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@Benjamin
Scientists don't give a damn about what random charletans say, and the same is true the other way around. Shaming people into silence is both virtually impossible and unthinkeable for experts. The idea is not to silence people but to allow those who are qualified to speak louder than everyone else. How is this bad?
And how would you achieve this 'loudness'? How would you 'quieten' those you deem unworthy and 'charlatan'?
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@Benjamin
Who the fuck are you to decide who can and can't express their views on a matter?
Why did you join a debate website if you're all about cancelling those with viewpoints and theories that you disagree with?
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@oromagi
Idk if you felt that was witty or something but I didn't find it to be so.
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@oromagi
That is more, not less, open to groupthink shaming things outside the norm ideas into silence.
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@Benjamin
Many people are stupid not because they lack in IQ but because they lack or disagree with common proven knowledge. Do you have any idea of how to educate such people?
I have never come across anybody like this but I do know others wrongly associate that with 'stupidity'. The way to educate the uneducated is to work out why they don't know it (as in have they been told it and forgotten or did they just never get taught it) and then to refine the teaching style to the individual if they learned and forgot, which has no simple answer.
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@Benjamin
Taking care of everyone does not in any way affect the average IQ scores because evolution has not had time to kick in just the last 3 generations. Intelligence increase can be attributed to medicinal and nutritional advancements. I agree with you that knowledge and intelligence are different. In fact that is the whole point. Many people are stupid not because they lack in IQ but because they lack or disagree with common proven knowledge. Do you have any idea of how to educate such people?
Perhaps, with IQ specifically, you could be right. However, society has gotten much more merciful on those that struggle, meaning that there's less in childhood let alone adulthood forcing less intelligent people to push themselves to become more witty and sharp. In the past they'd possibly literally die off or would potentially end up very low on the 'food chain' as very little provided for them or their style of learning.
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Actually the average intelligence (not just IQ alone) is probably lower, not higher because we've become more empathetic and protective of the less intelligent and less capable.
It's a major misconception that the average human is smarter today than before, driven by the idea that our intelligence is what we know as opposed to our innate ability to use said information.
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@3RU7AL
So, which drugs do you support making illegal?
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@3RU7AL
You make no sense, to be honest.
You're the same guy who wants drugs to be legal elsewhere.
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@Yassine
Kidnapped and sold? What is it you are referring to?
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@3RU7AL
Why should they all be outlawed?
How should one interpret the following:
Yeah, not like any kind of addiction or whatever but let's say every few months if a reason pops up to take them, I will not hesitate a huge amount.what if you knew you were going to be in constant and severe pain for the rest of your life ?
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@zedvictor4
If you don't mean backwards relative to your body, then what do you mean by backwards?
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@Solaris1
I am willing to bet with you that god just made us for entertainment and this is basically a series on TV for him/her/it. I will bet with you the entire afterlife of us, since that's a given bet anyway. If I am right, however, there's no heaven anyway in the reality I see.
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I do not think that you are aiming at the target audience overall.
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@Solaris1
God is not competing with us, so the chess analogy doesn't quite work.
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@zedvictor4
Yeah keep going, and add them and then divide.
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@Yassine
So, your defense is 'others have done it too'.
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@Lunar108
Why hasn't a "god" ever healed an amputee?I've just copied this question from facebook and I'm just asking for help here .
Firstly, if it happened the god that I have come to believe is real would convince the person to keep their mouth shut about it.
Secondly, the reason it's generally not done is that the god of this reality sees these setbacks as entertaining flavouring of one's life, curious how they respond to the struggle.
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@zedvictor4
If you weren't aware, WPM considers an average word to be 5 characters and designed both the tests and the calculated results based on that.
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@Solaris1
The point is that we cannot know the mind of God. It's quite literally logical impossible.Yes I've heard the arguments, and even if a fawn dies in a forest fire, that doesn't mean that there is unnecessary evil, we don't understand everything about morality, if we did, we wouldn't see moral progress.
Actually, your side of the argument is the irrational one. You are saying we cannot diagnose and judge somebody based on their behaviour.
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@Solaris1
I have plenty of reasoning that God isn't good but you've probably heard it all before from a typical atheistic stance as they're solid, well-known arguments related to the problem of evil and problem of undue deaths etc.
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@Solaris1
Truly skeptical theism says that god is sociopathic, this 'good god' trope is futile to uphold.
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@Intelligence_06
I think you can voice a strong opinion on here and maybe help me learn something.
I'll keep my mouth shut, let Airmax succeed or fail and then talk later on this whole matter.
You're wrong but I won't explain why it mattered who won. If he succeeds it's cool, if he fails then I will push hard as a candidate next election.
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@zedvictor4
You just double-spoke so well that Boris would envy you.
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@DeprecatoryLogistician
That's the problem with them, you can't free the people if you enable the rich to get snowball advantages and choke-out society.
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@zedvictor4
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@DeprecatoryLogistician
The right-wing libertarians seek to tear down the system.
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@DeprecatoryLogistician
You must be out of your mind if you think that I agree with what you're saying.
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It changed me too, not sure the website itself had a positive impact on my life or something but debating... If I grew up in an era before 'debating' was a thing, I think I'd feel insane in a world where nobody appreciated arguing as an artform itself like I do.
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@Yassine
This is balderdash. Muslims do not rise in uproar because the beloved Prophet (pbuh) is criticized or condemned, that happens all the time. They don't care. The do when he (pbuh) is mocked & denigrated
So, you should beat the crap out of somebody for making a joke?
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@Athias
The label you want to give to me is transphobe but I'd sooner defend a transgender person against a bully than be a bystander or join in (though in certain scenarios I'd just run to authorities or get backup ASAP if it's a fight I'm not sure I win that can end with both of us breathing through a straw).
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The R stands for Radical, not Revolutionary, my bad.
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@Athias
Yes to the second part, I don't understand the first question.
It could hurt them to know, offend and anger them. I've also come across some (especially the they/them queer/genderfluid type) who agree with my reasoning and get where I'm coming from. I won't reveal how I met them or what the conversations contained.
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@Athias
Transphobes use pronouns and say and do things that hurt the feelings of transgenders.
Trans-skeptics act sympathetic and empathetic but maintain that there seems to be a disorder at play, not just a 'way of life'.
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I will like to discuss Trans-Exclusionary Revolutionary Feminism (TERF refers to the feminist who believes in this).
It is a very taboo topic these days if you want to survive as a left-winger and I could get cancelled for just typing this no doubt. I ask you this, if being a woman means nothing more than slapping on make-up, having hormones and saying 'I am a woman' then what is the struggle that Feminism is fighting against? If a woman can take hormones, present butch and then say 'I am a man' then is all her struggle as a female beforehand negated in the eyes of affirmative action quotas and other such official measures taken to safeguard females against sexism?
At this point in time, most of the T under LGBT as well as the Q under LGBTQ have found harmony with most feminists because they share many common enemies politically but the volcanic eruption will come at some point, JK Rowling has already clashed with Hermione's actress Emma Watson (Watson on the cancelling side, Rowling on the TERF side). This is a real clash, a genuine complete battle of viewpoints.
I am not being transphobic, I am being what we can call trans-skeptical here. If I tell you tomorrow that I am a woman, did I grow up with all the setbacks in my life that a girl who becomes a woman had? If yes then feminism is defeated, if no then transgenderism has limitations that need to be concrete and admitted.
Remember, feminism fought sexism not genderism, it's very important to understand that lexicality as it's not just 'playing with semantics'. I have no issue with a male acting feminine or a female acting masculine, as long as the true sex is able to be something discussed and known. There will come a true clash eventually and I am quite curious which side of the battle that the Conservative right-wing will join.
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@Yassine
- I unblocked you, quote me so I get notified. Don't like the hassle of not being notified.Source for this.I did read the article and will get to the rest of what you're saying within a day or two. I'll make a good case.- Looking forward to it.
It is simple to me what you are doing. You are just using any source that you can to justify that hate speech policies exist, however you are ignoring 2 aspects here:
- Punishment severity
- Punishment porportionality
The severity of punishment at most a few years vs the 20 years minimum elsewhere but there's all the way down to fining or just a warning. In Islamic society the punishment severity is as far as death penalty which will be public and humiliating from the sounds of the hanging or whatever is planned (I hope not a stoning).
The proportionality of punishment is like this, one is punishing people going out of their way to spread hatred and incite abuse towards ethnicities, races, genders etc. The other is questioning if a particular human being (or perhaps deity) was and is worth the worship we gave and give them. The latter only 'hurts' people that are seeking to bully people into silence on a matter that should be completely able to be defended against argumentation, since they believe that their worship of Muhammad and Allah are reasonable and justifiable. The only reason to scare the crap out of poeple in order to silence them on anything in Islam but especially a human being like Muhammad is that you are fundamentally a gangster enforcer on behalf of Muhammad's soul and are bullying people into caving into pseudo-Islam out of fear of repercussion.
You have told me elsewhere that in order to be a real Muslim, the real Islam is to genuinely surrender wilfully to Allah and Muhammad PBUH. Yet, there is absolutely no way this will be achieved if one keeps associating them with the thuglike enforcement going on against those who dare question the correctness of worshipping those 2.
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@zedvictor4
You are using the term 'forwards' and 'backwards' not any variation of compass alignment, this means it's relative to your own body and where it's facing and that's determined fundamenally by where the front of your torso is pointing.
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@zedvictor4
Am I walking backwards, whilst facing forwards,
This one.
Facing forwards is axiomatic while your head is facing where your body is. Walking backwards is also axiomatic if walking the opposite way to where one's torso is turned.
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@Mharman
It's ashame that whining and moaning aren't what the debate section is dedicated to or you'd be a pro at it, that's if you tried it at all anymore.
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@Bones
I have a 'meta' AMA question for you that in particular I feel is worth asking to you given the depth of your OP and posting it in the DART section, rather than personal...
Why did you make the AMA?
What's the game-plan?
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Also I think 76 is my score when tests punish mistakes less severely, if they are the kind of tests that make you delayed for errors (forcing you to fix) I'm nearer to just 70 WPM even 69.
Realistically, I have zero need at all to be a faster typist so I don't care. I also insist that me reading, as opposed to typing from though, is part of the delay. I have never come across a scenario IRL where I have needed to actually be able to physically type above 73WPM so if 76WPM is my solid average on lenient tests and I get nearer to 69 WPM on harsher tests, then I just don't care.
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@Bones
That's one of the highest possible scores for a human.
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@Bones
I just realised that you're 16, to be honest anybody below 20ish seems fairly immune to Covid symptomatically anyway.
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Strawmanning on top of blindly repeating, fair enough.
For anyone who can actually read and reply to things without gaslighting, please refer to my post at the end of the page prior to this one.
A clear-cut question is asked with some sources to back it up.
I'm looking for somebody to answer me instead of saying nonsense and copy-pasting it to avoid answering the question.
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So, do you want to risk lung scarring and months of fatigue (potentially years, 'long covid' isn't fully understood nor which types of people are more prone to getting it)?
If not, get vaccinated. While you still can get Covid, you are extremely likely to not die from it and alternatively if you'd have been the type that wouldn't die but would get severe symptoms, your symptoms are likely to be lighter.
The vaccines work in the sense of increasing your body's response time to Covid very much. They don't work in the sense of stopping you getting the symptoms altogether (but for a minority they do this).
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@Bones
The ones who benefit from illegal murder are hitmen and the rich who have more enemies to kill. Time to make murder legal?
So do all the people protected by would-be murderers that fear the repercussions, whereas outlawing abortion is both practically inefficient due to back-alley abortions and also cruel on the born generally speaking. I don't know your life but imagine being born to parents who didn't want you but who kept you out of a sense of pride because giving you up for abortion or adoption felt like a 'failure'.
I've got zero issues with adoption but it's generally not the way things go at all and there's then the other issue of forcing the mother to go through it.
I will tell you the reality that you're ignoring, in the US there's zero publicly provided contraception or anything along those lines, so the people who are so poor they can barely afford food or a roof over their head, generally fuck unprotected and you can blame them. I also blame them as being a non-penetrating foreplaying couple is actually viable but as a leader of a nation, you need to make tough decisions that accept inevitable irresponsibility into the utilitarian decisions you make.
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