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Well, I managed to get through the whole thing today, and I'm going to try to be constructive. The concept was pretty cool, but the overlong descripti...

:up: I theorize that sometimes people aren't actually trying to diagnose themselves or others so much as they are trying to incorporate the kinds of e...

As far as I can tell, Lark was thrown off by the fact that Con actually wanted to die and nearly didn't assist him in committing suicide. He didn't fo...

Yeah, this was excellent. Congrats to whoever wrote it; if this had been a competition you would've won. I got the impression the author pulled this s...

That was a really funny and incisive bit of fiction. The investing metaphors and stuff were good, although it got a little repetitive. Maybe that was ...

What about it being bad for limiting speech? For instance: is the idea that some problems cannot be solved with boilerplate language about colorblindn...

There was nothing us vs. them about my post. It was a simplification, yes, but I think that that is basically the reason for celebrating or venerating...

Ok, cool. I'll share it with Baden or ND then. Thanks for the help.

I do already have it uploaded to my google drive. Sorry, should have said that. It doesn't appear that it can be interacted with, however. It displays...

I have the document formatted and everything ready for being pasted onto the forum, I just wasn't sure if I could share it with Baden or ND right off,...

Once I upload the .txt file to the drive, do I have to enable text editor or something? Because it isn't letting me edit the file without text editor.

Pastebin is telling me that I have offensive or questionable material in my story and won't allow me to paste it - not even unlisted. How else can I s...

I understand now what to do after some experimentation. Thanks.

I looked it up and I think I understand what it is now. I just didn't know what bbcode was. If I write something and make it into bbcode it should ret...

What exactly is the bbcode output of the text I put in? it just retains formatting when translated to another thing like the TPF post editor?

Ok, thanks. Maybe someone else can help me.

Oh you just mean with emphasis or something.

I don't know how to write it in Markdown. I'm not sure what that means. Is that a setting or a word processor or something?

As it turns out one actually needs a pro pastebin account to use the markdown functionality (to retain the formatting of the text), and they are no lo...

First off - nice OP, Alonso. Clear and concise. I think you may be right, but I would add that the celebration of specific violent dates and events is...

Are you alright, dude? That read like a liquor-fueled rant.

I don't see how certain evolutionary trends - even if they promote peaceful coexistence - are necessarily anything other than the consequences of natu...

Well, that was beautifully written. I especially like this. People in bad circumstances, and that perceive those circumstances to be the limits of wha...

It seems I am a little late to the party, and people have already recommended books and articles and such. I do have something original to offer, howe...

This is my best attempt at a substantive response. This seems partly correct. If a consequence - or the likelihood of a consequence - is related to an...

Agreed. That more recent actions are less immoral merely because they are more recent is clearly specious. If you enact something that will have horri...

Since you haven't responded to me, I'll just engage with your initial post. Yes, I would say that an action can be seen as not being evil at the time ...

I understand part of what you are saying, but could you try to express all of that a little more clearly? I think I can tell that you have a genuine c...

Bro, I'm done arguing reparations. I did a poor job arguing for it and have no desire to discuss it further. If you want to engage with the OP, howeve...

This is what I was getting at, but you presented it much more clearly. :up: I look forward to MoK's response.

One thing I can recommend is that you try to understand exactly what your interlocuters are saying and try to represent their arguments the way they w...

So, in the case of fascists posing a real threat to the government, we should allow news outlets and public figures to propagate dangerous, subversive...

You were the one who postulated a mind distinct from the brain, and that brains cannot produce random number generators is part of the point. The supp...

I think MoK is saying here that if you know the outcomes of a decision, you can form reasons for acting in a certain way. This means the act is not fr...

After rereading my response to the OP, I hope I didn't come across smug. I do think my conclusion is right, but it is only because of a somewhat small...

I don't think you can predicate freedom of choice to an entity whose inner workings you cannot describe by virtue of divorcing it from the only thing ...

Okay, fair enough. Not an edge case. But I do think that at a certain point repression can become indiscriminate insofar as totalitarian regimes go, a...

I am in favor of allowing neo-Nazis to express themselves freely. I would say the problem arises when portions of the media collude with fascists to r...

Well then have a good day.

I'm pretty sure this is a deliberate misrepresentation of history. The Reichstag Fire Decree was far worse than, and thus superseded, any relatively w...

I said "let's say" too many times, therefore? Not important, although I acknowledge it might be approaching absurdity. It kind of sounded like you wer...

In the most extreme case of having people that are working from within the system to actively bring about what might be the end of democracy, or human...

Are you capable of reading? I granted your point about responsibility, saying that the person near the lever would not be literally responsible for th...

Yes, agreed. I myself always leaned naturally towards consequentialism, so the trolley problem has always been relatively straightforward to me. The O...

I don't have any thoughts on it, as I thought that that was the result of a misunderstanding. Do you mean what are my thoughts on the last sentence?

You would sacrifice all of humanity because you personally believe not even one person should ever be forced to sacrifice their life? Even in the situ...

Are you against conscription in all cases?

And I suppose that if a child that cannot swim is shoved into the pond, you are also not responsible for the outcome of the child drowning even if you...

Yeah, I realized that we must have been talking about two different things. Oof.

If my logic is correct as you say, then if the lone person does not pull the lever, then the ability for six people to choose how they die is preserve...