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I couldn't bear those content blocking ads, so I didn't look over the entire discussion, and I was unable to fully assess the situation. I briefly rea...

That's fine by me. That it's a truth matters more than your rejection of it. X-)

That's similar to the path that I chose, except that my job isn't as rewarding or ideal, although it does pay slightly more than the minimum wage. (An...

I agree. I never suggested otherwise. If you googled it, then the first bunch of results you would've seen would all define "disbelief" as the inabili...

:-d Would you rather dance around where our substantial disagreement lies than properly discuss it? You could start by making explicit those assumptio...

I'm claiming that it's a loaded question:

Ah, so he's chickened out. Better than making a fool of yourself, I suppose.

I take it you didn't google it, then?

Mine.

No, but you'd be going to cat hell, and would be constantly chased up trees, cough up fur balls, be irritated by fleas, and be forced to endure terrif...

That isn't the definition of disbelief. Google it. Or perhaps just contemplate how it's used.

No, it would only superficially appear that way. Loaded questions are a tactic used by sophists, and it wouldn't be wise to allow oneself to be tricke...

What I said wasn't about being part loyal, it was about being loyal to parts - only those parts which deserve your loyalty. I'm not merely talking abo...

But even if you had've found an atheist picketer, that wouldn't go against what I claimed. I agree with the correction in the picture, by the way. I f...

It's not ridiculous, it's obvious. You claimed that's it's ridiculous, so that's your burden. As for mine: /uploads/files/y3/znvg1hvvhhjh9895.jpg Spea...

Take your pick. Let's see you explain why, then.

No it's not. It can be a useful disguise for prejudice or a useful excuse for being a judgemental prig.

I think there are situations in which constructive criticism would not be enough: situations in which the right thing to do would be to retract or bre...

I can't remember a single one. X-) Do you think that the results reflect your moral priorities in the right order and proportion? I think it roughly d...

Please don't assume that I haven't already done so, or that that reply is at all helpful or productive.

There was no ploy. It's hardly a ploy if I said, explicitly and multiple times, that, in itself, it is neither one nor the other. That's the very defi...

Are you trolling me? In itself, yes, loyalty is amoral. But that didn't just happen now. I have been saying that since the start of our discussion. I ...

Why is fairness so low for you?

So, you're reading things into what I say, now? I spoke of reality involving loyalty as a vice, but that isn't the same as your careless misunderstand...

Quite many? Relative to what? So I needn't have said "perhaps", and I understated it. The claim that there are not quite so many relative to both athe...

I acknowledged it on both sides, actually. But it'd be dumb to assume that they've equivalent in terms of the quantity of people these theories respec...

I knew you'd say that. Perhaps not so many. It's definitely mythical, and definitely seems comforting in a shit load of cases, whether people care to ...

But why do you want to say something that has already been refuted in this discussion? No you haven't. Do you realise that repeating a bad argument do...

Sure, it can be construed in that way, but it'd be wrong in a lot of cases.

I agree with the gist of that. Reason plays a role in the morally conscientious - those who are morally conscious and strive to act morally - and diff...

It's a loaded question, so I'm not going to answer it with a "yes" or a "no". I read between the lines and decided instead to criticise the assumption...

It isn't a matter of taste, or what you would or wouldn't be on board with, or about matching reality to your ideals. That approach seems disingenuous...

I was only talking about pragmatics in the first place because you bloody brought it up! If we've strayed off course, it is you who has lead us there....

Wow, okay. We're polar opposites in that regard.

No, that wasn't clear to me, but I did suspect that you might go down that route. It's getting more and more absurd. Of course there can be loyalty to...

Don't you know about the fight or flight response? Don't you realise that there are some things that are outside of our control? Like what adrenaline ...

That's interesting. I agree insofar as whether or not it's family isn't what should be most important. But, for me at least, it's emotional connection...

If loyalty is inherently good, then it's good even when it's loyalty to something (or someone) bad. If it is inherently good, then it is good in itsel...

That's a shame. Your earlier statement made more sense and was more agreeable. Loyalty being good even when it's loyalty to something (or someone) bad...

What do you mean? That if you're loyal to the good, then the good will be loyal to you? That makes sense to me if we're talking about people, rather t...

What do you think you illustrated? Because it looked to me like you basically just resorted to a bit of name calling ("scum", "good for nothing"), men...

The sequence of events, repeatability, observing what happens in the absence of such a trigger, what we know about human nature - specifically about h...

Most obviously, it wouldn't have happened otherwise, or at least without a similar trigger, such as a noise which sounds like a gunshot.

I said that you're wilfully ignoring it as a factor, which is how I interpret your second sentence. Your first sentence doesn't reflect my criticism o...

Because I acknowledge the other factors, like the ones you mentioned.

Yes, I know. I think that that's absurd. That is to cherry pick only those factors which are consistent with your stance, and wilfully ignore others.

Ah, okay. Perhaps you are more liberal than me, then.

Okay. I don't know the questions or how you answered, so I can't judge for myself at present. But if you're in favour of absolute freedom of speech, t...

That thumb's pointing in the wrong direction. What I said to Agustino about a quality being virtuous only if it is balanced and put to good use also a...

Your score for liberty: >:O