My observation was about the way Augstino treats two prominent female posters who disagree with him. He seems to attack them with more fervour, like t...
It's a bit more complicated than that. I appreciate you aren't supporting everything he says, but there is a way you sort of are. Take all the concern...
I wasn't talking about flawed appeals to popularity or authority. Whether all or even any women think someone is sexist is not the measure of they are...
I would venture to say that is because Agustino is sexist. In this case, I want to move away from asking whether a particular statement he says is sex...
Then why are you making arguments like it is? What relevance does whether some women on TV denounces Trump's sexism, but still likes him, have to the ...
I know that, but the argument supposedly reflects what women want, such that they would be hypocrites for taking issue with harassment and assualt in ...
What relevance can it have then? We are talking about actions, about the way people act towards women and how these actions relate to the valuing of w...
But that's the only way the argument works. It needs people to function by this theory. That, somehow, they world is full of women who want unsolicite...
Yeah... that's pretty much the sexism people have been hitting you for. Under that "theory", all women are equated as wanting their assualt or harassm...
Pretty much. I mean there are certain role playing situations where one might define exceptions, but short of that one has to treat a "No" as genuine....
Her desire. That's why you have to be thinking about others. One cannot just treat words as a permission slip. You have to be considering what another...
Your argument says otherwise. You're tying the immorality of sexual harassment and assault to that of consensual lust, as if the two were equivalent. ...
That's incoherent. If a woman had consented, it would not be assault or harassment, whether it was immoral or not. This instance cannot be applied to ...
Even worse, if we do consider people who are hypocrites, that is, who calling we ought to disavowal Trump becasue of his sexism but who then turn arou...
But that's just the problem-- they're aren't hypocrites. Even if they were attracted to Trump, they could still object to his harassment and assault w...
Clearly you don't think it's wrong enough to be honest about it. You would spread the myth that, somehow, being on TV means a woman wants to be harass...
The whole premise of the statement and the value by which the polemic functions is sexist. It's outright rape apology, drawn out of the notion a women...
You're not even on the field with such objections. The issue is not that there no difference between any one, but rather that the identification of an...
For sure, but that only shows the failure of the pill as a solution. It couldn't also save those who would refuse to take it. If we are to advocate an...
I think you're are falling for a bit of red-herring in your metaphysical reasoning. The acosmist's God is already excluded from the world's evil by it...
The point isn't shame. I'm not saying God/Christianity is immoral. That's a different argument. My point is Christianity is a failure with respect to ...
You are pretending you don't reveal in the screams of the burglar. The impact of your morality on others is ignored. You will not admit the quoted pas...
Exactly. That's my point precisely. Christianity cannot remove human weakness from the unbeliever. It is a failure at overcoming human weakness for la...
It's absolutely the failure of unbelievers, but that's the problem. Someone concerned for overcoming with overcoming human weakness of death and suffe...
Objections shouldn’t start with injustice. It will always fall prey to either the opposed moral position or speculation about the nature of hell. As a...
Indeed. Nietzsche is commenting on the structure of morality. The point is not that rape (or anything else) is moral, but that morality always specifi...
The point wasn't about innocents. It was about those God sends to the torture of Hell: the guilty. Nietzsche is entirely right. If you're guilty, then...
I think he does-- the nature of morality is such that it advocates things violence, rape and killing. Morality is a justification for such actions. By...
I think Nietzsche means what he says, maybe it’s in a bit of embellished tone which drags the imaginations of some readers away from his point, but it...
Nietzsche is targeting nihilism. His philosophy is about the separation between morality and meaning. He demands honesty about values and meaning. Rat...
Nietzsche opposition is to morality is as an excuse for hierarchy. Not in the sense of there are no right or wrong actions or people who are better or...
In the sense relevant to this topic, theories cannot be fact laden because of the distinction between states and description of states (theory). There...
I think that question is abandoned entirely. In older parlance, the question of "social construct" was about how something was caused, the whole "natu...
I don't know exactly. After the site was sold, it ran pretty smoothly for a while. I don't know whether it was just because there were no problems or ...
I think Landru was part of the initial group of posters here or pretty close to it; he's got over 200 posts here. If I remember correctly, his posting...
I think you've misread me. My point about the maliciousness of power at any time. This is not a truth brought about in the development of postmodernis...
The issue of the infinitely long decimal line is actually finite. Our problem is we just can't think enough of the discrete numbers at once to name th...
Other people are involved with glory holes too. The same argument applies. I'm not asking a comparative question about emotion. Caring isn't defined b...
It's objectification and ignorance of what's going on in their own head. Since sex involves other people, it cannot be just about orgasms. Even in the...
I mean display of the naked body is valued. If we’re lauding displays of the naked body in media, especially in celebrity media, the idea it’s lewd or...
His concern is more political. If it considered acceptable to show the naked body in media, if such displays are considered to be wonderful, then the ...
For the compatibilist, there is no Laplace's Demon. Sure, one can suggest someone who knows all causes (including dress choices) ever to be, and so kn...
The point is human choice is part of the usual order of nature itself. Compatibilists point out the traditional dichotomy between free choice and caus...
More than that: our free choice is a determining part of causality. It is born of causality, we are caused to exist with the ability to make free choi...
You're are just repeating the distinction. Since all knowledge is internal, nothing can be justified by external correspondence. Any account of corres...
All our knowledge of anything is shown from within. It takes our experience. The distinction made between "within" thoughts and feelings and "external...
That's the neurosis though, for if a case is not a stake, neither is my being. The possibility I "might not be" isn't present. In nothing, I have no c...
I think that misses the point: in conceptual art, the conceptual is melded into the aesthetic. It never just about commenting on a subject matter. The...
It's for that very reason I say you use of "luck" is meaningless. The ones to have gratitude towards are others whom act to provide for one's own circ...
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