... I do see now that I cannot simply preclude "regulation of reproduction" in the manner I previously suggested. As for this example, however, I don't think...
Good points, Tracy. Notice how we are debating the meaning and connotation of words. What does it mean to "regulate"? If the government passed a law that...
... This does not seem an important aspect of our discussion, to me. ... Yeah, it would. ... So, did my answer confound your expectations, or not? ;) ... In...
A Turkish man named Ismail Dogan says that God (and a bird and a dog) told him to kill English people. So naturally he went around stabbing people with a...
There appears to be a new trend starting in publishing when it comes to books dealing with mental health, psychiatry, or self-help. It may be more correct to...
... This does not seem an important aspect of our discussion, to me. What does not seem to be an important aspect of our discussion? Are we only going to...
From: Martin Kessler Well done, Rob. I might add that almost none of the so-called psychiatric critics refer to Szasz. That's because Szasz said it first and...
... Probably not, because I'm too much of a coward. Like Yonah, I would try to run away. But if He told me to do something I feel capable of, I would. ... It...
... snip ... There is nothing new about this. Such books have been being published for years. You are right that Dr. Szasz was the first. He was also the best...
Dear Charles Howard, I am surprised at your reply. Should I interpret the fact that you chose to pay attention to only one sentence as a strong disagreement ...
... I'm not entirely sure how we got to man on a knife rampage to alcohol, but okay I'll bite. Jeffrey Schaler wrote an excelent book called 'Addiction is a...
T.B. Would you mind clarifying your remark that "... attention should be focused on propositions and problems, not definitions and meanings"? Maybe you could...
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René Talbot
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Oct 6, 2005 8:51 am
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... I read about this experiment in Stanton Peele's book (see: http://www.metzelf.info/Book%20Reviews/Diseasing.html) What the researchers set out to...
... Speaking only for myself, I have not participated in this discussion because I have nothing to say about the matter other than that any interference at all...
... The disease theory says that a form of complex behaviour, to whit, drinking more alcohol, is due to the chemical effects of alcohol, but it is not. I think...
... Alcohol can affect a person's ability to think. He can also interpret it as causing certain thoughts, but he can change that interpretation. For example,...
Of course, it matters why a person kills another person. Was the killing an act of self-defense? The facts are very important. There are degrees of murder....
Maybe God will the man to jump off a bridge. ... dog) told ... people ... xml=/news/2005/10/05/ndogan05.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/05/ixhome.html ... kill a ... ...
... The first example that comes to mind is a paper by Karl Popper entitled "A Realist View of Logic, Physics, and History". It was published in _Objective...
I'd like to clarify something that I think was not plain in my prior post. When I wrote about "serious" problems, I had a particular meaning in mind, the...
What are "words"? What is a "plague"? What is a "reason"? What does the word "unfruitful" mean? What is a "game"? A comment about Popper from Szasz's...
<<By the way, what is a "question"?>> As all fans of Airplane: The Movie know: "It's an interrogative form of sentence, used to test knowledge. But that's not...
Shirley, Is that really you? ... But that's not important right now." ... reproduction ... What does the word "unfruitful" mean? What is a "game"? ... with...
From: Martin Kessler Isn't it funny (or strange) that when a person makes a claim that God or the devil or a "still small voice" told them to do something...
Why would someone say the devil told him to do it, when he could say God told him to do it? Is there an advantage to ever saying the devil said to do it? I...
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