Bob Ross

Wouldn’t the response be: “I am glad we at least agree on that!”? I was agreeing with you. :sad: How do you not have a response to that? I thought the...

As a practical matter, yes, ceteris paribus, we would say that this person is probably a sexual predator if there are multiple, unrelated accounts. Bu...

Ok, I may have misunderstood what you were claiming. Let me ask for clarification: are you saying that a baby does not experience in space and time de...

I am not ultra-nationalist; but I am a nationalist. I think you are conflating the two, but maybe I am wrong. I am failing to understand the dichotomy...

When Kant speaks of intuition, he is talking about the innate capacity our sensibility and reason has for attributing spatio-temporal properties to ph...

Correct; but there is still design in it—but it is a different type of teleology (which I call ‘weak teleology’). That my eye is a product of evolutio...

I don’t take his word for it: I do not convict him because there is a fundamental and important principle called “innocent until proven guilty”. Belie...

So we haven’t explored this far yet, because you denied moral realism. Now that I got you on board with the idea of objective goodness, we have to und...

I am not sure how that is the case. What do you mean? I am not following. Conservatives love limiting government; and unions are ehhh—I see how they a...

Haha, I see your frustration. Yes, people on both sides of the political isle are inconsistent in their beliefs. By American core values, which I am s...

I voted for Trump, because I am afraid of what Kamala would have done to our country. My policy is to vote for the lesser of the two evils, and not to...

I did, and, again, women merely claiming be to sexually abused is not sufficient evidence to support that the alleged man did it. That’s poor reasonin...

I am talking about the fact that things that have design have goods which are intrinsic to that design (e.g., a good clock is a clock that can tell th...

I am a strong leaning conservative and you seem to be a strong leaning Democrat, so this should be an interesting conversation :smile: . IMHO, the rea...

I am glad we found common ground on that part of the point; and I agree that granting that there is such a thing as implicit consent does not entail i...

The fact that space, time, logic, math, and various core conceptions is not evidence enough that there’s no reason to believe that our perceptions are...

I am not sure if I responded to this already, but here we go (again, if applicable). Yes, that is incoherent to say that something is actually good, b...

Because the church should have no influence on the state: that usually leads to corruption, persecution, and disaster. Oh, do you mean like a state ri...

I already explained this to you, and you didn’t address it adequately. There is such a thing as implicit consent and, specifically with kissing, it is...

I expounded the evidence that, as far as I could tell, were presented in court: did I leave anything out?

I didn't steer the conversation towards Trump, and it is not necessary to do so to contend with the OP: I am merely entertaining all avenues of conver...

There are no objective values: there are objective, moral facts. A value is a worth assigned to something by an agent, and so is always (inter-)subjec...

Is it in public schools? That’s a no-no for me. Lol. I never claimed to the contrary. PS: Christianity is also deeply entrenched in Aristotelianism. I...

True, but this doesn’t entail that Aristotelianism has nothing to say about it. I see what you are saying, but no one tends to get explicit consent to...

Are you saying that that evidence, that I expounded, is enough to convict someone of sexual assault??? I am not saying that Trump is great, nor that h...

No, no: you are stretching it here. I am trying to be as open-minded and charitable as possible; but that Hollywood tape explicitly states that there ...

:roll: What about it? Fair enough: I didn’t know that. They are inferior for doing that. Yeah, that’s objectively bad. No one should be shoving a part...

Correct. I believe I already noted I am analyzing this through an Aristotelian lens; but maybe that was with someone else. Not quite. I have to vote f...

So, something cannot correspond, from reality, to, one-to-one, your perception: that wouldn’t make sense. Your perception(s) are the aftermath of the ...

The evidence wasn't not very solid: that's why I don't believe he would have been convicted. In criminal court, one needs evidence that implies a conc...

If there is no actual badness, like you claim, then there is no such thing as a bad farmer. A bad farmer is a farmer that is actually bad at farming—t...

CC: @"Foolos4" I was just about to message you both about this. I've been researching it more, and, as you noted, it is civil and not criminal case; a...

I was just noting that what he said was not an admission that he rapes women. I am not saying he hasn’t done, considering the evidence you demonstrate...

To be fair, I responded to Foolos4 right before I sent that to you (: So there is no possible way you would have seen that. The bottom-line is that Tr...

Because it is the only set of values that separates church from state; gives people as many equal liberties as possible; has the right to bear arms; a...

Then, you have to deny that there is such a thing as a bad farmer. Morality is useful for knowing what the right thing to do or not do is. Ok, so it s...

True, and I recanted that claim to @"Fooloso4": Trump is definitely a sex offender. There's too much evidence to support this for me to overlook.

No, no, no. You missed the point: democratic nations don’t go to war at all based off of a vote—that’s not how it works. You are acting like a democra...

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Well, it’s about the values that she would profess (and hopefully stick to) which people would vote her in for: that’s the connect between them that y...

There is overwhelming evidence that it is upheld in the vast majority of their society. There are tons of crimes reports, and tons not reported, that ...

This is what he said: That is not a sex crime to grab a woman “by the pussy” if she let’s you do it. Either way, I see your point and recant my statem...

There’s no trolling intended: there are good forms of nationalism, imperialism, and supremacy. Liberals just get butt-hurt when people use the proper ...

I never claimed to the contrary: I even predicted this point in my response! With all due respect, please take your time in reading my responses; beca...

No worries at all, Philosophim!

Send me a link to the sex offense that he was charged with, or the reasonable evidence that he should have been convicted (of some sex crime). And the...

People haven’t ever voted on when to go to war—that’s not how republics work I’m afraid. Is going to war with the Nazis to stop the Holocaust a war of...

It isn’t. The point is not to always prioritize the in-group over out-group; but we still have to do it oftentimes. E.g., every time I save a stranger...

All persons are moral agents, so both people in the West and North Koreans are moral agents. I would say that (not in all but) in some circumstances m...

Firstly, people get told to go to war no matter what in a republic—that’s not unique to my position here. If my country goes to war, then I could legi...