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My aim is not wasting my time on someone who keeps going out of his way to spread lies and disinformation, which is again the case with your qualifica...

You must've not read the exchange. Necessary conditions. Or we can conclude "the big bang did it" and it will truly be meaningless.

I'm not playing. If I reply to you it's not to engage you, it's to make clear for others what I'm referring to and what's wrong with your reasoning or...

Who undertakes the action is totally irrelevant as to understanding the causality. And in the abstract it's even worse; if people walk on the streets,...

For example. Here an appropriate analogy : If I hadn't walked down the street, I wouldn't have been robbed. My walking down the street caused the robb...

Actual people and actual harm. It's not only not perfect it is a false analogy.

Notice the dodge?

when asking survivors how many of them survived the response rate was 100%. Have fun with yourself.

Anecdotal evidence isn't evidence though but obviously concentration of people raises the likelihood of crimes as well.

Your doing x is not a proximate cause to anyone's suffering so it's irrelevant. That you think it is relevant, is a self-imposed burden but it's not b...

This is just restating what was previously proved to be logically wrong. If the logical conclusion is that living does not cause suffering then causin...

Not really. The real answer, as opposed to my flippant one which I had hoped conveyed the implication of the real answer: is that at this point it isn...

I said "can" not "should". Their choice.

They can help.

Eradicate or mitigate the sufficient causes of suffering since suffering from a break up, or a car crash or a disease entails living.

Ok Good. So then we are in agreement that living doesn't cause suffering?

Yes. It is an issue. As I said before that every life has some suffering is no proof that it is a sufficient condition for particular suffering. I'm n...

If upon reading my arguments your first substantive sentence is "Living causes the conditions of suffering" then you're ignoring my arguments. Upon po...

If you are going to handwave logical requirements for a valid argument because it's convenient for your preconceived conclusion, I'm fully in my right...

I'm sorry but you don't understand what causality is when you say "living causes the conditions..." It doesn't. I'm reacting to what you wrote - not B...

No dude, this is most certainly not a semantic issue. You underestimate the importance of delineation. If one thing is intrinsically part of something...

It's a bit coarse but still pretty funny. A bit of Dutch but mostly English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cIRvny3zc

Every newspaper in the Netherlands is basing themselves off the Chinese data, where the serious cases/active cases ratio is bloody high compared to ev...

Uh, 316 pages in and that's still a question?

Can't wait for the debate between two senile geriatrics.

Right you are. Well, it's all getting rather predictable isn't it?

Public option isn't medicare for all who want it because losses aren't mutualised across everyone. The whole reason why medicare for all would be the ...

There must be jobs (economic circumstances). You have to know they exist (access to information). You have to be able to physically reach them (qualit...

You fail to address the fundamental first point. Benatar's ethics is consequentialism. If living entails suffering then living doesn't cause suffering...

Did I get the playbook right do you think?

Well, it's only one guy so we can discount his opinion.

Clinton stooge! Wait... No...

Judge Reggie B. Walton is an Obama stooge... Oh wait, he isn't.

There is a wealth of research how personal choices have very little to do with socio-economic (upward) mobility. The fact that we're still arguing thi...

Now you're just playing semantics and pretend you don't know what it means when people refer to free universal health care. Taxes are not through the ...

Uhh... that's really misrepresenting it. Basically, the US has the same system as the majority of Africa and a couple of failed (middle) Eastern State...

I must miss the finer points of the English language but that's what it sounded like to me.

My heart wasn't in this from the beginning but man, does the USA health care system suck. It would be nice to show the research that the "top of the l...

So now you can't count either. Wonderful.

Oh good. Now we also know that you don't know what an argument is and that you swallow propaganda like a prostitute.

Great argument. Oh wait, there's isn't one as usual. Carry on.

That doesn't make the plans unrealistic though. It's a matter of political will and saying something is unrealistic is an excuse for people not to try...

https://www.nu.nl/279380/video/johnson-ik-schudde-handen-in-ziekenhuis-met-coronapatienten.html?jwsource=cl ok... let's hope he's seeing Trump soon?

I'm under the impression his paradoxes were about mathematics.

Oh, so he did do it. Thanks for admitting to it finally. Tu quoque isn't an argument but the way. Only kids think it is.

Nah. Michael's two for two. Barr's opinion counts for nothing as he's a Trump stooge.

Most of the Western world has those policies and has no problems paying for them. There's nothing unrealistic about them.

Globally certainly, locally it's upper middle class with a fair margin from the upper class (15000 eur yearly in disposable income more and it would b...

Looks like they decided to hand the election to Trump. Nice.

Yeah. The USA is a nice place to visit....