I disagree with my OP, philosophical language can be used as a weapon, but it's not a weapon in of itself.

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...

Im only interested in torch lighters. I don't like the cheap BIC stuff.

Yes, gas lighters do what they can by gas-lighting — Noble Dust

The biggest gas-lighter in history is... Link

Nevermind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument

How about "formal argument"?

Oh wait...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line%20of%20reasoning

lines of reasoning — Banno

Is there another word for that?

consequentialism and deontological ethics are more about figuring out who to blame than how to decide how we should behave. — T Clark

That right there is fuel for politicians.

Very good. :up: :sparkle:

Yeah, yeah yeah... :roll:

Oh, look! A stupid game.

I need a marker to check all the stupid boxes!

A stupid reaction!

Trump being King of Stupid — Wayfarer

This thread is stupid... :yawn:

picked the wrong evil dictator — Wayfarer

Damn right! Choose Mussolini next time!

That's fair.

As an online discussion grows in the number of Hitler references, the probability of mentioning Godwin's law approaches 1? — Hermeticus

No.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/595014

It was a joke.

Is Judaism an ethnicity? A race? A nationality?

Internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Adolf — Mike Godwin

There ought to be another law about "Godwin"...

We Americans have a totally different concept of stupidity.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stupid

Im being facetious.

Hitler wasn’t stupid. — Wayfarer

You said a good thing about Hitler! :rage:

That's an understatement. — TheMadFool

I gave that one up as a bad job. Definition

Crap, now I sound like an Israeli. :nerd:

It's hard to disentangle academia from politics, isn't it?

Yep, :ok: It's hard to tell the difference. I thought you had something on him. — TheMadFool

Just mention/call all the anti-Israel people on this forum. lol

There are a lot of them...

Seriously, there's good and bad people from every country, including Israel.

I have nothing against Harari.

No, I don't mean anything. You should just be careful that he might be biased because he's from Israel. That's all.

he has no interest in learning anything — Xtrix

Don't say that. He might have a learning disability. :fear:

Very relevant today^^

Another useful concept: Hashem