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And, due credit to Trump, no doubt aided by Trump's call for voters to boycott those elections. The man is an incomparable idiot.

Improvised explosive device seized in the Senate according to NBC.

Ah. "I cannot swim so will not swim but intend to swim." To me that's erroneous. An intention to me is an intent to act. I think that's typical.

It simply doesn't. Cognitive empathy is driven by the activation of mirror neurons throughout the brain in response to stimuli before the person in qu...

I'm sure they'd appreciate your generous characterisation. So if the criterion is *daily* violence, there are presumably no violent organisations. Dai...

Congress security seems rather slight for a centre of government of a powerful nation. Ooh smoke outside the House! Shit's kicking off!

And we know that is bullshit because of the long, violent, hateful history of the Klan. The raison d'etre of the KKK is violence oppression of black A...

How so? We're not talking rational decision-making here, we're talking biological imperative.

Proud Boys (among others) arrested for assaulting police officers outside the White House https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-us-2020-55558355 So...

Yes, it depends. If the person didn't think because they didn't care, they are morally culpable. As for incompetence, it depends. An idiot is generall...

I mean it's logically inconsistent in itself.

I don't think this is an apt description of culture. You seem to characterise cultural modes as suspended pending justification. Rather, the justifica...

If we do not act on our intentions, are they intentions? I think intentions do have effects on others, mediated by our actions (the things we intended...

I've been peddling the transactional interpretation of QM for a while in the Philosophy of Science forum as a bit of a quantum cure-all for a few meta...

But that's precisely what you're not doing when you judge a great many people for criminal activity they are not responsible for. Well, we have to ide...

Oh absolutely. The Iliad is chock full of people talking about evil arrows and evil spears and evil chariots. But then they don't mean what we mean by...

Then what is the difference in risk between that and sending them to the shops? This again sounds like the teleological suspension of ethics of a dera...

If the good is accidental, there is no need to consider a moral agent at all. A tree is a good tree if it shelters me or bears fruit. But this is not ...

For the actor to intend them not to be harmed, they would have to be mentally deficient enough to not consider that the lesson was more lethal than th...

It's odd, isn't it, that social construct theory came out of structuralism and poststructuralism and yet then proceeds with claims about absolutes. Ge...

But Antifa are not that sort of community. There may exist communities of some Antifa members who do so, and some of those might be systematically vio...

My child suffering is not an "event" at all. My child suffering a car crash when she is 17 at a particular time and place due to a drunk driver coming...

Yes, it's wrong. Even if the gun does jam, it's still wrong imo. The intent is to harm others greatly for some small and perverse satisfaction. If suc...

If there are indeed configurations of God possible. Note that I restricted myself to possible universes, whatever they might be.

Well that's hardly surprising since you're arguing for antinatalism and I against. :) It's an interesting question though. One can't generally know, s...

Sure, same with the KKK and neo-Nazis. That's because the MO of the entire organisation is violently criminal. Even in the absence of a centralised or...

The question is There are certainly religious people who have disliked secular life. Some examples I'm aware of: 1. Totalitarianism, especially in the...

So if an Antifa member shot randomly into a crowd of fascists, Antifa are in the clear? And therefore one member's personal decision to kill someone i...

We're discussing statistics, not epistemology. That is, we are discussing probabilities as they might still apply even in the absence of holders of be...

Apparently we cannot agree on that. :) I would never judge someone Ill for having a child in poverty. I would judge the agents of their poverty if the...

Pleasure is an outcome; it can't stand in place of a drive. It also can't explain the desire of virgins to copulate. Nor can it explain the common neg...

There are plenty of autonomous groups generally. The question was: are all or even one of those groups responsible for what one individual does? Your ...

There it is again. If an Antifa supporter who is a violent asshole with a gun shoots into a crowd, it is Antifa who has "assassinated" someone, despit...

So "natalists" (i.e. regular humans going about their business) almost certainly do not make such value judgments at all. I've never come across anyon...

Btw this seems to be another constant in right-wing arguments: the argument itself is disposable, only the conclusion matters and is constant. Constit...

What an odd thing to say. The only meaning I can extract is that you think it's possible that, if you were Hispanic, it would be understandable that y...

By natalism do you mean normal people just naturally procreating without theorising about it? Because I can't imagine much more redundant than a moral...

No, one can have a false belief about morality. Human sacrifice to make crops grow is such a belief. It is about social interactions and social group ...

I didn't mean that no one cares what you think, merely that one cannot have a point of view about what a consensus is. I was just being explicit: scie...

Your entire argument against anti-fascism was that it opposes the founding principles of your country. I'm just trying to figure out the logic behind ...

If my argument was simply that the nice ones in history are true and the nasty ones false, it would be, yes. But that's not my argument, which is grou...

No, it was rather more than that. The bases by which a moral proposition can be well- or ill-grounded are not just those "we have going on at the mome...

Which is why I suggested to him: You got there in the end, well done!

I've just learned from experience how to spot a patented HH derailment and don't think this thread is an appropriate place to explain why thought expe...

Wait, now you're back to saying that you have a right to be heard. I thought we'd dispensed with that. You're essentially arguing against the right fo...

I'll try not to speak for Isaac but we are quite simpatico on this. Let us take the question: Ought I to wear black shoelaces or brown shoelaces to th...

After almost ten years in a physics department, I haven't come across it. The nearest I can muster are: 1) the phrase "it's just philosophy, not scien...

I think Isaac's view was similar to mine. Fine. Give me the natural reason to adopt the ethic:

Good, so you understand that you are not protected in defacing property you don't own, or to assemble free from counter-protestors. And presumably you...

Very convenient of you to avoid my first. Freedom of speech does not mean a freedom to occupy whatever platform you choose. You do not have the freedo...