Relativist

I'm sorry, but your rationalization of Trump's behavior on the subject is misinformed. It's absolutely understandable why the Danes would consider the...

Zip. Nada. Zilch. It would be a big deal to a handful of people, but it would change no one's life. One set of people that would be influenced would b...

If you listen to everything he says carefully, you can perhaps see his opinion evolving. There's nothing wrong with that in principle, but he does ten...

I strongly disagree, and I think this erroneous conclusion is a consequence of conflating logic with causation. Contrast chains of logic with causal c...

The best responses to theism are materialist (physicalist) metaphysics and cosmology. Every argument I've seen for God are based on arguments from ign...

I don't think anyone has considered the basis of morality, which I argue is empathy. If we lacked empathy, there would be no morality. Morality is the...

To add to the confusion, consider what (if any) difference there is between ontology and metaphysics. Both pertain to what exists.

You're idealizing a non-existent scenario. The people do not have a single will. The phenomenon I identified is of individuals inferring from his word...

This is a feature, not a bug. It enables Trump supporters to hear whatever they want to hear. You want gun background checks? You don't want backgroun...

Free speech in the U.S. does not mean you can say anything, in any context, and suffer no consequences. There are laws against slander and libel. You ...

TV commercials do not cause every viewer to immediately go and and purchase the advertised product. Nevertheless they are effective at inducing some d...

I disagree. Our world views are largely a consequence of our environment, and speech constitutes a large part of that environment.

My point was that we judge whether or not to restrict free speech based on the anticipated consequences, since we agree "objective moral values" don't...

"Letting people do what they want" is not a consequence, it's just a generalization of "let people say what they want". I'm guessing you must think it...

Free speech is not some objective moral value. You value it because of what you perceive to be the positive consquences. The negatives have not been d...

But why? You subjectively value free speech so highly that you are willing to accept the negative consequences.

Note that you treat unrestricted free speech as the ultimate good.

When you refer to it as views I despise, that puts a subjective spin on it. I despise some right wing ideology, but I absolutely believe they should b...

While it is appropriate to hold everyone personally accountable for his own actions, let's bear in mind that our individual world-views are a product ...

Motion prior to time seems logically impossible. Motion entails change of position over time. In the absence of time, it logically impossible for ther...

Indeed! Any firing back on that moronic guy in the oval office is richly deserved! Thanks for giving us carte blanche to say what we think of the puss...

I hear a lot of Trump supporters praising Trump for "firing back" with insults and degrading statements, while complaining only about the low behavior...

Denmark's PM called the proposal to by Greenland absurd. Trump's response: "I thought that the prime minister’s statement, that it was 'absurd,' that ...

I assume you mean "how do you do science without libertarian free will". The answer: with compatibilist free will. Compatibilists account for free wil...

I suggest that choices are determined irrespective of whether or not libertarian free will exists. Reflect on any past choice, and think about why you...

What do you call those things you do every day, in which you make a selection from among multiple options? Obviously you are making a choice. Sure, th...

When a choice presents itself, you make it. You say it wasn't "much of a choice", but what you would consider as more of a choice? How would indetermi...

See my above reply to khaled. Of course you could, had it occurred to you to take more time or to use Google. But it hadn't occurred to you. Given exa...

Set aside the issue of whether or not the world is deterministic, and think introspectively about choices you have made. Don't you sometimes ponder an...

Didn't you choose to write those particular words? Were you not free to write something different? I certainly chose to respond in the way I did. In m...

I think Terrapin is saying: 1. the will is determined or the will is free (premise) 2. the will is not determined (because of QM?) 3. Therefore the wi...

Your ISIS analogy fails because it facilitates crimes, whereas affairs are not crimes. Do you have any data support your claim that clandestine affair...

That's only approximately true. Here's the QFT view of things. Matter is composed of particles. The set of known particles comprise the standard model...

I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few Republicans vote in the Democratic primaries out of being sick of the orange one. I'd expect Biden to be the De...

Why are so many people so quick to jump to a conspiracy theory? More than likely, Epstein simply committed suicide (and BTW, it's been reported that t...

ROFL! Right, and he's always been a faithful, loving husband, too.

No: I'm not saying to embrace their talking points, in saying they shouldn't play into them. In particular, consider Medicare For All. IMO it has near...

I agree with what you said, but there's another big issue. Few actually consider themselves racists, but many have thought to themselves "they should ...

My theory doesn't apply to everyone and it doesn't require anyone to be completely rational, but I don't see how you can deny that self-interest is on...

They care about policies indirectly: they care about themselves, so they are attracted to policies they perceive will benefit themselves. That means t...

Anti-Trump fervor among that group will bring votes for any Democrat. We need to get back the working class, who used to be the core of the party. The...

Biden is not Hillary. Lots of people hated Hillary, but everyone likes Joe. Joe is much more popular among blue collar voters than Hillary. There's al...

I'll clarify my point. Those progressive policies will never be implemented no matter who is elected but people will vote against a candidate espousin...

Clinton was also....Clinton. who suffered from years of demonization. Lots of people voted against her, or didn't vote. Consider how low Trump's margi...

Here's the problematic issues: Medicare for all, open borders, and reparations. They cannot pass anyway, so steer away from candidates who promise the...

Have we learned anything new about Trump since being elected? Does anything he's done as President reveal anything about his character that wasn't alr...

I'd look at this from the opposite perspective: why are students in other majors less enamored with socialism? They value money and material things, a...

OK, but then I'll also make a closing statement. It is logically impossible to make a decision that is an act of "unrestricted will". Every decision i...

Given the subject, shouldn't this be merged with the all-inclusive Donald Trump thread? :wink:

We should draw a distinction between telling an untruth and telling a lie. When you tell the friend there is a cat, you have lied despite it actually ...