Yeah, I don't troll on this forum, not much at least. I don't know what point you're disagreeing with but the reality is that you cannot control the t...
Even within lies, you can find worthwhile truths. I'm happy to troll people if I think that there's no chance of having a reasonable discussion with t...
Money is important to most people but money does not only represent material wealth. Travelling, hobbies and the freedom to do what you want to do bes...
Across many areas of life, people try to find sense in the senseless, particularly by rationalising motivations and perspectives and suicide is the sa...
Yes, those studies are linked to gun access and guns make suicide easier. That's one takeaway. "The human narrative" probably says all I need to hear,...
What I think is that many philosophers tend to romanticise the motivations for suicide. People are selected for suicidal thoughts, they do not decide ...
Well, I was not talking about white privilege but identity. For white privilege, it's a pernicious and toxic term. The first important point is that "...
The problem here is not identifying obvious physical attributes like race or gender, nor is it that people think they have significance. The issue is ...
Racial histories and your prejudice against different races are not "truths", they are interpretations. Doesn't appear that many people on this forum ...
So you are essentially conceding that my approach is more practical - in that you have said that a racially focused solution is not the way to go. Wha...
Are you talking about helping the old lady across the street? Empathy has its place and sure, easy to do kindness is a fine thing but in a thread disc...
I don't ignore history, I don't believe in racial histories. I despise racists and people who believe in racial histories. I do not want to overturn t...
"The desire to do good" is similarly not a noteworthy counterweight to other human motivations. People are hypocrites, of course, you say "help people...
You are lecturing us on history and telling me that people's opinion is a result of their whiteness. As if you're the only person here who knows about...
I believe you just gave a lecture on how it's wrong not to view things racially or else we've forgotten about centuries of racism. "Let's be fair now"...
Nobody chose to be born white or black but you choose to judge them based on whether they're white or black. There's a difference between a racist and...
I see what you're saying, honestly, I feel that you're just being slightly contradictory. You agree with NOS4A2 about focuses on race leading to racis...
Institutional discrimination and economic redistribution are two different things, two separate things. You are right that it doesn't seem that likely...
Between the radical right-wing being free to publicly utter their hate speech and the radical left-wing dictating what can and can't be said by their ...
I made a thread which was more or less about this topic a while back https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5128/empathy-is-worthless-for-understan...
The ideal world in my mind is one where everyone is encouraged to do what is in their own best interests but that their pool of options is one that wi...
If your opinion changes when we have capital to redistribute then I don't get it, reparations will require capital to redistribute as well. Your story...
Granted we've got the okay to do some economic redistribution, If you or I listed the pros and cons of reparations and listed the same for economic re...
Yeah, honestly, instead of going down the rabbit hole of debating pernicious feminist intersectionality theories, I'm going to climb back out before i...
I'm gunna change my tune here, I suppose you can call white privilege whatever you want. Feminist rhetoric about each and every white advantage, I fee...
I don't think white privilege is a term used to describe the differences in perspective or character between whites and coloured people. The term even...
Quite an absurd response, black people need to be aware that cops will be more likely to shoot them and if they're not aware they are in mortal danger...
ISIS is a poor example that you keep going to as their narrative is characterised by a call to jihad - violence. I have said I do not approve of incit...
I was talking about the government - to go through every context, each one needs to be dealt with individually. The government needs to protect free s...
Not really, it's only important if you focus on racial differences. If a person is just a person and not a white person or a black person then you can...
When I look at the West today, it seems to me that free speech shouldn't be taken for granted at all. Criticising religions like Islam is already hard...
True, it's a shame that inherent advantages exist, it wouldn't be that way in an ideal world. We don't live in that world, obviously. The concept of p...
You're a dangerous person, you want to ban hate speech - and criticism of religion and ideologies? Criticism is hate speech? This is the heart of the ...
Let me tell you that if you want to tell me you're coherent and I'm the problem, your clarification should at least look somewhat similar to your OP. ...
I'm describing political activism, not social disapproval which is a separate thing and doesn't lead to anything I listed. It's not just political act...
It's just how things are and I said it only to show that "begging" is really not a response to racism/sexism. You want real talk but you respond to cr...
OP, I've really got no idea what you're talking about. You said that there's other forms of discrimination besides racism and then you said some forms...
"The pure, unbridled truth" is what you want but you read people like Nietzsche? Philosophy is more like orientating yourself in an immaterial world t...
Whether or not you value you it is rather inconsequential but whether the government/society acts like they value it or not has extensive implications...
Morality cannot be discussed with just anyone, if you believe morality is subjective then there is no point in discussing it with those who believe it...
"True belief", "what do we really know?" and "beliefs about what one knows versus knowledge" are words that just muddy the water. I do think I underst...
What matters = subjective, decided by the individual, the nuances of the argument also matter or don't matter, decided by the individual. Without indi...
Perfection is defined as a result of an evaluation - these evaluations are described differently by different people with different contexts. Without ...
Solipsism isn't a question of being able to prove or disprove something because in order to entertain the concept you really need to refuse to take yo...
I don't understand your comment, nihilism is an indiscriminate view and places all claims of objective meaning into the same category. That you separa...
So what your ideas are better than others, is basically what you're saying. Just as all others with their own idea of what matters, self-assuredly con...
Subjective meaning clearly exists but the position that there is no objective meaning is correct. You have taken up an interpretation surrounding the ...
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