Tobias

I wonder if T Clark wrote anything... if so I could put him near Felice or Plum Pie too. I find Plum Pie difficult because of the oddity of first seem...

Plum Pie... could be 180 Proof, but somehow I think not... too stylistic for me... Plum Pie... Noble Dust?

Difficult The Christmas That Was Not - @jamalrob A Cross For Maria - @John Felice - @180 Proof or Caldwell A Christmas Valentines Day Love Story - @Ha...

Hardscrabble... I like that! I immediately imagine two gunslingers, staring each other down. One Mexican in a colorful poncho, the other looking like ...

Thinking of that actually, does anyone know where the place "Mountain View" is? Some time ago I received a notification that someone from there was re...

@"Amity" Ohh I just thought you were telling me off for using such an old fashioned platform that the kids these days snub you for. I am not a fan muc...

Yes, yes rub it in Amity! Well there must be a Belgian restaurant in New York, their cuisine is renowned. But then... for us in the Netherlands the cu...

I am all for it. Keeps me from going to facebook when I want to share cooking pics or recipes... (Yeah, facebook, I know, I am old...)

Difficult... Actually I am not really an eel man myself. I have had it smoked the Dutch way once and it was delicious... I had it smoked the same way ...

:starstruck: Amity

I know right? Gotta love it! Dutch culinary culture at its best! :rofl:

I have looked at the way we Dutch smoke eels, it is a Dutch delicacy, from the north of my Province, known for both smoked fish and creating a painsta...

That is very interesting. I am really interested in your research because indeed schooling, the way we mold our citizenry is a crucial aspect in the w...

Haven't read it too, but it has a very nice ethical dilemma, quoted by Michael Sandel. I like Ursule Leguin as well.

:D unfortunately not... hence probably my enthusiastic foray into this subject. If I see the threads on literature here on the forum I am not even par...

Yes, sure and I understand you... it is a bit of a question for me actually and therefore something that I wish to inquire. I think philosophy has an ...

The relationships between short stories and philosophy is a complicated one from the beginning. Plato used a dialogical form, a bit like a story. Niet...

Play of words, nothing more... :)

Gotta love the emoticons :D I live in the Netherlands. Thankfully, the last invasion we had to endure was long before I was born. I am not really a 'C...

It puzzles me, I do not think there is any mystery there.

Because not all violence is goodish, most violence is simply bad. Volence is not a species of an object that can be classified under a certain class. ...

Well than you are living in a dream world because no one recognizes those injunctions as binding to all everywhere and every time. Not even the most a...

You treat concepts like Platonic forms. The form of violence, the form of the good. Violence is a means to an end. It is a suspect means because it ha...

1 of course. However sometimes that is impossible. It does not go anywhere to answer the question whether violence can be ethical though. If I could s...

@"Manuel" Thanks Manuel for letting me know you experience it! That is real cool, cheers :cool:

The reason I said that you should pick your battles was not because of qualms with you over this subject. It was through your connection of it to Bide...

If my only recourse to save a friend who is in danger without having provoked or caused the danger, is by using force than my action is not only permi...

I do not mind continuing this discussion at all. after all I am in education, though in the Netherlands, not in the US. We have no private schools (ye...

That is what Schopenhauer says yes. Willing is much more direct according to S. When we experience pain for instance we experience pain, pure and simp...

I thought I knew that movie from somewhere... right... indeed.

And the things we call truth nowadays, are they truth and facts or will time tell? And what should we do with our principles based on these? Were they...

Nahhh, no worries. It wasn't criticism, it just made me smile because earlier in the threat I said the question needed specification on this point... ...

See John, this whole debate would have been entirely avoided had you just specified the ethical system from which you asked your question. ;) I am not...

And the truth is always temporary, facts of today will be overtaken by the science of tomorrow. Basing the right on truth only makes its foundation mo...

Am I wrong in thinking that the symmetry is incorrect? The protagonist dreams lucidly and causes Mrs. Godfried to detroy her new beautiful face. She e...

Agreed as well.

Maybe I was imprecise with my reference to truth Ethics does not deal with true and false but with right or wrong. True and false might be context ind...

You confuse intersubjectivity with majority opinion. Not every vote counts in this forum as not everyone has the moral maturity or argumentative acume...

We have an intuition of right and wrong, we feel pleasure we feel pain. However, we will have to teach a child to share the things he gets with others...

Great, sure any amount of people can do it right, like the KKK, marvelous at determining what is right. angry mobs in general, such judge of character...

And who defines what justice is? Probably in your case the belove framers... why anyone would consider the word of 18th century well to do farmers as ...

No. I use my subjective judgment and I am prepared to defend it in front of an intersubjective forum of people who get to judge my actions and I provi...

So the state responds by showing disregard for human life and dignity.... great.

Under what principle, context dependent or otherwise would the death penalty be justified?

Yes, but that is a big if. I do not think that violence can turn into a rigt whenever it suits me or my whims. My desire must be one that itself aims ...

No, but my wrong was the right thing to do. That might make it a right. I imagine how this conversation would go. "Sorry Proof, I have to let John sli...

What if the desires of the other are unethical and my violence stops him from bringing these desires into effective action?

Ahhh, see that is a different question and will indeed beget different answers. None of mine yet as I have to get back to work.

Same answer. When your threaten to slit Proof's' throat from ear to ear with the flick knife you are wielding and I punch you in the face disarming yo...

Well first I think you need an indication beyond yes and no. Is violence always ethical, sometimes ethical, never ethical, now it becomes a yes or no ...