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By contact tracing. I remain somewhat surprised by your questions - I had thought this a universal practice. Does your community not use QR code check...

Your own maths doesn't work. 6 millions with the control measures - but how many without? Apples and oranges.

There's some hope - all it needs is for Scotty from Marketing to think that there would be some electoral benefit in acting.

In that regard the Australian Government is culpable. They could end this vey quickly if they so chose.

He's being held as a direct result of the extradition proceedings. He would be free if the US dropped them. Hence the incarceration, while not on US s...

It's an odd question. So we have in place a strong and competent tracing system. Folk who have been identified as potentially carrying the Dreaded Lur...

Empathy can't be taught. I'll read that last post of yours as being about you, and leave you to your own devices.

No. Nothing so unsubtle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States

Torture is indeed effective. I'll leave you to it, then.

No, not a liar. I think you are kidding yourself. Here: Your argument is not against Wikileaks, but in favour of a better Wikileaks. Yep. Given how As...

Disappointing; disingenuous. You would charge Assange with "not reporting on China and Russia".

Again, again, a democracy needs to know when it has gone wrong. It's that capacity to self-referentially correct itself that marks it as different to ...

Typo fixed. SOo you would charge Assange with "not reporting on China and Russia". Yeah, that works. Not. It's just looking for excuses. And in so doi...

I have a great deal of sympathy for @"Wayfarer"; he ought to be right. But wanting things to be other than they are is not enough.

I know it's tragic. But the hypocrisy of claiming to be defenders of free speech while persecuting its critics speaks volumes.

Like a school kid yelling "He hit me back first!" None of this is relevant. A Democracy needs to know what it is doing. Assange did the USA a favour.

Journalist or not - irrelevant. "there can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies” – Walter Lippmann This is abou...

Cheers. Here's what has upset the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfvFpT-iypw Keep this in mind. It's the release of this video that is a the core...

Yep. Thanks for this. Those no-good rascals, Amnesty International, concur:

:lol:

No. Wrong government - that was NT.

Consider: It is either false or not in the book, and hence the book is incomplete. The book is either inconsistent or incomplete. If it is inconsisten...

It's archaic patriarchic nonsense.

Oooo lots to unpack. The obvious point is that either "favourable" is not the same as "good" - and that "hence" is misplaced; or you are using "favour...

If you like. The take-away for me is that universals are not a thing but a way of talking- another language game. That's why they are so damn hard to ...

Definitely.

Should we go there? I wonder, have you heard Austin's account of universals? It can be read as a critique of the notion that there is a something had ...

Cheers. Art shows rather than says. That's part of the value of art: that with it we see things that are difficult, if not impossible, to say.

I see no problem with that as it stands. Issues arise when folk make attempts to talk about what is private, and hence to treat it as if it were publi...

Well, that rather follows from their being nonsense - that they do not make sense. Pity those who think they do grasp those questions.

There she is objecting to the grandiose schemes and others advocate, in favour of this sort of plumbing.

Actually, I rather hope I am undermining a particularly poor sort of philosophy. So quite happy with that. It's a cumbersome, disjointed view that div...

I'm not choosing one over the other. They are different contexts, different word games, with which we do different things. It'd be much like privilegi...

AH, good. There is some hope for you, then, when you eventually find them. Austin's view clarifies this. "Real" is a word that obtains its use in cont...

No, it doesn't. It's just that there are things we agree on - that is a handful of acacia seeds, that is a solid table, and so on. Is the table really...

Oooh. No, again, I don't agree. The table, the road, the wall are all solid; they are not going to give way on you. Hm. I might be wrong about the tab...

Me, too. Which explains it's attraction. But I think it wrong. Note the edit. There are moral imperatives implicit in the ontology one adopts.

I don't agree with that wording. Better: we usually see the same things, but perhaps we see them differently. So back to your example: Overwhelmingly,...

What's odd is that in the minds of those who would criticise realism, the issue has moved from being about what is real to being about what one "perce...

"God exists" is not a well-formed formula in mathematics. Hence it cannot be a theorem. The book contains only proofs of theorems. SO "God exists" cou...

I can't verify your laws, but here if someone did so they would receive a $1000 fine. IN addition anyone they infect could take civil action against t...

Yours is a perverse interpretation. As is the remainder of your post. I feel sorry for you.

Then I wasn't referring to you. As for the rest, the irony was lost on you. Yes, it's complex.

The issue is that one's religious views are irrelevant to social policy. "Hegemony" was used to indicate the dominance of one religious view over othe...

Yep. The young folk have no idea what polio, hooping cough, measles, influenza are like. Those having a bit of a bitch here about separating vaccinate...

No. It is overwhelmingly the unvaccinated - those who choose not to act in their own and the community's best interest; and children. Don't bitch abou...

SO we have one principle: Limit the exposure of the population to those who are infected or likely to be infected This gives us two policies: Isolate ...

You've lost me.

Any. Hegemony would occur when a law adopts christian values instead of secular values.