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This just in: we're herbivores, animals are people too, God exists, and the universe can't exist without us.

Nicely said.

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Providing a bibliography is not helpful at all, I'm afraid. It actually makes me even more sceptical of what you're trying to flog. It's like you're w...

Well, it'll take more than your disagreement. The burden would be on you, not me, despite your lengthy post. You can't just cherry pick and make dubio...

Is your post a joke? You did say that your primary motive behind that monologue was merely to entertain yourself through writing and submitting a self...

But we talk normally, so... :meh:

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So does the actual meaning of the idiom, which is not so literal. :eyes:

You actually can't do any of that with sincerity, but we've had that argument before and I'm not in any rush to have it again.

I'll consider it at least.

No, we can't, because they just can't help themselves, it seems! They want to appeal to emotion through language, pictures, or changing the topic to s...

I never actually said anything about "existent moral facts" or your beliefs about them. But it is a moral issue, even if you think that it shouldn't b...

I was referring to his overall argument or stance, which would include posts like the one you were replying to - this one - as well as this one, which...

You're right, and I applaud you for even engaging with such an argument. I doubt whether I'd have the patience, or whether I'd see it as worth my time...

So much in so little! First of all, it doesn't have to be a claim of any type, which is important, because you begin by taking what you've put in quot...

Okay, but that's just semantics, it seems. I can say that I have a furry friend rather than a cat, but we'd still be talking about the same thing. Wha...

So you're taking a moral stance, and you have reasons, but you just deny what moral realists and other moral anti-realists assert about what that enta...

I am not a moral nihilist, although I can relate to the stance to some extent, as I think some of my comments indicate. I am not a moral nihilist, bec...

I don't know what I meant either. Do you have any idea, @"Sir2u"? :snicker:

Wouldn't have happened back in my day. I always made the management of badge stock my top priority. That's why I was fired.

But I'm a very special user, unlike most users. :gasp:

And what if one of my posts disappears for that reason and I do not notice? Are you going to check it regularly for fuck ups? Fix the problem? Switch ...

Okay, sure. But that's all rather meaningless on its own, without going into specifics about how it should guide our behaviour and why. That we're omn...

Don't worry, your secret is safe with me. Oh wait, we're on loudspeaker.

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Or in certain respects. That's the only way that it would make sense, so it's a charitable interpretation. I could have just replied that it makes no ...

The problem with your argument is that it connects truisms with one or more false premises. The less time that is spent on these distracting truisms w...

Who the heck, or what the heck, are "Peace Officers"? That's just a made up term, isn't it? What you have are police officers, and they keep coming up...

Wow. :monkey:

I know, right? That's crazy. And does she even realise that her slippery slope argument is a fallacy?

What a load of baloney! (I'm not referring to anything recently posted here in the Shoutbox, whether it is or isn't. I'm referring to something else. ...

What about hard virtue, soft virtue, red-white-and-blue virtue? Virtue means virtue.

What about it? I don't do religion, but I'll consider the part about "virtue". Some people probably wouldn't even do that in reaction to the "Islamic"...

I'll consider the "virtue", but you can keep your "Christian". Blasting someone like me with Christianity is not a very good tactic. Think of how lots...

In relation to the statement you made. And I'm replying that it isn't something which warrants such a generalisation. Nature can be a poor standard on...

It's worse than that, it's counterproductive, because you demonstrate time and again that you either can't accurately follow what I'm saying, or you'r...

Oops! Didn't realise that this discussion was started two years ago, and didn't realise that I had already made this point. (I thought it seemed famil...

That's a sweeping statement, don't you think?

Trying to butter us up. :grin:

It's comparing apples and oranges. One is literature on quantum physics, the other some sort of New Age pseudophilosophy. Kill it with fire. :fire:

Why? It's not. If a statement is true, then the truth is what the statement says. How is that mental? It isn't. A fact is, or corresponds with, the tr...

You're saying that judgements are mental, and I agree. But when I say that Usain Bolt is better than me at running the 100 metres, the judgement aspec...

They're not judgements, assessments, evaluations, etc., because they are part of what we judge, evaluate, assess, etc. Judgements, assessments, evalua...

You're not very good at following what I say. You suggest that I haven't read your argumentative points, or that I've said or implied that I haven't, ...

That's not how the title is worded. That's just one interpretation of it. I interpreted it differently. It's down to the person behind the title to cl...

I like to think that the correct way to interpret the title of this thread is not, "Is it Okay to Discuss Atlantis in the Lounge?", but rather, "Is it...

A point which did not need to be made.

Well, yes, that comes as no surprise, because you're one of those people who are more sympathetic to that sort of thing, and I'm one of those people w...