While the place is in no high ground to shoot down short posts.. yeah. Really ought to expand on whatever more deeply. Learn to use non specific metaphors. I have a friend who.. such and such.
Your original post was full of mistakes and made little argument. If you work on it a bit, repost it.
Some pointers:
(1) You made a few statements to the effect that everyone should donate 10% of their income to Oxfam, on the basis of it being a good thing to do. There are plenty of good things to do which we are not required to do; why is it necessary to donate, and why is it necessary to donate to Oxfam in particular?
(2) If you intended to leverage a more general obligation to charity - insofar as people are morally obliged to give some of their income to charity - why 10%? Why not 9%? Why Oxfam? A discussion of why 10% to Oxfam would be the least amount to give would've been nice.
If you connected donations to Oxfam to the good deeds it does, then made an argument for why Oxfam was the best charity for achieving those good deeds, then made an argument for why that amount of donation is required of every person - that would be a much better thread starter.
Why I deleted it: the absence of much argument made it simultaneously low quality and indistinguishable from advertising. If you argue more thoroughly and precisely, it would be a fine thread starter.
Your post was a request asking people to donate to a charity. There wasn't anything philosophical about it yet you posted here in the ethics forum. It has nothing to do with ethics, as a philosophical study.
Don’t worry. It was about objective truth and people being equal. I don’t know how to argue the details of that. Maybe I will be content in arguing for objective truth rather than subjective truth. Regards,
The mod @Baden wrote a detailed guide for writing a thread's original post here. It may help. Note that most OPs (original post) are much worse than the examples he gives, and you can still write a good OP without following all of them.
So if I would like to post a thread titled ‘Objective Vs. Subjective Truth’, that’s most likely not original, so I would find that thread somewhere?
What category is Philosophy of Truth?
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While the place is in no high ground to shoot down short posts.. yeah. Really ought to expand on whatever more deeply. Learn to use non specific metaphors. I have a friend who.. such and such.
Your original post was full of mistakes and made little argument. If you work on it a bit, repost it.
Some pointers:
(1) You made a few statements to the effect that everyone should donate 10% of their income to Oxfam, on the basis of it being a good thing to do. There are plenty of good things to do which we are not required to do; why is it necessary to donate, and why is it necessary to donate to Oxfam in particular?
(2) If you intended to leverage a more general obligation to charity - insofar as people are morally obliged to give some of their income to charity - why 10%? Why not 9%? Why Oxfam? A discussion of why 10% to Oxfam would be the least amount to give would've been nice.
If you connected donations to Oxfam to the good deeds it does, then made an argument for why Oxfam was the best charity for achieving those good deeds, then made an argument for why that amount of donation is required of every person - that would be a much better thread starter.
Why I deleted it: the absence of much argument made it simultaneously low quality and indistinguishable from advertising. If you argue more thoroughly and precisely, it would be a fine thread starter.
The mod @Baden wrote a detailed guide for writing a thread's original post here. It may help. Note that most OPs (original post) are much worse than the examples he gives, and you can still write a good OP without following all of them.
What category is Philosophy of Truth?
Thanks
Err... Probably metaphysics and epistemology.