Michael

Done.

Done, in the imaginatively titled #MeToo.

Anyone mind if I move the #MeToo stuff out of the Shoutbox?

So, what? It's not worth trying? That we shouldn't at least hold the guilty accountable (e.g. Weinstein)?

Is that sort of interaction the sort that the #MeToo movement is condemning? Because it seems to me that they're condemning the sort that I'm describi...

Well this came out of nowhere. I was just saying that the #MeToo movement is "trying to convince your average guy in the Western world not to pat a wo...

What kind of advances are you talking about then? Feeling them from outside his trousers? Feeling his arse? Kissing him?

Sure, it might be pushing the language to call it harassment, but if it's "totally unacceptable" then surely it shouldn't be accepted as the norm? Doe...

Since so many people seem to think that being smiled at is an invitation to grab a woman's arse? I wasn't exactly referring to the situation where you...

No. I don't force a woman into a position that she might not want. I just present the opportunity. So hold out my hand rather than just take hers; ask...

Holding out my hand isn't a sexual touching "advance".

Sure, and there are people out there who like BDSM. But you don't use that to try to justify acting on the assumption that maybe the person you're wit...

Because you're all dying to know, the (old) Way of Michael when at a club: if I see a girl I'm attracted to on the dance floor I don't just walk up to...

I think if your risky "advance" is some sort of sexual touching then you're doing it wrong. Is it so hard to ask/wait for verbal confirmation?

I think a real-life example of the trolley problem would be the general who has to decide whether or not to launch a strike against an enemy that woul...

I wonder if your argument is self-defeating. If there are only particles and the laws that guide them then there surely there's no such thing as an il...

One has a will, but whether or not it is causally responsible for one's actions is debatable (see here). If it is then we have free will, according to...

It does establish compatibility between determinism and free will because it defines free will in terms that are consistent with determinism: one has ...

Especially not if it's three men getting married.

In a causal sense you're responsible for all your actions (if your will causes your actions) but in a moral sense you're not responsible if you've bee...

Well this seems like a strawman. Saying that both are wrong isn't to be unwilling to draw a distinction. "It's not rape, therefore it's OK" is obvious...

I didn't say he's wrong about his theory. I said that evolution happened, even if determinism is the case. You seem to equate Darwinist theory with th...

Which is why I don't find "the thought of a hetero dude on the #MeToo list ... a bit funny."

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You've said that determinism is the case and that determinism is incompatible with evolution. Therefore the logical conclusion is a denial of evolutio...

He can say what he likes, but it's still wrong to deny evolution on the grounds that determinism is the case.

No, I don't think it is. Straight men can be victims of assault to, and it's not something to laugh about.

I don't work in a cubicle. Therefore your response is refuted.

It's evolution if the heritable characteristics of biological populations have changed over successive generations. It doesn't need to be randomly cau...

Then let's just agree to disagree and that I'm right.

Tell that to the #MeToo movement, which is what @"praxis" was referring to.

I'm excluding cases of coercion, intoxication (to an extent), etc.

Which contrasts with a libertarian conception of free will, which would seem to entail the legitimacy of something like thought police.

Woah there, I said reasonable, not a prude. Can I not be a gentleman hedonist?

Because one is one's will, and one's will is responsible for one's actions. Therefore, one is responsible for one's actions. But, of course, one's wil...

Someone has to be the voice of reason and sensibility in this madhouse, if only to provide a balance to Hanover. ;)

I'm always disapproving.

I'm not trying to dig myself out of anything. I'm just saying it makes as much sense as an involuntary celibate saying "I wish someone would rape me"....

I'm probably just being pedantic, but that wouldn't be unwanted sexual advances; it'd be wanted sexual advances from people you're not interested in.

One's actions are always determined, and one's will is always determined by some external influence. So there's no alternating back and forth. There's...

If it's an attempt at humour then it's pretty damn tone deaf (and still nonsensical).

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here. Are you arguing for idealism, or are you saying that the mind just is the physical stuff that caus...

Are you arguing for interactionism, then?

They might care about determinism; they just don't think it poses a problem for free will. Motivation? Conscious decision-making? The self? Probably a...

It doesn't. One can have a will but it might not be responsible for one's actions (e.g. perhaps if this is correct). In such a case one wouldn't have ...

Doesn't make sense though. I can understanding wanting to not be a virgin, but wanting to have unwanted sexual advances?

Checks out. Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain:

It does provide a definition of free will: "to have free will is to have one's will be responsible for one's actions". I don't see why it's meaningles...

Maybe his theory is incompatible with determinism, but it doesn't then follow that evolution is. Evolution is a fact, and according to you so is deter...

I might be reading this wrong, but why is it unfortunate that unwelcome sexual advances have never been a problem for you?