Sentences with phrase «rational argument about it»

It's hard to perhaps make a rational argument about, but emotionally there seems to be a big gulf between mowing down countless innocent people who stand between you and a goal, and just breaking into someone's house, viewing a part of their lives, and murdering them for absolutely no reason other than shits and giggles.

He should be out there making sound rational argument about everything that is so very wrong with this.

I'm open to a rational argument about it.

Not exact matches

«Rational arguments do not convince people who have emotional biases about something.

This is why arguments about what god wants are as discredited as arguments about who people were in their last life or what Xenu wants amongst the rational.

«Lewis wrote in a time when, among the educated British public if not among their professional philosophers, there was considerably more agreement than there is now about what constitutes a valid and rational argument for a given case.»

One insight provided by Hartshorne's work on the ontological argument is that the concept of the existence of God is something akin to a regulative idea for the rational thought about reality which is attempted in Hartshorne's metaphysics.

To get a gauge of just how inane the belief in creationism / intelligent design is in the 21st Century, here are some areas they must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did not start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god, with one man, one woman and a talking snake.

Speculation about what nature is in itself, backed up by rational arguments, particularly about the mind - body problem, and empirical evidence from the sciences, is therefore a necessary dimension of a process Christian theology.

It's about basic logic used to conduct arguments (rational or otherwise) and have conversations.

Rational argument, while essential, «will not resolve all controversy,» notes legal theorist Martha Nussbaum in writing about the move to give full equality to gays and lesbians, «because it is very likely that the resistance... has deep psychological roots.»

I especially like the parts about the rather abstract sense of victimhood, which blinds us to real suffering, and the assumption that modern thinkers aren't «rational agents» who give arguments that need to be engaged, because they're characteristically neither wholly true nor wholly false.

To get a gauge of just how inane that comment is, here are some areas fundamentalists must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did n ¬ ot start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god.

It's not the rational arguments that make me feel sick watching the videos of abortion doctors munching salad and sipping wine while talking about crushing skulls, or that make me weep at the sight of that «tissue.»

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

I was just thinking about her today, by chance, and her amazing reversion, because my mother read her Jesus books... And I was thinking, damn, it's such crap the way she talked about how she stopped being an atheist because of the historicity of Jesus, no rational person can make that argument, she walking on glass, then BOOM!

It is a challenge to deal with a high level of resistance... If I were in that spot what I would LIKE to do would be to mirror the first response that seems to be moving away from engagement... the less rational argument... I'd try to stay with his energy... like, «so you're really firm about your view that...» reflecting back what I heard him say, and continue along that path.

It was a rational argument, listing clearly and in simple language the damage that was about to be inflicted on the country.

Snowflakes United decided to go for the emotional argument instead of addressing the real and rational dispute, which is about wholesale pricing.

My task, when I talk about ethics, is not only to describe what I regard as right behavior here and now, but also to make a rational argument for why it is right.

His excitement about trade and connections as the root of progress underpinned his argument in «The Rational Optimist» and, more recently, «The Evolution of Everything.»

You making an argument about «observations and confirmed rational understanding of fundamental physics» and bring up the pause of 1940's to 1980's where those observations and rational understanding of fundamental physics» means you can't compare the two without assumptions.

The corolary is that Lomborg's point is rational, but since we are emotional creatures, it is normal to feel unease about it and reject the whole argument out of it.

Icarus... your idea of «safety derived from momentum» is still lost on me... I can't see any rational person who is on the fence about bike commuting think they should give it a try because they can now roll through stop signs... if lack of leg strength (which is a problem I don't have) is one of the only arguments for passing such legislation... what are the odds such a bill is going to pass?