Michael

Well, none. I don't really understand what you're driving at. The whole point of a legislature is to make the laws that are believed to be best. Regar...

Anything? I said any legal route.

Now I recall our debate on Brexit and my willingness to accept any (legal) route to ignore the referendum result. ;)

No, in your first post you said "To me, the world is all that is" and "If someone claims that the world isn't all there is, I would make the claim tha...

Again, I don't think it's as simple as "humans deserve greater consideration than all animals". I think it's more a case of "humans deserve special co...

I want you to explain the difference so that I can examine your claim that "you ought not casually and opportunistically use other free agents just be...

I know, which is why I asked you what makes a hero a hero and a villain a villain. I was then just pre-empting a possible response.

What makes a hero a hero (or more pertinently, a villain a villain)? If you say that villains are villains because they "casually and opportunisticall...

I think that's only part of it. The part that I was discussing was darthbarracuda's claim that it's inconsistent to argue against homophobia, sexism, ...

Oops, my bad. :-*

Just with him or in general?

If part of the reason that we treat people better than we treat animals is that people are human then it's not inconsistent or irrational to treat peo...

If this is what we're doing, then here's my contribution. /uploads/files/dq/9uc4iwncjauatku6.jpg Also this, although I suspect it isn't genuine. The g...

When @"Harry Hindu" quotes me in a post I don't get the usual notification. I seem to get notifications from everyone else. Is he broken? Am I? Althou...

And the point I was making is that some people don't use the word "world" to refer to all there is. Plato distinguished between the world of substance...

What do you mean by it not making sense? Why limit rights to only those things which can suffer? And why do we need justification to not give them rig...

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. The fact of the matter is that in a discussion on the merits or faults of postmodernism, criticisin...

I wasn't involved in that discussion at all. And I didn't delete any of the posts in the discussion you're alluding to. So your reply to me here makes...

Because this is an off-topic discussion. You're free to ridicule them in the Lounge.

So? Clearly our moral considerations do not just take into account harm done, which is exactly why it is not sufficient to argue that animals ought be...

It's only arbitrary if sentience is the only relevant factor. Given that we also give rights to the dead would suggest that this isn't the case. Rathe...

I gave one a few days ago that you haven't yet addressed: "Then one can argue that the things that make it the case that one shouldn't experiment on h...

People sometimes use the word "world" in a restricted sense. Plato distinguished between the world of substance and the world of the Forms. The religi...

What does what I want have to do with what is right? This is a non sequitur (unless you want to argue that morality is a personal thing, which I doubt...

Given that there are those who follow the Bible but who argue that casual sex isn't wrong, I'm right in believing that there are such people. But, of ...

This is circular. You define a Christian as someone who follows the (correct interpretation of the) Bible but then determine which interpretation of t...

Although, all this is merely academic given that, according to Romans 13:1-7, "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is ...

So that's the game you're going to play? When something in the Bible tells you to do something that you disagree with you'll just counter by saying th...

Ah, I see. I read it backwards.

@"?????????????", how do I pronounce your name? Shall I just say "Rock thrush"?

Did you mean "that's not the definition of being alpha male"?

How is a Trump presidency going to achieve this? Do you really think that Trump being President is going to stop people from having casual sex? How? A...

People were actually pretty egalitarian in the stone age.

It's already been answered. She did give him her number and went to meet him in private despite the fact that, according to her, he kissed her unsolic...

It's amazing how the most vocal moralisers often have the fewest moral principles.

And your solution to do this is to vote for Trump to be President? She met him again because she was hoping for a job. What she didn't want was his un...

She wanted a job. She thought his kissing her was "undoubtedly some form of greeting and that I should not take it as anything other than that", despi...

Wrong and wrong. This is a nonsense strawman. Progressivism doesn't promote or condone sexual assault.

You really don't have any moral principles, do you? You talk about liberals being immoral and yet here you are, defending Trump's alleged sexual assau...

Are you serious? She gave him the number and answered his call because she was looking for a "mentor and employer" and that "I felt as though my dream...

Jesus, you really are just in denial.

Again, there's a difference between having casual, consensual sex with a number of different women and forcing yourself on women. Trump seems to be co...

Yes, it's different. There's a difference between having casual, consensual sex with a number of different women and forcing yourself on women. So you...

Promiscuity is not the same as sexual harassment or assault.

Progressivism doesn't promote or condone sexual harassment or assault. Trump, however, does.

This is now official policy on how to do things around here.

I've answered a number of your questions. Not once have you tried to show that idealism entails solipsism. This isn't about control but about you refu...

This is getting tiresome. "Only mental phenomena exists" does not entail "only my mental phenomena exists". That only mental phenomena exists does not...

You used the term "logical entailment". Logical entailment is a relationship between sentences. Therefore, you're talking about sentences. Again, stra...

But you are. The idealist is making the claim "only mental phenomena exists". You're then saying that the idealist is obligated to also make the claim...