Jeremy Stangroom

@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?

@sjzara Yes. But I'm aware that other people won't agree (just like they wouldn't over vaccs and climate).

@PhilosophyExp I'm going to have to think about that!

@sjzara I'm not denying your particular claim about climate change, vaccs, etc (I agree). I'm arguing that you're over-reaching to a general

@PhilosophyExp I really don't think I am. Seeing the Republican candidates reject evolution at the last election campaign was frightening.

@sjzara I know. But seeing them reject the idea of universal human rights would also have been frightening... (maybe more so).

@PhilosophyExp I don't know. To me, rejection of evolution is a sign of a happy, knowing rejection of any link to reality.