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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
I’ll stick to the medical understanding of disability because it is the disabled body that prevents certain bodily movements and actions, not stairs. ...
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...
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...
“The United States affirms that a significant, deliberate, and sustained armed attack by the Russian Federation across the agreed armistice line into ...
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...
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...
Definitely evidence of collusion between Epstein and others. It’s crazy to think he was influencing congressional investigations into president Trump ...
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...
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...
More Epstein files have been released and I hope to hear some doozies. Here’s a good one. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/198948365998062819...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
My take is skeptical, according to your definition. For the simple reason that machines are not biological, they do not have similar structures, compo...
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...
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...
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