Name: Oflameo
Age: 25
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I finished reading The Art of The Argument and I have more questions
about might makes right and power. I don't understand how it negates
the fact the Might Makes Right works empirically. We can say it is a
bad thing or that it doesn't work in the rigorous framework of
philosophy just like we can say that we can't divide 1 by 0 because we
can't undo the operation via multiplication and we have to declare that
to be a point of singularity in the rigorous framework of mathematics.
The effects of Might Makes Right are observable so I can't ignore it.
Does philosophy have a solution to Might Makes Right or is there a
singularity at that point in the framework?
I see that you say Skype is a requirement to call into the show. If you
going to be strict on it, I just can't call in. I would be willing call
in using any kind of IP Phone software to make sure quality is good,
but a hard Skype requirement is going to just make the call not
possible for me and I would just have figure out another way to ask the
question.
Skype for Linux is completely non-functional.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_linux-skype_callm
s-skype_audioms/skype-for-linux-is-completely-non-functional/5e5756f4-
4898-4b0b-9456-538a991783c0?auth=1Proprietary software is is immoral because it denies the user
control of their computer and I want to avoid using it myself or
promoting its use whenever possible.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.htmlI will not use software that bundles Digital Restrictions Management
because it is openly abusive to me when doing the moral thing of
purchasing the software using the authorized channels. I am very
dogmatic on this because I have been defrauded before while DRM was
used as a smokescreen so I was unable to get a refund.
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_mana
gement
I was able to read the book still because the Kindle Cloud reader is
just another website that doesn't need Encrypted Media Extensions to
work. I still wouldn't get kindle books if I had the choice. Amazon
reserves the choice to take back any book at any time because you are
renting access to the book and not owning the books when you buy them.
Amazon uses terrible DRM encumbered readers on anything other than the
cloud reader. The part I could download through the cloud reader was a
small inconvenient frame that would make me prefer almost any other
reader available if they were available which in this case they
weren't.
I thought this book was important to read and I can only get and read
platforms they put it on via the formats they offer. If The Art of The
Argument was really the book everyone needed to read to save western
society, how was I going to say no?