ACompletelyDifferentRobot

3755 pts ยท June 11, 2019


I'm not actually any kind of robot. I';m secretly 30-50 feral hogs in disguise! (Don't tell anyone!)

Finally: I think you are too keen to dismiss something you don't understand, or disagree with as nonsense, or irrelevant.

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believe this risk and other dangers exist even without a society going so far as to actually criminalise thoughts and persons.

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necessary, as the lack of it risks misrepresenting persons (etc) and, I believe, leads to less just, more dangerous society. To clarify, I

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is, I believe, a consequence of making a certain kind of distinction between rational and irrational ideas. This distinction is, I believe,

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problem? If it leads to criminalising thoughts or persons, it might be. Separating certain schools of thought from the domain of the state

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is irrational not necessarily a problem, but it can be, because it conflates the person, their thoughts and their behaviour. Why is that a

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I was certainly mistaken, and misrepresented what you wrote. To reiterate, I believe in multiple, competing rationalities. To say a person

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to what can be considered an acceptable part of a rational society. If you didn't, please clarify.

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You mean far from whether or not people who murder children are part of rational society? We aren't. A view on what rationality is is tied

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well, I'm not quite sure what they are, but I feel concern.jpg would be an appropriate memetic expression.

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It's less of a surprise than ere the opposite the case. Looking at the US from across the pond, D looks like right of center. R is ...

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*Stupid sexy artistic vision of space.

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*one of the principles used to justify the separation between

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discussion using reason; the church being the domain of ideas which stand outside of reason.

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problematic. This is one of the principles between the separation between church and state, the state being the domain of reason and

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makes them outside of reason. This would mean that asserting them as reason (which some will want to do with some beliefs of this type) is

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What it makes possible is to say that some beliefs are reasonable, but can be shown mistaken. Other beliefs cannot be shown mistaken, which

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Well, what I was saying was that while the example belief is rational, holding that belief isn't (in light of the available evidence).

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tools of rationality.

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reaction to the evidence seems so. The belief would still be rational in itself, as the belief is possible to address and process with the

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That makes sense. I would describe what you describe as an example of irrational behaviour. The belief would not be irrational, only the

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I apologise for bothering you.

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I am literally pointing out the importance of opinions other than my own.

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Could you explain what you mean by a 'rational idea'?

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difference to what people other than the designer themselves consider impressive.

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There are many amazing-looking big houses out there. McMansions represent a a desire to impress coupled with an ignorance of or in-

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you say, "not care about preventing child murders".

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'Rational society' is a value-laden expression. IMO there are multiple types of rationality. I do agree that there are persons who do, as

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different to others' concerns.

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group (as the group as a whole is considered the enemy). Others (psychopaths for example) are incapable of empathy, and as such are in-

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