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Some people really are able to think and live in cutthroat terms, though. They don't have humanist sensitivities. For them, it's perfectly normal that...

If you don't know what you want or where you want to go, then how can you do anything? Various approaches? Then how can anything be accomplished?

I'd prefer to give real examples, but it's not suitable in this case.

Why is psychopathy classified under mental illness, when it helps people to be successful in their careers and life in general? Oh, come on. Just look...

But why? If they are successful in their career and happy, how can this possibly be classified as ill mental health?

Do you believe that such disparities are not justified?

But change toward what? What do you imagine as the goal of all this hard work? What is your vision of a just society?

When you said "people who would oppose a progressive cause" I thought only of conservatives of the right-wing variety. And they are certainly not dise...

You don't even follow it to the right person.

It seems to apply to any concept denoting identity that is ideologically laden somehow: national identity, religious, political, racial, gender, class...

3. Calls for civility seek to evade our calls for change. The accusation of incivility is a technique of depoliticization aimed at undoing collectivit...

Fairy tales. They do not respond. Maybe we were too civil. And so you know: it's not actually possible to get a second opinion on your own. We tried t...

I think though that there are situations where the one in the lesser position of power loses out, no matter what they do, regardless of whether they a...

I'm certain they don't feel disenfranchized. what a strange idea. Do you know (of) anyone who opposes a "progressive cause" who feels disenfranchized?...

Then riddle me this: Our new neighbors built a house right below us, on a slope, they cut deep into the slope. There was and still is a danger of a la...

Being a true Scotsman.

Do you know any society where the above is not the case? European countries have always been profoundly classist.

Not at all. You should come to Europe. You'd learn a whole new definition of what it means to be a redneck.

Depends on where you're from. Most countries in Europe have great dialectal diversity. Within one language, a particular dialect can be prestigious, w...

Now the question is, who's who.

There is also a cultural factor in this. In Turkish culture, for example, it's normal for parents to yearn after the smell of their children, even the...

Actually, I think people like him have it really good in life. So often, ignorance in fact is bliss.

Where? Oh, wait, all those people in those hot African countries, India, and so on, they should just move elsewhere.

They are indefinite quantifiers. They seem to arise because the level of precision they express suffices for certain purposes. "Tom is so popular, he ...

Bu that's just it: If he read about it, it would be yet another thing he read. And as such, easily dismissable.

For most people, this is too abstract. It seems to me that unless people experience climate change directly, in a way that doesn't depend on trusting ...

With the popularization of right-wing politics, joining a group that isn't in line with the right-wing government might just be the right kind of pres...

Not if the government is right-wing. Recently in Slovenia, a right-wing government politician called the protesters "rabble" and another such politici...

You think there's a civil way to talk to the person robbing or raping you? And that if they remind you that you ought to be civil to them, they are fu...

*sigh*

Of course. It seems to me, though, that an effective climate intervention would need to be more fundamental, one that only indirectly or as a conseque...

Oh? What makes you think I haven't read it?

Then the discourse about Hitler must be revised.

What do you mean? Of course corporations know they could never be held liable.

And when the fossil fuels run out?

No, you just use empty filler phrases. Again, with all the words! Accomplishing things!

Then that's what you fear. Look, words made you do it!

It always struck me as patronizing. Also: https://www.dhammawiki.com/images/thumb/3/31/Cave-of-religions.jpg/500px-Cave-of-religions.jpg https://www.d...

Awww. :hearts:

Yet here you are, talking relying on the power of speech. But then again, hot air lifts baloons!

Sure. With the caveat, of course, that I can only asses the validity of religious arguments, not their soundness. The soundness of religious arguments...

No, that's backwards. Terms like "theist" and "atheist" are defined similarly as, say, geometric shapes, ie. "in advance". We learn that, for example,...

Like in the Seinfeld example mentioned above: But you're a cashier! The unspoken part we have to infer is: You're a cashier, which is a lowly job not ...

No, because I don't want trouble. Here's something from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD I. The Desire for God...

I fear it's too late, that we're past the tipping point anyway. Part of the ecological skepticism here is that these government interventions and ince...

We don't want the state to appear undemocratic now, do we? That would be so socialist. So we use fancy terms we don't mean.

Or simply not to your liking, but possibly still valid and sound. I've never seen the term "vacuous" in literature about logic. It sounds more like a ...

Shitposting. Shitposting gets the most likes. I suggest a Saturnalia fest every Saturday, by GMT. On that day, all posts must be in proper syllogism f...

Yeah, because nothing ramps up the quality of a philosophy forum like shitposting!

The rotting of teeth, the passing of time. Ie. real circumstances, the real-life context of asking Why? As in, "You ask Why?, while your teeth rot." P...