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Did you get any electric ones? Did you know EV stands for "electrified vehicle?"

If you want a Toyota you better buy it now. The yen is surging.

Nobody is ever truly alone. You have yourself.

Well, I eventually decided that I would have heard of it if it was.

The first person I met who had it all the time was German, and there's a German movie where you're hearing the inner voice of each person the camera t...

I can if I want to. It's an odd sensation to turn it off and be aware that you're not letting it start again. It's like floating.

Honesty often makes you vulnerable. It takes some inner strength to embrace that vulnerability, and that's related to your values. For instance, if yo...

I don't either.

Moral anti-realists may also claim that moral statements are truth-apt, so what you have left to distinguish your take on moral realism is that it say...

This is the most genius statement anyone has ever made. Holy shit, the depth of reasoning, the boldness of nonlinearity. Magical.

So we're dispensing with talk of the T-sentence and directions of fit, right? We're now directly addressing this argument for moral realism: 1. premis...

I think what you need to carry this through to what is commonly imagined as moral realism is the correspondence theory of truth. Attempts to bypass th...

That sounds really interesting. It'll be cool to see what they come up with.

I think the philosophy bug is something you're born with anyway. There are a number of philosophical problems in the realm of engineering. If engineer...

It sounds like you have an inferiority complex about engineering.

I think it's a sure bet that this will happen, and it doesn't appear that the US is going to tolerate Israeli occupation of Gaza. I don't believe Isra...

You shouldn't have more than one disaster coordinator. You need one voice in command. Absolutely.

I guess they're saying moral ought statements are true because we say they're true.

I don't think so. With this one, the pathogen was airborne. They gave maintenance the job of making every ICU room a negative-pressure room (to vent t...

Right. And word-to-world is what we'd need for moral realism. World-to-word moral truth would just be saying X is wrong because we say it's wrong. Tha...

I wasn't being political. I work in a hospital. I saw what happened. Probably not. Americans don't give a flip.

Covid pushed the American healthcare system a little beyond its capacity, in some places worse than in others, but everywhere, hospitals converted to ...

I think with most Neoplatonism, the divine intellect (of which the human intellect is supposed to be a reflection) is associated with goodness. Evil i...

Given the destructive nature of humans, it does seem to some that human extinction would be a great good.

How would an ethical intuitionist say moral truths exist? I'm somewhat familiar with Neoplatonism. Christianity absorbed it.

Like what? Imagine there's a spectrum. On one end is the extreme moral realist view. On the other is the extreme anti-realist. Most of us swing betwee...

Zebras have black skin

So they did so much damage because it was a surprise attack.

I wasn't playing devil's advocate. I was just saying that religion is the only legit moral realism. I think what you're saying is that religion doesn'...

I'm a moral nihilist. I think moral realism is an aspect of our cultural heritage, specifically religion.

Is there an argument for the bolded part? It sounds like you're saying that part of God is greater than God. That doesn't make much sense. The idea is...

If you accept moral realism, it's not because of any argument. It's just built in to your assumptions about the world. There is no good argument for m...

They say the same thing about realists. I mentioned this earlier. It's a matter of taste.

Deflationists agree.

Sure. I don't think that flexibility gets us any closer to an argument for moral realism, though.

Ok, core all the apples and cut them into quarters. You can leave the peel on the cooked apples. It's good that way.

Cut a sweet potato into quarters and core some apples. Steam them for 10 minutes, take the skin off the sweet potatoes, and add honey, raisins, craisi...

I recently finished reading some Kripke and he used "fact" to refer to some detectable feature of the world. Sentences and utterances are definitely d...

Tolstoy was a giant Schopenhauer fan. He's awesome.

Weren't you agreeing that morality doesn't tell us anything about the way the world is? That's what Banno had said in the quote you posted. A fact is ...

I think you and Banno are agreeing that there are no moral facts. I love Fear and Trembling, btw.

The time honored perspective is that we know there are moral facts because of God, and they exist in God's nature, and we discover them in the Bible. ...

I have no idea what you're talking about. We were talking about human shields.

You're not? You're not sure 5000 missiles warrants military action, but you're sure rape does? I think you're just messing with me. The rapes were cot...

Can you give me all the data that was available to Israeli intelligence that day? I'll meet you in the war room and we'll figure it out.

I didn't think I needed an argument. Hamas fired 5000 missiles at Israel. That is why Israel retaliated. That is why the west, with Joe Biden in the l...

That's just ridiculous. Sure. Hitler's Mein Kampf, on the other hand, is very well thought through and supremely reasonable. He was just trying to def...

We do. We're just sharing our views on ethics. One way we pick up on our own pathological biases is by listening to each other, for instance, I tell y...

You were earlier indicating that you reserve the right to work out the moral solution to a thought experiment, but now you say it's beyond you and we ...