Thorongil

We might distinguish between two types of harm that I think he proposes. One is physical or bodily harm and the other is metaphysical harm. The former...

Explain. The bolded part is a non-sequitur. It doesn't imply that, for you admit that one can choose not to pursue it. To explain why one ought to pur...

Not when he admitted its double meaning, which means it could have been read as an ad hominem.

Good. Thank you.

Oh, you didn't? Alright, Michael, I'll take your word for it. I can also apologize to you if any of my posts seemed to attack you as a person, as oppo...

Right, so you did intend to call me a crappy person. Notice that you have attacked the man, and I have merely attempted to characterize certain posts.

He's got a trident, a snake, and a little man in his fro. I'd say he's up to the task.

I didn't take it that way. Your remark was to call me a lame and crappy person, much as one would describe a car with the aforementioned word. If you ...

But they were bitterly sarcastic. Some of those adjectives were meant to apply to SLX's ornate contributions, which should have been obvious.

So you acknowledge the initiating party. That's the crucial admission, in my mind, for as I said in that thread: Perhaps I didn't fully succeed. I'm h...

I believe there were more such comments, but regardless, I see that you have now conceded the accusation I leveled against you and are now performing ...

That was a case in point about the bitter sarcasm.

Ah, the "I know you are but what am I?" grade-school response. Well, at least you admit the former. You can accuse me of whatever you like, but this t...

Those three adjectives don't have to apply to every mod. "Ill-tempered" suits your "contributions" well enough. "But I wasn't ill-tempered," you will ...

Yes, that's better said I think. But it's only an instrumental good, not a moral good. So why should I pursue it? Again, all we're left with is descri...

Sure. Fair enough. A generalized statement still admits of exceptions, and you are one of them, for you never commented in that thread, so please acce...

I don't have access to the paper, but from the abstract, the conclusion seems to establish not merely God's existence but a rather strong version of d...

I've skimmed through the thread and have a couple comments. This descriptive claim stops just short of a prescription, but I take it you think the for...

This is about the mods in general. You're welcome to peruse my history, but I don't keep a running list of deletions, so I can't point you to anything...

Yes, for jamalrob's inner thighs, you goddamn cannibal.

The problem is that you've deleted posts, including my own posts, that have been similarly innocuous and yet patronizing little snipes like Michael's ...

One answer would be: constant conjunction, to borrow a phrase from Hume, of confused and false ideas reinforced by one's family, culture, religion, et...

Case in point.

That's a laugh. The purple prose-laden, hyperbolic, and ill-tempered responses by the mod team toward anyone who supported the right to own firearms i...

No, and that's my point. No one is, including the mods.

I put "too strict" but I would have put "inconsistent" if that were an option. Emptyheady was banned on bogus charges. TGW was banned on far too trivi...

Mhmm.

That seems to be only one type of idealism, ontological idealism, as Paul Guyer notes here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/idealism/

Policies > character.

Imagine the language used by the athletes to describe Trump. This only proves that they're both on about the same level with respect to being couth. L...

Arguing for idealism from scientific theories that are poorly understood and subject to change, such as quantum mechanics, is to build one's idealism ...

By the way, I knew it wasn't an attempted insult. The bitter sarcasm and hyperbolic reactions in this thread have always been accompanied by an implic...

I see nothing productive about it. Even if it were, the horse is already out of the barn.

*Sigh* Perhaps one reason why is because I keep being smugly accused of "demonstrable paranoia and logical leaps" by the left without evidence. Someth...

How soon you forget (or ignored to begin with). I made this post not long ago:

Amazing projection here.

You're forgetting the other possibility, which is that you modified your position into the pragmatic one you've presented here when it was pointed out...

You might look up what DC v. Heller decided. Sorry, but your continued attempts to describe the possibilities I listed as - to take just a few adjecti...

Well said, and I agree. Winter is marvelous and probably tied with fall as my favorite season. Not just the visual arts, though. One of the reasons wh...

Right. I certainly don't.

The leftist mod brigade has tried very hard, sometimes with sarcasm and sometimes with apparent seriousness, to paint me as a gun-loving and toting nu...

Yes. I've said just that in this very thread.

I've seen this point and its general template before. Here I would point to a fact that is sure to warm the anti-war left's cockles, which is that the...

Found this just now, too. A lot of nice, relevant quotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

The English Bill of Rights recognized the right to bear arms. Several state legislatures did as well, prior to the Constitutional Convention. John Ada...

I think I would agree actually, but I still wouldn't ban them on account of aesthetic differences.

I agree. I disagree.

Which is a gun, in many cases. Why do you still refuse to understand my very simple point here?

The problem for you is that the American founders were in favor of having every American citizen armed. In fact, the desire for people to be armed can...

I'm all ears if I didn't. Go ahead and show me, T.