Yes, because all white people just get to "sail through life." We are literally reasoning about this over a metaphorical coffee table. That is the con...
Yes and no. Here are my actual responses: A: "Black children are 5 times more likely to drown in swimming pools" B: "If so, it's not because they are ...
Yes, but if you use the opportunity to teach them the rules, then one day you may be able to play chess together. If someone is struggling with cohere...
This is a recurring thing in this conversation. People keep jumping back and forth from the general to the specific whenever it suits them. One can ac...
Uh, then my point still holds true? Conclusions are still only "true" or "false" in a contextual sense. Don't browbeat me with this shoddy example - I...
This is, in simple point of fact, racism. The conjuring of race as a concept, followed by the distribution of all people according to this manufacture...
Again, you assert that a word's "definition" is some absolute monolithic quality that actually exists in some concrete or at least enduring way and ca...
Some. I think many here are interested in having a conversation - of there being a flow of information in more than one direction. Some have more skil...
I was offering a personal observation in the hopes that it would help someone new to the forums. He seemed to be sincere in trying to get substantive ...
The reason I included history in the mix is that I generally like the concept of history as the "Great Conversation", which denotes a sort of meanderi...
You are living proof of such clumsiness (laziness?). Now you're conflating "degree of accuracy needed" with "wrongness". Different applications of any...
Thank you for that contribution. I think it's important to carry those thoughts all the way through to the end, lest we unintentionally reinforce some...
You'll find this is how he operates. He asks questions, then ignores your answers except to pick snippets out of context and ask more (inane) question...
For the sake of argument, should we express some concern that this leads to a defeatist mindset? In other words, it is too easy for someone to say, "I...
This is why I don't describe myself as an atheist. I prefer the term "post-theist". I agree with the implications of your OP, which is that to claim a...
What's wrong with these words? "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths ...
No. Again, this is the fact-value dichotomy at work. "Widely accepted" is exactly the standard to apply in ordinary language. It is precisely what lan...
Universal. All relationships are difficult to maintain, moreso the closer they are, and/or the longer they last. Most people want to be around people ...
You read some Plato, skipped ahead to Aquinas, and then just stopped, didn't you? I'll take a shot at this in terms you might accept. You are too focu...
Varies from person to person. Ranges from just being an anti-human troll, through simple insecurity, all the way to a sincere desire to see if one's o...
I think you've diagnosed your own frustration right here. You say you no longer fear death, but you are clearly still very fixated on it. Seeing life ...
Cheers. When two people engage in civil discussion with thoughtful sincerity, they actually CAN come to an agreement. I applaud your decorum. Quite ra...
If you want me to say that Christianity was one of the voices in the historical "conversation" that led to a rational-scientific worldview, fine. Done...
Totally agree. I think we can certainly argue for self-awareness and gender equality without having to resort to "male assholery" as a crucial element...
Go ahead. You like to make this term a moving target, so please pin it down for me as you interpret it. The how is the why. To paraphrase the wisest o...
Yes, I understood that. I was saying that I think the analysis holds up right there. I think to go further is to stretch beyond what the data supports...
Look, I was trying to use low-hanging fruit to prove a cursory point. The thread wasn't about history so I didn't want to go very far down this road. ...
This is the God of the gap. God is only "necessary" to the extent one has no way to explain a phenomenon. As a worldview becomes increasingly scientif...
This is all consistent with my position, probably reinforces it. I have said from the beginning that oversimplifying this to purely race without inclu...
First, I would say you need to define how you are using "science" here. I think you are indicating the post-Renaissance rise of the experimental metho...
If a young person were trying to develop their reasoning skills and learn to think philosophically and I wanted to show them a counterexample, a mind ...
There is net social utility in adamantly rejecting perverse and dangerous ideologies and being seen doing it. We need to make marginalizing people lik...
Your conclusion is false. Government is at worst a necessary evil. At best it is a major contributing factor to human happiness. You did get the neces...
This is fairly obviously a tongue in cheek statement to demonstrate how asinine the logical results of his position are. Or perhaps you were referring...
Thank you for your efforts. Many people here seem not to be able to distinguish one concept from the other, which I could easily turn into yet another...
I've been arguing for it all along. The cause of the inequalities we are discussing is not addressed in this outcome-based labelling. Figuring who got...
Awesome logic. You're so right. Just send me your location and I'll send someone over to murder you and take all your stuff. Of course, you can't even...
1. Being a part of a community "forces" people to part with all sorts of things. In isolation, you might be able to do whatever you want all the time....
Yes, but without any preferential treatment of any kind. Completely neutral. Maybe. Or would it be racist against no one? What is essential in the mea...
I was totally on board with all of it until here. It was like the photo negative of Billy Madison shouting "Knibb High football rules!" at the end of ...
@"Srap Tasmaner" Pure thought question here. What if the following were true: 1. There exists a system that at least intends to divide people accordin...
What you're describing here is the difference between Classical Liberalism and Bleeding-Heart Liberalism, an unfortunate modern off-shoot. Bleeding He...
Based on this sentence, you do not know the meaning either the word "socialist" or the word "fact". This seems like a better argument for your ignoran...
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