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Not quite true. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway lost $4.3 billion in a single day. Wouldn’t call him the worst businessman in history. It’s in the...

He also has half a century worth of leadership experience. I think Trump is one of the most liberal presidents in a long time. He upended the GOP so m...

I’m with you on that. Anarchism is the best option. But I fear a moral and ethical populace populace is required for it to work. That seems to be one ...

But the speech had the same effect on the listener as any other sound.

That’s why I asked another poster if they themselves were “incited to hatred” by hate speech. The fact that hate speech is particularly reviled among ...

If the point of a leader is to speak political niceties, engage in public relations and sing the public lullabies, hell, any actor would be fit for th...

I like what you wrote there. The state is, by it’s very nature, the abuse of power. It has the monopoly on violence and coercion, on justice, on plund...

Right next to the good old days when politicians were truth-telling saints.

What has a pope or lawyer ever done, besides talk?

That’s politics, but I don’t see how that gives licence for the press to do the same thing. There is a standard of journalistic ethics that the yellow...

Granted, people have always attempted to blur that line, even as far back as Ancient Greece.

It’s also worth noting you guys keep bringing up Fox News and breitbart, but oddly never the rest. Sure, I think it’s appropriate, but then again I do...

The problem for me is people are beginning to blur the line between word and deed, so much so that they are conflating speech with violence. That’s da...

Yes, and he certainly does represent the nation, whether they like it or not.

Whitehouse propaganda is tame by any measure. Go look at their videos, for example. It’s all videos of Melania visiting schools and Trump meeting kids...

I think it’s a little deeper than politics, and by west I meant not just the US. But if you read the Green New Deal, or even the New Deal, it’s pure s...

A statist is someone who believes the state should have substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs. I believe this is the prevai...

I’m not sure of the exact biological mechanism, but colloquially I would say it begins with the understanding. Like any outside stimulus, a word must ...

When we’re comparing the entire 4th estate to the president’s tweets? Yes. Again, one is ethically tasked with keeping the public informed, the other ...

I don’t get why people try hold Trump to the same standard of the press. One is a politician, the other is meant to inform the public.

Simple biology. I think you’re trying to say the outside stimulus, in this case hate speech, triggers the biology. I’d say that’s true. But the sequen...

Maybe not the State in particular, but statism in general seems to be the prevailing dogma.

Any reaction is self-generated. Neurological activity begins and ends at the listener.

I think if you stick to real, legit criticisms you’ll have no issue with me. Criticisms of policy decisions are legit. But the outrage machine, who fo...

Any and all actions following hate speech, whether violent, hateful, or otherwise, begins with the listener, not the speaker. This is true of any reac...

Notes on the passing outrage. Trump made the grave mistake of quoting a compliment in a tweet. The quote, which spanned 4 tweets, said that the Jewish...

But you’re not much of a manipulator if they know your skills and can see your con from a mile away. Your magical powers are negated.

I think firing back is completely appropriate, and wholly deserved.

You’re right about the genetic fallacy, though I can’t find what is bad. Beyond the words, I have trouble finding one injustice. I think it’s for the ...

Yes, I think the political division is a media-induced hysteria, mostly for reasons of profit, and Trump is the scapegoat for what they’ve caused. I h...

The sophist Gorgias believed rhetoric was like a drug, “magical incantations”. The Athenian elite believed Socrates would “corrupt the youth”, as if a...

Trump has been ridiculed since the beginning, caricatured in popular culture, burned in effigy, murdered in music videos and photo shoots; his looks, ...

I wouldn’t mind debating the topic. I think free speech is very important and debating it helps me clarify my thoughts, Can we start over?

I was using the common and legal language of incitement to make a point. No, I’m not literally incited to hatred by someone’s expression. More bad fai...

Yes your quibbling about an aside question has allowed you to steer clear of my arguments in favor of why I believe hate speech should be allowed.

One of the reasons Hitler subjected his opponents to extreme censorship and the denial of civil rights was that he himself was censored and denied tho...

He was actually quoting someone else. I did answer your question, as is evident from my post above.

That’s false. It was a question, not an argument. There is no point in equivocating between hate crimes and hate speech. One is not the topic, the oth...

If Danish media came out and framed the argument before it was even made, and based on this, Trump publicly called the idea absurd, I would understand...

I never said my contrary reaction meant hate speech should be allowed. A straw man. I was making the point that the theory that hate speech incites ha...

Fair. I was speaking of underlying assumptions mainly, but point taken.

I appreciate that clarification. But I still think that to believe the question cannot be answered is still to hold on to the assumption that either/o...

It’s difficult to formulate, so thanks for the good faith. I might have to express it in more formal logic for it to make any sense, which I will do i...

Promote a contrary view instead of just tearing down theirs. One reason westerners are converting to Islam is the lack of justification for the tradit...

What? No, it’s like this: if someone don’t know whether it is possible whether a god exists, then he thinks it is possible that it is possible that a ...

But that leads to an infinite regression. It’s “I don’t know” all the way down.

What was the fault in my reasoning?

One cannot say “I don’t know” to an either/or question without holding on to the idea that one or the other might possibly be true. In my own case, I ...

One can’t say “I don’t know” to an either/or question without maintaining the possibility of either side might be right.

Quibbling again.