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The chicken sees the grain. Chickens do not see in terms of justification, nor are they even capable of thinking in such terms. Seeing belief as justi...

...is missing some necessary quantification. As already stated, not all value is moral value. The first premiss needs to say 'if all'... Because if so...

It needs only to meet our definitions.

If I value something necessarily it is morally valuable. If I value something it is not necessarily morally valuable. :worry:

The novel existed in it's entirety prior to the first report of it. Melville reported upon something that existed in it's entirety while writing the n...

Hmmm... Which experience?

Are you saying that sub atomic particles have no spatiotemporal location, spin, momentum, etc. prior to our measurement?

So, what exactly did not exist - in it's entirety - prior to the first report of it?

All sorts of things... The aim, for me at least, was to critique my own worldview/perspective/belief system in order to identify and isolate any and a...

Don't see the similarity. Events are what happened and/or is happening. What happened yesterday may or may not still be happening today. So, I would n...

Not all value is moral value. On that ground I reject 4. So, 5 and 4 contradict one another and/or are otherwise incompatible/mutually exclusive.

I would think that a proper report covers both.

Knowing how to use the words in a coherent manner.

To further support Kant's notion of Categorical Imperative, I'd say that it's one of the best rules of thumb that I've been fortunate enough to come a...

I would concur.

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It's always easiest to make fun... especially when one does not understand what it is that they are making fun of.

You're conflating warrant/justification for assent to 'X' with X being unacceptable. No. I'm using "unacceptable" to refer to thought/belief and/or be...

Oh you do.

Some folk hereabouts offer valid arguments and counterarguments on a regular basis. You're not wunuvem. And here yet again... The facts speak for them...

Anyone who denies the power that hate speech has to move an entire population of people to war either doesn't know what they are talking about or they...

Thought/belief has efficacy. Hate speech consists entirely of statements thereof. Hate speech moves people to war.

I did... as best can be shewn given the written medium.

What's the difference between a description of God and God?

Many find the deliberate belittling of another to be funny. Doesn't make it hate speech. Everyone deserves a certain modicum of respect(dignity, worth...

Yep.

That's not just an idea my friend. Look! Wait. Go!

There are numerous problems with the above... Weimar Germany(The Weimar Republic) no longer exists. History has continued on. Any and all hate speech ...

Speech shares thought/belief. Then there were two...

Looks like ridicule to me. It's related to hate speech in that they are both founded upon a personal value system which devalues others for irrational...

I agree, but then again... I'm not the one thinking about it like that. Hate speech was not absent.

False analogy. Well equipped armed forces are not always used in aggressive action. All hate speech is aggressive.

They most certainly have.

So... Some hate speech is propaganda. Propaganda is used to manufacture consent for war. Some hate speech is used to manufacture consent for war. Hate...

Hate speech - all by itself - does not cause war. It's takes more. No argument here. Eliminating hate speech reduces the risks of war and bloodshed.

Irrelevant. So what? I'm not claiming that hate speech was a causal factor in every US bombing. There are wars which were caused by hate speech. Dr. S...

Care to critic and/or argue against something I wrote?

Where's the common sense? I mean does anyone really think that situations like Nazi Germany somehow happened without being long since steeped in hate ...

Inculcation. Indoctrination. The pure adoption of one's first worldview. Who here is denying the efficacy of thought/belief?

What social conditioning factors are at play here?

Constant belittling of another simply because they are a(n) 'A' is justified(or not) depending upon what exactly counts as being an A. Judging an othe...

Watch a video of any group singing and chanting in unison. These are evidence/result of common thinking. Different groups find different things accept...

I feel ya. However, one must consider another's opinion in order to use it as a test or in a test. There are good critics around here.

I'm inclined to think/believe that you're playing the devil's advocate here. I appreciate that. Knowing both sides of debates is pivotal for better un...

I guarantee that that's not the case. You're arguing against what you hold to be unacceptable thought, belief, and statements all the time here. :brow...

Nice writing here...

Knowing consists - in large part at least - of true thought/belief. All thought/belief has emotional content. Knowing is - in large part at least - em...

We are interdependent social creatures. Each of us has a certain power to influence the world around us. The context here - the backdrop if you like -...

Speech acts are statements of thought/belief. Thought/belief have efficacy. They lead to patterns of thinking, habits, and acts. Does anyone here deny...

Indeed. The Hillary camp dove head first into exactly that. Belittling not only Trump supporters but also Bernie supporters prior to. Fatal mistake. M...