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It is my position that all antisocial behaviours, self-serving that they are, are transgressions of theft. When we breach contracts and informal agree...

Love is as much emotion as it is a cognitive function. Emotions generate bias. In fact, bias is what limits or corrupts our orientation to others and ...

Begging the question. Your second premise uses as a certitude the very thing you wish to prove is the case.

I set the meaning in the statement following the one you quoted. If some subsist by eating animals (and they do), and animals are sentient, and if eat...

Chatterbears, have you decided that you'll ignore me? You haven't responded to me yet, now on the page before this one. I claim that it is arbitrary t...

"Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I will address your statement. We have a higher moral consideration to life that is sentient,.." Arbitrary. H...

Indeed, petitio principii. Using as a necessary premise the very thing you were to demonstrate. Good call.

Let us suppose the person being cheated on is not related by blood, and that the cheater, your sister, is sleeping with someone you know is carrying s...

You seem to attribute to death, by your construction, that it has anthropic properties, or sentience and maleficence of some kind. Death is not a pers...

Arbitrary speciesism. It mews, or it's warm 'n furry, or it has pups, or it makes eye contact...so I won't/cant eat it. Pity the poor plant which cann...

Only those who were can be called that. What is a wrecked 'car'? Was it a horse, or is it still a car? Does it cease to be a car simply because it is ...

Fortune is admitted by caprice, stochastic processes, or chance if you prefer. A fate that 'occurs' to all living things can hardly pass as fortune, g...

"Man's Search for Meaning," Victor Frankl. Matthew's Gospel in the Christian Bible, specifically, Ch 6, vs 20/21. Truer words were never spoken if you...

Legally, the prisons would be many times in number and in occupation if it were illegal to have affairs. Fortunately, or perhaps only wisely, that is ...

"...By the by "high calorie fat and sugar is cheap" would be more correctly stated as "high calorie fat and sugar are cheap" :)…" Not so fast! Is this...

0 thru 9, you are quite correct to chastise Streetlight for the reasons you cite, but he/she is partially justified, only partly, in spanking the OP ....

You seem to be undoing yourself because you contradict, just above, what you set out to ask about as an artefact of modern life. How can it be taboo a...

"... The ancients had a great respect and enthusiasm for bowel motions and the Druids or Shamans of old Ireland once practiced the noble art of 'gastr...

I don't feel there is a taboo about death, or even of talking about it. It is unfathomable, final, devoid of process for appeal, offers no second chan...

Pilgrim, I think you are getting bogged down by consequentialism. It might be true that we run risks in acting on our free will, but it doesn't follow...

",,,Eventually who stole what from whom becomes a moot point...." Said long since in another field, "Possession is nine points of the Law."

Keep a ring gotten by unethical or immoral means? How would that dignify you in a way it doesn't dignify the capitalist who extracts it and brings it ...

Sam Sam, I think you are too hard on yourself with the B-. That you thought to seek advice from people about it suggests that you were feeling guilty ...

"This doesn't equalize the exchange. At this point you still have acquired energy (work,money) without giving the same amount of energy (work, money) ...

"...Reverting back to square one is too complicated in this regards to justify it's possibility as a route of action, so instead of giving them the en...

Again, we disagree. I would not find it inconvenient to do the right thing...a pragmatic, a reasonable, attempt to ascertain the legitimate title to a...

We'll have to disagree. In my code, and being pragmatic as well as ethical, responsibility lies only in a reasonable attempt to determine the veracity...

Sam Sam, that estimated value seems low to me. I paid $1400 43 years ago for my wife's engagement ring, a solitary brilliant cut of the same quality a...

"...and any deceit after the fact is not their responsibility..." Deceit is intentional, so one who engages in it is always going to be responsible fo...

"... An ethical dilemma is where you have two possible responses to an ethical question and you can't figure out which is the most ethical..." Somewha...

"How do we know..." you asked earlier. Exactly. I counter with, "Should you know, and if you agree that you should, how would you determine the answer...

Sam, that changes things somewhat. For me, though, it would be little. I would still offer the small courtesy, if that is all it turns out to be, of a...

This was most likely unintended. If the ring, forget the diamond, were worth anything close to the cost of the most expensive non-ring object in the b...

Philosophy leaves room for speculation where religion does not. Truths are conditional in philosophy, whereas in religion they are not. Philosophy's o...

Nullum iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius. - Terentius Not with a bang, but a whimper.- T.S. Elliot, "The Hollow Men" Fere libenter homines id quod ...

Economies, like all systems, require 'systems thinking' in order to understand what's really going on. Less than about 5% of the world's population is...

What is to be included in the set or sets of 'things'? We need to operationalize this first.

Quite a range of choices, all sensible to me and I appreciate the choices. For me: Piano - Piano Cto No. 5 in E Flat by Beethoven Symphony - No. 7 by ...

Okay, I see that I typed 'did' instead of 'die.' Sorry for not seeing my error sooner and correcting myself. Death is merely an inevitable condition a...

What does death have to do with the topic?

A triumph of desire over pleasure? Hardly. Hedonism is the force majeure of modern thinking, as I see it. Self indulgence is a pressure, to be sure, b...

If you are alone in any rational way, to whom do you address the question...in a meaningful way?

"... By which standard would we be measuring our internal ethical rules and external judgments that allow us to change our internal moral compass or d...

Agreed, and why I stated that co-operation isn't quite as Hobbesian as its alternative. I don't really believe in altruism, and no 'behaviourist' shou...

Many people say things fatuously thinking that they sound enlightened and important. They haven't thought them through, or think so little of the read...

Knowledge, to me, is a set of information that affords the holder greater predictive capacity. You could argue that there is false knowledge, but that...

I will have to think about this and hopefully respond when I am more 'with it' than I am at the moment. Still nursing my morning pot of tea.... To me,...

People who have little compunction about self-service undoubtedly do as you suggest....they act if it feels right. Those of us who are more careful, m...

Yes, that is a bit afield. It's a different conversation. I don't know that secular/atheist thinkers would offer to 'do the right thing' for any less ...

"...Is it descriptive in a subjective or objective manner? " If I am correct in stating, as I did, that it is both descriptive and quantifiable...…………...