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You wouldn't ask him to be tolerant?

It's not "what you said", it's a consequence of what you said. If we should not be tolerant, then the white nationalist should not be tolerant of his ...

So you wouldn't urge tolerance if a white nationalist was barely concealing his rage against the brown foreigner who just moved in next door?

Perfect is the enemy of good. If you're perpetually unsatisfied with where you are because it's not where you want to be, you're gonna have a bad time...

Here's the ironic corner you've painted yourself into: you are not a Christian, and Buddhists could get into heaven (maybe even Socrates, depending ho...

It's possible for non-Christian religious folk to not go to hell? But then you don't know if purgatory is real. If it isn't real then they must necess...

So we've established you're not a Christian. It's not even that you're not a "true" Christian. You, Agustino, are not a Christian. It's as simple as t...

You're not a true Christian if you don't follow the Bible. If you're not a true Christian, what happens to you after you die?

Answer my question. Are you a true Christian?

No. Answer my question.

Are you a true Christian?

So there is an infallible definition of a true Christian, we don't know what it is, but we've compared it with all the previously tried definitions an...

Do you know how to tell who is and is not a true scotsman true christian?

Would you be surprised if I told you there isn't one perfect way of defining who is and isn't a Christian because there are issues with them all?

According to Agustino, there is a single belief that unites all Christians, and it's the belief in sexual morality (whatever that means once you look ...

It's like he's never heard of No True Scotsman.

It may be true, but it doesn't follow that therefore all Christians share those beliefs. Some Christians don't even know what's in the Bible because t...

No it isn't! This is completely your own projection.

Once you actually start to define the terms in detail, and point to the populations of actual people holding to those strict definitions, you begin to...

Us and them, them and us. It's like a child fitting together on a board two basic shapes that only have one possible arrangement and feeling comforted...

I meant alpha males, by definition, do not need to sexually assault women. Because by definition they're the kind of man a woman would want to have se...

It is also so painfully obvious that sexual assault has nothing to do with progressivism. Sexual assault has always existed as long as there have been...

This is really the heart it it. For all the moralising that Agustino does, he still doesn't understand what every normal, decent person so obviously g...

The two are the same thing. I'll quote the letter published by the New York Times in response to Donal Trumps lawyers accusing them of libel after pub...

I honestly think you will be massively well served by reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, providing you don't.. judge it too hastily.

This isn't really a choice between the lesser of two evils anymore. It's a choice between a bog-standard career politician and a self-confessed sexual...

Well shit, I did indeed. I apologise. Here is the link.

Just concede it, you assumed I was pro-Hillary because I'm anti-Trump. You were wrong, because you look at everything in black and white. There's soci...

My views on Hillary Clinton have nothing to do with why you support Trump. I point out that Trump isn't an expert on anything he is required to be, an...

Does it not occur to you that Trump couldn't possibly be an expert (though I'm sure he'd call himself the best expert) on a single one of these issues...

You made me use the term "effective administration" because you used it. So stick to it. You might not be saying Trump's will be a great presidency, a...

Utilitarian. Self-interest. Chivalry. Equality. What would you prefer society to model itself under?

Furthermore, how does being anti-gay marriage, pro-family, pro-life, pro life-long monogamy, etc, have anything whatsoever to do with economic experti...

It's not at all clear to me that having a high concentration of social conservatives is both a necessary and sufficient condition for an effective adm...

And these are the people who are going to make Trump an effective president?

Who are these people, by name, exactly?

Out of curiosity, have you read The Meaning of Conservatism? I thought that one was quite beautifully written. I thought his other stuff was really cl...

I agree, I've read many of his books and still have a few more on my shelf for times to come. He really is a brilliant philosopher and writer. I reall...

I said he is not a left-leaning social conservative. Specifically social. I still don't understand, though, why you are brining economics into it inte...

This is why labels don't work. Conservatism can mean a lot more than what you believe it to mean. For example, in the UK we talk about privatisation o...

What? I thought we weren't talking about economics? I understand the distinction between social and economic issues, but you claimed Scruton was a lef...

You're right, we were talking specifically about social conservatism. But I'm not sure Scruton is a left-leaning social conservative. He opposes gay m...

While I do not agree with postmodern views on truth (particularly for the disastrous results produced by 'post-fact' politics, refutation enough), I t...

Roger Scruton is definitely one of the foremost conservative philosophers today, but his (British) conservatism is a fairly different animal to its Am...

It might be a good idea to forget about philosophy for a while, put the books away and start engaging with life more. The thing about philosophy and m...

Given that we obviously do exist (whatever it is we are doing, that is what we call existing, since that's how we use the word - haven't you READ Witt...

I don't doubt that you're correct in all of this, and I'm fully aware of how radical a reinterpretation I am making of certain doctrines. It is highly...

What I'm spinning is made up of a few threads from many different philosophies. I understand I need to be careful of what I'm saying here, because rea...

Weirdly enough the idea of "you die, and that's that" was quite comforting to believe, until my friend and Watts ruined that one for me :P Watts would...

Nailed it. Dunno what took me so long (Y)