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I’m wondering if you could clarify something as I am not up on the literature, but consider myself a direct realist. In your analogy, what entities ar...
January 05, 2026 at 16:14
Trump is just “defending our institutions”. I thought that would be right up your alley. Remember this? Now you know. And the Venezuelan diaspora are ...
January 04, 2026 at 16:05
We ought to remember that we don’t just see ships, we also see everything else in our periphery. This fact seems to be rarely mentioned and for some r...
January 04, 2026 at 15:38
It looks like some people won’t be getting their drugs this week! Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
January 03, 2026 at 17:18
Prior to the terror attacks in Australia they did care what people said. In fact, earlier the same year they strengthened certain hate crime laws, mai...
December 29, 2025 at 16:21
Brilliant. Now we don’t know who is espousing that message and are blind to the content of that message. After all, the aim of all censorship is ignor...
December 28, 2025 at 01:10
That’s because you don’t have one.
December 26, 2025 at 19:05
Well, I don’t believe incitement is a real thing, so the answer for me is yes. However, if incitement was possible, you could just as easily incite th...
December 26, 2025 at 16:22
One of the arguments Chomsky and others make is that we ought to defend free speech so that our opponents can’t claim it, and use that persecution as ...
December 26, 2025 at 06:44
Societal rules and the sacrifices involved in maintaining them… maybe you can name one of these societal rules and one of these sacrifices that you so...
December 22, 2025 at 16:50
You don’t mention that out of the 12,000 or so arrests in 2023, there were only 1,119 sentencings, according to the Times article you cite. We can hol...
December 22, 2025 at 16:27
You and I both know neither one of our wills have affected any law, code, or ordinance. No jurist has ever fulfilled anything that you or I have ever ...
December 22, 2025 at 07:27
The laws pertain to everyone in a given jurisdiction, including those who do not reach for pitchforks upon hearing words. As such, millions and millio...
December 22, 2025 at 02:32
I care about a lot of things. The impositions of state jurists isn’t one of them. Do you require law to know how to act around others?
December 22, 2025 at 00:58
I don’t think anything should be illegal, especially not speech.
December 22, 2025 at 00:20
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention because The North Atlantic Treaty article 3 says that all parties “will maintain and develop their individual and coll...
December 20, 2025 at 16:11
That’s probably too metaphorical for my own tastes because to argue from a metaphor is to substitute imagination for judgment. That might not be the b...
December 20, 2025 at 02:57
It is a legitimate concern for anyone who cares about freedom. People are being arrested over tweets, one of which you just quoted and published on a ...
December 19, 2025 at 15:43
I feel terrible. I confused Sacks with one of his characters, Leonard, who was the abuser in question. I think the author of the article was implying ...
December 13, 2025 at 17:03
Yes, it is true. Both sides often devolve into common bigotry when faced with thoughts and words that oppose their own, that it’s difficult to tear th...
December 05, 2025 at 17:55
I live in Canada and recently watched the Prime Minister pledge allegiance to the King of England and his heirs during his inauguration. Lawyers and j...
December 03, 2025 at 15:36
I’ll stick to the medical understanding of disability because it is the disabled body that prevents certain bodily movements and actions, not stairs. ...
December 03, 2025 at 15:09
Europe has been fighting itself for thousands and thousands of years, and not even that long ago. Hell, they were doing genocide there not more than 3...
November 27, 2025 at 16:36
American presence there is the only deterrent Europe has ever had, and the only reason NATO stands any chance. The problem is you all have been taking...
November 24, 2025 at 15:08
“The United States affirms that a significant, deliberate, and sustained armed attack by the Russian Federation across the agreed armistice line into ...
November 23, 2025 at 15:52
Putin will not get Ukraine. The EU gets Ukraine. In fact, if Russia invades again, they face destruction at the hands of NATO and the US. No matter. I...
November 21, 2025 at 17:32
The house and senate voted to release the so-called Epstein files. I hope we’ll see some good stuff. Democrat Stacey Plaskett avoided censure for bein...
November 19, 2025 at 16:28
Definitely evidence of collusion between Epstein and others. It’s crazy to think he was influencing congressional investigations into president Trump ...
November 15, 2025 at 23:39
Much of it was anti-Trump, though, and he was clearly coaching a Dem congressman what to ask Michael Cohen during an anti-Trump investigation. Like mo...
November 15, 2025 at 18:30
It’s a common story told in a common way. We literally start “within” a mother, within a womb. This fact gives the argument a little force. But then f...
November 15, 2025 at 17:13
More Epstein files have been released and I hope to hear some doozies. Here’s a good one. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/198948365998062819...
November 15, 2025 at 16:14
I don’t think there is much of an argument to be made there. The main reason is that liberalism hardly took off in the first place, and was never pres...
November 12, 2025 at 16:32
It’s quite simple, in my understanding, and is discovered in the answer to the question “who or what controls my actions?” In other words, it’s a matt...
November 09, 2025 at 20:07
A sane, educated, and enlightened society wouldn’t steal from the fruits of one man’s labor in order to fund the labor of another. That’s what a socie...
November 08, 2025 at 18:07
Yes, that was not pointed at you. I believe one can witness a nascent anti-modernism in politics and popular thought. In my view, they’re blaming the ...
November 07, 2025 at 16:47
I appreciate your view, and I understand why people might think that way. I just don’t see how one can move from the belief “All there is matter” to t...
November 07, 2025 at 16:34
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Jamal provides a great service and can maintain the site precisely how he sees fit. We ought to defend and respect his right to do so, even if it mean...
November 06, 2025 at 19:15
But wasn’t wealth a means to the good for Aristotle? Status was practically built into the hierarchies of all pre-modern societies.
November 06, 2025 at 18:02
If you mean the prioritization of wealth and status over spirituality, then we’re speaking of a vice that has long predated modernity, and is perhaps ...
November 06, 2025 at 17:51
The communitarians and illiberal types are wrong in that modernity is not the result of a success of this-or-that way of thinking or ideology, nor can...
November 06, 2025 at 17:08
They are children and you are their father. The claim “there is nothing wrong with spying” pertains to all those who “get the urge to spy”, who “want ...
November 03, 2025 at 01:04
Who have you spied on?
November 02, 2025 at 23:43
Good lord.
November 02, 2025 at 15:59
Spying on your political opponents in a fishing-expedition to find evidence of criminal activity, because there was no probable cause to justify the s...
October 31, 2025 at 16:59
The example you provided had two water pumps, but I was speaking about an organism versus a machine. The question was whether machines can act like hu...
October 28, 2025 at 15:37
The things involved and the movements they make are different. It’s like saying submarines swim.
October 27, 2025 at 19:53
My take is skeptical, according to your definition. For the simple reason that machines are not biological, they do not have similar structures, compo...
October 27, 2025 at 17:42
I don’t think a document suffices, personally, especially one that allows slavery.
October 21, 2025 at 05:11
Both assume mankind is collectively improvable, and that the political means are the only way to achieve it. But the fact that 6000 or so years of bot...
October 21, 2025 at 02:40
It is a good thing that people cite another’s writing whenever they are using it to pad their own, especially when it comes to AI, because it serves a...
October 19, 2025 at 22:07