I always thought Phil was a decent guy who I just disagreed with on stuff. So strange then to see him resort to secondary accounts to avoid blocks and thinking it’s ok to use someone’s children in order to “trigger” them.
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I think he's a decent guy who has a mental illness and it is manifesting in the form of ideologically-zealous obsessive stalking. I very much doubt he can see his behaviour for what it is. It needs to be stopped tho.
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So, it's a problem when he releases information without consent about other people (when he sees it to be relevant), but it's not a problem when you release information about his mental illness without his consent? What's the relevant disanalogy here?
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Huh? I don't have any information about his mental illness. I don't know if he's even been diagnosed with one. If he isn't concerned about his own behaviour, he won't have sought help for it. I want him to do that. It's more charitable than assuming malice.
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It could be charitable. But yet again, claiming individuals are mentally ill is a time-tested rhetorical device to inoculate people from considering whether there are merits to a person's ideas. It can be, in cases, ad hominem. C.f., the NRA and the Parkland shooting.
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Of course. But if you think there is merit to this behaviour when it's not caused by mental illness, I don't know what to tell you. To me, it's clear it's wrong and the two explanations are deliberate malice or mental illness.
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I don't remember saying that there's merit to the behavior. I'm curious as to how you think I did. I said that saying "X has mental illness" can be a tactic to stop taking anything that the person says seriously. That's a different claim than what you seem to attribute to me.
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I'm saying that if we agree the behaviour is bad, suspecting mental illness as the cause is mitigating rather than a tactic to stop people considering whether the behaviour has merit. You said ideas but it doesn't matter whether you agree with ideas or not. Its the behaviour.
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And no matter what, their kids are off-limits. Always.
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I didn't say it was *the question, I said it was *a question. I thought that's what we're supposed to be doing when we have discussions; viz. question and evaluate whether our concepts or ideas are justified without simply asserting that they are?
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