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In: Morality  — view comment
Ha! More than I already have been?!? Good god, man. Learn to help yourself.
April 02, 2019 at 04:04
In: Morality  — view comment
We're still waiting. And if we stick around, we'll still just be waiting and waiting and waiting... It has become clear that your psychological mechan...
April 02, 2019 at 03:55
In: Morality  — view comment
I have done so already. You want me to highlight it for you? Okay, but don't take the piss. My patience is limited. That's big problem number one. Tha...
April 02, 2019 at 03:30
In: Morality  — view comment
Any arguable problem with what I present as a possible resolution involving interpretation is vastly overshadowed by your problem which results from a...
April 02, 2019 at 03:25
In: Morality  — view comment
I am not trying to interpret the statements in accordance with moral objectivism, even under the assumption that that's what most people mean. I am tr...
April 02, 2019 at 03:04
In: Morality  — view comment
Allow me to explain the problem. What do you think conflicting statements are? I think that you think of the following, for example: "Abortion is mora...
April 02, 2019 at 02:11
In: Morality  — view comment
Ouch. Oh boy, that is one hell of a wasted decade. :grimace:
April 02, 2019 at 01:44
In: Morality  — view comment
Both of the positions you describe are equally simplistic, and my position seems like the obvious synthesis: a) Morality is relative to the individual...
April 02, 2019 at 01:01
In: Morality  — view comment
It doesn't matter to me that your personal vision is shared by others or is influenced to some extent by the community in the context of what I'm gett...
April 02, 2019 at 00:20
In: Morality  — view comment
And...? You're not really saying anything ethically relevant until you add, "And this is good!", and that would be a subjective moral judgement from a...
April 01, 2019 at 23:30
In: Morality  — view comment
@"Janus", by the way, you haven't answered the following: What's your answer?
April 01, 2019 at 23:13
In: Morality  — view comment
Straw man alert! I said nothing whatsoever about surviving without the community. Try again. I said "strong-minded individual", not "isolated hermit" ...
April 01, 2019 at 22:51
In: Morality  — view comment
It's obviously your personal vision. It's a vision, and it's coming from you personally. I don't even think that this discussion is about that sort of...
April 01, 2019 at 22:24
In: Morality  — view comment
Yes, I accept that that's your own personal romantic vision of an ideal end towards which morality should be directed. But that's all it is, and you c...
April 01, 2019 at 22:14
In: Morality  — view comment
Community schcommunity. My flourishing is more important to me than the flourishing of the herd. I am a strong-minded individual, not a sheep. Herd-mo...
April 01, 2019 at 22:08
In: Morality  — view comment
And I never said that individuals can be totally separate from communities in which they participate. That's the kind of straw man that I've actively ...
April 01, 2019 at 21:50
In: Morality  — view comment
You say that morality is relative to the community. I say, no, it isn't. A morality is relative to the community, and that morality is called herd-mor...
April 01, 2019 at 21:46
In: Morality  — view comment
Morality as herd-morality is easily lead to problems.
April 01, 2019 at 21:42
In: Morality  — view comment
The great irony in what you say there is that it is itself nothing other than an expression of your own individual judgement on what morality should b...
April 01, 2019 at 21:36
In: Brexit  — view comment
No, it's not basically a tie. That's just how you want to spin it. There isn't a winning side and a losing side in a tie, so it can't be a tie, "basic...
April 01, 2019 at 21:26
In: Brexit  — view comment
Yes, I browsed over your link. It was simplistic, I'll grant you that much. For instance, it starts with an obvious and irrelevant fact which you get ...
April 01, 2019 at 21:16
But I'm the doctor, remember?
April 01, 2019 at 21:01
If I paint a gherkin brown, and pretend that it authentically tastes like a Mars Bar, then is it okay if I murder Wallows in his sleep?
April 01, 2019 at 20:58
I knew you were up to something. :shade:
April 01, 2019 at 20:54
In: Morality  — view comment
Sorry, Tim (nice, but...) , I can think of better things to do than to try to squeeze substance out of a post which contains none.
April 01, 2019 at 20:50
In: Morality  — view comment
When, if ever, do either of you intend to attempt to support any of that? After 100 pages? 200? 500? Do you understand that there's a big difference b...
April 01, 2019 at 18:46
In: Brexit  — view comment
If 1,269,501 people turned up at your house, would you think that significant? Yes, you most certainly would. That's over a million people. That's how...
April 01, 2019 at 18:07
In: Morality  — view comment
No. Again, you can't just assert without argument that a disputed claim is true. And trying to shift your burden on to me or change the subject is fal...
April 01, 2019 at 17:39
It's just a giant distraction technique, isn't it? And so many of the mindless masses lap it up. It's classic divide and rule.
April 01, 2019 at 14:08
In: Morality  — view comment
And the award for understatement of the century goes to...
April 01, 2019 at 13:46
In: Morality  — view comment
Nope, that's still not even a valid argument. It's not as though you've had 57 pages to produce one or anything... And once again, you succeed in demo...
April 01, 2019 at 08:23
In: Morality  — view comment
But none of that addresses the topic. The topic is about morality itself, making this discussion a meta-ethical discussion. What you said is consisten...
April 01, 2019 at 08:20
In: Morality  — view comment
No, obviously I don't agree. That's basically asserting without argument that moral relativism is not about right or wrong, and then asking a moral re...
April 01, 2019 at 08:09
In: Morality  — view comment
Wait, how did we end up on this tangent? Why must every discussion be steered in this direction? What's the relevance to morality? Shouldn't a discuss...
April 01, 2019 at 03:05
Because psychology is about far more than intelligence. One can be far from a moron, yet driven to behave in a certain way due to some psychological m...
April 01, 2019 at 02:43
In: Morality  — view comment
Yes, I think so. I wouldn't call that thought or belief, and I also don't agree with the part about perceiving a computer as a computer, because I wou...
April 01, 2019 at 02:02
In: Morality  — view comment
What in the...? He was talking about sensory perception. Where did you get rationality from?
April 01, 2019 at 01:17
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
That's a mixture of fact and poorly considered opinion. Opinion which is not just ignorant, but condemnable. I don't know what your true purpose with ...
April 01, 2019 at 00:47
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
It's just another hasty generalisation, influenced by a harmful stereotype which you're choosing to spread.
April 01, 2019 at 00:38
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
Something? It doesn't prove what you seem to want it to. You're not being a scientist, and this is a matter for science. If you're genuinely intereste...
April 01, 2019 at 00:34
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
So then why didn't you say that to begin with? Why say that you've never heard of it, and then climb down to it being really rare? Who cares? Stop try...
April 01, 2019 at 00:28
In: Semper Fi  — view comment
Really now? You've never heard of mothers abandoning their duty towards their own children, unless we're talking about crackheads, opiate addicts, and...
April 01, 2019 at 00:17
Pfft, nope. And I don't usually get that from it either, but it was partly the setting, I think. The rest of the night was pretty ecstatic though.
April 01, 2019 at 00:01
Tanks a-million.
March 31, 2019 at 23:57
Alright, fine, but apologising is a sign of weakness, so this will have to do. Unless you want some ecstasy. I still have some left. But you'll have t...
March 31, 2019 at 23:53
Not as paranoid as when I was on ecstasy in that pub the other night and thought the bar staff were trying to trick me. Funny 'cause true.
March 31, 2019 at 23:48
A donkey is a goat, so if everything can be a goat, then everything can be a donkey.
March 31, 2019 at 23:38
Excepting a permissible degree for sake of comedy.
March 31, 2019 at 23:37
Same difference, though, ultimately.
March 31, 2019 at 23:35
What do you mean? I don't know where you could've gotten that impression from. I'm always deadly serious...
March 31, 2019 at 23:33