Kenosha Kid

Yep. Never given a crap. Which apparently is quite masculine, so...

I like this metaphor, not least for having a Beckettian vibe. It's interesting to think through the possible configurations of individuals and how the...

There's that too :up:

What you're describing is a competing desire: a desire to be moral or, hopefully, to act upon a moral impulse.

1. Nature 2. Depends what you're talking about. "Human beings can exist" doesn't depend on anything afaik. Other facts, like the distance to the Sun, ...

I'm not aware of anyone having a problem with call to prayer, except when it's through loudspeakers at sweet FA o'clock in communities where people ha...

Yes, this is why I tried to cast it in terms of self-cleansing, which is somewhat more positive. I love a nice, long bath, me. Yes but, as you say, pr...

Yes, I think the US is quite proud of its European heritage and seem to even identity themselves as Polish, Irish, Italian, German, etc. Despite havin...

Well said, but just to be more clear, it's not just laws but cultures, especially patriarchal cultures, especially those that back up their unofficial...

Unshown. Are you just verbally mangling the already stated idea that man is the centre of their existence? Jesus Christ. You might be simultaneously t...

That sentence has quite a different meaning to the one you originally wrote. Perhaps if you tried to achieve the bare minimum, I wouldn't have to try ...

I feel that probably isn't why, as shown in the example of my nose which is visible, part of me and therefore occupying the same location as part of m...

One can be "cleansed" of our prejudices just by maximising our experiences; it doesn't require a nefarious individual reprogramming us. It's very diff...

Yes, my nose is part of me and occupies some of the same space as the whole of me, since the whole of me includes my nose. That's implicit in it being...

There are gaps in the middle of the apple for the seeds to occupy. That ain't a coincidence.

(My emphasis.) There is a glaring inconsistency here, and you obviously know about it because you avoided reference to a Muslim woman's choice.

It's weird how people only say "undoubtedly" when about to say something completely unjustifiable. Also the universe can be experienced. You're experi...

That's right, but it's not because of magical virus vacuums either. They don't exist. It's not a thing. People with immunity break vectors, that is al...

Iranian women have been forced to wear hijab since 1979. In 2016, an Iranian woman named Masih Alinejad dared to film herself driving (Iran is off and...

As a matter affect, yes. I forced it. :zip:

Desire doesn't need to be logical: decisions do. Yours are illogical. You love to dance, but don't have any additional reasons for doing so, so you do...

My first house put me through my degree, my PhD, a year-long round-the-world trip, and three months of volunteering. It was pretty good as investments...

You seem pretty dedicated to casting a man's dislike of violence against women purely in terms of self-glory. I can't really do anything with or about...

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This has already been covered in the above discussion, e.g.

Heartwarming, isn't it.

Mortgages last a looooong time though. I'm buying a £270,000 house now that will cost me £367,000. Since houses are still one of the safest investment...

Is the third supposed to follow from the other two?

I'm not sure I generally am, but if and when I am, I'd say caring about facts, such as that we are evolved to be ultrasocial.

Tbf that's true of all things. Basically: do what you want, just don't be a dick. You found God, great! Just don't be a dick about it. You like a drin...

No, people are contagious prior to being symptomatic. Some people don't have obvious symptoms at all. No one is removing the virus. That's not how it ...

Sounds balanced. Apparently he didn't learn any science from the 20th century. Objective spacetime has been dead for more than a century.

People do infect other people. That isn't dispelled by the non-existence of direct lung-to-lung transmission, it just means that they infect one anoth...

Well, they say that generals, CEOs, and politicians are natural jobs for psychopaths. Even if that's not true, it feeeeeeeels true. Sometimes to cope,...

Actually they're not.

And why do you assume that wearing a suit and tie in my first job was any more of an issue for me? Point is, they're equivalent. They are equivalently...

The opposite seems to be the case here, where people are speaking up for a potentially oppressed person's apparent choices without reference to the li...

This sort of irrational behaviour is quite likely why you're coming up with nothing for a reason to live. Ultimately the only reason for doing anythin...

No one believes that they catch Covid directly from other people's lungs without an intermediary, or that healthy people out and about are more contag...

I think that's right. Great moments of progress in history (suffrage, civil rights) are not executed by chilled out people. It is perfectly natural to...

This is a good point, and is a common prejudice: the refusal to give the benefit of the doubt. I saw a man in the grocer's recently who wasn't wearing...

Don't make me explain the joke, dude.

Me too. Well, we are British. ;) Anyway, in answer to the OP, I think defending your position within reason is productive, so long as you move on from...

Coincidentally, my favourite philosophical question is: Has philosophy answered any important questions? It's a relief to discover on a philosophy for...

Oh sure, I'm not hoping to keep every element of lockdown for posterity. That said, a happy medium between the minimalist drudgery of the now and the ...

The former is wrong, for sure. Best case scenario, it's victim-blaming. The latter is because, at least in part, of genuine concern. Offense is an ina...

True, but I think it's a big enough minority to make a big difference. Around 50% of workers right now are working from home who weren't doing so befo...

Me too. Shopping blind is mad skillz! I actually hope there are some permanent changes. Remote working for those who can do it is a fantastic opportun...

They're not just milder, they're qualitatively different. If you accept a position at a firm with a dress code then, like a nun, you have weighed up w...

If you take a look at e.g. the phenomenology of quantum mechanics, you'll see that science is already invested in this arena. To say that science is n...