[question] Ireland Abortion Thread

[Godular]

So I just wanna post this question here and maybe head off a potential report if one should arise:

I just made the following post in the Ireland abortion thread

Due to the invalidation of empiricism, the quoted post has been mysteriously replaced by the following:

If empiricism is invalidated, we have no cause to trust any perceptions, there is no basis to judge reality, and for all intents and purposes any post from you might as well be some variant of the one above. I don't particularly give a flying fuck how many philosophers you happen to pull out of your ass to support your point, because that plays into MINE.

You must either accept that empiricism and the scientific method function because we must observe things in order to draw any form of conclusion whatsoever, or there is no point in arguing because very apparently nothing has meaning as we cannot trust our perceptions. You do not get to cherry pick when perceptions can be trusted and when they cannot.

In this post I have edited out UMN's words (and stated directly that I have altered the post) in order to present an example of taking his intended point into proper perspective. Would this still count as malicious quote editing?

[Farnhamia]

When you're unsure enough to ask ... don't post it.

[Godular]

Well, I know the rule states that there should be strikethrough or some such to indicate the original contents of the post being modified. My primary curiosity is to whether directly stating that the post has been modified from its original contents also happens to be satisfactory.

The post edit was not intended with any particular malice, and is actually somewhat germane to the ongoing discussion.

[United Muscovite Nations]

What edit? We cannot trust the ever-evolving nature of the universe to maintain my blocks of text.

[Twilight Imperium]

Honestly, that thread may need a lock - it devolved pretty quickly into a high level "pro/anti abortion" argument. I don't think anyone even said the word "Ireland" after page,, 3?

[Xmara]

Honestly, that thread may need a lock - it devolved pretty quickly into a high level "pro/anti abortion" argument. I don't think anyone even said the word "Ireland" after page,, 3?

Adding to that, don’t we already have an abortion megathread?

[Godular]

I brought it up for a merge into the abortion megathread early on, but I guess it being about Ireland qualified it for independent existence.