Jeremy Stangroom

@PhilosophyExp I would say that healthy politics has to involve opposing parties expressing opinions based on reality,and that's not USA now

@sjzara example, I think talk of "natural rights" is nonsense on stilts. But I certainly wouldn't be saying that too loudly if I were govt.

@PhilosophyExp That's utterly negligible compared to the views expressed by US Republicans (for example).

@sjzara I don't think that's true at all. I think talk of human rights, etc., is extremely important (but largely nonsense).

@PhilosophyExp I didn't mean that human rights are negligible, but that such a nuanced political position is nothing compared to ...

@PhilosophyExp What is actually going on in some opposition and governing parties.

@sjzara Governments routinely bang on about human rights. My claim is that there is no rational justification for thinking there are such...

@PhilosophyExp So you would classify that position as as distant from evidence and reason as rejecting vaccination safety and climate chg?