Ennui Elucidator

So if I say your cat is on the mat and you look over and see that it isn’t, your interpretation makes me wrong?

Further to the point, @"Athena", is that both materialism and idealism can account for us bouncing off of the wall in the same way. I refer you to ide...

We are having two different conversations - I am talking philosophy and you are talking something else. If you want to talk about philosophy, then you...

Dawkins has no idea what he is talking about. Some religions that make particular incorrect factual claims are incorrect. Religion writ large doesn’t ...

Sacred myths, historicity, etc. Religion is not tied to the “truth” of some fact or set of facts or some event or series of events in history. It is a...

So some guy posts a video as to why and you suppose that is true for all eternity. Many a scientist was firmly convinced of many an error, why do you ...

Or maybe somewhat differently, do you want to talk about modal logic but used non-modal references for the sake of inclusivity?

What matters is up to us, no? Your critique smacks of aesthetics. It would be nice if facts mattered, but they don’t. The wall pushes back until it do...

Validity means that the premises cannot be true and the consequent false. To test validity we assume all premises are true and see if there is a spot ...

Both a boat and goose float, yet one is not the other. Democracy is not the only form of government that can lead to peace. Also, I was not claiming t...

The sentiment is nice, but thinking along these lines is muddled. All we have is extent stuff - the eternally present now. What we have is theories ab...

And some people that wrote in English called rights “nonsense on stilts.” It is great to assert preference in the form of an ethical theory, but we sh...

Ideas like this are sort of curious and belies a certain level of naïveté about what classifying something does in a metaphysical way. It is as if you...

I was responding to Tim. I didn’t mean to imply that you were uncritical of the SC or other precedent. Sorry. But yes, it would be hard not to strike ...

A flaw is contextual. In my context, Roe is flawed. In yours, you see it is a good decision. We can go round the bush again with you trying to get us ...

The thing is if you have to go back to pre-codification of Torah times to talk about what the Jewish ethic is, you are talking a period well before th...

:sad: And the idea of private parties performing traditional acts associated with government is our new reality on every level - local, state, federal...

I’m not sure what you mean by “later”. Less than 50 “lines”? Deut. 7:1 Deut. 5:16

This is simply incorrect and a bad translation in any event. There were times the Bible specifically commanded the killing of people or permitted the ...

I believe I have previously addressed this, but I will try one more time. There is a fundamental right to reproductive choice which should, under curr...

Yes, I presented that incorrectly and have adjusted my post accordingly. As for 3, that isn’t an argument, but a description of what they have done an...

And if you are interested in the state action requirement for the 14th Amendment, this is a reasonable enough article: Cornell LLI on State Action.

I appreciate that you want to have the abortion debate, but that was not the point of @"Ciceronianus"’ post or my engaging with you regarding the shor...

I am not anti-science or “pro-natural.” Any level of medical technology available that can make a fetus viable is reasonable because for the most part...

Here is my equally as quippy a rule: a woman has a right to abortion on demand at any point until the fetus has been detached from her body. Viability...

Did you see I quoted the actual case at you multiple times, Tim? Are you really going to play that dense? And are you further aware that the Case case...

You are asking me to account for the non-sense that was the Casey reasoning? Go ask O’Conner. But read her sentence before the one you quoted: The via...

The court claiming that Roe was well considered is like you claiming that you understood the decision - self-serving and meaningless for purposes of a...

That isn’t what Casey said, that isn’t the framework, and it is generally bollox. The actual case law in the US is that VIABILITY is the deciding mome...

You should really quit while you are ahead, Tim. Go read the dissent to Casey and the ink spilled on the judicial fiat of the majority in Roe. If you ...

I am tempted to start pointing you in the direction of literature on the issue of viability and how bad it was, but here is an amusing quote: Random A...

Perhaps you missed where I responded to your earlier post and actually quoted Roe for you. If you like, go read it and let me know if your opinion sti...

There is so much of this that is good and I don’t want to paraphrase a paraphrase. I simply want to draw attention to a very earnest examination of th...

A law on the federal (or state) level cannot change a “precedent” in-so-far as the precedent is about prohibiting the limitation of a constitutional r...

There is nothing reasonable about it and it is clearly inequitable. The state can regulate the practice of medicine however it wants (so long as it ca...

What I really wanted to do was share a bit of humor in religious philosophy. What makes it funny is how it hints at something more profound and gives ...

Everyone’s, Hanover.

People. God might have been good at somethings once upon a time, but as widely conceived these days? A bit like using a screw driver to try turning th...

I appreciate your seeming sincerity, but one can be a flirt only so long. This post is largely an example of Poe’s Law. That said, there are some thin...

Woe. Shall we lament the end of the culture of the conquerors, murderers, slavers, and rapists too soon eradicated by the followers of Paul? Perhaps a...

After which ethics class did the sculptor make a statue of the goddess Aphrodite? Perhaps you can sing a nice hymn exalting act utilitarianism?

And I can generalize that 2+2=4. And also like I said, I can observe people categorically sucking and thereby glean something of their mold. So not on...

I'm not sure if this is a real invitation or just hand-waving. So a woman's right to choose hinges on "protecting fetal life after viability" and noth...

What is it about the world being an instantiation of the forms which must exist of necessity? For us to observe and discover the necessary is not to m...

Again, knowing and doing are two separate things. A paralyzed Olympian knows how but can't do. A marginally competent god is the same way. Omniscience...

Not positively. Though I can tell you, in the case of people willing to do your economics homework, supply does meet demand. Yet another example of su...

I miss doing other people's logic homework. Shame that subforum didn't make the cut.

Those that can do, those that can’t teach. While not a universal principle in the same way as the Peter Principle, it is well known that that one can ...

I hear you BC, the apocalypse is just round the corner. "BUT THIS TIME IT IS DIFFERENT!" There are times where cynicism is warranted and there are tim...

Picture a law giving a private right to any person to sue another for maintaining/opening a building in which another person practices Christianity wh...