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Yes, I agree. The general analysis of democratic proponents is that the UK is not democratic enough, first-past-the-post vs. proportional representati...

What's your definition of corruption here? Being able to nudge the scales of justice towards arbitrary power for oneself? How would a form of minority...

Exactly, I didn't find this post surprising at all.

This proposed solution also depends on your 'A Big Fat Dictator who shoots anyone who tries to put two cows on the', what is now, private property. Us...

That's the story, sometimes, the point is Trump does not need to deliver this, it's just a story being told and actions are for show and not substance...

I will come back to the "how many people are there really" question in my next post, as it's just irrelevant apologetics: doesn't actually lead to a c...

Yes (that's a good question) and why the phrases "inside and outside the system" come up. "Inside the system" the theorem isn't provable, there's no p...

This is the premise you need to abandon. There can be true statements that have no proof. Incompleteness shows us an example. There can also be just "...

I think this question got answered, but I was careful to use terms of "unproven statements" which is not the same as "unprovable statements. Why we do...

An important condition to incompleteness theorem is the axiomatic system is strong enough to do arithmetic. The concept of complete is that every true...

The fear is about what happens after, and they are reasonable fears from what I tell, which is why a majority of UK politicians are trying to prevent ...

You do realize Brexit hasn't come true either?

Yes, I agree there is no "answer" ... for now. However, we will find out as events unfold, people can have feelings and insight that is interesting or...

Well, this got pretty long, because there's lot's of important distinctions that we usually don't draw attention to. To summarize, there are (at least...

I agree here, but my wonder is how sustainable this position is. For instance, to contrast to Trump, Trump supporters have almost zero expectations of...

If you're trying to connect this question to the law of physics, then it's the same as "why aren't all molecules alike"; i.e. why is there any differe...

We do not know this. Not only are there simply principles, such as the law-of-non-contradiction (as @"javra" mentions) that we probably would agree we...

What's really amazing is that BJ's popularity (in the UK, and more so in the conservative base) seems to be going up in all this. Is BJ successfully c...

This is not what it proves. This holds for only a finite set of axioms and axiom schemata, an important condition; as new unprovable truths or straigh...

Yes, it is essentially this problem posed by Hume that Kant created Kantianism to answer. This is the first essence of the categorical imperative, tha...

But that's entirely reasonable, it follows from rejecting the validity of Zimbardo's experiment (a proposed positive determination of the "moral fickl...

This thread is about Zimbardo, no one here is arguing that if Zimbardo's experiment was flawed that is evidence for the opposite conclusion. So you're...

This is debatable. Nazi's were a thing, yes, but so was resistance to Nazism, both within and abroad. We find terrible acts and good acts throughout h...

I was just copying a passage to make the same point, though I chose a different one: The issue is that Zimbardo, and others sympathetic to his cause, ...

Nice card to pull out in a completely irrelevant context. But duly noted, you do have this card to play in a game where it doesn't matter. My aces bea...

Thanks. Though I did make one mistake on second reading ... I don't think it matters much, I'll still be up by a few dozen points. I do hope Bartricks...

This seems like a reasonable thing to say, moderation in all things, but I think is insufficient to properly address @"alcontali"'s concerns. Granted,...

If it's not about labels why insist you're right about the label? You keep going on discussing the label all while denying that it's important to you ...

You don't want to argue your point about the label, but you're certain your right about that point and arguing about it? Maybe, in other contexts, aga...

Though I think this general topic is up for debate -- for instance, in another thread I defended the position people can intend to believe lies that t...

To clarify to you and other readers why I'm teasing out that point, it's to show how much our system is Kantian. Criminal liability is never on the pe...

Yes, that's the basic idea of negligence, but not the point I'm trying to make. The point I'm making is that the negligence is in intention despite no...

It's not convoluted, I am trying to highlight the difference between the colloquial "I didn't intend that to happen" and the legal technical requireme...

Did you read my next sentence?

I have to interject here and point out that right intentions are by definition good intentions. When we say "good intentions" are no excuse in a non-t...

You seem to be again back to abandoning your argument as "Kantian", and simply focusing on the consent. Other posters have outlined the problems in pr...

My argument of why it's difficult to derive anti-natalism form Kant's ethics was an outline, to backup my claim that your OP maybe a deontological arg...

Your title is "The Kantian case against procreation" then you go on to say that you don't really mean to bring Kant into it, just want to discuss a de...

Trump is not a neocon, all evidence points to Trump being guided solely by what Trump sees as good for Trump. Carlson is a propagandist. This particul...

My point is that that Kantianism is not synonymous with deontological ethics. Your title is "The Kantian case against procreation". If Kantians here o...

I'd just like to address the argument here that anti-natalism is somehow intrinsically or then thematically Kantian. First, Kantianism doesn't have a ...

I have returned from my travels, and finally have the time to deliver the promised goods of why Ayn Rand is neither a rehash of classical ancient Gree...

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Yeah, I get the pessimism. Even if war with Iran is avoided, there's a genocide in Yemen as we speak, not to mention looming global ecological catastr...

You dislike poor arguments ... yet you have no backup for your premise. You haven't defined "rambling theological verbiage" nor given any specific exa...

I directly quoted you: Your statement here is not "politics is filled with events", but "politics always ends in war". The history of politics so far ...

This is simply not true. Politics usually ends with larger political units; granted, often the direct consequence of wars along the way (but not alway...

Have been pretty busy with work travels ... but can't let it slide that as I predicted 3 months ago, Trump threw Bolton under the bus. Followup predic...

A quick questions for the UK members. I haven't seen any good explanations of why Boris can kick people out of the conservative party. I'm pretty sure...

See my point above about: And discussion that followed from it. As others have mentioned, there can be a lot of differences from country to country. T...