Love is an umbrella term for several different things: attraction, attachment, commitment. Check out Helen Fisher. I recall she did a TED talk on the ...
Yes, not regressing. Regressive and conservative politics are not the same thing. Someone who wants to repeal women's right to vote is not conservativ...
I'm not really sure this is about extremism. Conservativism isn't generally about trying to "roll back the clock". While it's generally on the wrong s...
Cheers for the link, I'll read it soon (wine, takeaway and film night). Yes, as I wrote the previous, my mind too was whirring as to how one would do ...
Yes. People aren't responsible for they're upbringing but that are responsible for questioning their beliefs. Someone who understands on a cognitive l...
He was talking about a survey of university-educated women in the '50s, most of whom espoused that sentiment. JP believes, as counterpunch clearly bel...
I'll check the link later. Bitcoin "black people are just more criminal" Carlos? Yeah, perfect case in point, thanks for raising it. I thought you wer...
Indeed. The distinction between pleasure and craving. I dig the quandary, but I feel like you're conflating two overlapping but distinct questions: wh...
I think self-rule is impractical in a society of mobile strangers and diverse moral opinion. I think it would be pretty easy for antisocial elements t...
Yep, back when you died of toothache. The life expectancy was below 40 years iirc. Personally I'd take dentistry and medicine over self-rule, but that...
Yes. Almost certainly. So what, I have to lower my standards to yours for the sake of your bad politics? No. JP explicitly champions a sexist social s...
I was being flippant. I understand the ideas behind intersectional feminism and see worth in them for feminist theory, but since I'm not a feminist, i...
The one I've described several times. "This is X. X is like Y. Therefore this is Y." For instance, if I had posted any feminist content on the site ev...
You really struggle with chronology. No we're not. You're conflating critical theory with intersectional feminism, which is precisely the faulty logic...
Quite right, the prevalence of a narrower jaw did not arise after the invention of the contraceptive pill: it arose after the advent of agriculture. O...
He is definitely a sexist bitter professor, or he was bitter, he's raking it in now. He recycles Nazi propaganda but that doesn't make him a Nazi, and...
Absolutely. Precisely my thinking about #MeToo (and #TimesUp), which was largely a Hollywood thing. Surface changes made, but nothing structural. The ...
Sounds a lot like the falsificationism Pfhorrest advocates: dismiss beliefs as and when they become untenable. I think the OP has value and my respons...
I'm ignorant about her, but this sounds extremely similar to a lot of 20th century European philosophy. It's de Beauvoir, no, applied to the west-east...
Kind of, but with respect to chronology. It helps if one of us can follow a conversation we're having. I didn't say you were alt-right, I said you see...
The UK is a union. The name is irrelevant. Because it's a purely military organisation, not an organisation with a military. But, on that, you don't n...
Notice how Covid arrived shortly after Antifa turned up? There are several anarchistic groups in the world, some on islands. There were more, but we k...
Indeed. But problems don't arrange themselves around the world like that. The problems in Arusha are not the same as the problems in Manchester which ...
1. Accuses people of being intersectional feminists based on no evidence. 2. Complains about being labelled alt-right. You're a real hypocrite. I don'...
Not a lot of people are talking about Bill Clinton clearly falling asleep during the inauguration. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/l.HZbQDvcIYPuht_X...
Well a) that isn't how problems arrange themselves, and b) it isn't obvious what a community is. To me, the logical 21st century community is the glob...
I'm a global villager. I guess I base it first and foremost on the cause, maybe secondarily on proximity as a pragmatism. So yeah I'm planning on help...
Human rights, esp. worker rights, is a big part. But, yes, they don't tell member states how to govern or legislate, within the bounds necessitated by...
It has foreign policy on trade (it is, after all, a trade union first and foremost). The notion of an EU armed forces keeps getting floated. That woul...
I stopped here, for the record. Whatever this paragraph is, it is propaganda, not discussion. After a breakup of a long-term relationship, I was feeli...
As I said earlier, my issue with JP is less the targets of his criticism and more his argumentation. I agree, one can have self-mastery and not accuse...
I am. I'm not responsible for disingenuous and unjustifiable interpretations of bad faith contributors. I am typically explicit and happy to clarify a...
Do you need clarity on what I meant, or is the point to wilfully misrepresent? I suspect the latter. No, in my opinion JP rationalised his appeal to t...
Given that your entire appraisal is based not on any affirmation of my ideals but on what I stand against -- racism, fascism, etc. -- seems pretty on-...
:rofl: For further consideration, recall how Trump told his supporters not to vote by post, then was stumped by most postal votes being for Biden beca...
You don't need to. Simply quote an example of my suspected intersectional feminism so that I and others understand what you're talking about. As for t...
Yes. The anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers and Covid conspiracy theorists are all on Trump's side. Idiocy attracts idiocy. Compare how jammed together the fe...
Again, that isn't in anything I said. Earlier, I wrote: Since then, one JP disciple has interpreted my statement that Peterson recycles anti-Semitic c...
Regardless, we have an excellent team of moderators to ostracise members who are contra the spirit of the community for us. If you don't want to chall...
The reasons why JP appeals to the alt-right are a little separable from JP's principles themselves. My fault with him is far less about his conclusion...
Every state has its own local laws. (I appreciate it hasn't devolved, i.e. transitioned from a more centralised government to a more localised one, in...
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