Ah, someone else who is giving off the impression that they've never heard of Hitchen's razor. Like for like is perfectly permissible. As for argument...
And you're completely wrong on all of those points. I'm not "choosing" to place myself somewhere on the scale, I'm making an honest assessment and rep...
You're either drifting off topic or making an illogical connection. The functioning of society has nothing to do with the point that I was making. Why...
Sure, that's true. Except when it isn't. And there's also a popular psychological mechanism to deny or underplay the darker side of our nature. Even t...
True as that might be, there's a trend in ethics to dismiss anything too different or radical as some kind of illness, even though they almost certain...
Trying to play psychologist, are you? I can do that too. You're just rationalising your own deep-seated aversion to confronting the dark side of our h...
Except that I'm autonomous and it is fully within my power to override whatever influence that the morality of society has over me. Do you think that ...
Whether it is uniquely mine or not, in the sense of whether or not it matches up to the moral judgements of others, is a difference which makes no dif...
But it doesn't matter that it's all but universal in terms of my morality, because that's not where my morality stems from. My morality has pride of p...
I'd just want the money. I wouldn't care about the moral status of the act. Not so different from other debates then. The key debate, as I see it, has...
This is just smoke and mirrors. It simply isn't universal. Full stop. Adding "for all intents and purposes" completely undermines your claim. We could...
Well, for a start, it wasn't clear to me what you were getting at, so why would you ask me that as though I actually knew exactly what you were gettin...
You of course realise that I have not committed to relativism in general, just moral relativism. Ironic indeed. We can swap around for this part if yo...
The distinction seems trivial, since a collective is made up of individuals. So what if lots of us have in common a moral judgement. The topic is meta...
Fantastic response. Bravo. Here's what I conclude: 1. You have no argument, or at least no valid argument. 2. You aren't willing to help yourself out ...
I know what your conclusion is. I was questioning this supposed argument you referenced. But I think that you need to go back and reconsider the expla...
I still don't agree that it muddies the waters. I think that you're throwing mud into the water and blaming it on the analogy. What supposed relevance...
You've been arguing it? Are you sure about that? So an argument from incredulity. You don't see how it is possible, so it's not possible. We've all tr...
Predictable, ain't he? Oh yes. And Tim has used all the tricks in the book! They might've worked on me if I hadn't taken the time to learn about logic...
There is a name for that. It's called a popular belief, and it does nothing to support moral objectivism. Boy, it turns out you were easy to convince....
It's round my mum's. And I'm too busy wallowing. Except I wallow differently. My wallowing involves making light of everything. It's my coping mechani...
That's alright, you carry on. I'll save the day as usual. No need for alarm, it's only a sinking ship. And no, you can forget "women and children firs...
No, he's not, because he is just playing a role to make a point which is actually trivial, which is why I'm glad I didn't go all out by throwing mysel...
Ah, but you are not just Noah, father of humankind. You are Noah Te Stroete, father of humankind who spends all day rolling around in a marsh. :snicke...
Alright then, fourteen-and-three-quarters. I had already made several related points. That quote just puts it in a way that hits home for many people....
Indeed. Not to mention that he's undermining his own "meaning is use" here! All he's really telling us is how he is using the word "thing". Do we all ...
Which really only says that it's contradictory as a result of his interpretation, which is his never-ending problem. And the obvious solution? Don't i...
Yes! And yet some people have said that analogies about meaning mislead. No, they can do, but then some people mislead themselves and blame it on the ...
And therefore shared meaning does not require understanding. He just shared his meaning through the expression of it in language, and yet I do not und...
Requires them in what sense, and for what? I hate problematic ambiguity like that. Especially when I've pointed out the problem before. Meaning is use...
Probably. That's what much of this philosophy stuff seems to boil down to. It's what I like to call the horse-cat problem. That is, when you're talkin...
It is. As Baden keeps saying all of the time, I am one of those cool and rebellious types, so a band like Nirvana is going to appeal to me. Even thoug...
I'm not making an outright attack on political correctness, but rather what I take to be where it goes wrong. I am against it when it is excessive or ...
Whoosh. I clearly wasn't accusing you of actually having that view. And of course, you have to get in on the act as well. I didn't go to sports. I bun...
It's not supposed to be a categorical bloody imperative. It wasn't just for fun. He was making a good point, and sometimes that requires being unconve...
I'm just trying to make sense of how you reached your conclusion. Better than you, it seems. That was only part of it. He has criticised her for sayin...
It is both. That it is also how you describe it in the second part of what you say above is not at all that it has nothing to do with political correc...
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