Kenosha Kid

An anti-fascist shot dead by police again?

And yet there are a hundred thousand instances of anti-fascists protesting fascism, but we should judge them on the few instances of them assaulting -...

Quite! :victory:

Again, the police openly commit acts of violence against black people and yet, as we've seen, you'd refrain from condemning them. But someone in the i...

So would you agree that, as a whole, the US police are a militant, murderous white supremacist organisation? Like Antifa, the police are not a central...

Triggered.

Yeah, I get that from the 'to adult' example. So is the idea here that we replace specific categories with context-dependent verbs, e.g. 'Oops, I huma...

This thread has at least solidified my impression that anti-natalism is depression + generalisation from samples of one.

Like a lot of proofs for God's existence, this has a lot of padding that quickly becomes irrelevant then reduces to familiar arguments, a consequence ...

Protesting against fascism? Same question, really.

The creative idea is created. It is information: coordinates in configuration space. When I vary those coordinates, I am trying a new idea (a new vect...

I got Trump-exhaustion a long time ago. When you have a figure in office who is so stupid, so shameless, and so morally unscrupulous, it ceases to be ...

I think it's an admirable aim and an (over?) ambitious approach. I'm not sure why you focus on libido -- a drive in most animal species -- as a corner...

'Fall' is metaphorical and juxtapositional. The Roman empire expanded its sphere of influence, territorial ownership, and power. Then that sphere cont...

On the contrary, you cannot have a normative proposition with a positive truth value without a fact being implied. One ought to help old folk cross ro...

:up: I think I misinterpreted your use of "determined". I gather you mean just causally determined, e.g. the charge is + because it has always been +....

But what? If there has never been a thing created out of nothing, what possible substitute could there be? Do you have any non-religious problem with ...

It doesn't get to the heart of your question, but just to clarify that no thing is created like this. Whatever the properties of the perhaps wrongly-m...

There's the contradiction. You cannot approach philosophy with theological biases. If the point of philosophy to a theist is to prove that God exists,...

That's rather like saying if I go outside my family erects a wall between me and them.

Yes you can. Especially given the means of Catholic ubiquity (violence, war, incarceration, totalitarianism, etc.), that ubiquity is not a defence of ...

Silly me, presenting facts. What are facts to the faithful?

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I've seen you, you seem fanatical. But that is not an answer to the question asked.

All religions plan for people from different, as yet non-existent religions centuries later to take over the world? News to me. To what end and how?

True, but in this case it is. The fact that it frame-dependent does mean that it is not objective. What, evolution? This is a straw man and I think yo...

That's my question. 'To human' can have no unique meaning. Would it mean to hunt and gather, to farm, to make or imbibe wine, to rock out, to err, to ...

The individual books were written over a much greater period of time, along with a great many more texts that are not in the Bible. The Bible was coll...

You understand that the Bible didn't exist then. The Roman Catholic church collated the Bible after the fall of Rome.

How do we handle nouns like 'human' that do many qualitatively different things?

Exactly. Ergo there is nothing objectively evil about cancer, only subjectively evil about my cancer or the cancer of a loved one, or my general reduc...

In the context of creativity, which this must be, my issue is that this is a philosopher's idea of "idea" being conflated with a creative person's ide...

The earlier formulations are prohibitive, not compulsions. Yes, Jesus would have a masochist hurt others, but you could not reach that conclusion from...

It really isn't. Even in the USA, Christianity is on the decline, having dropped 25% in the last 30 years. And good riddance to it, honestly. Islam......

Could be the latter but, even if electric and gravitational forces have no identification at any scale, it is not a coincidence. The inverse square la...

This makes no sense. Something cannot have a property in and of itself if that property depends on other properties of other things. If the ball is ob...

In a post you responded to, even quoted, but apparently didn't bother to read. I disagree btw with the notion that ideas pre-exist their discovery, bu...

This is irrelevant. Every text -- and Tristan limited his purview to texts -- is a string of characters. That is, by searching the entire space of str...

And that was intentional, as evidenced by the huge scale military action. That is not, therefore, a crazed conspiracy theory.

I wasn't describing your discourse but the general railing against death of mankind. Actually you did, but if you agree that a cause of a thing is not...

No, for describing it as a conspiracy theory to take over the West. Standard anti-Semitic delusion.

I don't know much about LQG but if P is fixed by C before the symmetry-breaking of the Higgs mechanism and at high (relativistic) energies, that would...

Then I was quite accurate in describing you as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist nutjob.

Probably rarely will, at least directly. One might will to flip a coin in the case of two equally good or neutral options, but the actual choice at ha...

That is perfectly reasonable as a description of cause. I behave this because I lack, e.g. empathy. The act itself is not its own cause. Again, this i...

A "privation of some perfection" is, again, poetry. If, for instance, you were to take pleasure in the pain of someone you did not cause, no one and n...

Even that is with respect to the host, not of cancer in and of itself. Evil is not defined as a privation of anything. It is defined in terms of immor...

That is true, but distinct. The liberty objection has been put, and I think this also weighs in on the question. But that just highlights the madness ...

Oh, I wasn't saying that they're motivated by stupidity. The people themselves might not even be stupid. But I don't think it's an arbitrary manifesta...

My comment was not against accusing governments of bad faith generally. It was pretty clear to me that Iraq had nothing to do with national security o...