If you disagree with Banno, he'll gaslight you. Good luck. — Noble Dust
This.There's arguments and there's arguments. Quarrels and lines of reasoning — Banno
Would you chill out? Whether Banno gaslighted you or not, this adds nothing to the thread, it doesn't belong here. — Hermeticus
I guess the moral of the story is that anything can be used as weapon...I recall someone telling me quite a while ago that his father used to hit him with anything his pop could lay his hand's on. — TheMadFool
I guess the moral of the story is that anything can be used as weapon... — Wheatley
Good or bad, arguments are competitive by its very nature. In my opinion, philosophy is often used as a tool to churn out arguments.
What do you think? Does philosophy weaponize our language to turn them into arguments? Do I have a point? — Wheatley
Yeah, and I feel bad for all those poor victim grad students who are assigned Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit as a reading project. — Wheatley
In politics, diplomacy and export control, "dual-use" refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims. — Wikipedia
You learn that in social psychology. :nerd:Intriguing no, how people don't seem to realize that they're inflicting pain on others? :point: Milgram Experiment (Stanley Milgram) — TheMadFool
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