So what exactly is wrong with that opinion, you're sounding frighteningly like you're saying that some opinions just aren't allowed, those pesky 'othe...
Its really not that complicated. 1. When we talk about an object causing something we do not imbue it with intent. This is not an argumentative trick,...
From the Collins dictionary - "Religion - A belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s)...
So which of the major religions don't have a set of instructions which you must follow otherwise you'll be punished? I'm no theologian, but I'm pretty...
So say, I set up a cult which had a s its central tenets, opposition to slavery, the sanctity of free speech and the fact that the earth was hit by a ...
Of course, because Mark Zuckerberg is getting a bit strapped for cash, I hear he's having trouble gold-plating his fifth yaught, so let's all haul ove...
Have you ever seen that trick where one person goes out into the street and points up at something, soon they have all the passers-by looking up to th...
No (did you guess?), because I started out not believing in one and no one has told me otherwise who I haven't found very good reason to doubt. I didn...
I see your faith in the American dream is as unshakeable as your faith in the church, it was a mistake to bother discussing the matter. If you really ...
You said "honesty is important in business success" and "but by all means, these are not the majority, nor are they the most successful businesses." S...
Evidence 1. Deceptive financial practices. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Citibank $700 million for the deceptive marketing of credit ...
No, my view of scripture is a literal one, to conclude that it is a caricature requires there to be some objective reason why scripture is not to be t...
Religion doesn't 'teach' love, we've been loving each other perfectly well for the last few million years since oxytocin evolved to do the job. This w...
What evils have been associated with Jainism then? The Hare Krishna movement? Stoicism, Epicurianism? It's nonsense to say that all ideologies have a ...
Well they're not religious then are they? that's what the instructions in the bible specifically say and they specifically say the they are the word o...
It's funny how one can mention on this forum that the word of a book that talks about seven-headed dragons and an angry god striking people down with ...
I'm touched by your concern for my intellectual development, but you have completely (deliberately?) missed the point of what I was saying, Perhaps I ...
Interesting, I'm not sure I agree with your anthropocentric stance, but I've always solved the Is/ought problem in exactly the same way as you espouse...
I think you're confusing people estimating what the value will be (when the combined effect of supply and demand have had time to influence the market...
Also I'm missing the point of the article you linked. It doesn't (on my reading) say anything like "people think more expensive stuff it better just b...
That's your presumption, I've not seen any examples in the real world. All the expensive shirts I've seen have either been made of better materials, a...
That just sets them back to the example of one salesman in the desert. As I said, it's just an example, in the real world there are thousands of water...
Well we've reached the end of this discussion then, I just don't agree with you. I don't agree that poor people don't also want the expensive shirt, I...
In America the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 prohibits restraint of trade and abuse of monopoly power. In the UK the Competition Act 1998 does much the s...
The fact that they're psychological doesn't alter the demand hypothesis. If more people wanted green cars than red ones, you could price green cars hi...
It was an example, not meant to be taken literally, but it's why in the real world monopolies and market fixing are illegal. The point is, presuming t...
Again, you're talking about 'good' and 'bad' quality work now, not the same product, one good and the other bad, the good one is in high demand, but l...
the point is if it isn't better that the coffee shop version at £5 (English keyboard so I've changed your prices), then what's to stop your competitor...
None of your examples seem to be the same product, the poem you sell to the rich is a 'better' poem, the website for the rich firm is a 'better' websi...
Yes, I absolutely believe that, you can see reactions to injustice even in other primates, see the work of Frans de Waal. All tribes have taboos again...
First, why would you want social egalitarianism, presumably because you are "a strong believer that people should be treated with respect"? So what do...
Exactly, but it's not as much fun to criticise them if you make them sound all pragmatic and mundane, you have to make them sound like raging fundamen...
So putting your two arguments for the calculation of value together, what value does the boss in the first example use to determine what his employees...
Nothing intrinsically, but think about what you would actually be doing. How are you going to know what 'the best bits' are? if you already know wheth...
No, I'm a virtue ethicist, for exactly the reason you've just given, long-term consequences are too difficult to work out with any hope of accuracy. I...
Nothing wrong with a belief in God, but you've not given any reason why that should be the 'God' of any particular religion. Saying you believe in God...
Because religions are entire world-views that cannot simply be picked at whilst still claiming to be religious. I cannot say I believe that Jesus rose...
The trouble is we do though, it is the deception of metaphors. when we talk about God we inevitably think of a person, just like the people you meet f...
I realise it's not necessarily the discussion you wanted to have here, but I feel like your considerate responses deserve a better explanation than pe...
That's nonsense. It only works for one individual case. Put two or more such cases together. All three now are producing websites faster than individu...
Oh and I'm sorry if I sound a bit "hysterical" about child abuse, I guess I'm just funny like that, we all have our little quirks, mine just happens t...
You've missed the point of the harms religions have done. It's not to say "do not be religious because they are burning people at the stake" it's to s...
I think you've misrepresented the atheist argument, it doesn't focus on "this is not something for which there is empirical or sensory evidence" and t...
You wrote and From those statements I understood that; 1. To come to a discussion without understanding the good things the Church had to offer was th...
That same SEP article literally describes the exact conflict over definition I've just been explaining and then goes on to outline the difference betw...
I'm arguing that it doesn't describe the people you later refer to, when you say; And In both cases, these are real people you are referring to and I ...
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