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Will @"Bartricks" now come back to argue that I do not agree with him? Edit: He did! Edit: Quite the contrarian, our Bart.

How contrary you are! You will even argue with me when I agree with you! What fun!

No: I am saying that you must say that, or else be inconsistent. That is, I am not having a go at your argument.

...and it's almost women's colours...

You misquoted me.

No; I'm saying for your account to be consistent, you must deny that claim. That's all.

The argument is right there, in the post you quote. I thought you wanted to play, not hide.

Well, it would be, were you, as any good Sophist, being paid to write it.

Hence getting whatever you want is not essentially selfish... Yep, I can see how that might work.

Half a bee must, ipso facto, half not-bee. Anyone else recognise Eric? You see, Batricks, what you are writing here is nonsense...

Yeah - he's just saying that. I bet he can't really be what he doesn't want to be.

SO there is nothing free market libertarian in your position, but you vehemently object to the criticism of free market libertarian views presented in...

The usual approach is to make cooperative behaviour drop out of greed, by claiming that it's the best way to get what you want. But of course that ent...

I don't give a flying fuck what you believe. your arguments are simply not that interesting. Edit: Thinking on that, what the fuck is a flying fuck?

And of course, he cannot be bound even by this law...

But of course a truly omnipotent god could be something he does not want to be... Else there be something he could not do, cancelling out his own pree...

God as essentially selfish.

:joke: Oh, so funny! My mirth is more than I can contain!

:lol: As if "it exists as an abstract concept" said anything.

See? Mere play with being, exist, spacetime...

All these natural theology threads are no more than crossword puzzles.

Could an omniscient being do nothing? If so, then there must be something more to benevolence than just knowing what is happening. If not, then why no...

@"Isaac", @"Hanover" So the argument has degenerated into whether indigenous folk have better teeth. The take home in this thread is no great revelati...

:lol: Oh, yeah. That's something of what I had in mind - the economists puzzlement with the commons strikes me, and I hope you, as mad; an obsession w...

Yes, the prisoner's dilemma is relevant. Not at all sure what to make of this. Do you wish to expand on it?

Purple is excellent.

Missed it.

Hmm. The Tragedy of the Common Template. At present, it's decided by the Big Fat Dictator. Privatise it. Make the choice of colour a user option. Or d...

You are weeding the path, not the garden.

Another commons is the NHS, of course.

Sure. You kinda missed the thrust of the thread, though, which was more about the need for an ought to be inserted somewhere in the calculation.

It's an odd argument... kids live past five, the internet works, therefore there is no problem with the commons. Odd.

That is a statement about you, not about reality. I think others have pointed that out. It's important that folk who are responding to you by citing e...

Subtle, you little ball-pin hammer, you.

Having said that, the most pressing ethical issue in discussing euthanasia is dealing wiht folk with disabilities, and their differences from those wi...

Your analysis also serves to blur the very relevant distinction between one asking for assistance and one having others ask. A clearer analysis is nee...

All newborn children lack such mental capacity. Therefore newborn children satisfy the criteria you ascribe to those in favour of euthanasia. Do you t...

You're an odd little fish. The carrying capacity of the paddock might be found by a bit of science. What to do about that carrying capacity is a diffe...

But https://terrastendo.net/2013/03/26/livestock-and-climate-why-allan-savory-is-not-a-saviour/

Put all the Cattle on the long paddock.

I was using fairytail in a more Tolkien sense: a tale that grows in the telling, showing what you ought do. But, yes.

The number of cows that the paddock can sustain is not an issue that can be settled by a poll.

Does this say anything more than: 4. Find a fourth option.

Stock routes may be the largest commons. Set aside for drovers to move cattle on hoof, these "long paddocks" are now vital resources for biodiversity ...

It usually gets subdivided by a real estate developer.

One of the great virtues of the Westminster system was a professional body called the Civil Service. In the fairytail these folk gave up worldly thing...

OK, so we keep a few cheats on to serve as bad examples... Actually, a fairytale about how putting too many cows on the commons leads to disaster is t...

You are just not very good at the understandings, Harry.

Yeah. I get that.