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I do not find rashness, stubbornness and servility to be endearing qualities.

It implies something about us. We naturally try to connect the dots, and that sometimes leads us to mistake our own creation for a discovery. I can un...

But that's not right. What we know about rooms and the content of rooms and people and the world has relevance. That's called cherry picking, and is a...

No, I think that that's reading too much into it. The world is a set, and it isn't unusual to talk of sets containing contents, although I'm not commi...

Because we have much more reason to believe that a room is tidy because someone cleaned it than that the universe has order because it was created by ...

Because the cases aren't sufficiently alike, and that has been brought to your attention. That's not true. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've also se...

Why are you so fond of asking loaded questions?

Then you're not being honest. See, that's what I was talking about. That's the controversial assumption: that in both cases, it's a well-established r...

I want to know why you aren't satisfied with the answers already given, both here and elsewhere.

Why don't you think this has already been answered?

Sure. Do you deny that it was? Are you saying there was no controversial assumption behind asking the question? It wasn't set up like a a trap so that...

Simple and loaded.

Magnets. Therefore God.

You're right, the latter doesn't disprove the former, but it does mean that it's not an instance of the pooh-pooh informal fallacy, which is a rhetori...

Except that I didn't just leave it at that, but went on to address the little substance that was there. So you've quoted me out of context.

Until he became more poodle than man. And we have another poodle in May.

Not if you value reason as much as me. Besides, it's not even a choice. I'd have to be brainwashed.

I don't need to prove the antithesis or speculate, and my preference or what I find satisfying is not relevant. Wild speculation is fair game for ridi...

And I hypothesise the universe only continues to exist as a result of a flock of invisible flying giraffes with special powers. Clearly it's no use tr...

That's a good reason not to do so.

You keep suggesting false dichotomies. This time it's either speculation or proof, with nothing in between. Why speculate that there's a God? Why spec...

And I hypothesise the universe is contained in a gigantic fish bowl. You'd need to actually give a good enough reason to favour your hypothesis over c...

Are you trolling or...? I don't care if speculation is good enough for you. It's not good enough for any reasonable person. And you seem to have pulle...

It's more than mocking. It's a case in point of why having a hypothesis is not in itself good enough grounds for anything other than speculation. The ...

And I hypothesise the moon is made of cheese.

Fine, but that doesn't excuse you from evading my two-part question. What does it mean to say that order is a function of cause and effect, and how do...

You seem like a novice with regards to logic. One could reorder the above to make a valid argument as follows: There is cause and effect in the univer...

I'm not sure what you mean or why you think it'd be misleading. Can you clarify?

For distinguishing more precisely. It still comes under art.

Because it encompasses more than that. Art can be the activity or process directed at producing artwork. And that involves more than the end product. ...

What art is is not limited to artwork, just as what morality is is not limited to moral judgement. No, it's not a slippery slope. The boundaries are j...

You're talking about art in a different sense, so that's equivocation. You're talking about artwork. I was talking about what art must involve in orde...

No, that's what moral judgement is. Morality has a broader meaning, and that is evident from the way in which we talk about it. That's not a claim tha...

Yes, although my point was more that it depends on things other than what Terrapin wants to focus on.

I agree that "universe" is a better word to use, although not for the same reason, but because "world" often means less than the universe: specificall...

You're the one who keeps trying to reduce what we're talking about to moral judgements, not me. Perhaps you should ask yourself why. Is it because it'...

My point was simply that they're not entirely irrelevant. They're irrelevant in ways other than what I had in mind. Totalitarianism, slavery, segregat...

That doesn't seem right to me, but I'd have to look further into it. Not just that. I'm talking about the bigger picture, and whether it would or woul...

I don't think it's the concept, I think it's just that some people talk nonsense about it.

Only the "what it's like" of perception is subjective, and perception is much more than that. Morality without brains doing what they do in the releva...

He should apologise for the damage he has done to his own party, as recently as the election: his attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, his urging of voters to vo...

What a despicable weasel, what a nuisance, what a thorn in Labour's side.

No, I reject your definition. Brain functionality is objective. It is a fact that the brain functions in this way or that, regardless of whether or no...

You've changed the subject. We began by talking about right or wrong aspects, and about morality, and you've changed that to ethical judgements. The j...

That's crazy talk. He drew massive crowds, was far more energised than May, and defied expectations. May was dull, reserved and robotic. May would hav...

Yes. Fucking a pig head is one thing, but eating babies is a red line.

I do miss Cameron's humour in PMQs, but eating babies is wrong.

That wasn't part of their manifesto.

I've seen quite a few political commentators who have expressed the view that this is one of the things that the election result has shown. May wanted...

We aren't talking about a being, we're talking about the world, and the world is not a being. That's another example of the category error I've been t...