Ok, we agree this is an ahistorical thought experiment. I've already dealt with this issue if you read my comments. But to put it another way, how wou...
Yes, we agree we agree on the terminology. People can definitely call themselves "right wing anarchists", but it simply leads to confusion to talk abo...
Do the nonwhites get to vote in your example? Did African nations where the slaves are captured get to vote? But, assuming we agree it's a-historical ...
It's best to just call these "right wing" anarchists libertarians, if that's your implication, as that's what they call themselves. Someone simply wri...
Yes, anarchists usually like this sort of direct democratic participation; which is majoritarian. I don't know where you're trying to go. Anarchists l...
Agree, but that's not what almost anyone in political theory means by majoritarian. It goes without saying that the majority is not intrinsically mora...
Only some communists were statists; there's an interesting history of anarchists first cooperating and then breaking with communists, but then some pa...
The main thing that has stayed true in anarchism is a deep mistrust of schemes that seem to carry the clear risk of "being a useful fool". Obviously, ...
Yes it is. No anarchist writer has a belief that governing decisions could be based on minority votes. It makes no sense on the surface, nor at any ot...
Thanks for self identifying as a high school student, as it's completely excusable to not know much about a philosophy that is essentially censored. A...
There are several issues. The first is that Covonavirus, although doesn't kill enough people to be an existential threat, does kill enough people to o...
The numbers unknown in the sense we don't know exactly what they are, but they aren't unknown or vague from the point of view of my argument. 1. We kn...
Looking at a demographics chart can be really useful to get a sense of what's going on: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/United_Sta...
Yes, I realized I didn't directly answer your question after posting, but have already fixed that: (The wall of text has all the critical elements to ...
Well, I'm relating this group to my discussion with Isaac. If this group was very large and most deaths from Covid came from this group, then Covid de...
No, because not everyone in this group gets Covid. It works in reverse, 95% of people in this group who get Covid we might reasonably expect they die ...
I agree if you are destined to die in 2020 you are "even more" destined to die in 2020 if you get Covid. This group I have been calling "would otherwi...
The point is, you don't know. It's completely reasonable to say people at 60 are closer to the end of their lives than people at 20, more so people ab...
Thanks you for appreciating my arguments; unfortunately, it takes a lot more work to make an argument shorter. I too appreciate people who disagree wi...
"End of their lives" as in over 60? Or, "end of their lives" as in will die within 1 year? You can't just substitute meanings all over the place to pr...
That's how I understand it. Also note, neither @"ssu" nor I characterize all Americans as extreme partisans, but rather that extreme partisanship (whe...
I think @"ssu" is saying that polarization and "post-truth" politics leads Trump supporters to dismiss all criticism of Trump with the euphemism of TD...
Yes, I agree. Both parties (pre-Trump) continued to function on the idea the "internet just doesn't exist", and they simply ignored it. Fox News has f...
This is the error in your analysis I've pointed out like 5 times already. We're talking about deaths within 1 year, so talking about overlap with como...
I agree with the major points. However, the Trump camp really is made up of people with beliefs that seem caricatural. Granted, they have conditions a...
3 days ago, I made my position very clear: I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you were saying the same thing. If you're saying the same thing no...
Poor, poor @"Isaac", comes to a debate forum, engages in a debate, get's served with a debate. None of the points I have made is motivated simply to d...
Ok, so we're talking about a year. What evidence is there that the effect of overlap with people "who would otherwise die this year" is a big effect a...
By small, I have been clear that the effect is there, the effect is measurable, but the effect is not so large as to essentially balance out deaths ov...
If you think we've been talking about some vague timeline and therefore, your position is correct given more time, you are wrong. We've been talking a...
You just stated in your previous comment that you've been asking for the basic statistics all this time. But yes, explaining a position requires expla...
You didn't disagree with future contingencies affecting heart disease outcome; therefore, I need not cite it as you seem to agree and I used common kn...
Not physical resources. A loan doesn't help a doctor today treat a Covid patient, only real material and human resources (which cannot come from the f...
You have not been repeatedly asking me to do this, and I have not volunteered as calculations don't actually solve the disagreement. Your claim is tha...
For instance, if you want to debate your arguments even assuming your premise, the above simply doesn't hold. Even if there's overlap, I've been mostl...
No one is debating these facts, but once numbers get large the ambiguities get small, as a large amount of people dying of pneumonia in a region durin...
The problem is that the right has all sorts of dogmas that excuse Trump's corruption, even make it a good thing. For instance, Randians may see Trump'...
There are two meanings of liberty. We can mean liberty in the sense of individual freedom of action as you have been considering. However, there is an...
This data supports my point not yours. Hypertension, diabetes, etc. are very large risk groups from which my analysis follows. If risk groups are larg...
First, I've already explained why those factors can't be the same as some of those factors are in the future. So I guess deal with those first. Second...
Agreed, but this is a small group of both the known terminally ill risk groups and postulated hidden terminally ill groups, and within this group not ...
This is my position, which I have been very clear about since the beginning. I also gave Isaac the same benefit of the doubt, as I wasn't sure if he m...
I don't disagree here. Where I disagree is this effect will be big in terms of reducing deaths from these risk factors going forward. The original cla...
Yes, this is my point. If the comorbidity groups are large, we can't simply assume Covid is killing off some unknown sub-group who are very likely to ...
Yes, there is the same factor. But having a factor of risk does not mean you will die within a short period of time, it is just a factor. You are maki...
No, this simply isn't true. You are taking a truism too far. Also, note that you also have to deal with the fact that right now it's a small group of ...
I'm not disagreeing that people with comobidities are more likely to die from Covid. My argument is a counter-argument to the idea that Covid is shavi...
But these are the large groups I've been talking about. Yes, heart disease is a big predictor of Covid outcome, but it's a large group and there's sim...
This is simply not true, as I've explained above. First of all, at this stage with a small percentage of the population that has gotten Covid, it just...
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