ToothyMaw

What are you even talking about here? My "racist" detection skills? Anyways - what do you think of Ahmed Muhhamad, the first black male valedictorian ...

I'm a no one, and I don't think anyone should care what I have to say on the matter, really. People of color are the only ones who can really do anyth...

And I find the suggestion that I haven't done enough reading a little condescending. How do you know I haven't seen these arguments? How do you know w...

You didn't respond directly to the point I made about devaluation being fundamental to many people's arguments about systemic racism. And I have read ...

The after-school alliance article made the same mistake. But it is a good point that people of color rarely kill each other because they are people of...

That Cleveland article was garbage; they cited the ratio of whites killed by whites to refute the preponderance of black-on-black violence. I can resp...

I understand that most of those who write or talk about systemic racism are specifically talking about systems of oppression, not private behavior. Bu...

Consider Ireland after it became independent. The Irish people were liberated from British control, but the state fell short of its aspirations to be ...

Great poem.

I would say that if we are concerned with saving the lives of people of color, then black-on-black crime is far more relevant than police brutality, f...

I read some of that thread. I saw nothing in it that I do not agree with - especially some of the policies you outlined. That being said no attention ...

I agree that in a perfect world no one would integrate their race into their identity.

"Any grouping is arbitrary => groups other than the human mind do not exist" makes no sense to me. The items in a group do not have to be identified w...

But people do indeed divide themselves into groups, even if they are based on somewhat specious connections. And some experiences are more common to p...

I'll read it and get back to you. No need to draw assumptions.

We should start by releasing all of the non-violent drug offenders, institute some necessary police reform, and maybe increase the police in some part...

I did emphasize that it is a choice for each murderer to murder at the end of my OP. This arbitrary demarcation is useful because of the shared cultur...

You didn't even make an argument, bro. You just listed a bunch of examples of white-on-white violence Did I or did I not say that culture plays a part...

I mean did you even read the OP?

I find your comments to be self-indulgent and poorly written. I shouldn't have to deal with all of that unnecessary punctuation. And I never said ther...

Some people do in fact dismiss all mentions of black-on-black violence as racist merely because it is sometimes a deflection, such as when discussing ...

In before someone accuses me of writing claptrap

While intelligence is inherited largely, there is no evidence that people of color are actually genetically predisposed to being stupider. At all. You...

I mean so much of the bible is both horrible and almost certainly literal, such as Deuteronomy 25:11-12: If two men are fighting and the wife of one o...

Better dust off the moldering texts (as tucker would say!). In all seriousness though, what are you putting forward for discussion? Just any and all a...

I mean, surely you recognize that one sentence can have almost the same meaning as another? That a sentence can approximate the meaning of another sen...

Good point - as usual. Perhaps I should call them contingent facts.

I expected this. We can get close to expressing a fact, and so it is an approximate fact. Never claimed they were beyond dispute. But I did say that t...

I will keep at it, thanks.

The semantic units could be anything from a whole sentence to just a few words. Including the ideas/concepts that appear as words or phrases would com...

It would seem that the approximate moral facts started with would have to be within a certain range of closeness to their real counterparts so that th...

Well, great! Maybe you have a moral compass! No, I do not want to abolish every federal agency, that is crazy talk - even though I consider myself a l...

So then it would be bad to reign in the military-industrial complex? What if we just organized a vigorous infrastructure revitalization plan? Maybe th...

I know five-year-old's with more thought-out worldviews; at least they believe they should share their stickers with people.

I mean, would you like to be detained and water-boarded for being a suspected terrorist? If you don't want the state to have a monopoly on violence or...

Then you should care about the incarceration and torture of suspected terrorists without due process. Trump on torture: Torture works. OK, folks? You ...

What if there is no better alternative? What if you have no education or qualifications for anything other than a retail job? Oh sweet Jesus - don't t...

I'm going to flag your comment for triggering me. Triggered.

Then I guess we should tolerate mob justice?

What about censorship on social media? And aren't corporations responsible for the wages they pay their employees? Maybe that isn't "skimming wealth",...

I never would have thought such a thing. But wouldn't production naturally slow down if people weren't buying things and there was no tremendous milit...

Fair enough. Once again, fair enough. That was a bit of a mindfuck. I suppose that that is true too. So where does that even leave us?

Maybe analyzing applied approximate moral facts in terms of the semantics of their constituent parts and comparing the combinations of constituent par...

Yeah, I definitely agree with all of that. :up: But it seems to me many of these rationalizations are the result of or an interaction with deeper tend...

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I see now what you were getting at, but I think Cheshire meant something else entirely.

How does that relate to what you quoted? I think Cheshire was more talking about how we have to give a justification for why one act is better than an...

Right, but Chaos Theory is almost entirely mathematical. I think linguistics is probably more important in this context than math because we would des...

If the liking system were still in effect I would like that comment. :up: Unless I'm mistaken that is a big thing that happens when running certain si...

If you define suffering as exclusively being an undesirable state of mind then it seems to me that not every metric can be converted to suffering, alt...