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by boredhedgehog 4y ago
> They don't want people to see it because it will motivate copy cats. The problem with that line of argument is that even if it's true, it undermines democracy. Democracy is based on the equality of all citizens. But you'
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Adoptive parents are called such as a legal fiction with the necessary mental qualifications. The transgender activists aren't content with that solution. They insist on the terms in the full metaphysical sense.
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But aren't preconceptions about gender stereotypes implicit in "coming out"? How would a man realize that he is, in fact, a woman, without the idea that there are certain feelings only a woman can feel?
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I would have expected there to be some more effort to curate and cull the collection before rehosting it in full size. Z-Library's automatic deduplication was at best perfunctory; too many works were featured in various formats and edi
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> Gramatically speaking, none of these are plural. But even you used a plural, by saying "books" in #1, demonstrating that even when coming up with this example, you did not "resolve" anything just because "every
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That's interesting, but obviously, it's also a case where a plurality is implied. The speaker has a group of men in mind and doesn't know which of them she's talking about. There is an uncertainty involved, but it can&#x
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Or the Lion from Chu Shogi, which steps twice and can thus land on its starting square.
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> We're not talking about a case where there's a concrete singular person; we're talking about using it to describe a "person whose gender is not known". But that's the same thing. The crucial point being, w
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> A camera is possible without the artists it replaces. Is it? Or does the idea of a photo presuppose the painting? Could a camera have been invented by someone not looking at the world through the lens of a very particular tradition of
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> have been doing it for hundreds of years Dubious. The cited historical examples all refer to mass nouns or nouns with an implied plural. Usage with a concrete, singular person doesn't seem to be older than a few decades.
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No, we're clearly not looking at something immutable here. Historically, our society is the aberration. Jesus Christ, Achilles, Guan Yu... They all wept openly, and nobody found it strange.
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You are showcasing exactly the behavior he blames for the degeneration of dialogue: take any kind of question and turn it into a political us vs them.
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In the quote we were discussing, Popper is not concerned with any particular resolution of the argument, but only with whether words are being answered with more words or with fists. As far as I've been able to tell, Moon allows anyo
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Note Popper's definition of the intolerant in this context: those who do not engage in rational argument, and those who forbid their followers to listen to rational argument. Neither applies here.
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That's a bit of a chicken-egg problem, as Tor still lacks a killer app. A popular Tor-only forum might just be what it takes to drive wider adoption.
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This difference might be another instance of conflicting moral foundations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory ). The painting is ours; it's concrete, and something beautiful threatened by chaot
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The wide tiles don't have a bonsai mode, and the narrow tiles are too narrow to show the whole bonsai. :-(
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If I have to click through three poorly cropped screenshots to piece together the statement of a man who wants to start healthy debates, I'm not sure the platform's UI is up to the challenge.
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Presumably it would be a mixture of existing images. A balloon ride seen in a movie, but with yourself inserted. The way one imagines a chimera, having seen its component parts.
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Given that any book can now be preserved and reproduced indefinitely, and given that there's only so much reading one man can do in his life, shouldn't there be a point when we have enough books and don't need any new ones? W
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That's why we impose inflation on the money: to make it rot at a comparable rate.
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You accurately diagnose symptoms, but you blame the wrong people. Engineers and actors don't make creative choices, they merely obey directors and producers.
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A dilemma as old as art, isn't it? Will you stay true to your most profound convictions, even if it consigns your work to obscurity? Or will you compromise, gaining more attention and influence, but for a lesser artifact? We wouldn&#x2