An excellent idea to scrutinise the details of the experiment. So often people take only the 'headline' and further investigation reveals the experime...
Where have I said in my post that theism is undefined? All I have said is that it is perfectly rational to argue that belief in that which is undefine...
The problem with arguing about God's properties is that God is a concept in our heads. If we can't conceive it, then God can't do it. The whole questi...
I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make here with regards to the use of logic to resolve the paradox. If God can create such a stone,...
You have an admirable, but I think misplaced, faith in the ability of 'Truth and Reconciliation' procedures. They work well enough in places like Nort...
I don't see anyone is arguing against or evaluating the thing that is undefined, what is being argued against or evaluated is this action/activity of ...
You're right, but it doesn't take many iterations of the consequences before mapping exactly who is complicit and to what extent becomes incredibly di...
I think some people might be confusing 'shame' and 'guilt'. Helen Block Lewis in Shame and Guilt in Neurosis (1971) defined the terms as - "The experi...
You need to be careful here. Many Autistic people struggle with empathy, they (possibly) have fewer mirror neurons that neurotypical people and so fin...
Consider the classic refutation of God's omnipotence. Could God create a rock which was so heavy that even he could not lift it? If he can't then he i...
Finally, someone gets it! I feel like I've been wading through treacle, thank you for sticking with it so calmly, my exposition must be considerably p...
I'm sorry but that's twice you've openly called me a fascists and that's really not acceptable. Fascism, according to Merriam-Webster, is a political ...
So if a teacher in a faith school teaches that all non-believers are so evil that they deserve to be tortured for eternity, that's fine, but I'm not a...
No, I don't support the banning of public religious practices. What I'm speaking out in support of is the right of people to reach that conclusion if ...
I don't understand why, I said 'whatever effect religion is having' so it's implicit that the discouraging will be related to the effect. One might fe...
I will try to make this really simple 1. Everyone has to decide whether to restrict religion (further than it already is), encourage religion further,...
My argument; My argument again; And again; And again; A brief summary here; One last time; Did you somehow miss all that but miraculously pick up on t...
Really? One mistake regarding the only mention of my view in six pages of posts and I'm "intellectually dishonest". How convenient that you now have a...
I'm sorry, as JSG has pointed out above I have mentioned the my personal view once, please accept my apologies for not noticing. The whole thrust of m...
I agree that banning public religious practices would probably lead to worse consequences than allowing them, but I do think we have to be more carefu...
Because if they were not they would stop buying the stuff that perpetuates the situation. Fair trade products exist, we don't have to buy trainers mad...
And I'm being disingenuous? I wrote what must have been over a hundred words detailing exactly why I disagree with most of the points you made and exp...
1. What beliefs? Which of the seven beliefs I have stated as being a summary of my position do you think I am "unwilling to take responsibility for th...
Firstly I'm not advocating any position at all, this is the first misconception both you and T Clark have made and I can't understand why. Apart from ...
Great, now I might have a chance of actually understanding your position. Which of the statements do you think are false or do not follow from their p...
I already said that, did you actually read my post? Why are you repeating that there no current laws when I just said that the issue is not the curren...
Seeing as you're having trouble I will break it down into simple statements. 1. It is possible that religion is harmful to society. 2. Someone could t...
This is nonsense, particularly the bit about "what business does the government have in putting restrictions on them?" Who do you think made the laws?...
This is all a reasonable theory, but it doesn't answer the question I posed. You believe this theory of yours to be the case and so you act on it, tha...
How on earth did you get that? The statement was "we each have the same choice to make - how much religion do we think it is our duty to allow/encoura...
Yes, like with any moral dilemma in a society there will be a balance between respecting autonomy and restricting behaviour that it detrimental to soc...
Thank you for at least attempting to inject some charitable interpretation. No I'm not advocating intolerance, just the ability to express our opinion...
This is insane. Religions have, at best, had a mixed consequence on the world, even the pope does not disagree with that as he has condemned past acti...
My god, you're prepared to accept that someone might rationally believe that a man walked on water, returned from the dead, parted the seas, but if so...
http://bjpo.rcpsych.org/content/2/4/247 There are physiological markers for depression, so although you're absolutely right about the fact that it's o...
I gather that, but humanity cannot simply stagnate, paralysed with uncertainty so we have to act. You have your own beliefs on which you will act. But...
I'm sorry, I can't really understand the argument in your response. I get that you think creeps like Weinstein are listening, we'll have to just agree...
So, I'm still genuinely confused about the agnostic, tolerant position you guys seem to be advocating. I think that Idolatry is really bad for humanit...
But permission for what? All forms of physical contact, anything which could possibly be construed as a sexual advance? That's the question that no-on...
Yeah, I tried that argument quite a few posts ago, but without the selective bias angle, nice addition. Unfortunately it fell on as deaf ears then as ...
Exactly, so men looking to attract a particular type of woman are going to attempt to display confidence (including sexual confidence) in order to mak...
Likewise if you think my reading of your posts had been uncharitable with regards to the exposition of your argument then I apologise. Like I said, I ...
I haven't just repeated the accusation, I explained it, and I don't consider virtue signalling to be a wholly bad thing so my intention is not to insu...
Come on, I thought this was supposed to be a serious philosophy forum, have I missed something. "Of course men can't control themselves". No one's sai...
Because you appear to be strongly defending a position popularly defined as a moral good without actually having an answer to the difficult moral issu...
I've read the entire thread, I always do, I'm not sure what it is you're expecting me to have gleaned from doing so, I still see no attempt in any of ...
So what exactly do you want people to do when they disagree with a position. Say a new fascist party came to prominence in my country and I disagree w...
No one's confused about grabbing someone's groin. What's being argued is exactly what level of contact requires consent as you'd know full well if you...
Fascinating pile of pseudo-ethical crap in both those videos (it almost makes me wonder if YouTube might not be the best source for serious ethical de...
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