Michael

It's not absurd. For example: You had pancakes for breakfast today. There's nothing absurd about the above statement, even though the fact of the matt...

You can say anything. For example: Donald Trump is not a criminal but I believe that Donald Trump is a criminal. The above is true if, despite what I ...

As if. "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."

If you don't believe that it's raining outside but it is in fact raining outside then you would be saying it truthfully.

There might not be a reason for him to say it but he might nonetheless say it. As you say, it's a silly statement, but also a true statement. That's t...

It's a disservice, irrelevant, and an insult. Again, it's like telling a gay couple to hide their affection in public because it will stop them from b...

It's a disservice, as you're framing it as the victim's responsibility to refrain from acceptable behaviour as a means to lessen the chance of being v...

I dress to increase my sex appeal.

No it isn't. When I dress to look good I don't want to be treated as a disposable dildo. I certainly want to attract women but to think that that amou...

You're equivocating. Wanting to be an "object of desire" in this sense is wanting to be desirable. That's not the same as wanting to be treating as an...

Wanting to look good is not the same as wanting to be treated as an object.

I've made a dance playlist that I play on the weekend to replace being able to go out to the nightclub. Not that it's any kind of replacement. :worry:

If it does exist we can't know that it exists.

Anything which doesn't affect something else is by that very nature undetectable and so can't be known to existence. That aside, consciousness is perh...

The existence of UFOs isn't in doubt. The Pentagon released some videos a few months ago of some, for example. https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releas...

He's exasperated by the disaster that is Georgia's attempt at having an election and doesn't understand why you can't just use paper and pencil like a...

I assume these questions are just addressed to white members of the forum? Or would you like black members to answer as well?

Yeah, probably an XSS attack. The ad is able to exploit a vulnerability in the target site allowing it to run certain scripts like page redirects.

Although it is true that if I pick A + B then I will win $1,000 more than if I pick B, it is also true that if I pick A + B then I have a 99% chance o...

I don't see how that follows. If everyone reasons that way and so picks A + B and if the predictor is infallible then it would always predict that the...

Perhaps, but then that's less about probability theory and more about personal circumstance. Someone in dire financial straits might prefer a guarante...

Then let's assume that the predictor's accuracy is 99%. If I pick A + B then there's a 99% chance that I win $1,000 and a 1% chance that I win $1,001,...

I don't understand how it's a paradox. By the thought experiment's own premise the predictor is infallible, and so therefore whatever I choose is what...

Ignoring him normalize his behaviour. That's not a good thing.

U.S. citizens can vote whilst living abroad.

There are.

I'm OK with them feeling insulted when I insult Trump. That's on them, not me.

Except for a lot of people their "reasonable" concerns aren't reasonable at all. Pro-life, pro-religion (to an extent that allows LGBT discrimination)...

I'm OK with that. Besides, I insult him because he says and does things worthy of insult. It's not to make me feel good.

Clearly a Democrat never-Trumper.

Did Mattis just call Trump a Nazi?

The Root has some great headlines. The Punk-Ass President Had Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed So He Wouldn’t Look Like a Bunker Bitch

"Right but not all jobs are under attack right now". She's so close yet so far.

My 32nd in a couple of weeks. Planned another trip to Thailand. Now I'm just going to be stuck at home alone. When lockdown's over I'm going to have t...

He said this: "Suck my dick you puffed up little turd. And you are a fucking racist cunt too...everything you write is actually about your ego, how yo...

If you're referring to having failed to achieve certain outcomes, sure. The more conservative politicians are the ones in power right now. But not wit...

Is this what you're referring to? Twitter suspends fake antifa account tied to white nationalists Yeah, I'm cool with that.

Peaceful Protesters Were Gassed Outside The White House So Trump Could Get A Photo Op At A Church And people like this guy. :roll:

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This is the politics and current affairs section. We don't expect the same kind of rigorous arguments that are expected in the philosophy topics.

Yes, I think they do, but they don't speak for the minority of people who don't think that a peaceful approach will work.

A lot of the people who are engaged in the riots are black people, so clearly Dennis Rodman doesn't speak for what all black people want. Snap.

Also they haven't clarified if the person shot dead was the person shooting at them.

In this case they were returning fire.

My mistake. Well, there were the Hong Kong protests that started peacefully but were ignored, hence the escalation.

There were the LA riots in 1992 after the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King.

That's why I'm more partial to something like Rawls' maximin. If the worst off are better off in a society with wealth inequality than that's better t...

They do. Their problem is that it's expanding upwards, not downwards. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

I wasn't talking about people arguing on here for a socialist revolution, I was talking about people who are actively protesting. They're not doing it...

I think when people are faced with injustice, winning the moral argument is the least of their concern. What they want is to not be killed by the poli...