And? You've just provided a description of the attitude towards social contact held by one section of society. It definitely hasn't always been that w...
Christianity does not advocate universal compassion some of the writers in some of the texts which together form Christian scripture advocate universa...
Here's a lay introduction https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-our-way/201401/punishment-doesnt-work Here's some of the more in depth work htt...
Not in my opinion, no, but an awful lot of what I suspect you rely on on, both for necessity and comfort, comes from an economy which, by design, requ...
I realise this might not be a particularly novel thing to say, but seeing as it is on topic. If you trip over a step at work and break your leg, you c...
Are they strong on social commentary then, I can't say I've heard of them! https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+internet&gws_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=PyVXWsqTD...
No, just didn't have any issue with the rest of it. Treating Theism as a mental illness is an insult to the many intelligent theists who are fully fun...
Well, if you've still no idea what I'm talking about I'm not sure I can help. I'm very interested, however, in debates about societal norms (it's kind...
So we're not allowed to think other people are wrong now? That's going to make it quite hard to fight of the next Hitler or Stalin. I'm sure they both...
All very interesting pop-psychology, but I'd be interested to see any actual evidence you have for any of those assertions. I'm happy to list the titl...
You said that men could self-monitor, which requires that they 'know' what appropriate behaviour is in order to adjust theirs to it, right? I argued t...
Occam's Razor can be a dangerous tool in the wrong hands, what seems simple depends entirely on one's presuppositions. If we had to 'invent' a new for...
Of course not. To do so presumes that there is some universally known code of appropriate behaviour that men are simply wilfully ignoring when they ma...
I honestly don't see how there possibly can be without proving that production is unequivocally a 'good' thing to do. Basically, if a person was truly...
Agreed, which means that Christianity isn't necessary as there are so many other sources of compassion. No, not when there are so many reminders which...
You still haven't answered my question regarding this. What exactly does allowing that some people think it's the word of God look like? Apart from th...
Firstly, I think it's a little disingenuous to call my restatement that 1+1=2 teaching, maybe I've lead a sheltered life and am unaware of the nuances...
I've tentatively concluded that Christianity has discredited itself by having such massive inconsistencies in it's guiding book. I'm not sure it's fai...
Does the 3D image cause something, just because it is useful? If I hallucinate a bridge where there is none and plunge down the chasm, does the halluc...
The only point of disagreement that I'm sensing might still be there between our two positions is that the collection of acts must be coherent in them...
That Christians might believe this is irrelevant philosophically and this is a philosophy forum. On a forum about politics, or theology, that option m...
Christianity cannot be responsible for teaching us something we already knew. If I tell you now that 1+1=2 am I rightly to be described as having taug...
I have answered your question. I wrote "If we're going to do the latter (as it seems we are here), then the first thing we look for is consistency, th...
My apologies, I misunderstood. In that case the answer to your question is, yes, absolutely we should be prepared to believe what these books say, not...
Have you not heard of Religion? That is pretty much the deal. There are literalists and there are those who think the bible is just metaphor, but you'...
This is a philosophical forum; the implication of your dismissal is that there is no philosophical discussion that results from the immorality of the ...
None. There's no more reason to the label than there is to the label "flat". You might as well ask "why do we group all things which are not curved or...
Serves some purpose. In the case of the 3D image, the purpose is to help our imagination get a more accurate picture. In the case of conciousness it w...
No. That's pretty much what this whole thread's been about isn't it? Consciousness clearly doesn't 'cause' the arm to move. If it did, the subject wou...
Cells can, rocks can't, I really don't understand what the problem is. Aeroplanes can fly, cars can't; batteries can turn chemicals into electricity, ...
I really don't understand what you're unhappy about with the explanation I've given. If my fingers tell me there's a rock there but my memory tells me...
Where is your proof for this premise? Likewise, your proof for this premise? Again, proof for this? Finally, even if you proved all of this, you would...
As I said above, the point is to highlight potential discrepancies in stimuli. If we're expecting all our stimuli to be coherent then we are more able...
No, I believe that conscious activities do not exist. Deciding on a course of action is not something that a single unified process does and it's cert...
Yes, it's odd that isn't it? For a book that's supposed (according to numerous other threads) to lead directly to sound moral guidance, it incredible ...
The key thing is that the adults are not reprimanded, they are ridiculed, or ostracised (in extreme cases). Children are treated the same way (except ...
I'm still not seeing where you're getting your data from. You've said rights are enshrined in our constitutions, but not provided any evidence that th...
Certainly. 1. Hunter gather tribes almost never tell their children what to do, there are no schools, no formal education and children are free to do ...
Sorry, I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. Perhaps you could provide me with some examples of behaviour which might demonstrate som...
We have discussions like this one. I used to sit on a board of ethics and we have discussions like this all the time. The point is we don't just throw...
I'm curious as to why you would assume this, perhaps you could expand? Pretty much in the same way as any respect for egalitarian values must. We cann...
There are two issues here that are completely separate. 1. What people claim they think is morally acceptable because it confers membership of a socia...
No, the words 'right' and 'wrong' are defined by the things that are in them. Think of them like groups to which certain things belong. The word didn'...
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