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My previous was a little too depressing, as i was only thinking of it in terms of "getting justice". Things similar to what you have described have ha...
October 22, 2025 at 22:04
Well, it seems like in that kind of a situation (being accused of something falsely) means there is no legal recourse without some evidence of the bus...
October 22, 2025 at 20:10
there aren't any gaurantees you won't become jaded, it happens for all sorts of different reasons. I didn't answer your question because i don't under...
October 22, 2025 at 18:55
You can't really dish out punishment without either committing some crime, or getting some collective approval that someone committed a wrong against ...
October 22, 2025 at 18:29
and for my ethics, i just have to accept transgendered people the way they are, with their gender essentialism, until they fail to respect my preferen...
October 22, 2025 at 14:58
To me this is correct, even though the political left usually refuses to see things this way as it would unravel their worldview. The midwest is diffe...
October 22, 2025 at 13:36
The part that makes it fun, at least for me, is the ambiguity. Otherwise, i wouldnt read his books themselves, but i would leave it up to some academi...
October 21, 2025 at 20:14
Of course, the source of my disagreement was praxis trying to argue that my take on Geneaology of morality was false, and that his edited version was ...
October 21, 2025 at 19:44
i think artificial intelligence could kill everyone like in the terminator series, but other than that it's an extension of the kinds of technology we...
October 21, 2025 at 19:05
sure, but with preaching, it's always about what the person means: the Nietzsche morality he was using to replace christian thinking is pretty far fro...
October 21, 2025 at 17:53
i personally think N tried to avoid preaching simple morals, for that reason trying to "know the truth" about his ideas is almost impossible.
October 21, 2025 at 17:35
, i accept that and will let it stand because a much bigger part of his critique was slave moraliry (the inversion of master morality), because of how...
October 21, 2025 at 16:42
that's an excellent point that gender itself is a form of sexism: however, the laws to discriminate only apply to jobs and services, and the discrimin...
October 21, 2025 at 16:00
You should look into modern day anarchist culture, they've got their own holidays but they relate to anarchist history, not festivus
October 21, 2025 at 00:06
So you're advocating a progressive conservatism? I am very sympathetic, yet that's basically what gets achieved by clashes in ideology. The issue with...
October 20, 2025 at 21:40
Uh, im going to have cry fowl on this: when i was a teenager, i liked girls...so sometimes i would say stuff like "sweetheart" to them with sexual ove...
October 20, 2025 at 20:36
this is a pretty interesting point; i remember in christian school the logic was that "Jesus fulfilled the word of God", but seems pretty empty, no? W...
October 20, 2025 at 00:05
it's really hard to know what went through the minds of people who wrote ancient documents, but the old testament was likely part of some ruling class...
October 19, 2025 at 23:58
the biggest issue is not that you are wrong, but the same can be said in reverse. For example, the racist trope about african americans being lazy cam...
October 19, 2025 at 22:47
i think you're conflating and assuming way too much. Who is the ultimate judge of "correct"? Here's a John Cage quote to further elaborate on what i'm...
October 19, 2025 at 22:24
or in other words, you're in a state of relative inertia: you know getting out would be hard, you know the charge isn't that severe (and don't want th...
October 19, 2025 at 01:31
It does amazing things with anything related to computers...yet sometimes it makes poor guesses about what should work in a certain situation.
October 18, 2025 at 21:25
for example (just sharing my experiences), it's excellent for verifying claims from random internet users (it immediately calls out their BS) and help...
October 18, 2025 at 21:19
yes, and overtime you can kinda intuit accuracy of what it's telling you based on subject matter and topic. For example, it's pretty much 100% accurat...
October 18, 2025 at 21:12
i can't comment on what's best for anyone else here, but i find the most productive way to use it is using it for very specific purposes, rather than ...
October 18, 2025 at 20:53
It was actually Nietzsche who argued this in "Geaneology of Morality", that "the good people" are just the powerful imposing what is "good" on the bas...
October 18, 2025 at 20:37
Okay, for me the phrasing instead would be "subjectivist", which states moral truths exist, but ONLY subjectively. So that still means i can use moral...
October 18, 2025 at 18:19
You see, this another i had with your previous discussion: anti-realism is not a coherent perspective, it's just a means of labeling a position one fi...
October 17, 2025 at 21:47
however, i think this would be too self-limiting, to think of this in absolute terms: it's rather easy to "punch up" in some circumstances, it doesn't...
October 17, 2025 at 05:45
I'm glad you responded to the show I mentioned. I even remember his name...Chiri. Quite a silly philosopher character, i am assuming the moral is a ja...
October 17, 2025 at 05:22
this is good to know, because i have several cats and abhor the thought of any of them drinking anti-freeze. Interestingly enough, cats do not like be...
October 17, 2025 at 04:46
i'm wondering what Plato was basing this on: the book I read on Protagoras was "The Greek Sophists" by John Dillon (also published by Penguin). It's n...
October 17, 2025 at 02:47
that is very true: morality is ultimately a "should". I personally, as "ProtagoranSocratist" do not really have strong opinions on morality. I think h...
October 17, 2025 at 02:36
And this takes me back to what i was originally was criticizing: a lot more than "the human body" is encoded in our DNA (another example is the growth...
October 17, 2025 at 00:13
I agree with the basic premise that morality is a cooperation tool. However, this seems false and dangerous: I think here we risk confusing "specific ...
October 16, 2025 at 20:57
...and you did so with a car, correct? Then it's possumslaughter, and not murder...
October 16, 2025 at 20:31
Okay, i get where you're coming from now, but Ayn Rand posited new ethics based on her irrational arguments relating to capitalism ("self-reliant stre...
October 16, 2025 at 18:10
No, i was saying that i highly doubt any teacher beyond an elementary school teacher would accept "we should all be selfish" as an argument on a philo...
October 16, 2025 at 17:42
no, read what you quoted again tobacco is like coffee, it's a mental stimulant: so it's not surprising it would have benefits for schizophrenics becau...
October 16, 2025 at 16:59
I disagree, because the blunt framing: "-ethics is wholly bunked and we should just act selfishly" is confused and hypocritical moral preaching. The t...
October 16, 2025 at 16:06
sorry, my other response got posted prematurely: i hit enter and it posted, but i was just using it to make a new paragraph. It probably has something...
October 16, 2025 at 13:42
But who is saying that nothing is good or bad in any sense? Are you maybe hinting that someone was implying it here? Are you hinting that Nietzsche an...
October 16, 2025 at 13:28
I tried SSRIs a long time ago, but the best positive effect they had for me was i felt a little calmer and smoothed out. There were multiple side effe...
October 16, 2025 at 12:51
Ha, you've pulled Nietzsche: each of these ideas stand on their own in a way, and they do relate to truth and identity. You've done a pretty good job ...
October 16, 2025 at 02:01
Alright, this is a much more interesting and workable response. One can extrapolate a moral truth from the people they know, and even if a society vio...
October 16, 2025 at 00:00
Okay, here's how i look at it: there's informal philosophy. This is anything: "What is life"? And the there's formal philosophy, related to specific t...
October 15, 2025 at 22:05
Seems like pretty blatant emotional manipulation to me: you start by insinuating that moral truths are separate from human opinion: then you try your ...
October 15, 2025 at 20:31
What's wrong? I can't verify moral truths.
October 15, 2025 at 20:24
There are obvious "documented positive effects" for alcohol, heroin, and tabacco as well.
October 15, 2025 at 16:54
that's usually what the professionals recommend, there are those who believe that the medications may have more of a placebo effect than a "correction...
October 15, 2025 at 14:42