Recent content by Eight Foot Manchild

You don't have "God's Word". You have words written by people purporting to speak on behalf of Yahweh - a claim they couldn't substantiate, and neither can you.

And reality, and an ability to make basic category distinctions. But what good is that? What really matters is owning the libs. Dictionaries are literally not magic spell books that bind reality together. But again, by all means, keep believing that. Information and knowledge are power...

Because I prefer my language to accurately reflect reality, and the reasons you've provided for calling it a group are quite flimsy, for the reasons I don't feel the need to repeat. By all means, though, keep tilting at windmills. I doubt we agree on almost anything politically, so your...

One of the people on the list. I'm actually considering reaching out to them and saying, the one and only good thing you can do right now is apologize to the locals who were there peacefully, and make a public statement disassociating yourselves from them so they can't be tarnished by what...

No they don't. Maybe in the rags you read. Also, don't care. News gets things wrong. Dictionaries are records of usage. They aren't magic spellbooks that bind reality together. Sounds like you're referring to black bloc. Which is also not a group. It's a tactic that some antifa groups use...

The absolute worst aspects of the left, encapsulated in one incident. Bunch of people, almost all from out of state, showing up and getting violent. Now the people who were there peacefully can get painted with the same brush. I appreciate that at least the cops distinguish between the two...

Like all free markets, the "free market of ideas" is predicated on a fairy tale. If you allow unrestricted speech in your forum, you don't get a haven of free-flowing discourse, where the best ideas naturally bubble to the top, and the bad ideas fall to the wayside. You get 4chan.

Why would a mega corporation pander for profit? Gee. What a mystery.

Yeah, go ahead. Turn red America into a bunch of broke welfare states, all dependent on Texas. Brilliant idea. Truly worthy of a soupbrain such as herself.

No, that is exactly why they don't transcend the is/ought gap. Nothing about what "is" can ever tell you "how we should live with each other as moral beings".

No you don't. Suppose we grant that such inherent "moral laws" exist. Why *ought* we follow them? I submit that you cannot answer this question without appealing to value judgement. Values are necessarily subjective. "Objective value" is an oxymoron.

That doesn't change anything. You are still committing a fallacy of composition. Or a fallacy of division, depending how you word it. You are saying "This blue ball cannot be made of atoms, because atoms aren't blue."

This is a fallacy of composition. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Fallacy-of-Composition

The laws of logic - by which I assume you mean classical, Aristotelean logic, because that's usually what people mean when they ask this question - are human inventions. That is a basic, banal fact of history. They are not magic spells that bind reality together. "A=A" does not cause a thing to...