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No, and that's probably just flatulence. But it's easy to confuse the two - especially if you've had a few too many.

Makes me look back fondly to that time when that guy with a name like Borat purchased a forum at an extortionate price and then we all fucked off. Wha...

Who will forgive the sins of God?

Purple!

You should be careful who you dish out kudos to. It might go to their head. :D

I'm quite certain I don't come across as humble or open-minded as that, but I nevertheless don't go as far as ruling that out.

Is that what you consider just being an asshole to be? I wouldn't use quite so inflammatory language. I agree with Reformed Nihilist that they're not ...

That's brilliant! (Y)

What a surprise! Nothing I contributed made the cut. Okay, that's true of mine, although the suggestion was that it is especially good advice when it ...

You could say: "You're right. I was wrong to hastily rush to the judgement that he was just calling me an asshole".

It's not about being unlikeable. I've recently been called snotty and a bully. It's that what he said deserved a better reply, in my assessment.

Well, if you react like this...

Gasp! I know, I went off script.

Did you presume that I was unaware of what was said in the quote? Even though I quoted it myself? I thought that it was nevertheless consistent with w...

I don't think that that's enough to conclude that we live on a barbaric planet, rather than a planet which contains barbarism, as the barbaric aspects...

You asked for it, here it is: a logical refutation. You've clearly contradicted yourself. I've caught you red handed. I generally make logical argumen...

No, that's metaethics, which has to do with the analysis of morality. :-} I did compare like with like. One says that moral distinctions derive from t...

To make much ado about "spirituality" is to construct for oneself an ivory tower, paradoxically, made largely out of thin air, from which to look down...

Stuff like this: I find misguided. Wheras stuff like this: I find a better approach.

Hume can't be reduced to a mere character in one of Plato's dialogues, and his analysis just makes more sense to me, and is more reflective of reality...

I have read Plato, you pompous toad.

What Plato wrote about ethics and politics is interesting, and these are of course important subjects, but I don't agree with a lot of it, and think t...

Because science and logic are important, and Plato chose instead to make an allegory about a cave, and talk about abstractions.

I edited my reply to specify that it wasn't so much the criticism, but the example you gave. The great wealth of his significance is not about what he...

You have some points about Hume, but the example you give in your criticism of Marx is petty and fails to see the wood for the trees. As for Bacon, he...

Only okay?! If I had to narrow it down even further, he'd be in the top three, as would Marx, who you think is terrible, if I've understood you correc...

What do you mean "once again"? Amusingly, in some respects, you've done the work for me, and I need only point out that this goes against your own ear...

Probably because a lot of it is repetitive and makes the same mistakes. People tend to get tired of that.

No, not always. Why would I agree to that, given that I presented counterexamples? But in many cases, yes, they're quite clearly immoral.

That's not true. Lots of caring people on this planet want to reproduce, and lots do. But it isn't accurate to say that we live on a barbaric planet. ...

I thought I was clear. No, utopia in itself is not what I consider to be nonsense. Nor ideals. Whether a particular conception of utopia or a particul...

Narrowed down version that's now on my profile: The Stoics, Hume, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, G. E. Moore, Wittgenstein.

I'm a little confused about what's supposed to correspond to what, given that I mentioned fifteen and your reply addresses only fourteen.

He's back! Or at least he was a day ago. And he's still doing that "thought/belief" thing.

Terrible list. At least it doesn't contain Hegel or Heidegger. The list to pick from is as follows: Socrates, the cynics, the skeptics, the stoics, Fr...

If that's what I had meant, then that's what I would have said. But I didn't. I said that my position is grounded in reality, and I said that in a con...

You are stuck on nonsense mode, it seems. I don't care about your hypothetical which has no basis in reality. There's enough error in what you're doin...

My answer to that question won't change anything. Again, calling it a contingency measure is misleading. What would be the alternative? It wouldn't be...

No. X-)

He has an agenda and is cherry picking, like you.

This forum is a testing ground. It's a place for people to test bad arguments, which have been shown to be bad arguments, in the expectation that they...

No, I'd define it differently, in a way which makes more sense, like as being in a situation where you feel you have no choice, because other options ...

Exactly. That's more or less what I've been saying.

Then you're crazy, like the person who'd have no qualms about joining those people enjoying the picnic instead of trying to help the drowning person.

Not true without qualification. In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't. Rather, it can be.

Agreed.

That's not true. We have some idea of what they'd likely be based on what we know about the average person. The average person isn't an anti-natalist....

No. It's misleading to call it a last resort if the other options were never really options at all. I didn't decide on getting a cat only after I'd ex...

Maybe. I know it isn't 9, because 789.