AmadeusD

Wow. Dude, what the fuck side of hte bed did you wake up on.

A fair point, but from their perspective woke is expressly not what you say it is. That's sort of the issue - the two groups are either seeing, or pre...

Absolutely. Not just that, when they are reached out to, it tends to be condescending. And condescending to people who work manual labour for decades ...

As long as women exists, guns will have a (in my opinion) virtuous purpose. As long as stronger, less-scrupulous people exist (relative to the bulk of...

This is patently untrue. I think its more likely this stems from those who share views not noticing what it looks like from the outside. For instance....

(it was a statement, nonetheless, my man). And is that a position you take, or was the conclusion just part of conversation?

An interesting statement. I am bent to think every painting is a picture, as ever 'image' is a picture. Of what, is an interesting thought.

This flies in the face of almost all of your responses, which are exactly in line with that description. I'll leave you to it.

Ah, you're a much more patient person than I.

I don't think this is remotely true, for most people. Ignorance is the more likely culprit. But more than this, I think most people are negotiating wi...

This is entirely out of step with what's going on between us. I am saying that pain is not 'bad' because you're conflating suffering with pain. I am p...

I don't know what you want me to get from this.. .

I don't know, because that's not the case. Almost impossible to know if I would 'love the burn' as they say, if it lead nowhere but its certainly plau...

Perhaps I'm missing something, but this seems a perfect "non-sense" paragraph. It says nothing to me at all. What I can respond to is the bolded. Ther...

I've given you one. In the morning when I put my body through hell to achieve a better body (inter alia, to be sure. I'm not a pure narcissist).

It entirely depends on the scenario, and whether you want me to admit to enjoying it tout court or as an indirect indicator of some other positive (i....

Its better to answer this in reverse: No, it wouldn't be better. I would have no reason to expect a positive outcome, as to my goals. It is the pain i...

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/no-evidence-depression-caused-low-serotonin-levels-finds-comprehensive-review Interesting, but something I had ant...

At this stage, all you have done is denied reality. No one (and this clear from your responses) takes your points seriously - we have all provided pro...

Yes. Pain 'as such' is simply a sensation. There is no moral valence without human deliberative judgement going on. PLenty of examples, but one I gave...

This does not address anything I've said, unfortunately.

This doesn't solve the issue. If Evil is as you describe, no amount of enjoyment is acceptable under that category. That's a serious problem here. And...

Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah fair enough - didn't quite grok the subtext, sorry. I do now.

Oh my God. It may be that your determination to ignore the fact of persuasion is due to your inability to read? Guess what (3) is?? This has been prov...

This is how the concept is used in law. It's a bit more complicated than this, but essentially its the "if but for..." rule. If but for y then the cri...

Please forgive me, but it seems to me you have overreacted to something you haven't quite understood. I believe BC's point is that you cannot run this...

Many things seem certain ways, but when you press, they aren't that way. This, for instance, entirely begs the question of what 'bad' is, and how to p...

No. There's no such thing, in this context. We're all people doing shit. That's all really. THe rest is window dressing (window dressing I enjoy, to b...

Really? It seems, and always has, across all eras of my life, to describe something undesirable: inflexibility of belief.

but this violates your use of 'evil' as that would not be suffering. I cannot see a reason beyond 'it's unpleasant' to label any given x 'evil'. It do...

It is. All the follow-on speaks to this. It's just other-regarding. No reason to call it moral (further, but less interestingly, I reject some of thos...

and who is that?

This is highly variable and context-dependent, though. That's why it's clear 'facts' aren't in the area to me. All of these types of statements are ob...

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him" - Ender Wiggin, E...

They do certainly seem to. As with chairs.

Well, the standard would be sales, currently. We are pressed to think the 'best' music is the music that the most people enjoy. If we set aside the is...

That seems to run against the definition, and practical use of 'evil'. It seems a descriptor for that which is particularly unpleasant in an arbitrary...

Yes, some of these ideas were things I had in mind - particularly your final thought. Ok, so a formalizing of what I had i suggested. Interesting. Tha...

Is this an institutional argument like Danto? I'm not trying to crap on your admittedly semi-glib notions. I'm trying to understand how we could have ...

Oh, well yeah, totally my bad. Setting side some extremely weak responses about how the conversations actually run, yeah, 100%. Probably my least-enjo...

Do you want to maybe qualify this? I suffer every morning when I put my body under immense pressure to achieve a better body.

One problem I see, is that people vote for what's on the table. Not what they want. It's almost assured that any vote does not give us actual public o...

Notice you've not invoked a standard. You've used the word 'good' but fail to define it. It actually seems as if you accept that you cannot?

This is just word use. It's not an argument for cognitivism. It just shows us that its logically possible that an objective ethic could exist. Practic...

I could only surmise that this is a reaction the admitted absurdity of "infinitely better" or the absence of the concept 'optimal' in place of best, g...

It seems there are plenty on this website who mope, and do not understand what this is. Justifications abound, but actions to address one's situation ...

This isn't even apt to be a 'lie'. Misunderstanding perhaps, but that's not happening either - evidenced by everyone but you being on the same page.

There's something in that, for sure. When Country music only relates to rural lives, it's too niche (though, obviously, sustainable given how many peo...

You're still simply not addressing any of hte points put to you. Once again, Apart from that, I did. Explicitly. You didn't provide what you're claimi...

Nice, i hope you enjoy! I also think Patsy Cline is a bit of a Cash scenario. definitely country, but plenty of non-country in there just with twang. ...