Right, I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I wouldn't say a fully fleshed out morality directly follows from that. Morality is a bit more conc...
I voted no, because I have never seen a good account for how to determine what is objectively moral, or how to adjudicate between different moral view...
I'm not sure I can help with that. I don't know all that much about either of them, because they are more on the rationalist spectum of the tradition....
Ok, I mostly agree with this I think. Any form of knowledge will invariably have to involve some abstracting away from particulars to the more general...
Assuming that the world is inherently meaningless, It does seem more honest to aknowledge that fact about the world than to invent stuff to satisfy a ...
Yes it was certainly a successful strategy in making advances in the hard sciences like physics. I do wonder if the strategy is as successful in econo...
Yes ok the laws themselves are normative, like morality, but the sanctions are not, right? That's what we are talking about when talk about retributiv...
Right, the one is descriptive and the other normative.... which would mean the analogy still would apply to talking about what functions the justice s...
The "productive" reason is making the person doing the blaming feel better. Maybe you would say that is not a good reason, but we are not always reaso...
Unless you think a part of claims to mental illness or defects are not mental illness or defects, but dissimulation... which is difficult to rule out ...
I agree with the above post that our beliefs around agency or our lingering belief in free will plays a big part in this. It's hard to believe in free...
No, because a lot of desires are in relation to other people. And so in relation to those desires, technology is neutral... if everybody has access to...
Majority view that there is systemic racism, is not the same as a will to do something about it, especially not if doing something about it will cost ...
No, the problem is systemic racism now. And like with overt racism, I don't think a real solution to this problem will come from dialogue alone.... so...
Okay, but that consensus about classic racism wasn't reached by merely talking to eachother. It was the result of a hard fought battle, and not only m...
Sure, but it's not merely a wish for antagonism. There are real differences, in temperament... and also in societal position. Seeking a consensus only...
I think at some point dialogue doesn't do much, that is when your basic premisses are totally different... no amount of argument will change that, bec...
A good part of the population base their ideas of what ought to be on 'how things are'... which is the same as saying they will only change those idea...
Sure, nobody can predict the future. But any systemic solution to the systemic problems would have to involve some kind economic rearrangement and red...
I don't think so, well not really anyway, they will want to do just enough so the whole system doesn't crash. That's their interest, to keep a system ...
Yes sure it's mainly psychological, but that doesn't mean that it is that easily changed. Like, I don't really believe in the Peter Singers of this wo...
You think people favoring their kids is a consequence of atheism... or of any sort of ideology even? You don't think there's some biological component...
Ok the article spoke of left-leaning, which is mostly liberal in your mind I presume... and not the true left. The tips could probably make a differen...
Oh the irony in liberal leftists being a cause of rather then the solution to systemic racism. "Alternatively, consider schooling: New York City swing...
Well I guess that depends on how you would define simplicity. Some would probably say a less complex mathematical model is more simple, while others m...
Is it possible to think of a model that would rely on an immaterial field that cannot be removed for the model to hold? Per definition the immaterial ...
The obvious observation to make is that their scientific understanding of the world was not nearly as sophisticated as our current scientific understa...
Yes, and that is why those categories do tell us something about a person, they are some of the forces that end up solidifying human plasticity into a...
Trying to think this through to the end... Is there any way to solve the problem of systemic racism without overthrowing the whole system? And If ther...
Yes but it is not the same object, even in presentism. And as I said in previous posts what is considered 'the same object' is something we decide and...
Why not though? My position is, from the beginning, that existing at t1 and t2 and moving through time is the same, except for existing only in the pr...
Nothing stays the same from one moment to the next, as in identical... the law of identity X=X. Even in presentism X is not X anymore a moment in the ...
Agreed, this is also what I've been saying a couple of pages back... in less scientifically accurate terms anyway. I agree with this too I think, and ...
Fixed the definition! But in Luke's defense, if we take eternalism seriously as a metaphysical theory of time, and not merely as a description, then t...
Maybe I'll just add this one point, I don't think populist votes are the result of a lack of quality in political debate, I think rather it's the resu...
I don't know if it really possible to use ideology and unbiased in the same sentence. That's maybe a bit hyperbolic, but isn't politics and ideology e...
I doubt it, post-truth populism is a much wider phenomenon than parliament, then politics even. There's a big difference though, doctors aren't suppos...
Yes, yes, excessive idealism risks turning into cynicism and nihilism. We create meaning, and it's a bit arbitrary where we want to draw lines. Some s...
Sure, I'm not saying it wouldn't matter at all, I'm just saying there might be better ways of achieving the goal. Things like diminishing power of pol...
I don't think you fully understood the ramifications of what I'm saying. It's not the representatives who decide. Or they decide only 'technically', t...
Okay, even if we would try to bracket the corruption and nepotism question, I still think this misses the mark to some extend. The mud throwing is not...
Can't say I really like it, because it's a bit elitist only allowing certain diploma's. And licenses are also always reviewed by people who can be cor...
Like, what is the height of a 2D square in a flat 2D universe? The answer is not 0... the answer is that height doesn't apply because there is no dime...
Yeah that was worded badly maybe, I was just getting off the train and had to hurry. You need to adjust the concept of motion to the 4D frame, because...
To our ends of course, as human beings. Even if eternalism is true, we would only experience part of it, and things existing over multiple positions o...
Ok then, are you a rationalist maybe? In eternalism, what word would you use to differentiate between a 4d object that only exists at one place and a ...
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