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Yep. And that makes me extremely uncomfortable. Not that its 'wrong'. Can't quite see what's being got at here.. This is exactly hte pitfall I am decr...
May 06, 2025 at 00:23
I misread the poll. I should've said 'no'. I don't htink they can ever be free from those influences.
May 05, 2025 at 23:22
Correct. And (if accepted) the fact that biology gives us (at least one) "sex" which is universally applicable and attends to the interesting factors ...
May 05, 2025 at 23:21
here you go :) Virtue Ethics, then. This is what I am critiquing. It allows for whatever 'aspirations' one can coherently generate to be followed. Not...
May 05, 2025 at 23:15
It really, truly does not, as far as I can tell. If your definition is just "shared values" sure, but you could've just said that in your first reply ...
May 05, 2025 at 23:12
No, that doesn't change anything mate. That is multiple use of words. You're also missing that one is indicative and one is determinative So lets go t...
May 05, 2025 at 20:18
Swings and roundabouts boys. No one can clearly put forth any reason to do anything but preference. Nice.
May 05, 2025 at 20:08
I don't. I choose my battles - and when it comes to you, you're either trolling or incapable of clearly reading things. So my responses might be unple...
May 05, 2025 at 20:07
I don't think you've understood what I've said, at all. Everything you've said applies what I am noting, and exactly what makes it unattractive to me.
May 05, 2025 at 20:06
Yes. Funnily enough, i actually picked up Tractatus for hte bus this morning, so read these exact passages before responding. The point of Many Worlds...
May 02, 2025 at 01:42
I think pretty much that, yes. Nice :)
May 02, 2025 at 01:19
Sort of (I can't immediately override an existing value), but yeah, that seems to be what morality amounts to to me, so I'm not perturbed by that.
May 02, 2025 at 01:15
I act from (or maybe, act out?) values. So my values, wherever applicable, are what will 'inform' me as to which action should be undertaken. But 'sho...
May 02, 2025 at 01:11
I'm unsure, as it's never been particularly attractive to me, but it sounds that way. A person steeped in Wahabi teachings couldn't be "virtuous" as c...
May 02, 2025 at 01:07
My understanding of hte way virtue ethics work is that its a non-religious moral system that allows someone to say "The type of person i ought to be i...
May 01, 2025 at 23:59
That is what determines maleness. What maleness is, is the active presence of SRY. There isn't a further answer. The 'further answers' are the ones fo...
May 01, 2025 at 23:58
"Who decides who passes" didn't seem a policy question, but fair enough. Sorry. False. SRY determines maleness. Male phenotype (including testes) is d...
May 01, 2025 at 23:42
You're right - but it is patently, and unequivocally irrelevant how many trans woman carry out petty theft, or public nuisance (which isn't linked to ...
May 01, 2025 at 23:34
Potentially not 'on a whim' because values tend to be a bit more deep-seated. But I can do it while sitting quietly in my bedroom, unconnected to medi...
May 01, 2025 at 23:30
No, there isn't, but we're discussing it, so why not take stabs? I don't feel morality comes from without, and never have, besides watching religious ...
May 01, 2025 at 22:53
:up: If virtue ethics weren't so caught up in allowing religious zeal, i'd be well on board.
May 01, 2025 at 22:51
To me, they can only possibly imply a fuller thought of the person. They may use a term like 'ought' but in reality, that cannot be more than a sugges...
May 01, 2025 at 22:50
An active one, yes. That seems to be the deduction of biology. Are you using the women's bathroom? If not, you're not relevant. I know that's not your...
May 01, 2025 at 22:49
I don't think so, overall, but i'll be specific. Values constantly change. This is another reason its somewhat arbitrary, even on some shared value ba...
May 01, 2025 at 22:45
I don't accept 2, so I cna't say much.
May 01, 2025 at 22:13
Hehe I guess if all you go on it Wittgenstein, then yeah. But who would do that, when, yeah - there it is.
May 01, 2025 at 22:03
I hear you, as the latter causes suffering for men, generally. But I do not think that is what's happening here. Otherwise, the general separation of ...
May 01, 2025 at 21:52
No quite, but that they do so brute. There's no particularly convincing principle that would ensure people are moved by anyone else's moral views, but...
May 01, 2025 at 20:32
"A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philo...
May 01, 2025 at 03:38
Just finished re-reading The Structure of Scientific Revolutions About to start The Sceptical Feminist.
May 01, 2025 at 01:40
The plain fact that one believes in a personal God is enough to dismiss their arguments about said God. It doesn't even get of the ground as a concept...
May 01, 2025 at 01:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xktC_T8YbO8 Mahalia has to be one of the most underrated artists/singers of all time. And she's fairly well known, so ...
May 01, 2025 at 01:32
yeah, nice. And I think the fatal objection here is that this isn't how morality is thought of. It is better, though, i'll absolutely give you that. T...
May 01, 2025 at 00:08
No, no. People use those words and I have no criticism of that. I criticise using those words to defend a moral theory (you have neglected this, which...
May 01, 2025 at 00:04
www.terfisaslur.com - I don't think ever TRA is this type of TRA, but they are worth mentioning. And the reason for this is exactly what you've outlin...
April 30, 2025 at 23:22
Very fair, but that isn't my position. My position is that "wrong" and "right" are ambiguous, amorphous and probably indefinable terms which create a ...
April 30, 2025 at 23:17
Yep but that flies in the face of both the empirical evidence, and the work in that paper. You should read it throroughly (I have, but its been some t...
April 30, 2025 at 22:59
So was the quoted passage from yourself :)
April 30, 2025 at 22:43
It wasn't. It wasn't intimated. I said something completely different. You completely and utterly ignored literally everything relevant to my argument...
April 30, 2025 at 20:35
Not so, and there's no good evidence for it.
April 30, 2025 at 20:34
Then you're simply ignoring the other half, given your objection below this is entirely hollow. That is, roughly, the point. We do this with mentally ...
April 30, 2025 at 20:33
Your responses tell me you're not engaging with the arguments. I've laid them our clearly. If you;'re not convinced. So be it. I didn't. I addressed t...
April 30, 2025 at 20:28
It's the UK prison stats. This isn't as good, but another source Trans women: Total Pop: 48,000 est. In prison: 0.27% For sex crime: 0.16% Non trans m...
April 30, 2025 at 20:24
No, it isn't. Something can be good and one ought not do it largely because there is absolutely no reason to think 'ought' holds any water whatsoever ...
April 30, 2025 at 20:00
No one does. That's my entire point lol. Again, not really. This is a widely accepted conception of morality. It is what people talk about when discus...
April 30, 2025 at 19:59
Mate, this is so bizarre. There is a legal doctrine known as "If but for". This means that "if but for X, Y would not have happened". This applies to ...
April 30, 2025 at 04:35
Yeah, definitely. I think we have been to some degree. Initially it was grating, but now I see it clearly, it's interesting and revealing :) That's fa...
April 30, 2025 at 04:34
It's an uncomfortable reversal of a norm. We wouldn't expect people to call white people Black because they want to be Black (actually, a better examp...
April 30, 2025 at 04:17
It is. See? This is almost zero to do with what I've said. Could you maybe address it? The drug trade across the border is not controversial. Nor (thi...
April 30, 2025 at 04:13
How is this true? would get us a bit further...
April 30, 2025 at 04:12