Philosophy forum on life support...

I saw this Dog, Phil. It looked very sad and its bollocks were hanging out. Not a kitten, but made me a bit sad.

You too, Phil, does it make you sad?

"This is a public forum so you are going to engage with all sorts., Fred"

The fun of it.

Think of Phil as "all sorts". somewhat crusty but hey ho.

Did a interesting post about "forgotten corners".....or "forgotten spaces"..

. "Now the same thing is taking place but on the left side" Phillip.

Phil, has found some commies under his bed...buggers are everywhere.

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Phil, much more interesting bloke when he is discussing photography, instead of all this weird leftie stuff..

Especially, if he posted some photos. That would be really nice....

Oh my goodness!

You need two wings to fly, Phil.. Birds worked that out way back in time...birds are still flying.

Phil, you come over real hard core right. Is that really you? If you are....well, use the freedom of speech that Democracy has given you....no need to hide or be frightened to express your views.

use the freedom of speech that Democracy has given you.....

Democracy never gave anyone free speech......

"Democracy never gave anyone free speech"...... moving on in some sort of hope.

Holy Moses, Batman....there's a new super hero....changed his avatar....but still he is the" crying man" and will drown us all with his tears and snot!

What should we do...he seems so powerful with jets of mucous/snot pouring from his nose.

Democracy, gives the platform of free speech, without the platform, there would be no free speech. So, yes, Democracy, has given us free speech...how we respect/honor it is another story.

To an ass, a thistle is a delicious fruit.

The ass eats the thistle. It remains an ass.

Missing Julie, if anyone can believe it...! She was always an excellent instigator.

Julie has been doing her

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stuff every day for a while now. I’m sure she’d appreciate some company.

Unreal Nature

Democracy, gives the platform of free speech, without the platform, there would be no free speech. So, yes, Democracy, has given us free speech...how we respect/honor it is another story.

That is patently false.

Laughably so.

Take a remedial course in logic or history.

Begin with the French Revolution.

Google “tyranny of the majority” .

Simply visit any college campus where people are shouted down and intimidated by the “democratic majority”.

Educate yourself and you won’t come across as some mouthy uninformed juvenile.

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  "...such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
  

“American founding father Alexander Hamilton, writing to Thomas Jefferson from the Constitutional Convention, argued the same fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon. The Electoral College mechanism present in the indirect United States presidential electionsystem, and the phenomenon of faithless electors allowed for within it, was, in part, deliberately created as a safety measure not only to prevent such a scenario, but also to prevent the use of democracy to overthrow democracy for an authoritarian, dictatorial or other system of oppressive government.[3] As articulated by Hamilton, one reason the Electoral College was created was so "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".[4]”

Tyranny of the majority - Wikipedia

Additionally......

From the same link....

While James Madison referred to the same idea as "the violence of majority faction" in The Federalist Papers, for example Federalist 10, the phrase "tyranny of the majority" was used by John Adams in 1788.[8] It was also used by Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), where he said that "The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny." It was further popularised by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty (1859). The Federalist Papers and the phrase (in translation) is used at least once in the first sequel to Human, All Too Human (1879).[9] Ayn Rand wrote that individual rights are not subject to a public vote, and that the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and "the smallest minority on earth is the individual".[10]

We see this playing out in the current atmosphere of Democrat legislators publicly encouraging harassment en masse of anyone expressing a differing political view with the explicit purpose of suppression of speech.

"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us". Friedrich Nietzsche

More often people mistakenly think they have something new to offer.....

Never mind, message edited as it wasn't going to contribute anything useful.

Wouter, you get points in my book for knowing when not to take the bait!

"It’s the hook that counts....take the bait but break the hook" Moving know where.

Oh my goodness...he thinks his a cowboy...having a shoot out at high noon. And he has a cowboy hat, and full of political correctness...Wyatt Earp of goodness.

Back to Photography.

Phil, when he is not talking about the leftie stuff....has a lot to offer about photography.

It would be really nice if he started a thread about photography.

For moved on somewhere....same old.