Marchesk

So you're willing to have people die and starve. Does it mater who they are?

Or argue for it.

Also because I think it's wrong. But let's replace looting Target with looting X, or committing crime Y against target X. So if the social contract is...

I can agree with that, but only if it's effective and doesn't hurt people in the community who need to work and shop there, beyond an inconvenience. L...

How many people are you willing to have die and starve for that to happen?

I'm suggesting there's more to belief than being able to express it in language.

The only extreme? Like there is no worse way for society to go? Well shit, let's burn it all to the ground and start over.

Unfortunately, people who think like you do, as far as the extremism goes. You make some good points, but then throw it away with the extremist stuff....

I wasn't responding to your arguments. But I added a paragraph on what I think needs to happen, somehow.

Yeah, I don't think a socialist overthrow of capital is going to solve the problem of racism. A nation-wide reform of police departments from top to b...

You mean like all the talk about capitalism? That's a separate issue from police racism and brutality, and yet certain revolutionaries want to make it...

Fuck you. I said keep the anger targeted at the police.

Especially the part about the rest of the community needing to being threatened. /s

Not MLK or Gandhi.

It's also an ends justify the means. It would be better if the human race didn't use that tactic.

Some of that property is people's livelihoods. Nice of you not to care. Why not just focus on the police?

You don't live there, so you don't get to decide either.

Because they want a socialist revolution.

You can argue that for a Target, but those aren't the only buildings being looted and burnt. It's harder to make that case for locally owned. I think ...

This is very interesting. So Moore is misusing the word "know" to instead refer to a feeling of certainty. As a side note, it's also interesting that ...

Would you have preferred a different body part? Probably because hands are harder to be skeptical about than a rock, since hands are part of the perso...

Interesting: And: Sounds like absolute presuppositions are similar to Witty's hinge propositions. But Collingwood argues we have mutually exclusive pr...

Covid is still a thing.

Such as someone in antiquity presupposing the Earth was motionless. It was as obvious as waving one's hands about. The sun, planets and stars are what...

We can doubt his claims to certainty about an external world because it appears that he has hands. How do we really know (have certainty) the external...

LOL! Indeed. It seems the counter argument is that concepts can only be lnquistic, and language is an external, public thing. But there has to be some...

Until one finds out they were wrong to be certain. In that case they didn't actually know what they were certain about. Unfortunately, I have been cer...

It helps to ask why skeptical doubt arose in the first place. Ancient skeptics produced various arguments for doubting dogmatic claims about the world...

Moore is also misunderstanding the skeptic. The skeptic will agree that we have an experience of having a body. But Moore is making a claim about the ...

It's been stated in this thread that small businesses are part of the capitalist problem. And some of the violent protesters in Minny are rumored to b...

Except Jesus was a Jew, and he probably died because the Romans thought he was agitating revolution. Jesus likely believed God anointed him the messia...

Yes, he could be a capable asshole like Putin. As it stands, Donnie's incompetence is somewhat of a blessing.

Think about a p-zombie telling other p-zombies about a dream they had. Now what could the dream teller mean, and what would the listeners understand, ...

"Siri, what's the temperature?" "It's 20 degrees outside. Brrrr, cold."

For example, if one is unwilling to lie to protect someone from being murdered, because lying is always bad.

So what do we do with statistics? (cue M. Twain)

One other example. Hyenas go for the tentacles to disable their prey or enemies. Here is a video of a male lion surrounded by hyenas who keeps sitting...

Take the example of pack hunters like wolves or lions. They form strategies of working together to bring down prey, or chase off competition. How do t...

I find this hard to believe. A cat has a relatively sophisticated brain. It needs to survive in a complex environment as an ambush predator. And cats ...

You stated that it would be better if "we" moved on from these dumb thought fantasies.

Is that a scientific opinion? Because the dolphins in the video I posted do behave as if they are inspecting themselves using the mirror. Also, there ...

Unfortunately for you, some philosophers do.

I do wonder what the response would have been if Covid were a more deadly disease like Smallpox, but with an infection rate of Measles. Something that...

Also if a dolphin inspects itself in the mirror, that shows the dolphin believes it's seeing a reflection. But if a tiger attacks a mirror, that shows...

Wouldn't physicalism have the same criticism? Those thought experiments are pointing out the difficulty with explaining everything in physical terms.

Agreed. I'm not into the doomsday predictions stuff. I think we'll survive climate change as well and civilization will go on in some form.

If one is going to go full idealist, then the chunk of dead flesh is just an idea, not a state of being, since the idea of mind-independent matter wou...

We did all basically agree to Kantianism in that direct realism thread, did we not? Fucking bad ass, but I'm not sure the tortured, colorblind bat BIV...

He'd learn he was a bat dreaming of being John Wick in the Matrix.

Like naive realism.