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Neither is the kind of thing that could be a rigid designator. Harm, in the sense you're using it, is a transient state. Immoral is an adjective. Usin...

Ok, but how would you answer the question?

How does the Holocaust being inherently evil show up in something I can sense? What would I see that tells me I'm in the world of inherent evil? What ...

If the US has left NATO it would make a little more sense. I think you missed our discussion about how the US congress has just passed a law to make i...

Why do you say that?

I think he's looking for a difference beyond those two things, though. Think of these two situations: Situation 1: The Holocaust was inherently evil. ...

I don't quite follow.

I think so, yes. So if you've found that murdering babies is immoral, you might read about the history of infanticide in a purely moral light.

There's this SEP article about deontic logic. There's some mention of possible worlds, but I think moral commitments come first. If P is the propositi...

It will all be over if Trump wins.

I don't know. You'd have to ask a Russian resident.

We've been through this already. I'm not going back through. :wink:

Probably not.

Apparently Putin has been fishing on back channels for a cease fire since practically the beginning of the invasion. He's still doing it, but in publi...

I wasn't offended. I was just joking. I figured it was some non-American weirdness.

:rage:

Doesn't Thailand have amazing street food?

I just bought a Toyota.

7-11 is owned by a Japanese company.

He despises Europe because he sees them as weak. He likes dictators because he respects them. The underlying reality is that the US was allied with Eu...

Everything about Trump is far fetched. :razz:

The US congress just passed legislation making it harder for a US president to withdraw from NATO. That kind of legislation doesn't usually work thoug...

The link between another Trump administration and a Russian invasion of Europe are also pretty clear. Neither Trump nor a large swath of the American ...

Most societies identify circumstances in which it's good to do physical and emotional injury. Plenty of moral codes identify actions as evil even if t...

Famous last words

Germans believe Russia will attack Europe if Trump is elected. :meh:

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True.

Exactly.

Read what you wrote as if you were talking about money. Money is a successful social technology. So is the legal apparatus that allows us to do rule o...

Great post. The question you point to is a philosophical challenge covered by global warming text books. The issue is that we don't have any experienc...

Or the p-zombie argument shows that we would need to expand the concept of physical in order to accommodate phenomenal consciousness. It also puts the...

Yes. Entities that do medical research take suggestions from the public, and I asked for that one: the effect of microplastics on the lungs.

There are all kinds of indwelling plastic medical devices. Plastic is ok. Your approach is kind of lacking in justification.

Why do you think microplastics are killing us?

You know, you could contribute to what it means if you had any thoughts about language other than irritation about what other people know about it. Fo...

It's not likely that humans will become extinct due to climate change. Could the present global system fall due to climate change? Sure. When exactly?...

The world is going to end in some sense no matter what we do. But toward the beginning of the thread Mikie warned that the earth will soon have a clim...

I agree. She's a sideshow.

If the topic is: the world's about to end, then denialism is fine. If it's: if you buy this type of lawnmower, you're being eco-friendly, then deniali...

It's been making excellent click bait for thousands of years. 'Course one of these days they're going to be right. :grin:

How would you explain the difference between logical and metaphysical possibility?

Definitely.

"Inflationists, such as David Chalmers (2002), hold “Modal Monism”, the view that there is only one modal notion or primitive, such that metaphysical ...

Logical and metaphysical possibility amount to the same thing. A thing is metaphysically possible if some god could make it so.

Do you think it's a hoax?

There are two different senses of consciousness. One is functional consciousness, such as the ability to sense and react to stimulus. The p-zombie has...

Some people just need to scream abusively at someone else. It doesn't really matter why. I guess that could be analyzed out as having to do with self-...

Is that your favorite card to play?

It depends on how you want to define knowledge. If it's just a matter of having access to justification for an assertion, or being able to demonstrate...