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Lacewing: If I had to summarize your personal philosophy, I would say it is the following: "I don't tolerate bullshit."

On social media, we get to encounter all sorts of lies against countries like Israel, and calls for boycotts against Israel, despite Israel being the only safe-haven for atheists, gays, Christians, Jews, secular-minded Muslims, Arab Druze, etc., in the Middle East. So, in order to reveal the hypocri...

Lace: I hear what you are saying, and understand your position. The thing is I was definitely not referring to you as one of the users on this forum who rely on personal insults for their arguments. I was referring mainly to VT and Henry, both of whom, yesterday, engaged in the following irrational ...

Eod: That I definitely true; however, this forum is supposed to be a philosophy forum, and in philosophy, personal attacks are considered to be a fallacy, as a person's argument may be valid, even if the person has some moral failing. Yet, there are certain users on this forum who resort to childish...

Greatest: What I stated about US law is 100% correct. It is also a sign that our laws are rational regarding free-speech. You would silence people who express their opinions against homosexuality. That would be illegal in the USA. If you disagree with someone speaking out against homosexuals, and I ...

Lace: That's absolutely true. I've also been accused at times of being a "hypocrite," precisely because I have changed my positions on various topics, as I consider different arguments or come across additional information. So, I get called both a hypocrite, for changing my opinions honest...

Greatest: If you look at the legal reasoning involved in cases regarding bakers and gay customers, freedom of speech is well protected. If a gay person comes into a bakery and wants to buy a cake that it already made, then a baker can't refuse to sell the cake because the customer is gay. This would...

Greatest: If you look at the legal reasoning involved in cases regarding bakers and gay customers, freedom of speech is well protected. If a gay person comes into a bakery and wants to buy a cake that it already made, then a baker can't refuse to sell the cake because the customer is gay. This would...

Greatest: If you look at the legal reasoning involved in cases regarding bakers and gay customers, freedom of speech is well protected. If a gay person comes into a bakery and wants to buy a cake that it already made, then a baker can't refuse to sell the cake because the customer is gay. This would...

WTF: Absolutely spot on!

It's partially the media and partially the users. Once most users on a social-media platform become racist conspiracy-theorists, that social media platform will start banning people who oppose racism and conspiracy theories. That's because the owners of the platform need to protect their customer ba...

Greatest: In the USA, thanks to our First Amendment, hate speech is not illegal. That's why many Americans really do get puzzled over court cases in other countries where a person gets prosecuted over speech that we in America can say without any legal prosecution. The Constitution was spot on in pr...

VT: You have never once wiped anyone all over the floor. I'm not the only one here who has noticed that your comments are childish, irrational and without any logical coherence. You can continue to ignore genetics, and you can continue to claim that your childish insults show you "winning"...

Greatest: There has always been a distinction between speech and action. Basically, freedom of speech protects the content of the speech. So, one cannot use a bullhorn at 2 a.m. to start preaching, that limitation on waking people up who are trying to sleep, however, has nothing to do with the conte...

From my experience dealing with many people on this forum, I think there is a large group of people here who are convinced that the following is a principle of logic: "Personally insult anyone who disagrees with you and who asks for evidence or a coherent argument to justify your position. The ...