My original point was that swimming with sharks, as opposed to not swimming with sharks, for example, might not be in one's best interests. And that, ...
I can raise a reductio ad absurdum against the alternative. If it isn't, then examples like the one that I provided wouldn't make any sense. But they ...
Well, for starters, they each have distinct and inequivalent meanings. Moreover, if it is possible for one's best interests to not always correspond t...
I believe that there are some pretty clearcut cases where prioritising preference over what's in one's best interests is more likely to lead to worse ...
What? How so? I applied the same form of argument as you did in a different context in order to show that it's a poor basis for reaching a decision, a...
Ah, that old chestnut. They are relative terms. And in this case, I'm talking about what is in the best/worst interests of you or of society, as oppos...
So, not only did you make the worst possible decision, you did so on shaky grounds. Is that supposed to be a defence? If I can't stand waters that are...
No it ain't. Don't kid yourself. Trump has said he will significantly cut corporation tax, and, according to analysis, his plans would mean that the t...
I think that that is the worst decision that someone in your circumstances - someone who has socialist views, and views with much in common with those...
No, yet again, you have misunderstood. That is one of the reasons why I just can't bear to continue this discussion with you. So, please, don't tempt ...
If WI, AZ, and NH go to Trump - and he's in the lead in each of those states - then he'll be on 269, and will need just 1 more vote to win, which he'd...
Holy shit. The tables have turned. These analyses they're making on BBC News are saying that it's going to be difficult for Hillary Clinton to win - w...
Or, if one wants to see a supporter of conservative legislation and conservative nominations on the Supreme Court, but one thinks that Trump's flaws a...
It was perhaps unwise of you to challenge me in this way, because, unlike you, I have been paying close attention to what my interlocutor has been say...
It's not just an accusation though, and I challenge you to show otherwise. I haven't even had much reason to accuse anyone of committing that fallacy ...
If they act like someone who believes that scientific theories are true, then that is reason to doubt their professed absence of belief. How do people...
You said, only a few pages back, that you "think the issue is whether or not there is an absolute good, not exactly what such a good would be". I have...
There is a difference between consequentialism and the fallacy of appealing to the consequences. Consequentialism is a normative ethical theory for de...
There might still be a conflict of a different kind: between professed belief/disbelief and behavioural expectation. In other words, there might be a ...
No, that isn't what really matters. It doesn't really matter if it can't be knowingly applied, and it can't be knowingly applied if all you know is th...
Please link me in when replying, so that I'm notified of your reply. This can be done a number of ways: by highlighting the text that you want to quot...
As explanations, they are in conflict. As beliefs, they would also be in conflict. But if one is merely using one of the explanations for some other p...
If you deny the possibility that we could discover higher goods, in light of the discovery of this highest good, then that can only reasonably mean th...
You mean like you have done, when, for example, you poisoned the well in the middle of an ongoing discussion? I should have deleted that one, actually...
Oh my god... fools! That is about as wise as cutting off your nose to spite your face. (And I know a thing or two about wisdom. ;)) Bernie himself sup...
You should definitely go for either Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, or Tiki Wiki, because they have the most amusing names. Or Shpleeple, which is one I just ...
Can you give an example? Do you think that Dawkins has done this? I'm interested in whether you think that Dawkins has done this. Like I mentioned, I ...
Yep. That's the right way to word it, as well as the right approach. If you want more than that, then you'll have to provide stronger grounds. @"mcdoo...
Who? Me? Oh, I've read them all. They all just love talking about something which doesn't exist. Almost as much as religious folks. Except that in the...
@"Michael" You helped convince me to buy Life Is Strange, and it really ain't that great a game - although I'm still only part way through. The story ...
Nowhere near as interesting as a bio of her namesake and predecessor, but it might be worth a watch. Unfortunately, I don't have Netflix, and I ain't ...
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