Michael

One on Mount Sinai.

Not here in the UK.

I think a progressive tax rate, a decent minimum wage, anti-discrimination rules, and regulations for working conditions, environmental impact, and qu...

I was referring to Rawls' theory. There are other parts to it that include equal rights to vote and run for office, freedom of speech and assembly, et...

Then as I said before, you should speak to the paramedic's employer. Me and my brownie business have nothing to do with how much he gets paid. And I m...

My phone of 5 years broke. They don't make that model anymore. Got this for £10. Bargain.

I don't lack a sense for public decency and morality. I just disagree with your claims about what counts as decent and moral. But, of course, that's a...

Being topless is indecent because only savages go around naked? That seems like a non sequitur.

Ah, gotcha.

What's indecent about being topless?

I don't understand the relevance.

Again, sometimes cultural values are wrong. Social progress is a thing.

What is unjust about not wearing a top?

And being topless isn't unjust.

It's not because of selfishness or lack of self-control. It's a protest to address injustice. And sometimes the cultural values are wrong, and need to...

I think the claim is that the morphological variations in humans are not extreme enough to warrant an additional taxonomic rank (below that of sub-spe...

I suppose you're a fan of Cohen? Egalitarianism for its own sake? I'm more partial to Rawls. Massive wealth inequality is acceptable if it means the w...

And do what with them? Owning shares doesn't help put food on the table. They can't sell them because there's nobody to buy them any more. I suppose i...

So the people who spend millions buying shares in a business will be forced to give them away? Then why would they buy them in the first place? Your i...

What kind of economy would allow for that? How can the millions of paramedics and teachers ever be richer than the man who owns 10% of a business with...

So what's the solution? A business owner should gift shares of his company to paramedics?

Sure. But what has that go to do with money?

I still don't understand the issue. If you think that the paramedic isn't getting paid enough then you should speak to his employer. My brownie busine...

I don't know what you mean by deserve here. I own a business that sells lots of brownies. An investor, seeing its success, was willing to spend £1,000...

I don't really understand your question. You seem to be equivocating on "worth" and "value". The monetary value of my company, given its assets and ex...

None of this is true in my hypothetical scenario.

I don't get it. If I start selling homemade brownies, and make enough money to hire a few people to help me, and then manage to sell half my company f...

Yeah, I suppose it was.

Discharge isn't sexy.

If by MIA you mean banned, yes.

Yes. Because a young white man in Thailand is going to go through a dry spell just because he wears shorts. ;)

They're usually easy to spot. Or rather hear. The put-on voice is very telling.

I was in Thailand for 6 months. I only wore shorts. My legs would have melted if I wore trousers. Hottest place I've ever been.

Mayor of Simpleton. He lived in Austria but wasn't Austrian, as far as I'm aware?

Even a Dune reference. Nice.

>:O

So today I arrived at the bus stop and a plump woman was already waiting so I asked "When's the bus due, you fat cunt?". She said: "I'm fucking pregna...

We're accountable to each other, and ultimately to @"jamalrob". Just this week I deleted some stuff from Baden and Sap.

I'm not saying that there can be rights without morality. I'm saying that there can be morality without rights. I didn't say that it wouldn't be depen...

A consequentialist, virtue ethicist, or divine command theorist, for example, can argue for universal/objective moral principles without arguing for n...

Did somebody say something?

I don't think you need to use a notion of natural rights to argue that killing is wrong. And, of course, you can reason with a would-be killer without...

$1.07 trillion.

Lots of conservatives celebrate by jumping up and down, too? I don't think one's method of celebration is a partisan issue.

That's most celebrations. So that they're progressives and that they're celebrating the vote in favour of same-sex marriage has nothing to do with it?...

Why?

It's just a general rule that we don't allow those kinds of images (except in the off-topic categories like the Lounge). Images are fine if they're ac...

Well, yes. I'm curious as to what changed his mind. Was it some gradual shift, or was there some specific event/piece of information that finally conv...

Also, interesting to note how you've changed your opinion in the last 2 years. What happened?