We are likely just boringly representative of the clever and the charming. — Baden
Whatever snowflake. — Benkei
How have you managed to sink to this level? — Andrew4Handel
Well, what my question is getting at is what, exactly, is claimed? And before anything can be claimed as stolen, it must first be determined what was stolen.Because it is claiming something that isn't yours. It doesn't belong to anyone. — Andrew4Handel
Well, what my question is getting at is what, exactly, is claimed? — tim wood
Well, what my question is getting at is what, exactly, is claimed? And before anything can be claimed as stolen, it must first be determined what was stolen. — tim wood
You appear to believe that the striving for absence of bias is the ‘correct’ role of philosophy. Others will suggest that this view is just one among competing notions of what philosophy is about — Joshs
From their vantage your aim is what they call a god’s eye view, or a view from nowhere. (...) Not only does it likely conflict , but the ‘wokists’ will push hard to expose your view as ‘oppressive’. — Joshs
It feels that the whole internet is now just a bunch of people taking offense at something. — Andrew4Handel
So it's the exclusivity of it - which I pretty much agree with. But is that property? Now. as our Brother Riley makes clear, "property" at law is a term of art, and that is worth consideration. All this just to put a little backbone and rigor into the discussion.What is being claimed is an exclusive right to something. — Andrew4Handel
Give me an example of a position or feature of philosophy that is not a bias of some sort or other.I think PC and woke ideas are new or rehashed biases. — Andrew4Handel
The general argument concerning free speech of course has nothing to do with the argument concerning moderation on any particular forum any more than an argument for free food choices obliges an Italian restaurant to serve hamburgers. And yet posters consistently conflate these debates. There’s no inconsistency whatsoever between supporting free speech and running a moderated forum. — Baden
Give me an example of a position or feature of philosophy that is not a bias of some sort or other. — Joshs
So it's the exclusivity of it - which I pretty much agree with. But is that property? — tim wood
You and your damned reasonableness. Would you please stop it!!!
I've been in quite a few exchanges like this one, both as a participant and a bystander. In those situations, censorship by bullying is a common tactic. Moderators sometimes are part of that, although others certainly participate too. When a moderator does it it can be a lot more intimidating. — T Clark
So it's the exclusivity of it - which I pretty much agree with. But is that property?
— tim wood
The owner can demand total control of the property or some one can make a claim on behalf of other people about their inalienable right to something. Or the owner can allow general access to the property — Andrew4Handel
Is this forum woke and politically correct? No. It seems too chaotic and random to me - a mix of crackpots, monomaniacs, educated, autodidacts and political warriors of diverse camps. There doesn't appear to be consistent or monolithic approach. — Tom Storm
Let's consider a plot of land, call it an acre. Well, pretty clearly that cannot be stolen. — tim wood
I don't know; the whole "War on Christmas" thing seems pretty convincing to me. — James Riley
It is possible to own almost anything now, from radio waves, stars, ideas, inventions, names, ever smaller slices of land selling for massive sums of money. — Andrew4Handel
In fact, justice and equality surely are Conservative values nowadays? — Benkei
But I believe philosophy could benefit from taking nothing for granted. — Andrew4Handel
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