Plus a majority of women regret the age at which they lose their virginity in hindsight. Even when culturally accepted for this to happen around 16 th...
Ok, let me rephrase then: p1. If people have the desire to be special to someone then they should avoid multiple relationships and people who had mult...
Your earlier quotes quite clearly do not reflect this. You are arguing whether it's better to have a single partner or not and your argument to have o...
It follows from the context of your discussion. First you said: (emphasis mine) Then you said: You seem to claim that desire for specialness is better...
A conditional claim such as "If A then B" has a premiss, which is that A implies B. If A is true (this would be a separate premiss), we could conclude...
That's what lawyers keep telling themselves but it really isn't. Even someone who isn't credible could still be telling the truth. Logically, this doe...
20 billion was approved in 2014 to improve our existing system of dykes. It's a decent start. We also had a court case in which citizens demanded the ...
BTW, the IPCC report does go into some of these benefits which seem to be there to some extent (but not much research available) but the benefits quic...
It's all about context. A general rule like this is just a theoretical exercise that can't hold in real life. Say you're in a political race and your ...
I think you were missing my point here. If everything is commonly owned, there's nobody to pursue their particular self-interest at the expense of a c...
It isn't rational because it's a logical fallacy to reject an argument based on the perceived authority of those making its case - especially on somet...
Is it? In a centrally planned economy without private ownership this problem probably wouldn't occur either. So it seems a unique phenomenon to any mi...
I'm not sure how else I was to interpret this as private ownership as the only solution but my bad. I do note that I merely raised this issue as an ex...
There are more solutions to the tragedy of the commons than just Hardin proposed. The problem is set out by him first but the assumption that only pri...
Wrong. The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory of a situation within a shared-resource system (clean air) where individual users (countries) ...
I always find it interesting that the assumption seems to be scientists don't know what they're doing and haven't looked at global warming in differen...
1 is not just 'A'. That's a misrepresentation of the logical argument. p1. All A = C p2. B = subset of A c. Therefore B = C (All A) does not equal (su...
I clarified saying that it's "art" in the sense of "mastery of a trade". Kunst in moder Dutch translates to "art" but it isn't just that. In the archa...
Sure, I referred to "technical" skill first in the sense Babbeus used it, which included "knowledge of the field" and not in its common meaning. I agr...
Well, maybe I'm reasoning too much from my musical experience. I'm not so much concerned with technique (or craftmanship) as a prerequisite for creati...
Refreshing? I think the unqualified support for Israel is actually getting quite stale. That's been going on for over 50 years already and only the de...
I think this is normally only possible when you also have knowledge of the boundaries and therefore implies a high level of technical skill as well. A...
Talent is a dangerous word. I've seen kids give up because they assume they have to have talent and that therefore things ought to be easy. Once it ta...
Then why mention the fact that they are "Muslim-majority" in the first place if not to make a point about the religion? If that wasn't your point, ple...
Maybe I misunderstood "primary". I understood it as the largest colonial power. There was a time we were the largest but not all the time for the peri...
The Dutch were the primary colonial power for about 50 years and before that it was the Spanish and Portuguese and after that the English (for a lot l...
That's not a straw man I'm afraid. I highlighted an example. Or do you insist that every argument is conclusive and concise to the point where I'd hav...
A straw man arguments requires me to misrepresent someone's argument. Where did I do this? Point it out when you first accused me of it. It's amazing,...
The Netherlands never had a female prime minster either and progressives had a recent setback in that area as well; we're no longer ruled by a queen. ...
More Hirshi Ali lies: Antidiscrimination law was never changed and not even attempted and the public prosecutor decided not to prosecute. It was subse...
It predates Islam, Chirstianity and Judaism. It's prohibited in Indonesia. It isn't a Muslim problem as it spans regions that are majority Christian a...
Sigh. Genital mutilation isn't a Muslim problem, which she knew but lied about because she has issues. Whether she suffered it, is neither here nor th...
I've known Hirsi Ali personally and read Machteld Zee. It's always interesting to see these people who promote agenda's for the right in an academic m...
But I said "knowledge which we receive through a heuristic filter of sources that we trust" and "It's more about how to develop healthy relationships ...
Look, I don't think we're really saying much different from each other but it's always nice to be judged by a complete stranger. I was pointing out th...
That's your own answer there. If we're bound by subjectivity then there is no objective measure. By definition. What you can do is develop a persuasiv...
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