establish whe...
Sure, it makes sense that masks made out of normal cloth don't block viruses. It also makes sense that they alter the pattern of aerosol that you are ...
This may have to be addressed before talking about the evolution of logic, since it may be that logic is not actually a capability that evolved separa...
Not something you missed, but two things that I think are useful to keep in mind when dealing with the "named fallacies" are: 1. There is technically ...
I guess it depends on what we're doing. For large groups and general trends, I think a discussion by laymen can be useful. The more personal you're ma...
I'd like to know what methods you'd practically apply to figure out if someone is virtue signalling or not. Short of them outright telling you that's ...
Because it's usually done in a dismissive manner and amounts to little more than an ad-hominem. Can you answer the question or are you just virtue sig...
It seems like the best strategy is to avoid using hasty generalisations like that in the first place. It's not like you cannot debate the pros and con...
The great thing about labeling behaviours as "virtue signaling" is that you get to identify the signaler as a hypocrite and can dismiss both them and ...
That is what I was thinking of, yes. Not necessarily a radical scepticism, more a methodological approach. But perhaps that's only true of parts of ph...
Everyone withdrawing their government bonds would cause total chaos and very serious economic damage. So your statement that it "wouldn't be worse" is...
The scientific method seems to have a pretty good track record. There are the basic rules of logic and of honest argument, which also seem pretty stab...
Right, so if the state owes me 1000 bucks, I get, say 100gc immediately. So the state prints money to immediately pay off all debt, but that will just...
How does that work though? If you could just print a new currency to repay bonds, governments would have done so already. Where does the value of the ...
It seems incredibly complex and I cannot see what the practical value is supposed to be. Perhaps you could add a paragraph or two on just what you're ...
If the goal is to better understand people that have a different perspective, I think what's missing here is a sense of personal emotional investment....
As interesting as that is, what is the actual argument here? Because my perspective is clearly limited in my experience. So if one wants to claim that...
That's a difficult point to prove though. How do we know what animals desire? Aren't we simply anthropomorphising animals by ascribing human-like desi...
It is odd. The normal Trump strategy would be to switch to some other miracle drug once discouraging evidence becomes undeniable. And then of course l...
That would depend a lot on what you think a "thought" is. Is there abstract content to thoughts or are thoughts intrinsically linked to a person? We c...
So is this based on a "we're going to fix things once they're impossible to ignore" attitude, where we'll just scrape by on incremental improvements i...
Thanks for the reply. I can agree with a bunch of the criticisms pointed out. I think it's problematic to accuse the filmmakers of "making the oil ind...
Not sure if that is what you are looking for, but if I let my brain's pattern recognition take over for a bit here, there seem to be (at least) three ...
But, then the question is: How is that different to just believing what you want to believe? Saying that "it's detectable, but we don't yet have the n...
That's exactly the performative contradiction i have been talking about. You claim to believe something, but you act as if you didn't. This suggests t...
The colouring scheme on that is super confusing. Instead of having a single scheme, they average it out per region. On a quick glance, it looks like t...
Yeah but is it the reference point? I don't see how we could know that there aren't other reference points we don't have the same kind of access to. A...
We're running in circles here. You keep insisting that everything is contained in a single FPP. I keep asking for a justification. How do you know the...
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