Txastopher

This is word-play. Remove 'those' and change 'bought' to 'buy', and I'll happily attempt a rebuttal. 'Negligible' and 'no effect' are not the same. Th...

This is clearly incorrect.I have no idea how much meat you eat, but if over the course of a year you ate the equivalent of 1 steer, 2 pigs, and 20 chi...

Fruit has evolved to be eaten! It may be intutitive to generate a rule based on proximity to our own species, but I see scant ethical basis for it. Fu...

Does it follow that the more different an animal is to a human, the worse it can be treated? Why not, the less human, the better it should be treated?...

Don't be confused. Many individuals are ethically inconsistent, if they weren't there would be no need for ethics. Re: my position; no doubt I could d...

Yes. I bite the bulllet; in other words, I acknowledge the inconsistencies of my actions. I don't eat much meat, and what I do eat at home is free-ran...

It's not wrong to eat animals per se. For example, one could argue that it is morally desirable to consume roadkill, since, at least, the accidental d...

This is the conversation held by DM as mentioned earlier:

I would have thought that the quality of one's friendships is going to influence the way one responds to this question. Human relationships are gradab...

Surely one should be able to discuss almost anything on a forum like this? If some topics are off-limits, it reflects very poorly on the ability of ph...

Or to put it another way, 'free-will' is the term we use for the sense that we have control over our own actions. The fact that we have this sensation...

Picking up from this now closed thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3355/is-it-rational-to-have-children/latest/comment Forgive me, but ...

Actually, I'm going to modify what I said. I think this is better: The 'we were here before you' argument doesn't work in most cases.

It may come as a surprise, but this thread is not all about you. This is a summary of my position for anyone who might wish to engage. Your position, ...

The 'we were here first' argument doesn't work.

Thanks for the maps. It would great if you could engage with the arguments, though.

Er, no. We bite the bullet; accept that land-ownership is unethical, and think about how to move forward given that it is impossible to right this wro...

Is it even possible to 'own' land in any but the legal sense. If we agree that it is, when do we draw the line on original ownership? Do we start with...

So what's your point?

I take it you're not familiar with Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty.

I think you're reading this into my initial post. I'm not demanding a singular answer or a dissertation, I'm just asking them, conversationally, among...

Doesn't follow. Right about the 'concept of phenomenon'. Wrong about 'phenomenon'. What would remain would be the material stimulus that gave rise to ...

It's the kind of thing that parents, politicians and school administrators watch and then think that they understand what goes on in schools without h...

This video is just about the worst thing ever to have happened to pedagogy. It's total nonsense.

I don't know anything, but I have my preferences. Short answer; the purpose of school education is about providing the wherewithal to optimise both po...

So many assertions, so little time.

You seem to be assuming that for something to exist it requires a perceiver, but what stimuli does the perceiver require in order to perceive existenc...

Indeed. Knowing 'how' or 'why' is not the same as knowing where to look for information.

No, but my hope is that a teacher would at least have thought about the question and would thus have at least one answer.

I was assuming that a candidate would have the necessary technical knowledge to teach their subject. Also, the core curriculum is usually decided by g...

This is true, but so general as to be useless.

I agree that formal education has a civilising mission, but civilising for whom? Is 'taming' merely the imposition of majority societal norms upon the...

The effort required by any of the alternatives.

Scientism is the optimistic belief that everything will eventually be explained by science, and thus leaves no room for the ineffable. It is usually h...