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Actually, democracy itself rests on taking for granted that all involved will play by certain rules that protect democracy itself, which includes cens...

Why on earth would anyone want that??

Equal?? People are not only not equal, people generally despise the very idea of equality. I think you should watch more popular culture, reality tv, ...

Populism is, essentially, plebeian mentality, and plebeian mentality is antidemocratic, simplistic, black-and-white, thus authoritarian. It's not that...

But things have changed. We are now living in the modern age of hyperindividualism and practical solipsism.

No, they have not been ignored; if anything, they have been taken for granted, on account of taking for granted that people do not exist in a vacuum a...

Indeed, from other posts by the OP, I kept in mind that he thinks that society does not exist, in the Thatcherian sense. This is relevant, because one...

Similarly, many scientists and supporters of science take a dim view of the philosophy of science. Many religious people take a dim view of the philos...

This is embedded into the educational system itself. People go to school both to change and yet to remain who they are. The educational system is supp...

There are two extremes: One is the Skinnerian the-human-as-a-blackbox, stimulus-reaction kind of thinking ("He made me do it, I'm innocent"). The othe...

For a hyperindividualist like Nosferatu, this is unintelligible. From his pespective, he didn't do anything, nor did the words he typed do anything; y...

Oh dear, words did that to you!

Days and nights fly past, fly past. What am I doing right now, as days and nights fly past, fly past?

You and your imagination.

But there's no shiny happy people around you.

"An orderly queue" for what? Dying? To be executed?

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Which is often the case anyway. People have all kinds of desires, goals, impulses, and then they choose which one to act on. My reply was in response ...

Because you're sticking to your old guns. ?? I'm not criticizing you for being rude or mean, I'm criticizing you for being ineffective. Because I want...

I'll go so far as to say that propositional moral statements are used by people as tools to exert power over other people. As such, moral statements a...

I think your actual issue of lack of clarity is about acts. What constitutes an act? What is an act? An act is that which one does deliberately, inten...

The main responsibility is on the one who pulls the trigger. Not on the one giving the command to pull the trigger.

Oh, I thought people came here to unlearn being nice. It's easy to be nice and to care. Lol, of all the idioms, you choose a martial one, and then inv...

The promotion of which human life? All of it, or just your tribe's?

How many of those lives do you actually appreciate?

A strange sarcasm then, if you advocate classism but also shy back from means needed to put it into action.

Good luck trying to discuss this with the climate activists!

People are reluctant to "form an orderly queue" already at a grocery store. How do you propose to get them to wait patiently in line for their death?

Except that I'm wearing black.

And with this in mind, what do you think is the best way to approach people?

Good for you then. Make no mistake, if it were up to me, I would populate the entire planet with plants, re-create natural environments as they were p...

Can't you see what you're doing? You might have an opportunity to change something, but you're wasting it by indulging in your sense of entitlement ov...

You talked about "running them over": How do you plan to do that?

How can you tell, since most of them are ironic or sarcastic anyway?

There really are happy families, with no end to their happiness in sight. There really are such people. I don't know how come, but there really are su...

Since I don't believe that democracy is a good or viable way to organize society, the point is moot anyway. If anything, I'm a monarchist. They're hav...

Which is what so much climate activism really seems to be all about: activists feeling good about themselves. I actually yet have to meet a climate ac...

You're missing the point. The point is that your method is ineffective. Which you then simply excuse and blame others. And thus you annull your climat...

You're inconsistent. What choice, if you plan to "run them over"?

Not at all. They must be learned.

It wasn't meant as a joke. Some people, esp. those more science-minded, seem to have no inner life.

And it's a problem, because it makes them ineffective against those they oppose.

*sigh* One thing that I find so peculiar (and for which I have gotten a lot of flak) is the almost complete lack of introspection, lack of self-reflec...

I don't have to imagine this, I only need to think of things I've been actually told. A troll, boring, not cool enough. This is pretty much how I feel...

And proud of it! It annulls your climate activism.

How does one read between the lines of a one-liner?

Yet people love to hate and despise. Perhaps the strongest emotion there is is contempt, and the most pleasurable one.

I meant usefulness in a meta sense. "Be the bigger person and don't hold it against him that he " Uttering moral propositional statements can be used ...

Philosophers don't seem to often use "The other person is wrong/inferior" as an explanation for differences in how people understand morality. But in ...

As if non-theistic aren't.