I don't think it is ever right to isolate a principle in this manner, as if you yourself are not using a different principle to oppose their principle...
Yes, it's an ever-present assumption in these problems. Consequentialism is the air we breathe, and for the consequentialist there is no clear differe...
- There seems to be a lot of residue sticking around from the first phase of our conversation, and that's understandable. Let's look at the argument t...
It may or may not intersect with your interests, but the few minutes I pointed out are relevant. Okay, that's better. But why 'ideal'? I would say tha...
But I preempted this at the outset, "This is a problem beyond the instrumentalization of reason..." (). Again, "Now you might say that it is not neces...
Sure, but given that we are discussing the legitimacy of individual inferences from group data, your omission here is the problematic one. I claimed t...
- Your 19 posts have been of very low quality, and I do not plan on responding to you further in this thread or in any other. I am letting you know fo...
The distinction between commissions and omissions is a distinction on the causality of human acts, which pertains to both ethics and law (indeed, law ...
I was traveling today and so I listened to a recent talk by a good philosopher, Kevin Flannery (who is not the best public speaker). He talks about th...
I would class the counterexamples you are presenting as examples of interaction. You are consciously interacting with someone. It makes no difference ...
Okay. If you are saying that all incompatibilists agree that <If fault and blame exists, then free will exists>, then I agree. The hard determinist de...
Okay, fair enough. I have never seen a translation imply this, including the quick Google translation that you provided. You could interpret the Googl...
Okay, I have always liked that passage. I don't think Gerson would focus on the idea that Aristotle's interlocutors are unqualified to speak upon it, ...
Okay, these are good points and I agree. I suppose I am trying to flush out exactly what it is you don't like about Gerson's thesis. I am focusing pri...
No, but they are a significant minority. Sure, but I am not sure that you are appreciating the relation of choice to free will. To deny the ability to...
I'd say Janus is clearly correct here, and the key is not some vague notion of libertarian free will, but rather his condition "that the person really...
- I was just making a joke. Amadeus often seems to be under the impression that, "His saying so makes it so." But I will ask you a quick question: Wha...
- All of the arguments you have offered for why we cannot make inferences from group statistics to individual cases have turned out to be invalid. You...
At least I didn't pull a strawman definition out of thin air without citing any source at all. :lol: That's not a great look when your sole argument h...
I would suggest using a reputable dictionary and citing your source. Here is Merriam-Webster: 2: a court characterized by irresponsible, unauthorized,...
I think you are simply mistaken about the level of research needed to confirm that this was a kangaroo court. It's not so hard to see. If you think th...
Similar to what has said, I don't think (1) or (2) violate EP. (1) and (2) fail to treat someone as an end, but they do not treat that person as a mea...
Well, no. All of my points had to do with the original question I asked, and they were relevant to the way that you failed to address that question. T...
Good post. A problem with that definition actually manifests here: Here you seem to confuse an intention with an ideal. An intention is not "the ideal...
- Stop fooling around. Your conclusion has always been an opposition to judgments based on group statistics. Your whole point about the superiority of...
The false premise in your thinking is the idea that we always have access to superior individual data, and therefore never have need of recourse to gr...
Well, if you have followed my posts on morality you will know that I view modern approaches to morality as flat-footed, so I think you've started off ...
- I don't neglect certain truths for the sake of my own personal agenda. I try not to be ideological. That we should not neglect the facts of statisti...
And again, I see no evidence of that. No, you just contradicted yourself. It is not just a statement, it is a correct statement. It is a true statemen...
Okay, fair enough, and this is a good post. I will offer a few more posts, but I don't know how long I will stick around. I was limiting myself to the...
No, I see no evidence of that. Here is the statement that Lucky has attempted to disagree with: Note that this has nothing to do with a present/future...
It is valid to make inferences from group data to individuals regardless of whether we have the individual data that produced the group data. Whenever...
One way to see the problem with your view is to understand how we experience morality via principle. For example, when someone is accused (by themselv...
Egads. A is not an intention and has never been an intention. It is an action. In the trolley case it is to pull the lever, in the car case it is to s...
Yes, this is a large part of it. This is precisely where I take you to be mistaken, here and in previous posts. The democratic vote does not determine...
Yes indeed! You don't think the team batting average of the Braves tells us anything about the batting averages of Braves players? Pray tell, where do...
- Okay, I finally caught up in this thread. I think you are talking past me a bit. This is how I see it: Leontiskos: You said, "I agree with Gerson th...
- Well, you brought up the payment to Daniels, not me. You brought it up because it happened prior to the election, and it is at least temporally poss...
Sure, but we are discussing whether it is reasonable, not whether it ought to be done. The lurking question here is, "Is racism irrational?" Or also, ...
Yes, and in the video I linked it is construed, "Trump is crimey, therefore he must have committed a crime." This is the basic thinking. And he may ha...
No, I am saying that antinatalism is non-naturalistic. I wrote out responses to all of your claims, but then I shelved that post because it was so lon...
But it is reasonable. If group X has Y percentage chance of committing action Z, then—all things being equal—someone belonging to group X has Y percen...
Was Trump charged with paying Daniels? Were the actions he was charged with performed before or after the election? Was a payment to Daniels illegal? ...
Okay, so you are doubling-down and rejecting the premise. Now I should say again that your definition of a "means" is not a good definition. I underst...
- Good post. This is exactly right. As I said: Now I would say that a decision is an act, but the larger point is that we are responsible for our deci...
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