scheduling
What do you mean by that?
step towards stabilizing temperatures
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From you. It was your money but then after you give it to them, it's their money.
About this quote:
'Senate candidate Roy Moore tried to start dating/sexual relationships with teenagers some decades ago.
He tried to lead Ms Corfman step by step into sex, but he always respected “no” from her and his other dates. Thus, Moore does not deserve the exaggerated condemnation that he is receiving for this. As an example of exaggeration: one mailing referred to these teenagers as “children”, even the one that was 18 years old. Many teenagers are minors, but none of them are children.
The condemnation is surely sparked by the political motive of wanting to defeat Moore in the coming election, but it draws fuel from ageism and the fashion for overprotectiveness of “children”.'
DeVault says that Stallman draws a distinction between children and teenagers
'especially to suggest that an adult having sex with a minor is socially acceptable'
but Stallman makes no such suggestion. In fact, Stallman makes no mention of social acceptability at all. DeVault is putting words in Stallman's mouth.
About this quote:
'Calling teenagers “children” encourages treating teenagers as children, a harmful practice which retards their development into capable adults.
In this case, the effect of that mislabeling is to smear Wilson. It is rare, and considered perverse, for adults to be physically attracted to children. However, it is normal for adults to be physically attracted to adolescents. Since the claims about Wilson is the latter, it is wrong to present it as the former.'
DeVault says that Stallman
'sought to normalize adult attraction to minors, literally describing it as “normal”'
but Stallman did not say that adult attraction to "minors" is normal.
Acknowledgement of correctness please.
Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?
It's not your money, it's their money.
Thank god for that, we're all saved!
He made conclusions from quotes which didn't follow from contents of those quotes.
human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied
LOL it took the latest in Palestine for them to figure that out?
rather than energising them
Why does the author think that energising people is good?
This analysis is full of non sequiturs. Disappointed in DeVault.
He said attraction to adolescents is normal. He did not say that attraction to minors is normal. Distinguishing between the two is his whole point.
Instead of paying attention to what Stallman is actually saying, DeVault chose to disregard Stallman's word, "adolescent" and instead claim that he used a different word, "minor", a more general word which includes a larger group, children. DeVault is clearly trying to paint Stallman as something he is not. Which, ironically, is exactly what Stallman was criticising the media for in his quote. And bizarrely, even though I've pointed this out to you, you're doing the same.
"Adolescents are animals. Adult attraction to adolescents is normal. Therefore adult attraction to animals is normal."
"Adolescents are animals. Adult attraction to adolescents is normal. A person who says that adult attraction to adolescents is normal is saying that adult attraction to animals is normal."
These are non sequiturs, just like yours and DeVault's assertions. Please try to think.
https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-logic/chapter/chapter-1/