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Tim Wood’s hysteria has polluted his reason, so much so that he see’s enemies in everyone who disagrees with him. His borderline McCarthyism reeks of ...

Plenty of reasonable people do think it looks bad, so yes. When that political opponent may have abused his office for personal benefit by letting his...

That’s hilarious. There are, of course, more simple explanations for reserving criticism of a world leader, but sure, Trump’s the Manchurian candidate...

There are pictures of John McCain standing with the leader of Svoboda, a far-right neo-nazi, during the revolution in Ukraine. Also, Victoria Nuland, ...

There are no explicit statements regarding benchmarks that I am aware of. I won’t infer any malicious intent so I will err on the side of mistake or m...

Simply that one can infer from his public statements that those particular situations concerned him.

No, I do not. There is always a possibility she could be right. Trump has no jurisdiction in Ukraine so I do not see how he could actively battle corr...

You could be right. Excuse my tinfoil hat, but I would even argue the CIA or at least the State Department had its hand in the Ukraine revolution of 2...

It’s a Ukrainian company in Ukrainian jurisdiction. As for American government officials I think that’s up to the justice dept. The president was only...

I’m not sure what they said.

You merchants of offence are quite predictable. I get to watch you smear the dead because of your thin skin while you pretend to know what decency is.

I would go further than presume he is innocent. I believe he has done nothing wrong, and more, I think he was right and obligated, morally and as a pu...

Yes, artificially changed in the sense that you can remove, replace or alter the body, including parts of the body associated with sex. But Sex is det...

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

I was speaking figuratively, which is common throughout language. By “decided by nature” I mean genes and hormones, not some doctor with a steady hand...

That’s their prerogative. But I appreciate when someone such as yourself seeks clarification in good faith instead of assumption and accusation. So th...

That’s my only point. You can only alter or disguise, through force, what nature has already decided.

Of course not. It’s quite amazing what we can do as a species, especially when it helps people.

That’s not even paraphrasing what I said. I said sex changes are artificial, which your pretended was contradictory even though it wasn’t. One can als...

What crime would that be?

I’d like to see you try. Of course it’s not as easy as you say, and can only imagine yourself more powerful than everyone to do it. You have to fantas...

I call the whole charade a show trial because the process is for the purpose of politics and propaganda, not justice. They’ve been trying to impeach T...

It’s less pointless than your observation that one can change their sex by altering their body. You can change someone’s skin color by giving them a t...

By artificial I mean man made rather than occurring naturally. No contradiction there.

For those interested, the house just voted to send articles of impeachment to the senate. The show trial continues after a hiatus.

Of course sex can be changed, but these changes would be wholly artificial.

You'd be surprised. Woke capitalism is good money.

Racists span the color spectrum. There is a pernicious group-think in it. People want to cling to their race, perhaps so they can claim someone else’s...

I’ve already provided you exculpatory evidence which you dismissed and/or pooh-poohed. I attempted to refute your opinion on the facts, but when I did...

I think the irony here is that their insistence that their “whiteness” is harmful is itself a form of white supremacy. They see themselves and their “...

Yes, his art criticism and defense of beauty were very important to me. I’m not a religious man but he showed me that I need not be spiritually impove...

Yes, you can attempt to violate someone’s sovereignty through violence and coercion. But even so they would need to acquiesce to your demands and will...

Nice try but you just publicly stated why you assume his guilt, and did so while suppressing exculpatory evidence, dismissing the testimony of the acc...

Good read, thanks for writing that. A lot of morality is traditional. The wisdom of generations attest to their merits and faults in a process that de...

I’m aware of the argument but I do not see how it makes the case that infinite regresses are impossible. A first element presupposes finitude, so why ...

Likewise, considering your disdain for the president, I find it surprising you adopt his thinking. It is a good standard because one cannot correctly ...

Thanks for the explanation. So then to what do we owe the reality of the first element, a first tuner, if not an anterior one? Sure a finite regress a...

Why would an infinite causal regress require a first element for it to exist?

Regarding mutilation it’s a tough question. The word has very negative connotations, and applying it to surgical modifications might cast certain aspe...

I think actions must be self-caused in order to allow free will. This is where the debate around free will gets murky for me, because it always leads ...

You’d have to eschew the presumption of innocence, a precious human right, and adopt the presumption of guilt, a mark of tyranny, for any of that to b...

First it’s “all white men” are such and such, then it’s “many”. This is the kind of logic required to sell nonsense. The best you could say is that th...

Yes, the noble savage is stupid for the same reason.

The noble (Christian?) savage is a myth.

I live near a tribe that once attacked neighboring tribes so as to make slaves of their women and children.

You know my answer, Tim. No, he is not a murderer. No, he is not a criminal.

I mean absolute, natural sovereignty. You have no control, authority, or responsibility for my body, my actions, my choices. You cannot make people ch...

There certainly are exceptions. But I think better philosophers plant the seeds rather than physically engage with it. Rousseau or Marx for example.

I would think most philosophers would be against activism given the mob mentality it often results in, but they would in their own way oppose ideas an...

There is no point in protesting an unjust government, then, if no one is watching.