Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Lies, lies, lies

More from me at philpercs on Gerald Dworkin on lying.

6 comments:

  1. art or threat?
    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/21/hip-hop-first-amendment-rap-lyrics-supreme-court-killer-mike

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    1. Pistols cannot be outlawed, of course, so songs about using them are instead.

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    2. you got it guns don't kill rhymes do, Plato would be pleased...

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    3. very good, actually an interesting question I think in all of this around imagination/speech-acts/intentions/etc and we haven't even gone fully into the realm of http://www.predpol.com/

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    4. Yes, there are threats that need to be taken seriously. But what that means in practice is hard to say. And obviously a threat could be hidden inside a work of art or a joke, not to mention jokes and art as evidence of danger not consciously advertised.

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