TheMadFool

The question "does She?" arises only if it's a possibility that She "does not " but this is exactly what becomes impossible by making goodness god's e...

I just realized, or likely misunderstood, something: An essential defining quality of god is omnibenevolence. Ergo, it's impossible an immoral command...

Well, this "capacity to restructure" must be observable right? Imagine that before the "restructuring" of our value system we had a particular set of ...

As it appears to me voting responsibly is an impossible task. To do so would require sufficient information on a wide range of things from the moral c...

At the risk of repeating myself and boring you to death, the essence of free will is choice. For free will to be a meaningful concept and for it to ex...

Here's my two cents: God is defined as omnibenevolent and so whatever he commands will be moral, don't you think? Defined as all-good, morality is god...

I thought you might be headed that way and I agree with you that a capacity, to choose in this case, can be inferentially generalized from a sample to...

By opiate I get the impression of something soporific, sleep-inducing, and mind-numbing. Doesn't the media depend on readership/viewership/listenershi...

The coronavirus outbreak exposes a hidden weakness in the field of medicine, to wit the almost complete lack of antiviral drugs. I believe there are j...

It seems I've approached Bob and Alice rather parochially, ignoring, for the sake of comprehensibility which is not exactly a fault, the complexity an...

Indeed I accept the necessity for what you call basic beliefs if we're ever to claim any kind of knowledge at all. Skepticism doesn't deny the possibi...

You must follow the path to wherever it leads...the destination may surprise you.

Hi there. This discussion faded from my memory. Thanks for the mention. I haven't given it as much thought as it deserves you know. I find it very int...

Perhaps this is solipsistic in character but from the viewpoint of an individual all that we can observe is the behavior of other organisms, other hum...

How different are other non-human organisms from humans themselves in this respect? The bottomline is that consciousness in people other than ourselve...

I thought Euthyphro's dilemma settled the issue as far as the content of the video is concerned. The situation is exactly the opposite of what Dennis ...

This is a distinction without a difference. The capacity to choose must include the act of choosing. How would I know if you had the capacity to eat? ...

I find the confidence-risk association best illustrated by the Dunning-Kruger effect. An incompetent person acts with confidence and that, in my humbl...

I know we can come at this from your angle but did you check my reply to Hedominimalist. I know you have a lot of valuable things to say on the matter...

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Maybe I exaggerated a bit when I said atheism is "dull and uninteresting" but if one samples media coverage, it's always either theism and its arch ri...

Believe it or not, my first serious engagement with the god issue was through atheism - I was bowled over by the likes of Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris an...

My two cents: Atheists have a lot to be angry about; after all they lack the security blanket of a sky-daddy who will, according to believers, set all...

Something I just realized, perhaps misunderstood: if free will exists then every path to the future must have an alternative. If there is only one rou...

The definition of fundamental disagreement really doesn't matter. I would like only for you to see that the differences you mention between moral trad...

I heard someone say "science is a wholly-owned subsidiary of materialism" and if that's true, it appears to be, then the immaterial world, if such exi...

Is being angry a fault at all times? I think there's such a thing as righteous anger.

I remember asking in the old forum, which has sadly collapsed, the following question: Why is it that a carnivore's teeth-baring snarl looks uncannily...

Dunning-Kruger effect?

Fundamental disagreements? Maybe you're right but let's look at the situation of one person killing another. A fundamental disagreement in my view wou...

You're right you know, moral rules have exceptions but don't forget rules come first and exceptions later by which I mean all attempts at formulating ...

Indeed there are differences among moral traditions - what is clearly murder in one culture may be defending the honor of the family in another. Howev...

I seek your opinion on the following: What does it mean to make a completely free choice with regard to free will? I mean, the way I seem to be sugges...

If one is influenced then one is not free even if one understands the influence. The essence of choice, itself the essence of free will, is not affirm...

I don't know if you would consider my version of free will as radical but it appears to me that if we are to call ourselves free then there should be ...

I want to run something by you for your opinion. You said that awareness of our wants and preferences give us freedom. Consider a little thought exper...

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The essence of what you've said can be expressed in the desire for freedom: awareness of factors that influence us are important insofar as we can res...

Can you tell me how we form beliefs that are not, in some way, tied to our wants?

Can we discuss the meaning of subjectivity? @"ChatteringMonkey" offers the following definition: and the lexical definition is "based on or influenced...

I agree but morality is subjective for it concerns happiness and joy and these are emotions, subjective. You can't hold numbers against math; math is ...

As it appears to me, sir/madam, you're straddling two worlds here - one that follows the rules of logic as it's been for thousands of years and one th...

Well, I didn't mean to say you think/claim that subjectivity is bad in any way for morality but you replied to my claim that moral convergence among v...

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Thank you very much for the reply. It does seem like beliefs matter for free will and there is evidence where a well-considered and accepted belief ru...

I think there's a general tendency to look down on subjectivity; it's seen as an impediment to its favored counterpart objectivity which is taken to b...

I can see how the devil may be omnimalevolent but so far I haven't heard of the devil being defined as omnipotent. Had the devil been defined as also ...

Ignorance and awareness have a role in the variety of choices of available and the effectiveness of our decisions but our decisions will still depend ...

I see what you mean. S9 would be the preferences we're born with that determines the course of our actions, S10. S8 would be the preferences for our p...

Sorry for the double post but I would like to mention one more point, if it is one. The issue here is free will and it's defined in terms of unimpeded...