As I understand it, Gert's "descriptive" notion of morality tries to capture what would characterize normative systems as "moral" cross-culturally, in...
Yet I didn't see how you can prove that the definition you suggest is an improvement. You are simply making claims not proving a point. For example, i...
Do you mean "some war-time rhetoric" is the lie while "15 years of protest against NATO expansion" is expression of Putin's genuine views? And doesn't...
My points are 2: one is about explanation, the other about generality. 1. Gert's descriptive definition of morality is : What morality is: An informal...
These are just claims, where is the argument to support them? Consider: (A) “slaves must obey their masters” (B) “working on the sabbath deserves deat...
To me, Gert’s definition of “morality” is descriptive. What I think Gert takes to be a normative definition of morality is the set of rules and ideals...
It's not clear in what way adding "increasing the benefits of cooperation" improves Gert’s definition of morality. Can you give concrete example to cl...
Not sure to understand what you are saying. I could explicitly conclude “all cats are animals” from “all cats are mammals” and “all mammals are animal...
To the extant I and my opponent share the same argumentative rules, we must converge about how we apply them too. So if I claim he failed or my oppone...
Sure, that sounds plausible, at least in the short term. But even in the short term, as long as the Russian political and military elites are the same...
I claimed nowhere that I’m dispassionate nor that a rational debate should be dispassionate. Even in playing basketball or chess one can be passionate...
I didn't claim that I or anybody should provide only arguments and counter-arguments. As lame as your attempts at calling opposing views "cheerleading...
I don't see the relation of your comment with what I wrote which was about taking position and its costs. Besides if I'm engaging with other people wh...
A horrible and bloody internet "pariah-ship and contempt" is what the majority of anonymous users of this thread have to suffer from the minority of o...
A humiliating defeat might not be enough to get rid of Russian hegemonic ambitions once for all. It may set also the grounds for the next imperialist ...
So you practically ignored all other facts to focus on “hegemonic ambitions” which in the case of Russia, China, and Iran you claim to be “hypothetica...
There is absolutely nothing hypothetical about Russia's threat to 'the West'. Russia has actual non-hypothetical motives to be hostile against the Wes...
It's not complicated. As this one: acting as if Russia is not a threat to the West, when it is, just because the West ought to be peaceful, is reckles...
I think that the notion of "morality" is at the crossroad of different considerations pointing in different directions. So it's very possible that any...
This might be true from a third person perspective. Not from a first person perspective. If a person makes a knowledge claims and then she herself dis...
I get your point. Still it depends on what we are certain about. We can also be certain that something is reliable. So if that something turns out to ...
what a guy: On April 6, 2022, Ritter was suspended from Twitter for violating its rule on "harassment and abuse" after he posted a tweet claiming that...
As usual, you put most of your intellectual effort in caricaturing me the way it suits you. It’s expected and boring to read, but it’s still an occasi...
No idea why you call it “progress”. I never argued that 190K troops are sufficient to control Ukraine. Even if the Russians had limited goals since th...
With your initial question, you seem to understand my claim out of its context. I was talking about “likelihood” as applied to expert feedback. This i...
As already said, “likelihood” expresses to me an assessment of the degree of confidence. There is no formula about this. Just informal assessment abou...
I’m talking about Mearsheimer only because you took him to support your claims, which I find questionable. Besides I’m less interested in the details ...
Mearsheimer doesn’t explicitly talk about regime change in that video, all right. But he did it elsewhere: You don’t think he has designs on Kyiv? No,...
Your opportunistic accusations are overlooking context and assumptions of my claims and objections. To me the “burden of proof” depends on what is cla...
The point for me is that: 1. "knowledge" claim is a principled based or procedural form of certainty. And principles/procedures can validate our "know...
I don’t care about your excuses. I myself still do not understand what “threatening” means if not “threatening to capture”. Again you look confused. Y...
Mearsheimer in the clips you linked talks about occupying all of Ukraine and imperialism. However at minute 24:20 of your video (https://www.youtube.c...
Prove that I didn’t use those terms properly. You just clarified your understanding of one term: “decapitation is a military-strategic goal that aims ...
First, you just keep repeating your claims as if you already counter-argued my views in a very compelling way. Which is not the case. Second, nowhere ...
The only aim I care discussing is 2. Forcing Kiev to the negotiating table, which, we now know, they succeeded in. First, forcing a negotiation doesn’...
Mearsheimer is claiming at minute 24:20 Mearsheimer of your video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM) that the strategic objective of 190K R...
Ukraine was not within NATO nor EU either. And again until February 2022 it wasn’t obvious that Ukraine would have joined NATO/EU imminently no matter...
I'm not questioning the fact that you agree with the Russians, I'm just questioning the reasons of your assumptions. Russians may have made miscalcula...
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