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The internet is different from a press briefing though. You cannot put someone on the spot and force them to answer. Professional journalists can be m...

It's about dismantling another political institution - White House press briefings. Dismantling political institutions is one of the core goals of the...

We're off to a good start here. Ah yes, true love. So nice to see someone expressing their romantic feelings without fear of ridicule and judgement. R...

I think I get it too now. If I get the option to switch, that means the game didn't restart. It's less likely I picked the right door initially. But, ...

Doesn't "initial probability" mean irrespective of all later factors? In which case I don't see how it could be anything but 1/3.

You have. It's quite annoying to see you butcher Kantianism in order to make it fit your preconceived notion. But since you blithely refuse to even co...

Not including speech, I presume.

And that is relevant, because the reason you are getting additional information out of the host's decision is that this decision follows a predetermin...

I'd say there would be too much overlap for a general audience. Kantianism is the best-known example of deontological morals, so the basics of deontol...

Presumably, the most profitable option will be to give no concern to AIs, at least initially. The question of what is morally permissible to create is...

This is obvious insofar as it's a tautology - bad things are bad. But that doesn't tell us anything about what "bad" means. I am just asking what we a...

What do we actually mean when we say life is "good" or "bad"? Are we comparing? Is there some sort of objective standard?

How does one prove to be morally superior?

Deontology is a principle according to which a moral philosophy can be built. Kantianism is a specific, deontological, philosophy. But really reading ...

The problem with this vein of argument is that it's currently impossible to produce nearly as much meat "ethically" as would be required to provide a ...

Unfortunately, this isn't an accurate summary of Kantian ethics. Clearly they do not. The word "creation" refers to bringing something into existence....

How is that a false assumption? It's exceedingly obvious both as a matter of logic as well as general language use that only something that does exist...

Are you saying moral rules, especially as they pertain to good governance, are "but sanctimony and snobbery"? Because that would explain a lot.

The alternative I am offering is, essentially, that future people have no moral weight at all. I don't like the implications of that, but I'd like to ...

You cannot just call something "Kantian deontology" without actually looking at Kant's reasoning. There's not even any mention of the categorical impe...

How would you deal with the problem of inflation and with people that have special needs? What makes you confident that this would work? Is there rese...

It changes course by making decisions. You seem to be asking me to explain how decisions "work" in some other terms, that is to reduce them so some ot...

Mental states may well be "constrained" in some way, after all human thoughts tend to follow similar patterns. But what's important to note here is th...

The physical is something that only exists in our heads. How then can we be physical if we contain the physical?

We have a long thread about that already: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6229/on-antinatalism

I gave an example of a law prohibiting insults. The text might even just refer to "insults" in general and that would include speech.

But I am not making up these definitions. One was given by Terrapin, the other is - more or less - an actual law making insults a criminal offense in ...

From your text, you only pointed out that my inclusion of speech is arbitrary, which I did respond to. If you think you have another argument I'd ask ...

I was initially referring to a specific definition Terrapin provided, which explicitly listed speech, so I am not assuming that speech is relevant. As...

That's, frankly, absurd. The act is a) criminal and b) a speech act. According to your logic, the vast majority of laws concerning insults and hate sp...

So calling someone an "asshole" would not be a criminal speech act (we'll assume it's demeaning)?

No, by constituent element I mean something that is part of the actual elements of the offense. Most definitions of robbery are not concerned with you...

Why would it depend on that? I don't see the logic here. If a speech act is, in any combination, constituent element of a crime, it means that this sp...

Insults also don't necessarily require speech. Yet if insulting someone was a crime, it would make certain speech acts (like calling someone an Idiot)...

But the point is there are circumstances (e.g. pointing a gun at someone) where speech can turn into a crime. It's not just speech, but nevertheless t...

And one of these criteria is that a threat is made (by someone, towards someone else, is implied). But the threat can be speech. You also made that ex...

True, but then it's also not someone threatening someone else. It's a dangerous situation. Commonly also called a "threat". The two usages of the word...

I don't think that statement is trivially true. I think it's false due to a category error. Just repeating our respective claims here doesn't get us a...

You're clearly describing speech acts. With specific circumstances, sure, but telling you to repudiate your views is speech, regardless of whether or ...

But it seems to follow that "speech acts can never be illegal" is not a tenable position then. The question that follows is what benefit does a dogmat...

I can indeed. Can you see why the National Wheather service thought it necessary to respond to Trumps tweet that Alabama would be "hit (much) harder"?

OK. But we do agree that the threat itself is still a speech act?

Right. But that leaves only physically manipulating someone's limbs. Not a very common scenario in practice. But you did, in your previous post, state...

I can guarantee you that no-one who isn't already a die-hard Trumpist will believe that. It's very obvious from this side of the ideological divide th...

Well the mind runs on some substrate. When the mind forms, it will inherit some information, along with it's basic functions, from the reality it is f...

What is the definition of politics we're using here? Do we mean politics in an institutional sense, or just action to accomplish our goals?

Since there is a spectrum from influence to coercion, that implies that there is a minimum threshold of control you need to have over someone else's a...

I am ignorant of so many things, I need to be judicious in where I allocate my time. I did give you the opportunity to help out your fellow man by all...

I'd take a lot of things over watching Trump talk for half an hour. So far that seems the only thing he's been doing. Is that what you meant by good j...

You apparently did watch it, so asking you is quicker.