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How do you define "immoral" in this sentence so I can substitute those words in where you've use "moral." It's not clear what you're referring to, esp...
December 28, 2023 at 12:51
What each side does is try to represent the interests of the other, regardless of whether you think their interests are worth protecting. If that lawy...
December 28, 2023 at 12:20
Yes, you have it exactly wrong. The Plaintiff's bar is well funded, and you don't pay if you don't recover. People aren't wanting for representation. ...
December 28, 2023 at 03:43
Is that what you're saying I said?
December 28, 2023 at 02:30
What would be immoral would be not to represent someone's interests in an adversarial system and to think yourself the judge when you're an advocate a...
December 28, 2023 at 02:01
I do think @"Banno" correctly noted your allusion to the original sin myth. Not that the religious story can't be correct metaphor, but you do have to...
December 28, 2023 at 01:17
But the other 99% looked forward and didn't ever commit the crime because they knew it immoral. @"Michael" I'm not entirely sure what we discussed in ...
December 28, 2023 at 01:05
The same holds true regarding the law. If I believe it's illegal to eat meat and it's not, but everyone acts like it is, and so you sit in a jail cell...
December 27, 2023 at 22:43
Change the word "moral" to "legal." Now does it matter? One would expect more people to eat meat if it were legal (or moral) and the consequence would...
December 27, 2023 at 22:13
I'm trying to understand what you're getting at I guess. A divine command theorist would believe it's wrong to murder for some over-riding reason, whi...
December 27, 2023 at 22:02
I'm going to give you a chance not to be antisemitic and to clarify yourself. First, Jews have no rule about hating their enemies. It has to do with r...
December 27, 2023 at 21:45
Tread more carefully in your attempts to describe Jewish theology so as not to appear anti-Jewish. I don't trust that your description of the way Jewi...
December 27, 2023 at 19:08
In Judaism, there is no punishment for not being moral either, so why should a Jew be moral? Even for a Christian, you can murder babies and go to hea...
December 27, 2023 at 18:55
That's with everything. If you told me that my cat was a dog and insisted that God said the cat was a dog, I'd still say it was a cat. If you told me ...
December 27, 2023 at 17:27
To the extent a cat be owned and is not a semi-wild animal.
December 27, 2023 at 17:16
An ethical system.
December 27, 2023 at 13:21
I actually worked at a Pizza Hut back in the late 1980s and that wasn't a thing back then. I actually find that story pretty doubtful just because the...
December 27, 2023 at 13:17
I find the hubris associated with spaceless paragraphing contemptuous, so I appreciate your new found humility in this regard.
December 27, 2023 at 11:56
For those concerned your entry will not be good enough, I assure you, I have lowered the bar sufficiently to be sure everyone can compete. Even I felt...
December 27, 2023 at 03:24
Thanks for the review. I'll make a reservation to eat there tonight.
December 26, 2023 at 22:29
As a lover of beige, I admire the Swiss for their neutrality.
December 26, 2023 at 21:13
I like the idea of ethinicizing sandwiches, perhaps starting with the Scots. I think it'd be clever to add a Mc to the name of every food item, like M...
December 26, 2023 at 19:15
Augustine, obviously a Catholic, was of the tradition of a specific heiracrchy having special authority to interpret scripture and understand its mean...
December 26, 2023 at 17:53
Matzah.
December 26, 2023 at 14:11
There are a vareity of terms used to describe a person's percentage of genetic racial diversity, all coming from a time when such things socially and ...
December 26, 2023 at 12:44
The crack not being wide enough, all she could do was smell freedom. /uploads/resized/files/8x/cfvdk8iqkr1zegho.jpg
December 26, 2023 at 12:29
For those wanting more information on the topic, all of which arose from an unfortunate homonym. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambo#:~:text=Zambo%2...
December 26, 2023 at 11:10
What I claim is that the research shows the literalist tradition you reference is a modern invention and the way the ancient users of the biblical tex...
December 26, 2023 at 03:05
I couldn't care any less about religion. I'm just saying your analysis is wrong, largely because you think you can determine history by just figuring ...
December 26, 2023 at 00:30
Your assumption is wrong. Figurative interpretations has been accepted since ancient times: https://biologos.org/common-questions/how-was-the-genesis-...
December 25, 2023 at 22:58
Why are we unable to determine right and wrong in the non-naturalist world?
December 25, 2023 at 22:37
Chocolate babka and Christmas cookies. Everyone has a place at Hanovermas. /uploads/resized/files/m3/5pnin67irb2erusm.jpg
December 25, 2023 at 18:52
My proof: /uploads/resized/files/cg/7bs4rm2rt3ckhxrh.jpg
December 25, 2023 at 18:45
I know what you guys mean. Where I'm from, we call chickens cunts and that means different things to different people of course. Hang on, no. It's coc...
December 25, 2023 at 18:42
There would be an observable difference in either world. What would not be observable is the morality of the event. I could tell if babies were murder...
December 25, 2023 at 18:20
Why would it be different if ethical naturalism were the case? It might just be that murdering babies is moral in such a possible world. I don't take ...
December 25, 2023 at 17:54
I had a Honda a while ago.
December 25, 2023 at 17:23
You're like one of those people who looks for sympathy in your suffering, so you've scrounged up the worst meal imaginable, first by microwaving a box...
December 25, 2023 at 17:21
I used to tell my kids they were free to choose to get in the car to go to school or they could choose to have me throw them in there. Freedom exists,...
December 25, 2023 at 17:08
We've got 7-11s here. Next time opt for the roller dog and drawer bun and give it a squirt of neon yellow cheese, assuming Thai convenience store fare...
December 25, 2023 at 17:01
This assumes a consequentialist justification is necessary for morality, which means your beef isn't against non-naturalism, but it's with deontolgy. ...
December 25, 2023 at 16:58
Bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns for breakfast. Will have kugel, brisket, matzo ball soup, knishes, latkes, and pastrami for lunch. Ordered it from Katz' D...
December 25, 2023 at 16:42
Ethical non-naturalism isn't at all a clear theory, so you'd have to define how you're using it to make sense of this. There seems little consensus on...
December 25, 2023 at 16:03
What I find least credible is that a baby Korean girl was named Anne and that her nieces and nephews would one day call her Auntie and that she would ...
December 25, 2023 at 11:38
Some quibbles. The thesis that the ancients began with a literal acceptance of the text and moved from it as difficulties arose isn't correct. The tex...
December 25, 2023 at 05:49
Everything in the South is fried, so that's most common after raw. If you've not had an oyster Po Boy, you should try one next time you're at a Cajun ...
December 25, 2023 at 04:05
Are you shucking them, or do they come packed in a plastic container? The former is more reassuring. The latter easier. And you say cooked. How so? Gr...
December 25, 2023 at 02:05
Meatloaf for Xmas Eve! It's gonna be a good year I can tell.
December 24, 2023 at 21:44
True story, so this is hard to joke about for me, but I was on a plane that went down and eventually some of this passengers died of natural causes. T...
December 24, 2023 at 20:15
Pack a firearm in your carry on with the barrel sticking out. That should derail you for days, years even. If you somehow get through security unnotic...
December 24, 2023 at 20:09