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It's not impossible, it's just counterintuitive. One common way to use the term "impossible" is to refer to something that would amount to a logical c...

Well, for one, it's not as if it's simply the case of an authority imposing some rule or other than almost all of the citizenry opposes uniformly. Dif...

Not wanting to be imprisoned is one of the big reasons. That at least motivates providing the appearance of following authority when one is most at ri...

I'd have to see some evidence that we're getting tens of "crank and crackpot" threads that moderators are deleting daily. It's a pretty dubious claim.

I'm a relativist in general, so . . . Also, re a term like "absolute honesty," I'd want to even clarify just what that's supposed to amount to.

How about they just don't make (philosophical, scientific, etc.) content decisions? There's no need for that, especially because the board is relative...

Brilliant idea for everyone--including moderators, to can the thread but nevertheless start debating about it in this thread instead, as if it's worth...

Truth/falsehood is different idea than honesty/dishonesty. Truth/falsehood have to do with whether a proposition has a specific relation, such as corr...

It's problematic to have moderators make moderation judgments about content--that is, the philosophical, scientific, etc. merit of anything--even if t...

Not if something always existed. It's like you don't even understand how English works. Stop repeating the same nonsense over and over after we correc...

as I've explained to you time and again, stuff either exists always or there was a start to it, and there's no way around that, despite both being cou...

That would be confusing use with mention. If you're not familiar with the use/mention distinction, here are a couple easy examples: "Dogs" has four le...

Because? (Mww seemed to suggest the equivalent of a "true metal" argument--is that what you'd shoot for here?)

No, it isn't, because as I've explained to you time and again, stuff either exists always or there was a start to it, and there's no way around that, ...

I think the very notion of eternalism is completely incoherent, so I wouldn't say that. :yum:

What unites us? The fact that we're the same species, and we're a species that survives more easily when we interact with/cooperate with each other.

You said, "I don't think I even gave any evidence in your quote." Right. You gave supposed evidence after that, when it was questioned by someone else...

In my view it doesn't at all depend on language-acquisition. A baby, from the start, is going to be okay versus not be okay with some things that you ...

Exactly. There's a weird bias against things that are mental phenomena, where the bias has it that something is far less valuable, worthwhile, worth t...

If I were both asserting and denying the same P, sure I would. What's the P I'm both asserting and denying? This is the second time I'm asking you.

What in the world would the argument be for this claim: Iff moral stance M is prevalent to at least r extent (I don't know just how prevalent it has t...

Why would that be a mystery? It's a matter of personal judgment--an individual considers x more significant/important than y. Can you simply state som...

Alternate views of what communication is/how it works are possible, but it would be a huge tangent to get into.

It seems odd to me to ask why someone would care about how they think about things, how they conceptualize things, their feelings, their perceptions, ...

I said "If someone uses the terms in anything like the conventional senses, which we can assume, then sure, if they feel that x is good they're not go...

On my view neither understanding nor meaning are objective, so obviously I'm going to have a problem with this part.

Ah--I'll read what you just pasted above, although I might need to do it in a bit (I need to run out)

Was it this: We'd have to go over that piece by piece. The first premise seems kind of arbitrary to me. How are you figuring "If morality came from th...

If someone uses the terms in anything like the conventional senses, which we can assume, then sure, if they feel that x is good they're not going to f...

Ah--yeah, I addressed that, but aside from that, do you think that relativism/subjectivism vs objectivism somehow amounts to saying that people arrive...

Too bad we don't have post #s here, but can you give me at least a small text string that I can identify the post by? That way I can quickly search fo...

I don't quite understand the way you worded that, but if you're just saying that moral judgments are judgments that interpersonal behavior (that one c...

How do you go from the instinctive avoidance of pain (which I don't actually agree is a fact as anything that simple, but we can ignore that for now) ...

You could try just telling me what the percentage of people with some stance has to do with relative/subjective vs objective morality in your view.

The post of yours that I quoted in that reply.

How is that a big clue? The two things don't have anything to do with each other. How in the world would I know just how common some relatively unusua...

Yes, of course. The pragmatic difference is that the two are two completely different things. Agreement, commonality has nothing whatsoever to do with...

Why would you assume I'm not giving you my honest guess? Relevant to what? (Other than itself)

Right, don't worry that you don't understand the concept of incoherence, just double down and keep arguing.

Can we move some mountains down there, too, while we're at it? And maybe a huge outdoor air conditioner?

The notion of flying was never incoherent, lol.

I have known people who become very upset when other people are ignorant or unintelligent . . . But I've never understood that reaction. My reaction t...

I'm not offendable. I should be offended at someone saying something that's not true, or at a propensity for people to believe things that aren't true...

You were using "we" to refer to "some individuals but not us collectively"? In other words, a way to say "you peons contra me and the other in-crowd p...

Exactly. For people who can be offended, it's worth analyzing why one has that reaction. Do they expect everyone to like them? Why would they expect t...

The point is that insofar as we're focusing on what we're referring to in practical, observable, experiential, phenomenal terms, it doesn't follow tha...

It just underscores that the idea of time travel is incoherent.

Criticizing artworks for a lack of realism is a pet peeve of mine. I call it the "realism fetish."

I'm more perplexed by why anyone is ever offended.

I have no idea what you'd think logic is if you think this has anything to do with logic. At any rate, logic, ontologically, is a way of thinking abou...