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Perhaps you could do me the courtesy of giving a sample of metaphysical theses or postulates which have been proven? I'm not talking about defining Go...

Science (here broadly defined to include avenues of empirical investigation which rely upon examining data and generating explanations for phenomena b...

I challenge anyone to prove a metaphysical claim using any means whatsoever: what metaphysical claim has even been "proven"? Philosophers still wrangl...

I disagree: there have been many empirical arguments which purported to demonstrate the existence of God. The entire body of literature on the argumen...

Yours and Rowe's definitions seem to be slightly at odds: you say that agnosticism can mean the belief that whether or not God exists is unknown or un...

I think it depends on the situation. If, for instance, particle physicists perform a series of experiments designed to detect a particle which their t...

I accept your apology. And nor have I accused you of a hasty generalization: a hasty generalization fallacy in this context would be something like ex...

Honestly, I have no idea what you are getting on about here. This just seems like a confused jumble of words to me. You have already assumed that "ord...

Besides proceeding from a false premise (it is not true that "every time we see organization/order" we infer conscious agency at work: crystals, for i...

Christopher Hitchens had a nearly-unmatched erudition, combined with an acerbic and pointed style of argumentation. I would recommend not only his wri...

Would it be easier to imagine a universe with only one thing if that one thing were a simple, point-like object, with no spatial extension or internal...

I don't believe it is coherent to say that feelings are illusory. When it comes to feelings, there is no difference between perception and object. The...

I take it you are an incompatibilist, then?

Don't you barbarians across the pond realize that a great democracy has 2 political parties...max?

Arguably, there could be rational justification if said praise or blame elicited a change in the agent's future behavior in line with the desires of t...

Yea, I agree that that was a bit wordy, but I wanted to forestall any questions as to how one knows that Bob did in fact take the money. But yes, from...

I think there are some assumptions in your statement which need to be examined. Most theories of knowledge do not require certainty to qualify (if onl...

I think this is the crux of the matter, and is debatable. (Is there a difference between epistemological justification and justification simpliciter?)...

Nothing about "blaming" Islam as a community of practitioners, system of beliefs, or religion absolves the murderer for his own actions. If we say tha...

Your theory might hold more water if Muslim terrorists didn't primarily kill other Muslims. The attacks in the West get more attention, but ISIS attac...

Yup. And read The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili for a litany of the intellectual accomplishments which once permeated the Arab world while the Wes...

Sure. And when a husband beats his wife, she should really examine what she did to deserve that. After all, men don't just beat women for no reason, d...

Unless you are willing to examine the issue of intent then there's nothing more to say. If you wish to draw a moral equivalency between two groups bec...

I'm saying that there has been change. I'm not suggesting that violence is something that we can tweak at will with a dial, in the manner of a TV volu...

It reflects upon the moral character and the type of people we're dealing with when one group strives to minimize innocent victims, and the other stri...

Do you not see a difference between intentionally killing as many civilians as possible and striving to minimize civilian collateral damage when bombi...

We should apparently stop selling them vans, too, since they will use them to ram pedestrians.

Rates of various sorts of violence (from interstate to interpersonal) have been declining for myriad reasons (some of which may be poorly understood),...

Already covered this. Men are absolutely more violent than women, and people are justified in being more afraid of men than they are women.

Right: and there's no difference between intentionally targeting civilians in indiscriminate bombings and bombing military targets, correct? Sure. And...

I believe that the propaganda propounded by the Nazi party, as well as strains of xenophobia, scapegoating, and nationalism (some of which are disturb...

The beliefs and propaganda propounded by the Nazi party no doubt played a causal role in Germany's warmongering. What of it? Their attempt to extermin...

Is it also a news flash that Islam produces a disproportionate number of violent radicals relative to other major world religions in the modern world?...

Interesting. I quite liked Seinfeld, except for the shitty later seasons.

There's a causal connection, which is saying quite a bit. The fact is, these bad actors aren't merely radicals who happen to be Muslim: they're radica...

Ah, of course: Islamic terrorism is a result of the West's meddling, foreign policy, and horrid respect for human rights. I'm glad you reminded me. Pr...

Really? That seems to be the crux of the matter, i.e. whether said actions are connected to Islam. What I said is that one doesn't need a granular und...

To my critics, allow me to illustrate my point from what is perhaps another political perspective, by reiterating a question which I asked earlier: Is...

It would be ignorant to say that all practitioners of said religion are equally violent or loathsome, but it would not be ignorant to say that that re...

Ok. I feel that I am rapidly losing the thread of your point. Let me summarize what I've said. (1) Islam (yes, the entirety of Islam, that is, the rel...

I agree that they should not, but some have.

I must admit that I'm not a student of Nazi artwork (though I'm not sure how Hitler being depicted as the Messiah is overtly Christian; indeed, Christ...

All radical Muslims are Muslims; it doesn't follow that all Muslims are radical, and I've never said otherwise. While I may at times "target" Islam as...

Nazis were motivated by many bizarre and odious beliefs, including exhortations of "blood and soil," nationalism, and xenophobic hatred and war-monger...

I'm afraid I don't follow your question. I've repeated over and over again that I don't believe that all Muslims are terrorists. As for the agenda of ...

Nazis killed those who it deemed to be inferior, to be sure, but I don't think that their being "infidels" have anything to do with it. Are you sugges...

Contrary to your "obvious" claim, I do think that groups such as the KKK were at least partially motivated by their religious extremism, as they were ...

How so? You have to put some meat on these bones if you want to be taken seriously. The usual carping about "the West, Trump, blah blah blah" isn't go...

A tu quoque fallacy and a non-sequitur wrapped into one. Criticizing radical Islam doesn't imply that the critic believes Western civilization to be b...

The attackers are dead, so in this case, I doubt we'll learn much more about their motivations, at least not from them directly. Perhaps they left beh...