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You're not going to have contradictions across possible worlds, because then we're not saying the same thing, in the same respect, etc.

To make it more generalized, the idea is just that someone has a preference of x that's not based on something else, but to make x obtain, some (other...

The problem is that there's no way to know for sure which third person-observable data goes with which first person experienceable phenomena. This is ...

Since you keep mentioning rules/codes, and especially since you're mentioning written rules here, can I ask just where these rules/codes are recorded?

So the problems begin there. What would be the epistemological basis for saying it's 50/50 at any point?

Even if health concerns aren't primary, you can't get to the destination --a bodybuilder's physique --without being intentionally healthy.

I don't buy the notion of subconscious mental content, but even if I did, that would have to be actual subconscious mental content of particular indiv...

That would just be saying that others might have ridiculous beliefs about the person, but why would bodybuilding be a special case for that?

lol

But the whole point is that the work it requires to get a bodybuilding physique can't be faked, and it does really have all of those benefits. You can...

Re your B, you're leaving out the health aspects. That's also part of the instinctive attraction, because it's part of "security," part of having a st...

If you want to follow others for some reason, and you prefer following the consensus, that's fine. The point is to simply call it for what it is. It w...

Yeah, writers will often try to imply camera directions, but you have to be really careful about that. It's considered amateurish or unprofessional to...

Scripts standardly have no camera notations at all. Only shooting scripts have any camera directions, but those are harder to acquire. Scripts you can...

Sure, there are enough bad apples, though.

Just in the news yesterday, by the way--a high school that did their own production of the film, Alien: https://deadline.com/2019/03/ridley-scott-alie...

"Objective" isn't the same thing as a consensus, and proposing that it is is just an argumentum ad populum.

It's actually really easy to get film scripts. If you want the students to be able to create something they can do that with a script just as they'd d...

Sure, so as I said, "The only way that something like that can make sense is that you're making a distinction between what you like and what other peo...

For example, let's say that Joe has a love of a particular part of the Amazon and really wants to live there, so he wants to build a house there. It t...

Yes, and I couldn't be more certain of it. The only way that something like that can make sense is that you're making a distinction between what you l...

I'd say that any moral stance, n, is rational only in relation to some other, effectively foundational stance or desire, goal, etc., m, where n is eit...

I specified what I'm referring to. I'm referring to things like people losing their freedom (by being imprisoned), losing their job, not being able to...

Okay . . . there, though, I just don't agree that religion has any positive influence on social cooperation. It's impossible to establish truth values...

The way that we know that SJWs want to control people's ability to make choices in the ways I noted is that they say as much, and they laud when peopl...

Doesn't "behave better" have an ethical/moral connotation?

It might help if you explain what led you to this question. (Even if the explanation is simply citing a journal article or something like that.)

It seems that you're still focusing on speech. I'm not saying anything about speech. My problem with SJWs is that they want--they WANT to control peop...

In my opinion, one of the worst things about boards like this is that people can type posts if not of unlimited length, at least a couple thousand wor...

I've done that many times already. I'm talking about where you want the person to lose their job, lose anything like their shelter, healthcare, etc., ...

You mean preemptively? Because no one's rights are being violated simply because someone says something, or dresses a particular way, etc. Not that I ...

Yeah, it's frustrating to have to keep correcting such simple things against straw men.

Yes . . . not sure why that's surprising?

It's worth pointing out, by the way, that the extent of agreement in other fields is often overestimated, and the extent of agreement in philosophy is...

Again, that isn't a belief. It's simply a stipulation about how I use a term. Different people use the same terms in different ways. I use that term t...

Free speech should have speech consequences, in my opinion.

I have a problem with people wanting to control others to that extent, where they're in favor of them losing their jobs, etc.

In a lot of those sorts of cases people simply are not articulating their actual stances very well. The stances are going to be more detailed, nuanced...

First, I just want to make sure that you understand that I'm not saying that the speech acts of SJWs are harmful in any way. I feel like that's not cl...

Collective community wisdom is evidence of what the consensus is in a community, right?

Morality is subjective. But morality isn't the entirety of the world. There are plenty of objective things. Morality just ain't one of them.

Yeah, either they already have the same moral preferences, or you have to try to "talk them into them" by appealing to other preferences they have, ot...

As we've discussed in many recent threads, both about morality and aesthetics, I don't believe that value/valuing is anything other than how an indivi...

Wouldn't the difference be whether you're saving thousands of lives?

Intentionally, I think it can be justifiable to push people to do things they don't want to do, to nag at them, etc. That can produce change in a way ...

Again, it's not for your benefit. I don't expect you to pay any attention to it or to do anything other than this sort of bickering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASE5CONyGV8

Sure, he probably could, barring something unusual. Other people can respond, too. That's the whole gist of public message boards. If you want somethi...

I'm not asking you to prove anything. I'm asking you "Could you please explain what the heck you're thinking here, because it just seems completely my...

We could just as well say that "every single person having a different moral stance on x" could have an outside source--and sure, it could. It's not i...