Dan

There's a difference between being praiseworthy and being good though. A consequentialist might consistently say that an action is morally bad but we ...

I mean, it is consequentialism, so people's motivations for their actions don't really come into it, just the consequences. I'm afraid I haven't read ...

that's more an example of not knowing that not caring though, don't you think?

the saving and the raping are two separate actions though. One is good, the other bad. Those examples don't coerce with a threat to reduce one's moral...

I object to "for free". Ditto with "bait". I would say instead that I'm incentizing.

I mean, I have been making a sincere effort to reply to people, I'm simply pointing out that things are likely to slip through the cracks and that che...

I agree that it needs more clarifying than that, which is why I provided a document doing just that. That document also had deeper thought put into wo...

as well as saying again that questions are best addressed to the email address provided as I won't be able to stay on top of every avenue they come th...

I'm really glad people are interested, but I will remind you that there is an email address set up for questions and potential solutions because I sen...

Yes, there is very much an underlying assumption of moral objectivism, among several others which I have helpfully detailed in the primer provided.

I think you may have read me a lot more paternalistic than I intended. No, so long as the person is not giving up their freedom unwittingly (such as i...

The prize money will be reassessed yearly, so you currently have 364 days until this is reassessed. Or until someone else solves it first.

I'm happy to shout it from the rooftops or keep it all to myself depending on what the hypothetical winner wants. It makes no odds to me at all. Yeah,...

That would be a shame, but it would be a sort of solution. Depending on how thoroughly it was proved and what assumptions the proof relied on, it coul...

Thanks

Well I'm glad your computer didn't blow up. I could boil the problem down to "how do we resolve conflicts between the freedom of different persons ove...

Terrapin: Yes it would be fair to say that I am addressing the philosophical tradition of libertarianism rather than any political party in the U.S. Y...

Mongrel: I would classify freedom as the ability of a person to understand and make decisions and the morally relevant kind of freedom as that over on...

The sentence before it. If what is morally valuable is the protection of person's freedom then what is wrong with both of those acts is that they viol...

Unenlightened: You have offered a false dichotomy in saying that property exists either by agreement or in a simple you own what you can defend kind o...

Wow, looks like lots of people are joining in on the feedback. Thanks. Bitter crank: The problem with the social contract is that it doesn't exist. We...

Barry: Yes I noticed that too, but don't worry about it too much. He provided a lot of feedback which is what I was asking for. Bitter Crank: Thanks f...

I understood what you meant in the case of the ghost. Even if the ghost cannot be perceived in principle, it may still exist. This is not incoherent. ...

I am not sure what you mean by this. I completely agree that the way persons ought to act is different from the way they do act. However, one can only...

It is not only humans that are morally relevant. Any kind of person, be they human or not, surely matters just as much. It is not our humanity that ma...

Are you sure you aren't considering human nature, rather than the nature of personhood? No, the fact that we cannot directly perceive something does n...

The thing about objective reality is that it exists with or without us. Even with no one around to perceive it, the world just keeps on existing. The ...

I am interested in the true philosophy, but everyone thinks the philosophical theories they believe in are true, that's why they believe in them. Clai...

Bitter Crank: First let me say thank you for reading my work and providing your thoughts. The issue about freedom over one's own mind is something I w...

I could give it a go. I was worried it would lead to a lot of feedback that was already covered in the body of the thesis. But sure, here goes nothing...