Free speech is not an object and no one believes it has magical powers, or at least you haven’t shown otherwise. At any rate, any argument against fre...
Again, it was government that led to censorship on social media in the first place, so it makes little sense to me that only an act of legislation and...
No, I don’t think so and for the same reason I stated. I don’t know of any solution, but there has to be a better alternative than aggrandizing the st...
The dictum “they are private companies” holds true. When the government forces a company such as Facebook to operate in an approved manner, it violate...
Anyone can prove what they are by pointing to themselves. What do you point at when you point to yourself? What do you use to point? What points? In e...
Are you not your body? So be it. You can always pretend and say you are not your body, but you will forever be unable to reveal your true self, in any...
The problem is when you speak of a mind you tacitly speak of the body, or at least you are unable to produce or point to anything else called “mind”. ...
It does not matter if it is effective or not. What matters is the ethics and politics of the situation, whether the state should determine what can an...
I was only making the point that one must first exist in order to negate stress. The argument that one will not feel stress if he doesn’t exist is a w...
Biden’s bagmen and propagandists such as the DNC are currently pressuring SMS carriers to “dispel misinformation”. We now have the ruling party insert...
A world with no people is one thing, a world where no one feels stress is something else entirely. But ok. You can call your state of affairs a world ...
The pronouns under discussion are mostly used in the third person, or in other words, in conversations between others. I can understand the desire for...
Surely it all has much more to do with the philosophical aspects of identity than we care to admit. The basic facts such as name, eye-color, height et...
It’s pure speculation, but for my own view I think society is evolving in an encouraging direction rather than collapsing. There appears a growing sch...
It’s as easy as looking in the mirror, so it’s strange that such an idea is fraught with mystery. A regular old ID card will say more about the self t...
People like things for a lot of reasons and quality or truth is rarely one of them. The popularity of an opinion isn’t a good measure of its veracity ...
There is no state of affairs where no one feels stress, but I suppose one could avoid it with drugs and the like. I wouldn’t impose any of that, but I...
It’s good to gain that sort of life and work experience so that you can better operate in the future. Experience, study, and practice betters the rang...
Instead of removing billionaires, which would necessarily involve tyranny and exploitation, one might serve the cause better by becoming a billionaire...
Charles Darwin and William James said it, but I thought it was a matter of common sense. Emotions are an act of the body. It’s why our heart races whe...
Doing away with emotions would be tantamount to doing away with the body since they are one and the same. All you could do is dull them with narcotics...
Law is little more than a collection of prescriptions serviceable to rulers. They function as justifications for the exploitation and enslavement of p...
Let it be known, friend. If it’s just, based on solid evidence, and can be expressed in a way that is a joy to read, add it to the noise. It might sta...
Speech is a noun, which is a person, place or thing. To "give" a speech, or "speaking", is the act. I mistakenly nominalized "orate" with the suffix "...
I’m not sure how you get from “MLK and Winston Churchill were great orators” to “it’s rather confused to think you can have powerful speeches but no p...
Only someone beholden to the superstition would try pass off evidence of the power of the brain as evidence of the power of words without irony. In fa...
I believe in rhetoric, I just don't believe it works how you say it does. I also believe that some language is far more appealing and beautiful, some ...
I’m just stating what I believe on a popular topic, and the only effect I’ve had is your weird, baffled rage. I assure you, though, I’m not some nefar...
I believe the climate is changing, as it always has, but I do not see it as inherently frightening. What is frightening to me is watching the same all...
This is the sort of pap that comes from Ivy League schools these days, radical only in its demand for conformity and groupthink and identity politics,...
I believe mental states are really body states. I’m not one to say we should eliminate the concept of mind altogether, just that we should never forge...
I rest on the sensible fact that, until she is struck by something like a billiard ball or kinetic energy, every move she makes begins and ends with h...
Even if I did believe in the computational theory of mind (I don't), we've avoided entirely how a subsection of sounds from the mouth or scribbles on ...
So are all other sounds from the mouth. Unintelligible scribbles are also written on something physical. What I want to know is what makes speech and ...
Philosophers have not shown, but surely some have said, that speech has power. But if it is not physical in nature, how can this “power” have physical...
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