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always fun if people quote things without understanding that what I said already covered this objection. How do people prove mens rea today? We're not...

Nonsense. Intent can be deduced from circumstances and isn't speculation or you wouldn't ever be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt someone murde...

Which is why you look for other evidence to prove intent.

That's not the full definition of murder which you need to distinguish it from other types of unlawful killing. The distinctions are legal and therefo...

Still not an argument. You're really shit at this. You know that right?

Except nobody is stomping anyone's views out, they are brought out in the light in all their stupidity and found lacking.

Still not an argument. And that letter was shit.

The framing of "cancel culture" is political correctness gone rogue. While examples of political correctness goen rogue do exist, the "culture" or "ph...

Political correctness could, but then this isn't about that, is it?

Not really. We need to assess independently whether what the mob wants is something agree with and if so join them.

Let me rephrase, cancelling as political correctness gone rogue, doesn't exist. I prefer public accountability instead.

I think people are more and more actually organising. Unions, activism etc. And we can look at separate cases and find fault with some of them but I'm...

Yeah, I'm not playing this game where you allude to that letter (again) without actually forming an argument. You tried that skit with Baden before. M...

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Your idea of woke and cancel culture is exactly how right wingers like to frame it, as "political correctness gone awry". If that's your take away the...

Not what I said. I said people will fight wars for justice. And I think this particular subject is exemplar for the general issue of disrespect of hum...

That's one of many definitions of the phenomenon out there where we're allowing framing to distort what is happening. What is happening is holding com...

Perhaps you care to reproduce those "warnings". If you're just going to allude to it, it's not interesting as a reply.

:rofl: Not being treated like slaves. No, not in the traditional sense but wage slavery is a thing. Especially in the US.

That is important but not quite the subject of this thread. Or am I missing something you're alluding to that I'm not understanding? That's the nature...

I think the only worthwhile discussions to be had are what to do about bathroom stalls, sports and spa and the like. I think that particularly with sp...

It pays to remember just how many WMDs were found in Iraq and what the intelligence community thought it knew and how that was spun by politicians and...

1. I can't answer the first question yet. 2. Assuming all questions ought to be answered. I can answer this one: 3 3. That gives me the answer to the ...

I disagree this was a failure. It was strategically a brilliant move. He ensured access to the Black Sea and it cost him almost nothing. Your idea of ...

I got more turtles when I got this error: Your session has timed out. Please go back to the article page and click the PDF link again.

That's not how I understood Kelsen. Sovereignty is a norm itself so it becomes self-referential and, I'd argue, incoherent. So there's a turtle below ...

I think truth telling is more about habit than actual rational decision making where utility or parties' interests are effectively weighed. So always ...

I'm not sure the measure should be how it continues to affect people but how it affects society and particularly the health care system. It might be w...

Well, I change the name of a company in the Netherlands and then refer to that new name in the share purchase documentation and resolutions approving ...

That can't be. The Grundnorm is the norm that all other norms, rules and law, derive from. By definition it cannot be based on something else. I was r...

Again. That's neither here nor there because we don't support Russia.

I think some things are worth discussing. I just hate discussing with idiots. Any way, what is Kelsen's Grundnorm if not another name for justice?

An idiotic question. The most obvious being that Syria and Israel aren't at war so there's no need to pick sides. But yes, in a conflict between two e...

As I already explained sufficiently in the previous post, which you seem to not grasp : we're currently not supporting Russia. In fact, there are sanc...

Which is all irrelevant within the context of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and surrounding states. I thought that context clear fr...

Oh, what was the argument then? Because your comment seemed totally irrelevant.

As if right wing political Zionism cares one way or another about those reparations. It's also an idiotic argument since there's absolutely no moral a...

I thought you were more intelligent than this. There's a difference between supporting a murderous regime and provoking a regime into an international...

Please provide the numbers on how many atrocities were perpetrated against Israelis by those states and resulted in how many Israeli deaths. I'll wait...

I think he's right in the sense that actual academic credentials, integrity, legal acumen and wisdom aren't relevant. Just look at the Brett Kavanaugh...

Thanks. I'm still not sure I want to be here again.

as usual politicians are late to the party. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/627691

Following the fall of the USSR the view was that a cordon of neutral countries could act as a barrier to avoid tensions. Russia was still respected as...

That's patently false. Cease fires have been broken more often by the IDF than the Palestinians. And we all know where it started. It was Begin himsel...

Diversity without inclusivity will not change SCOTUS though. The problem runs deeper than just appointing a black, female judge. She'll have a hell of...

The right based approach is something we already went over when I quoted the typically accepted limitations to human rights. The general welfare of so...

Maybe read some actual case law instead of sharing your worthless opinion.

Please continue to demonstrate you don't know about human rights. The floor is yours.

That's neither here nor there because it doesn't affect bodily integrity.

I believe its overstepping the bounds of what should be permissible for governments to mandate. Vaccines are not 100% safe and unless you can guarante...