Yes, "transactional" means tit for tat. If the other party fulfils their end of the deal, you fulfil yours. If they don't, you retaliate. It may entail very tough bargaining, with no g… (View Post)

Don’t like, don’t buy! What could possibly go right, with such a strategy? (View Post)

It's bizarre. I know of a historian, Alex Mann, who spends quite a bit of time following Holocaust deniers, simply because he wants to see what arguments they're coming up with (and he debu… (View Post)

Or as LJ Sedley put it, "Freedom, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to say things that other people do not wish to hear." On the face of it, it is hard to see how this legislat… (View Post)

The same way that "hate speech" tends to mean speech that the political establishment, in any given era, strongly dislikes. (View Post)