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Dealing with this is a trivial extension of the argument I present. As representing state authority in a legitimate state, psychological research is a...
June 05, 2020 at 12:18
No problem connecting the dots. Political analysis is not only about the organization of society today, in the past, and potential future organization...
June 05, 2020 at 11:59
"Environmental factors" does not consider the moral dimension of our political environment, only that behaviour and mental states do indeed depend on ...
June 05, 2020 at 11:29
Aha! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
June 05, 2020 at 10:54
Ah, such subtle bait and switching. Indeed you are powerful in the ways of psychology. "Environmental factors" is not the same as "politics". "Environ...
June 05, 2020 at 10:50
I said "they are part of the problem", just like the vast majority of police who are not trying to be abusive are part of the problem if they tolerate...
June 05, 2020 at 10:17
Yes, we fundamentally agree. The difference is that biologists do not decide what is a "mental disease" that needs a cure (biologists in such a contex...
June 05, 2020 at 10:00
Well, the thesis would not be supported by psychological research, for obvious reasons. The foundation of the argument is whether our system is sustai...
June 05, 2020 at 09:09
It's totally fair. There was a long conversation about this a while back. The functional roll of psychology within capitalism, as an academic field an...
June 05, 2020 at 08:49
Turns out branding Martin Luther King an extremist and killing him, and then ignoring what he did have the time to say for over 50 years, was an act o...
June 04, 2020 at 18:56
You mean you would easily believe right wing propaganda. This is just delusional. OP based on an accepted premise happen all the time. You're not maki...
June 04, 2020 at 12:25
You are completely correct that it is better to first consider that there is much more pervasive and severe systemic police brutality against the poor...
June 03, 2020 at 21:50
Yes, I pretty much agree that had universal health care been passed decades ago (or even just one decade ago), equal (at least more equal) education b...
June 03, 2020 at 21:00
Spot on. This is what's so historically new, the lack of basic common sense in the POTUS, and more importantly, the full backing of this insanity by t...
June 03, 2020 at 19:11
Now, yes, MLK was against violence, in the tactical sense that it can achieve the goal without violence: it is therefore preferable. The problem with ...
June 03, 2020 at 18:34
It doesn't stop:
June 03, 2020 at 17:51
Yes, he is dedicated to non-violence, but only for tactical reasons. He is quite clear he views violent resistance against oppression justifiable; the...
June 03, 2020 at 17:35
I'm really tired of this fantasy of Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King did not believe in peaceful protest, and viewed peaceful protest as a degen...
June 03, 2020 at 16:59
So why can you look from a black person's perspective there?
June 03, 2020 at 16:03
Should white people in the US rise up against themselves and really show the world they are ready to make a change and be left out of typical "white p...
June 03, 2020 at 15:44
Aie, there's the rub.
June 03, 2020 at 14:35
I have also been reflecting on what we are actually seeing. Though your reasoning I think is completely adequate to establish first degree murder, it ...
June 03, 2020 at 14:03
The difference is that political protest as a means to effect political process is viable. Laws can be changed through political action, which may or ...
June 01, 2020 at 12:10
I completely agree it is very difficult to assess. Definitely most riots throughout most of history were mostly irrelevant in terms of political chang...
June 01, 2020 at 11:52
The same can be said for most creation events of legitimate government. A lot of people died so that I enjoy freedoms in my country today; a lot of pe...
June 01, 2020 at 09:45
The question was "when has rioting ever been effective?" Plenty examples throughout history of rioting achieving a political goal. Of course, the goal...
June 01, 2020 at 08:47
Yes, you can argue that systemic "racism" isn't really a thing, but I believe the OP states that's not the subject here.
June 01, 2020 at 08:15
It's no my revolution. However, my argument above was not that the looting is effective, only justifiable (if you conclude the state is no longer legi...
June 01, 2020 at 08:07
I wrote the example of the violent riots, looting and then revolution against the British, seemed to be enough. Indeed, most political changes against...
June 01, 2020 at 07:45
We're not having this discussion on Twitter, maybe pause for thought a moment and wonder why is that?
June 01, 2020 at 07:36
Is this true @"Baden"? But, regardless of @"Baden"'s view of capitalism's roll in this, I did not mention the word capitalism in my analysis. The ques...
June 01, 2020 at 07:33
Ok, so you agree with this analysis: I'm not quite sure where I differ in my analysis, but please point it out. This is debatable interpretation of hi...
June 01, 2020 at 07:06
You haven't bothered to read and understand @"Baden" or @"StreetlightX". If you just want to shout and insult, you can do that in youtube comments. Th...
June 01, 2020 at 06:27
You do realize the obvious hypocrisy here? Trying to curse me to a life of harshness in the name of "not-harsh" discussion. And why would I confuse ha...
May 31, 2020 at 14:31
Have you even bothered reading my posts here? And how does Kant avoid that? He berates the people who use the expression "true in theory and not in pr...
May 31, 2020 at 14:05
If you bothered to copy paste the whole thing: Please explain your point again with the context added to your cherry picking definition game. That whe...
May 31, 2020 at 13:52
I never said I had the truth. Read more carefully if understanding is a goal of yours. I said when I persuade, only then do I presume to have the trut...
May 30, 2020 at 10:01
Yes, Wittgenstein even met Freud in Vienna, didn't agree as I suspected. I don't know why I didn't consider he would have just directly commented on F...
May 13, 2020 at 19:46
I will look into your summary, but here's also a summary: Psychologizing philosophy in the sense I am using is exactly to explain, and even to judge "...
May 13, 2020 at 18:41
Wittgenstein doesn't abandon his early philosophy, only mellows out a bit about it; maybe backing away from his claim "every philosophical problem is ...
May 13, 2020 at 18:32
Yes, but you can give justification to what you already believe without contradiction. It is knowledge in this sense, it is not "new knowledge", reaso...
May 13, 2020 at 18:24
I read the Tractatus to be motivated by hyper-pschologizing philosophy, which are forms of scientism. But as I mention, I do not foundationally believ...
May 13, 2020 at 18:21
I'm not disagreeing with this. We know what we foundationally believe in the sense that we know it because we believe it. We do not know it in the sen...
May 13, 2020 at 18:17
Wittgenstein was addressing the various psychological scientisms that was the rage of his day; pointing out it's mostly just confusing and new knowled...
May 13, 2020 at 18:14
Yes, it's a foundational belief. You can try to justify it without first using the law of non-contradiction. What's widely held is that no one ever ha...
May 13, 2020 at 18:05
I don't. "Belief" and "knowledge" and "justified" are applicable to our "foundational belief"; our ordinary language has no normal utility to name wha...
May 13, 2020 at 18:01
This is the tricky part in all this; there's no problem in conceiving of a justification for our foundational beliefs. It is not incoherent to add to ...
May 13, 2020 at 17:47
In agreement here, but not that the other judges would have supported the malitia interpretation. The SCOTUS and all the Western elites are statists, ...
May 13, 2020 at 17:36