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Participatory democracy is that. I mean the concept of the State from a more or less Anarchist framework. Like, I'm not asking what to substitute the ...

I see the point you are making about the survivor bias, but I am unsure as to how you came to the conclusion that you did. I don't think that "antifra...

If by that you mean participatory democracy, then I agree. I'm actually looking for alternatives to the concept of the State, though.

I agree that the charge of anti-Semitism can be an oversimplification, but I do think that there is a case to made for that anti-Semitism is problem i...

While the Israeli state can be considered to be unjust, that is not the problem which has been identified here. Moishe Postone actually qualifies his ...

The economy is sort of like a computer, though. It's like this insentient thing that people ascribe godlike consciousness to which merely processes da...

I've been wondering lately as to how applicable the machine metaphor really is to the current manifestation of civilization. There are certainly a lot...

This is just an aside, but lowercasing all of the terms seems, to me, to be an attempt to make them seem less ideological. Socialism, however, is an i...

I guess what I am positing is that the root problem isn't any longer the State. The State plays into whatever the root problem is, and may have been i...

I'm an atheist, but how do you know that they didn't worship the paintings in the caves?

How is it ridiculous? He's describing Structural Antisemitism as a form of racism which is slated as rudimentary anti-Capitalism. He, then, goes on to...

Has anyone seen the film, Old Joy? There's a SPOILER ALERT quote at the end of the film that I really liked. He says that "Sorrow is just worn out joy...

Okay, so it does make factual claims, but that they are factual need not necessarily be the focus of Ontology. I have a vaguely agnostic attitude towa...

Not really, but why does it matter?

I stated that it was a factual claim. My point was that Ontology is not necessarily concerned with factual claims even though it can be.

I've always understood "radical" in the political sense as referring to advancing a complete reform of a political body. Anarchists can be Radicals, b...

To state that a particular shade of red can never be adequately described is still making a factual claim, but the point of presenting such an argumen...

I think that the facticity of Ontology is somewhat absurd. Ontology speculates upon what Being is like. You can only ever glean certain things. You do...

I am an Anarchist. I interpret Anarchism as advancing some form of maximal liberty and equality. Because the State has stood so much in the way of thi...

I replied twice becuase I edited my post too much. A regimen is like a minor regime. It's like a microcosmic totalitarian order enforcing political bo...

I am not advancing that the State plays no role in whatever it is that goes down. To do so would be absurd. In my opinion, aside from that there are w...

I don't mean to imply that "Structural Antisemitism" does not 'exist'. Stalin's campaign against Leon Trotsky was "structurally" anti-Semitic. He trea...

There are of course, reasons. Everything has reasons. That doesn't make them good. I think that humans are vaguely Pacifist in nature. I would probabl...

Those reasons being that they are a means to maintain an ostensibly illiberal and unequal society which only benefits a select few. That the governanc...

That it is constant in history does mean that it should be done. Slavery was sort of a historical constant. Just because things have been the case doe...

I don't know that Situational Ethics rejects necessarily rejects the Categorical Imperative, but I do think that "Relativism" does. It's a bit strange...

I think that problem is focused badly in the context of "hate speech". The problem is the organization of Fascist terror. Wearing a Joy Division T-shi...

To me, there's something that's just implicitly totalitarian, and, therefore, totally undesirable, about regulating how it is that people choose to dr...

I think that the existence of God is meaningless can be interpreted as proceeding from what Nietzsche meant by "God is dead." To say that "God is dead...

Whoa. This is pretty sweet. On some level I think that ignosticism can be considered to be more atheist than atheism itself.

That's probably a good approach. I think that Situational Ethics are grouped under the category of something like Moral Relativism, but you may be rig...

I did state that that is what it is. That's just a suspicion of mine as a somewhat unapologetic atheist. You don't really have to feel like you're not...

Well, I wouldn't necessarily, but you could argue that Law does not protect its citizens, but, rather, protects only a select class of citizens and is...

I don't think so. I've never really studied Ethics, and, so, I couldn't really say with certainty, but it seems like some sort of situational ethics w...

You're probably right about that that might not necessarily be the case. I think that I just want for that to be predicate for politics. In a politica...

I agree with some sort of "relative" ethics. I think that almost everyone agrees that you should respect other cultures. I suppose that Multiculturali...

Well, since I'm not going to make anyone type out the character they won't be smooshed together.

I just used "ey" for God in a different thread. I kind of think that God should have eir own pronoun. I was thinking azey, azem, and azir, but it's to...

To my knowledge, agnosticism posits that it is impossible to know whether or not God exists. I would assume that agnostic theists assume that God exis...

I guess that I do that. One should only ever be so judgemental. I met a guy once who was sort of into Bushido and I just rambled about Yukio Mishima b...

I think that he means to imply that they're like mafia rackets. A "racket" is like an esoteric coeterie that conscripts others into doing its bidding ...

Islam doesn't offend me in any way aside from that it tends be patriarchical. Perhaps I should have titled this thread Multiculturalism and Traditiona...

I think that the term is meant in a more colloquial sense. He seems to imply that they're necessarily coercive. I don't know that that is the case nec...

There are extremists of all faiths, spiritualities, and ideologies. That terrorism is a common means of resistance in the region is resultant of the s...

He's just alarmist, man. He's not all that bad, but he's just kind of alarmist. That he's alarmist is indicitave of that he's somewhat Islamophobic.

We have not discussed this before to my knowledge, but you may have discussed this with someone else. In that quote he's not all that bad, but I do th...

Well, it was a conspiracy theory, and, so, it was primarily comprised of one thread like that after another. There was an odd kind of logic to it, but...

Well, now I do know who the mods are @"fdrake" @"jamalrob" @"Hanover" @"Michael" @"andrewk" @"StreetlightX". My theory is that they created the concep...

He called Islam a "cancer". It's been a while since this happened and so, I'm trying to dig up the articles. He's said that it's "the greatest force o...

You are the only mod that I know who is a mod. Also, you would really put it past them?