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And it's disingenuous to say that the Westboro Baptist Church, or Christians that bomb abortion clinics, or murder dozens of young Norwegians, have no...

I hadn't noticed that statement in the spoken section. I'll go and listen for it. I'm relieved to learn that the Floyd did not make such a mistake.

Not silly. Almost everybody does it. I think when people refer to Flat Earthers they are really thinking of GeoCentrists, ie people who believe the Ea...

Not at all. It is possible to define all of mathematics, including the continuum, using just what you refer to as binary logic. The GW Bush example ha...

I named three of them just yesterday in another thread: Chesterton, William S Buckley and Auberon Waugh. I'd add Auberon's father Evelyn since we are ...

Don't you feel that rests on an assumption that one chooses what one believes? If so, do you think that assumption is defensible? I don't feel I have ...

I have already indicated that I am aware that some in the pro-(gay-marriage) movement say that, and that I disagree with them. If making such nasty ac...

Dead right. Which is exactly the same as what the conservatives want to do. So we are in honourable opposition to one another in the marketplace of id...

Yes, and because it will be a massive waste of public money, whose sole purpose is for Turnbull (the PM) to avoid a rift within his own party between ...

@Wayfarer. I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that almost anybody can launch a lawsuit, for almost any reason. Assuming that the pamphlet did no...

Yes, indeed the OP is unclear on this point. The first sentence complains about excessive political correctness, and the video from Joe Rogan is a com...

Really? 'Outlawing debate' means, literally, that those who debate it are outlaws, ie are breaking the law, and will therefore be liable to a criminal...

I am in favour of marriage equality, and I do not believe that being opposed to it is indicative of bigotry. I accept that most people opposed to it a...

We have done something, and that something has to do with the folk notion of 'taking away'. But subtraction is a much more precise notion than the fol...

I didn't say that. What made you think that I did? Arithmetic with cardinals, not ordinals. See this wolfram page. Arithmetic with infinite ordinals i...

Infinity minus infinity has the same meaning as blue minus blue - ie no meaning. In transfinite arithmetic we have a collection of objects, called 'ca...

And neither will I challenge your personal experiences. We live in different communities and the cultures of those communities may be very different, ...

I can't find the post, because this discussion has raced along so fast that I've lost track, but I just wanted to give my observation, Agustino, on wh...

Gday Agustino. I find it impossible to accurately describe my stance towards the notion of reincarnation. It is not a belief in the sense of a proposi...

I think this is where ritual can help. The Stoics recommended once a day, preferably at the same time, briefly but deeply reflecting on one's mortalit...

I would love it if you elaborated on that. I think I am mostly consequentialist but I'm sure there are significant bits of other meta-ethical framewor...

You can rest easy. You neither are responsible, nor did you allow it. To allow something you need to know about somebody's intention to do it before i...

I don't think feelings are illogical. That would suggest that they are in conflict with logic. Hume demonstrated convincingly (to me, at least) that t...

It's not clear to me, unless by 'less people' you set the bar as low as 'at least one person will not do it that otherwise would'. As has already been...

I apologise if my questions have been covered somewhere in the five pages of discussion, but here they are anyway: 1. What would be the public policy ...

I don't think anybody is suggesting that all opinions are equal. That would be futile. Either 'equal' means 'identical' (ie the classical meaning of e...

It is insulting in the same way that somebody listening to classical music is insulting - ie it can be interpreted as implying a message to all the po...

That's a pragmatic argument and, to me, a compelling one. It is a mainstay of my 'multi-faceted' argument against criminalizing adultery. Indeed. That...

It all turns on that word 'reasonable'. What seems reasonable to you and me may not seem reasonable to Agustino and Wayfarer and vice versa. I observe...

There are other significant differences, For instance one does not need to know anything about a relationship to know that one party physically attack...

I said that based on my own memories, in particular that I have no recollections of consciousness prior to the age of four. It's possible that I was l...

I like much of Alan Watts' work. In this case I think there is a salient asymmetry though, that the saying, for all its poetry, overlooks. That is tha...

"why did we ever look for CMB?" To find out more about the early universe. The account that is obtained by studying the CMB is neither complete, nor i...

In Australia, spunk is 70s and 80s slang for a 'hot' person (to use the 201* slang term) - as in 'Cor, ain't she a spunk!'. Associated with the adject...

Not in this thread you haven't - despite repeated requests that you do so. If you've explained it somewhere else, a link would be helpful.

Then it should be very easy for you to write a valid deduction that demonstrates that. Yet despite repeated requests, you have not done that. I assume...

The bit about lovers seems to me to parallel Martin Buber's concept of 'Ich und du' in which he sees close personal relationships as a window into, or...

On the contrary, giving PowerPoint presentations appears to be negatively correlated with intelligence. PowerPoint is the death of effective communica...

The act of 'choosing' is to think about different alternative future actions while not knowing which one is going to execute, and to then execute one ...

Yes, the trouble as I see it with the free will debate is that, while non-libertarians like Hume have a definition of free will that is pragmatic and ...

Nice. I'll use that.

Beethoven and Tchaikovsky helped me through the sturm und drang of my adolescence. Joni Mitchell helped Emma Thompson cope with the realisation that t...

It is correct that most ethical debates are vague. However, that is less often true in places like this than in the general community, because the dis...

I hope you brought your cup!

Perfect. Thank you for that. That was exactly the distinction I was going to point out, until I saw that you had already done it in your post. Yours i...

I couldn't follow this. Denying what, exactly? Which science is that? It's certainly not biology, chemistry or physics, as 'intention' isn't even in t...

It doesn't overlook it. It recognizes that those books are composed of human words and that the notion that anything so gob-smackingly amazing as the ...

All concepts of God are false because, if there is a God, its true nature would be inconceivable to us puny mortals. Hence all concepts of God are ido...

Thank you StreetLight. Very thought-provoking.

I saw that as a graceful way of handling a potentially awkward moment, that probably just arose because he didn't get his intonation quite right in hi...