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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4639669" data-attributes="member: 63706">Because someone thinks an entire profession shouldn&#039;t be trusted doen&#039;t mean that person is correct. I have problems with people trying to lump individuals into a group, and ascribe the sins of some of the individuals to the entire group. Intersectionality is a fundamentally flawed concept.I got the purposefully misleading thing from a previous conversation where I pointed out your using words with other than the standard meaning. Your answer was &quot;freedom of speech&quot;. One flaw with our system was the endowment of corporations the rights of personhood. And you are free to donate money to political causes, if the Canadian law is anything like the US law. As such, paying people to lobby your cause to lawmakers is considered protected speech.You just described representative republics, which the US is, I&#039;m glad you are coming around. The complication of &quot;harder decisions&quot; is who determines who is qualified to make those decisions. Who decides whether an authoritarian structure has sufficiently met the burden of self-justification? Who decidea the process of dismantling? Who decides, and how do they, what should replace the authoritarian structure? If it is up to popular vote, who decides in case of a tie? How is the vote conducted? All sorts of problems. A lot of what you describe is how the US was founded. Even they couldn&#039;t dismantle the monarchy, and they had to fight a protracted and bloody war just to break away.These are very broad claims, and I can see the allure of thinking this way, but the claims are too unspecific to really discuss.The cartesian answer, as you put it, does not address whether everything is BS or not. It is an answer to whether or not you exist at all and how you can know. Beyond that, I&#039;m still waiting for your logical argument for why you are not the only mind that exists. Then we can start delving into what is and what is not BS, and how to know which is which.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4639669, member: 63706"] Because someone thinks an entire profession shouldn't be trusted doen't mean that person is correct. I have problems with people trying to lump individuals into a group, and ascribe the sins of some of the individuals to the entire group. Intersectionality is a fundamentally flawed concept. I got the purposefully misleading thing from a previous conversation where I pointed out your using words with other than the standard meaning. Your answer was "freedom of speech". One flaw with our system was the endowment of corporations the rights of personhood. And you are free to donate money to political causes, if the Canadian law is anything like the US law. As such, paying people to lobby your cause to lawmakers is considered protected speech. You just described representative republics, which the US is, I'm glad you are coming around. The complication of "harder decisions" is who determines who is qualified to make those decisions. Who decides whether an authoritarian structure has sufficiently met the burden of self-justification? Who decidea the process of dismantling? Who decides, and how do they, what should replace the authoritarian structure? If it is up to popular vote, who decides in case of a tie? How is the vote conducted? All sorts of problems. A lot of what you describe is how the US was founded. Even they couldn't dismantle the monarchy, and they had to fight a protracted and bloody war just to break away. These are very broad claims, and I can see the allure of thinking this way, but the claims are too unspecific to really discuss. The cartesian answer, as you put it, does not address whether everything is BS or not. It is an answer to whether or not you exist at all and how you can know. Beyond that, I'm still waiting for your logical argument for why you are not the only mind that exists. Then we can start delving into what is and what is not BS, and how to know which is which. [/QUOTE]

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