After decades of discussions with tens if not hundreds of different people about this, I'm desperate for anyone to actually provide the evidence they ...
No, I didn't say anything like that. It's subjective. Again, mathematics is NOT identical to any objective relations. I explicitly said that mathemati...
That's evidence of no kicked pups. It's not evidence of any mind-independent "ought" property. It seems as if you don't understand the distinction, bu...
In my view numbers, mathematical objects in general, do not occur mind-independently. I'm a nominalist in various senses, including that I reject the ...
I don't want to. This has nothing at all to do with what I want. It's simply a fact that moral properties or whatever we want to call them only occur ...
Yes, when we're talking about objective color. That's the whole point of objectivity. Objective things are not at all dependent on anyone's judgment, ...
No, I'm saying its in the way electromagnetic radiation is reflected from the cup. How anyone judges a color is irrelevant to this. We can check the c...
Right, and if you feel compassion, and that's the sort of thing that we're talking about, then why is anyone arguing against these things being ways t...
You're saying the MORAL stuff is IN the broken pup. You're saying that it's not just a judgment that people make about the broken pup. So that's what ...
One person could say, "There's a broken pup. Producing broken pups is morally recommendable." Another could say, "There's a broken pup. Producing brok...
You're supposed to be providing EVIDENCE of the moral stuff occurring in the broken pup itself. Saying "you don't see the moral importance?" isn't pro...
Because it's just a broken pup and a crying child. It's not "It's good to have a broken pup" or "It's bad to have a broken pup" or "It's (morally) per...
You're arguing that it's not just preferences/feelings. It can't just be any old bullshit that won't be critically challenged. You have to be able to ...
It's more just annoying. I wish that one time someone who argues objective morality would follow through and present what they take to be evidence of ...
Yeah, big surprise that you'd bow out without being able to support your view. Unfortunately, that won't stop you from repeating the same vague nonsen...
We can detail what's going on objectively in a lot more detail, but you need to do that, too. First, you need to start by even settling on anything th...
What does that have to do with anything? Blue is an electromagnetic frequency. It's just like lightning is an electrical discharge between clouds and ...
I haven't read any of Willow's posts in this thread. I'd have to go back and read them. But I'd at least disagree with the idea that biological sex is...
I'm not going to type thousands of words in one post to address a bunch of different points. One thing at a time. So from the beginning: I don't defin...
Hence why I wrote "(at least in the broader, conventional conversation in society)" Where am I doing anything like that? What I said was "People can f...
Re the first, I'd agree that wasn't done in the 18th century, but whenever I've been in court, there were restrictions on what people were allowed to ...
The way I know that is because of the way that I use the word "universe." There can't be multiple universes. Whatever exists is the universe. I'm not ...
No one (at least in the broader, conventional conversation in society) is claiming that. The whole idea is that gender is distinct from biological sex...
No, with no possibility otherwise on that one. But that's simply because I use the word "universe" to refer to "everything extant (present and past)."...
No one was saying to not create simulated whatevers. I'm an atheist. I don't believe any religious claims. I don't believe in anything "spiritual." I ...
Re the Prussian system, the article says, "At the same time, it also taught things like obedience, duty to country, and general ethics." That sure was...
Re the Canadian law you're referring to: (a) Long before this bill was introduced, the Canadian criminal code prohibited the promotion of genocide and...
It's not as if people didn't intentionally offend, insult, etc. others, that some didn't advocate controversial socio-political approaches, etc. in th...
That doesn't seem like a very good quantification method for something like complexity. I would think that first we should define how we're even using...
Seeing a bifurcation there seems like oversimplifying and cherry-picking to me. Not all art was focused on telling stories, etc. prior to the Enlighte...
When there's no evidence for something, no particular reason to believe it over alternatives, I don't believe it. So my answer is, "No." If someone wa...
Well, I do agree with 1.3, simply because I believe that everything is dynamic. And I agree with 1.7 The rest either I disagree with or I think it's r...
But that's all I'm saying! So why would anyone be arguing otherwise? (Now it could be because of the word "judgment," but that's why I said "moral pro...
How do we get to needs that aren't dependent on wants? For example, you only need food and water if you want to stay alive. If you want to die via a h...
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