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You assume far too much. That I'm an atheist doesn't entail half of what you said. It simply means that I don't believe that God exists. There isn't a...

Oh my god. Whatevs.

What still holds? The distinction between good and bad? I never denied that distinction, nor did I intend to "blur" or "narrow" it. Your reply seems e...

It seems fairly obvious to me that knowing things, even everything, and even how to be good, doesn't guarantee actually being good.

I'm watching you.

Your line of reasoning is based on a straw man. The argument isn't that it's inescapable and therefore acceptable or good. The argument is that it's g...

You shouldn't think that, because we're both right. I certainly didn't mean to rule out your answer, which I took for granted. I was thinking about th...

Worse than Theresa's? :snicker:

Not true. Right. I don't think so. To the extent that it's convincing or otherwise compelling. There's that old saying that knowledge is power.

Just stole a nicely aged hardback copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from a restaurant. Win. Love the irony of stealing a book on ethics.

I'm loving the purple, by the way. :up:

Is this my punishment for telling jamalrob to fuck off? :lol:

Son of a... :lol:

The People's Philosophy Forum. Needs a hammer and sickle.

Yeah well, I'm human, aren't I? All too human.

Yes, exactly.

Well, for me, I almost can't help but want to reason with people in situations like that. I find it hard to move on. That's partly why banning me from...

How annoying. They deleted my explanation for why exchanges like the following end in failure: They end in failure because they start with the charita...

The green is better. :up: I vote for this.

Yes. And in the context of an ethical discussion about what's right or wrong, or what is or isn't a problem, the resolution to the issue of someone sp...

I don't like it. It's too dull. Change it back.

Do I just go here and follow the instructions?

Well I'll be damned. Next they'll be wantin' to take away our slaves! I'll go to war before that happens!

I didn't. I had a million dollars.

A million dollars, my cat, and my favourite pair of socks.

Oh, okay then. No problem. Send me the link and I'll put everything I have in my bank account into a crow over this stupid argument on a philosophy fo...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Yeah, okay then. Go ahead and make all the arrangements. I'll send you the 10k US I don't even have, and we'll fly out to Austral...

You're being very childish, you know.

Very funny. Anyway, I told you that I don't bet my real money against people online. Do you understand what that statement means?

That's absolutely hilarious. There are lots and lots of people who outright refuse to bet their real money in response to people who goad them to do s...

Lol, I don't bet my real money with people online. Full stop. The rest is irrelevant.

Yeah, metaphorically, I'd wager against you, so long as you didn't skew the set up. But no, if you actually want real money from me, on ya bike.

:brow: Har har. No, I meant that I don't believe your account. I don't believe that a good argument would convince you. That's kind of what I meant by...

I guess, quite ridiculously, because I used the term, "fucked up". Either that or it was the automatic filter. I guess I shouldn't have called your fu...

No, I don't believe that. I think that you're just immune. And part of your immunity is not recognising good arguments. You just see it as that none h...

Just because people who think that the correct answer to the question of what one plus one equals is two, also most likely have related normative beli...

Have you noticed that you're the only one who has this problem? It's a problem that you've invented. It's not a problem now, and it never was a proble...

Source

Use your imagination. You say that I don't give straightforward answers, but the reason I do that is because I think that you ask questions without th...

Saying things that there's no way in hell that you actually believe, like that you don't know whether or not I believe that I'm on the moon, and that ...

Yes. Just last week. Some jerks complained about me being a jerk.

I believe that you believe that. And creativesoul believes that he's onto something with his "thought/belief" stuff. But you're both going off-the-wal...

Performative contradiction. You're usually very consistent in what you say, and at a heavy cost.

That was a reference to your very last line. Pushing my luck with my use of inflammatory language.

No, you only think that it does, but you can't distinguish reality from your own wishful thinking. You obviously see your policy proposal as faultless...

So? Actions speak louder than words. If you cared, or at least cared enough, then that would be reflected in your policy proposals regarding the law. ...

I would, but I'm pushing my luck as it is.

Well it's hardly surprising that you wouldn't agree with it. There aren't many people who would readily agree with a description of their ethical stan...

I didn't bloody say that it's what you said, did I? I was talking about you, not trying to represent your position from your own perspective.

He has just completely got the wrong end of the stick, and that's all there is to it, and it's really annoying that I should have to explain myself be...