Jeremy Stangroom

Silly quote of the week: "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."- Hannah Arendt // No, it really isn't.

@PhilosophyExp I disagree. Thinking has generated every bad idea in history as well as the good. In terms of risk it is dangerous.

@BrianMcleish But it's not dangerous *itself*. It's consequences can be dangerous, but that's not the claim...

@PhilosophyExp fire can heat or burn but we say fire is dangerous. It is its potential that makes it so.

@BrianMcleish Except actually we wouldn't say "fire *itself* is dangerous". That would be a very odd construction (because it isn't).

@PhilosophyExp ..and the word dangerous implies potential harm. Once the harm is caused we would call something harmful.