@PhilosophyExp thanks for the RT. If only it hadn't provoked such an angry response!
"Dawkins is the victim of the kind of social censorship that so worried J. S. Mill". Good piece by @SteveCooke. http://bit.ly/RcDnpG
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@SteveCooke Have you had angry responses to your piece? (I got some pushback for calling the Daily Mail piece hysterical, so I'm curious.) -
@PhilosophyExp I've spent the morning defending making any claims about relative harms. Others think even using the eg. of abuse was wrong. -
@SteveCooke Ah right. In fairness that is something that would need to be defended, I think. -
@PhilosophyExp I also think there's a wacking great dislike of Dawkins & his style of argument that colours reactions. -
@SteveCooke Absolutely. One strongly suspects that people's reaction are colored by their existing views about Dawkins.
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@PhilosophyExp@townsendoutdoor@SteveCooke it's worrying when people stifle debate, it's "the thin end of a very thick wedge"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@PhilosophyExp@stevecooke@SteveCooke - sociobiological defense responses activated. Reason on hold. This is what happens in apes. -
@timothygmd I get to blame genetics rather than flawed reasoning? Damn, that's so much more forgivably deterministic! -
@SteveCooke - neurobiology demonstrates that much reasoning is rationalization of the subconsious, genetics contributes. -
@timothygmd I've no doubt our biological impulses push us in all sorts of ways, but I'm not yet prepared to succumb to determinism! -
@SteveCooke - we all hate the chains of our biology, but understanding is the hope for greater freedom and increasing humanity. -
@timothygmd hate's a bit strong! We can have our desires shaped by biological impulse & still be rational moral agents. -
@SteveCooke@timothygmd -fair, I can be prone to hyperbole. 2nd part depends on definition of "we". Unless you include the subconscious, no.
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