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I would agree with you in principle but disagree in practice. It is always better to have terrible ideas in the public domain as long as they can be r...
August 08, 2019 at 18:11
I think they did play a significant role but to the extend of providing security and oppressing rival parties. That did certainly help to provide a pl...
August 08, 2019 at 17:47
Democratic institutes do not ban a certain group to vote but ban parties that may be racist/fascist which may threaten democracy itself and the well b...
August 08, 2019 at 14:58
The transfer of power and responsibility is the key aspect of this conversation. If a leader of an extreme group continues to inspire his followers to...
August 08, 2019 at 10:08
I don't think l am dangerous and banning hate speech isn't even new. I won't even claim that it's my idea, l am here for discussion only and frankly l...
August 08, 2019 at 09:29
I think the gist of your argument is ; when we restrict hate speech and give government the power to do so, we may end up restricting legitimate speec...
August 08, 2019 at 09:07
If we look closely, you are in fact using k an arbitrary sub expression repeatedly. Let's say abcRefg where R is a relation or to simplify pRq, where ...
August 07, 2019 at 08:44
Except, none of them used hate speech to my knowledge. In the context of arguments before, we were arguing against letting leaders get away with incit...
August 07, 2019 at 05:23
In case of sets, we use natural numbers to determine the cardinality but putting that aside, l would say there is 1-1 correspondence between all real ...
August 07, 2019 at 05:00
I am really glad that you are willing to die for others and save their lives but everyone isn't. Even if you want the world to be like that, it is not...
August 06, 2019 at 18:07
I think that's a fair point. How about if a leader is in a position of authority where he uses those below his rank for heinous crimes. Do they really...
August 06, 2019 at 17:54
By falling l never meant out of their control, l meant being influenced to a significant effect.
August 06, 2019 at 17:41
Failing to meet a contractual agreement is a form of deception and it falls under the general category of lying. If someone lies to you and you fall f...
August 06, 2019 at 17:35
I don't have any solid evidence of Hitler ordering killings as such that l can present here but it was a general understanding of the holocaust which ...
August 06, 2019 at 17:03
I think that's a fair point. The devil is in the details as always. The main problem that l see is deciding where the blurry line lies between cause a...
August 06, 2019 at 16:46
It would radically change the world because all it takes is a good orator appealing to a disfranchised people to get to power and commit atrocities.Ta...
August 06, 2019 at 16:35
Let's consider the famous case of sharon tate murder. Charles Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deat...
August 06, 2019 at 16:30
How about when we use the words like God, afterlife etc. A lot of words in our language do not correspond to anything in this world or any imaginable ...
August 06, 2019 at 16:21
:smile: I am late here. Let's consider the formalist view of math. I think that mathematics is primarily based on substitution where we replace a set ...
August 06, 2019 at 15:44
Once the maxim is made on the foundation Categorical imperative, it cannot give a maxim which we cannot rationally follow.Every moral act will be carr...
June 16, 2019 at 05:49
I agree with this idea that all maxims should be on the same ethical plane in a sense like parallel lines, they should never conflict with each other....
June 15, 2019 at 18:10
A good will is good under any circumstances and conditions but the categorical imperative can only be carried out by a good will. Changing the maxim b...
June 15, 2019 at 17:58
HIS ? l don't think anyone can claim that he is speaking for Kant after he is dead.All we have is reading his work and commenting on what we think are...
June 15, 2019 at 15:40
Rules can be explained without applying to any problem, for example addition is opposite to subtraction.We can describe general concepts. It is not a ...
June 15, 2019 at 15:35
When we say God exists, we say he exists unlike all the possible existence and the " long list of binary consideration ". You can argue that we don't ...
June 15, 2019 at 15:15
This relates to my post regarding conflicting duries "Do all moral dilemmas arise when two different duties are compared"
June 15, 2019 at 15:08
I think Kant talks of perfect duties and imperfect duties, one is a must and the other is optional. This is a big mess, simply beacuse we often get rh...
June 15, 2019 at 15:01
There is no logic involved here, you should try to use that term in its true sense.A conditional maxim is a contradiction in terms.We can throw away c...
June 15, 2019 at 14:53
We should not use metaphors when explaining something that is already difficult and dense. If the foundation fails, whatever the problem the walls ten...
June 15, 2019 at 14:39
I just read a little on presumed right to lie. Most arguments in favour of lying say one of these things. 1.Lying manipulates the situation and makes ...
June 11, 2019 at 17:53
Lets consider the statement " do not lie " Consider that you are a german living in nazi Germany and you are hiding a jew in your house. An officer of...
June 11, 2019 at 16:38
:wink: there is no end to a joke about infinity.See what l did there.
June 11, 2019 at 08:46
I am a bit on the asperger side, but l can sense that you are kidding. Are you talking about this series. 1/2 +1/4+1/8......till infinity =1 This conv...
June 11, 2019 at 08:43
How is existence a limitation ?
June 10, 2019 at 21:20
I couldn't get what you were saying, can you elaborate.
June 10, 2019 at 21:16
Is wittgenstein simply saying that in f(x) and f(f(x)) the outer f perform different function in both of them and does he imply that a proposition can...
June 10, 2019 at 21:14
If you are using "and" as /\, the logical operator then yes but that was not my point.What l was trying to say was if L is a contradiction, then in cl...
June 10, 2019 at 21:04
If you want to treat prove as an object, but l don't think wittgenstein would allow it. Wittgenstein describe objects combining with each other as in ...
June 10, 2019 at 20:41
“I want you to realize that when I speak of a fact I do not mean a particular existing thing, such as Socrates or the rain or the sun. Socrates himsel...
June 10, 2019 at 20:22
It will be a different fact but the proposition will have a sense.Since you disagree with that reason for cats,table being accidental feature.How do y...
June 10, 2019 at 20:15
" Unfortunately, set theory fails to distinguish externally observed processes from internally constructed processes, hence the reason why finitists a...
June 10, 2019 at 18:50
Well squaring the circle was proved to be an impossible feat by proving pi was transcendental.Wittgenstein was a an advocate of math being our creatio...
June 10, 2019 at 18:16
I can see them being accidental in the sense that we could easily replace cat and table with dog and chair respectively.However this depends on how do...
June 10, 2019 at 16:31
I would like to quote this for explaining my point of view regarding your objection.
June 10, 2019 at 12:01
How will you generate negative number using n+1 ? ( natural numbers are infinite nevertheless) My problems is with the use of infinity as a number in ...
June 10, 2019 at 08:51
Consider this proposition, "The cat is sitting on the table", can you point out the accidental and the essential feature. What are the particular ways...
June 10, 2019 at 06:26
Well just because there is a consensus in the community regarding it, does not follow that there is no moral obligation on an individual.Can you say t...
June 09, 2019 at 22:18
I have to disagree, he does mention what objects are in the tractatus. The question remains that are the names universals or particulars ? Can you cla...
June 09, 2019 at 22:02
Can you consider this arguement against an infinite set, What is the probability of an event happening over an infinite amount of events, it would be ...
June 09, 2019 at 20:24
I agree with everything but I was advocating, Well can l go a little further and say that many laws in the world, particularly those relating to sente...
June 09, 2019 at 20:06