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The argument is that businessmen may do more than just maximise profit. The counterargument, that they cannot fix inflation, does not follow.

This is a silly game you play, Apo. Folk hereabouts recognise the passive-aggressive stance you love so much, and they will call you on it.

Your counter appears to be the non sequitur that businessmen should not try to fix the world. Sure. Start small.

Yes, I agree. Notice that the dictionary definition, as a description of use, is post hoc? The use precedes the definition. The question to hand is "w...

There is an Australian television show called "Q and A" in which various experts are placed before a live audience, to answer questions. In one memora...

Do you have a point?

That does not follow.

Depends whether you like showers of gold.

:up: Always a pleasure to have one of your pointed remarks in my threads, Street.

So are you for it, or agin it? Or just confused, like poor Harry. "Hello" doesn't point to the beginning of a conversation; it doesn't point to anythi...

Hello.

The wisdom of the bat.

point made, perhaps.

What do you think? Stairs provide a simple instance of how the built environment systematically privileges certain body-types. It's not something the ...

Oh, yes; I just cherrypicked your most outstanding errors. Saying that stairs are not systematical ableist is... well, astounding in its lack of thoug...

Bullshit. In the technical sense, of course. But you are perhaps beginning to think...

Irrelevant, as usual.

How 'merican of you...?

You might be; talking about employment; that you can ignore issues apart from those you list is your privilege. You get to pretend that the stairs are...

What's the distinction you wish to make here - be clear; is it that disability is somehow inherent, rather than impose?

So you wish to perpetrate the myth that everyone suffers some form of oppression, and when called on that obvious fallacy you fall back on the pretenc...

Actually, the question is more whether others take that oppression and make it a part of your identity

Referring again to , The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, the other argument begins with this: Which amounts to: we don't...

Here's the article: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits Friedman treats the corporation as a legal fiction, resting on th...

What is it you think this word does, here?

Trickling down on the unprivileged... That'll work.

...and that question again displays your muddling of grammar and ontology.

An excellent post. We've shattered the family as a social unit, replacing it with the impersonal social structure of schools, workplaces and nursing h...

The assumption that business is all there is to an economy, and that economy is all there is to society, is absurd. Milton Friedman's myth. The Origin...

...and yet the ball falls down. The funny thing about facts, scientific or otherwise, is that they are true.

As soon as you mention perception you've already divided the world into the objective and the subjective. SO don't pretend that this division is a con...

So even Anselm is to be rehabilitated... Your approach is not "where will the science take us?" but "how do we get god out of the science?". So you wi...

General Relativity, cosmic expansion and the cosmic background radiation, what is the alternative to the BIg Bang?

Sure. But not every thing we do with words is pointing.

Indeed, I did. It's really important for you that god shows up somewhere in creation, hence this governs your understanding of physics. But it ain't n...

That makes no sense to me; as in, your post is opaque.

:up:

Where? I must have missed it

I am selective.

Ah, you love it. You keep coming back. But seriously, send me a PM if I am being too much of a dick. Or ask a mod to do it for you.

Hm. Most folk can use the word "tree"; and tell a tree from a shrub, or a bush. But setting that out in words, to the exclusion of shrubs and bushes -...

If that were so, writing the OED was presumably a bit of a doddle... Moreoften, we know how to use the word without being able to provide a definition...

Read up on the Euthyphro.

Well, that's just wrong. It's an answer that you do not like, to be sure. Try this: what remains unexplained?

It wasn't intended to be "objectively" true; just true. And I don't expect you to agree - but that is a fact about you.

Yep, it's problematic. That's what it is to be human. And better to be, to choose, to grow, than never to have been. But it seems you cannot see this.

Good question. I sincerely hope so.

If you like. I don't see any need to justify atheism; it's theism that needs, and lacks, justification. SO on one side we have general relativity an t...