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Re "or most atheists," I wasn't speaking for anyone else. Re my second point, "there's nothing that I'd even remotely consider evidence of a god empir...
October 08, 2019 at 14:26
It's based on different things to different atheists. There's no one common justification for all of them. All that atheists have in common is the lac...
October 08, 2019 at 13:22
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So are we going to change the rules so that there are temporary bans?
October 08, 2019 at 13:02
Someone could interpret your actions in a manner that doesn't match your motivations, sure. I wasn't following the whole discussion by the way. I just...
October 08, 2019 at 13:01
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He wrote, "Also, there are no temporary bans. That's written in the rules. Which we stick to," The response to give is, "There are currently no tempor...
October 08, 2019 at 12:58
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That there are no temporary bans in the rules was given as a reason for not introducing a temporary ban. That's not a good reason for not having tempo...
October 08, 2019 at 12:46
Yeah, I agree with that. I'd say that part of what that particular emotion entails is that you perform certain sorts of actions towards the object of ...
October 08, 2019 at 12:43
How would you know how to act in that situation if the actions are not motivated by particular emotions?
October 08, 2019 at 12:07
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An attitude I despise, because it's the source of a lot of problems in the world. Jamalrob and whoever else made up the rules. You can make up whateve...
October 08, 2019 at 11:58
Yes. I'd be skeptical of any claim about what most of any group of millions of people thought over 100 years ago.(Or even today, since no one is polli...
October 08, 2019 at 11:53
I wouldn't say that. One thing I said was that I don't consider any speech immoral. That doesn't imply that I think there's no need to ever take anyon...
October 08, 2019 at 11:27
Sure, but what I quoted is the official standard now.
October 08, 2019 at 11:08
It's not taking instruction from me, it's trying to better yourself.
October 08, 2019 at 02:05
Don't be offended. You could have decent conversations about this stuff, but you can't be so sensitive about criticism.
October 07, 2019 at 21:16
Where does that person live just out of curiosity?
October 07, 2019 at 21:13
?? You just said you didn't take the SAT. You're not in the US apparently. Some people get relatively poor scores on the reading comprehension section...
October 07, 2019 at 20:36
That's fine to say. But seriously, read about this stuff.
October 07, 2019 at 20:31
So you weren't suggesting some abstract notion of reason. You're referring to a particular person's reason?
October 07, 2019 at 20:29
Then maybe you could explain it to me in a way that makes sense. What specific military action do you think the initial post of the thread is asking a...
October 07, 2019 at 20:27
Really, I was trying to figure out what the F boethius was on about, because it made no sense to me. I gave my response to whether I think the militar...
October 07, 2019 at 20:24
What specific military actions in question? Are you causing "using excessive force" a "specific military action"?
October 07, 2019 at 20:05
Did you try the Stanford encyclopedia? For example, this section of the Heidegger article might be helpful to you: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/...
October 07, 2019 at 20:03
The only time SightsOfCold mentioned war was when he said: He's just suggesting a logical idea. He's not referencing any particular war.
October 07, 2019 at 19:43
You take the SAT in high school. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a degree. It has to do with getting into college/university. It's a test ...
October 07, 2019 at 19:39
So what did you do on your SATs for the reading comprehension section?
October 07, 2019 at 19:21
?? What particular war is mentioned?
October 07, 2019 at 19:19
Because you consistently demonstrate that you didn't understand what was written. If the sentences are fine, then your reading comprehension is what's...
October 07, 2019 at 18:37
?? Was the subject some particular military action?
October 07, 2019 at 18:33
A war wouldn't ensue if everyone decided to not serve, of course. There would be no one to start a war. But it's not going to be the case that everyon...
October 07, 2019 at 13:41
I don't even understand this comment unfortunately.
October 07, 2019 at 13:28
That sounds like you're assuming a whole package of likely actions that you're reading the lie to be a beacon for, and you're saying that you want the...
October 07, 2019 at 13:27
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Maybe a temporary ban would work for S? I don't know if we usually do temporary bans. But give him a month off or whatever and maybe that would enable...
October 07, 2019 at 13:23
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That's too bad. I liked pattern-chaser . . . and actually didn't realize he'd split until you just pointed this out. But yeah, I haven't seen any post...
October 07, 2019 at 13:15
One thing we might be missing here, re making it explicit (I was assuming this would be understood), is that morality isn't just preferences about int...
October 07, 2019 at 13:12
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Although, as I said, I think it's childish to ban someone just for that. (Whether it's the policy or not. It's a childish policy to have.)
October 07, 2019 at 13:09
RIght, so then you'd not prefer that the doctor do the thing that you consider immoral--lying about your kid's health. It wouldn't make sense to say "...
October 07, 2019 at 13:06
You'd not prefer that the doctor lie to you about your kid's health, right? (This is ignoring, by the way, the comments about contractual obligations ...
October 07, 2019 at 13:04
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Is that the circular file in the corner?
October 07, 2019 at 13:00
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He almost immediately said that he only suggested banning because he felt he was spending too much time here. In other words, he didn't really want to...
October 07, 2019 at 12:59
By continuous examples of you not being able to understand relatively simple sentences. If you want to try to explain supposed problems with the sente...
October 07, 2019 at 12:54
The way it entails that is that morality is about preferences. Preferences are things we want to be the case, no?
October 07, 2019 at 12:52
I didn't read through every post since I last addressed frank, but for anyone, did we ever sort through just what we're using "truth" to refer to? Tha...
October 07, 2019 at 12:47
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It's pretty childish to ban someone over that, though, especially given the comments he'd made after that. (Which isn't to say that that wasn't a chil...
October 07, 2019 at 12:36
Say what?
October 07, 2019 at 12:16
By the way, you're also not even understanding this sentence: "The 'there is no free will' crowd always wants to appeal to it being a standard view or...
October 07, 2019 at 11:58
I already addressed this. If your reading comprehension didn't suck you'd know that.
October 07, 2019 at 11:45
You didn't at all understand my post. The category error occurs in saying that a person, overall, can be morally valuable or not. Also that's not what...
October 07, 2019 at 11:38
The issue is if you're positing reason as a platonic form. In that case it's not mental. It's a real abstract whatever-the-heck-platonic-forms-are-sup...
October 07, 2019 at 11:35
In my view there are a lot of problems with this including that "everything that x represents" is every way every single individual has ever thought a...
October 06, 2019 at 22:11
Let's say that we can show that x is causal to y, in the sense of x forcing y. If S does x to R, so that y results in R, I wouldn't necessarily say th...
October 06, 2019 at 21:40