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Ah, I guess "reconciliation with mentality" was a typo , then.

I've mentioned this many times, but I don't hinge any ethical view on "harm" unqualified. It's too vague. Many things that many people might consider ...

I don't understand. Are you denying that in the Philosophy of Logical Atomism Russell forwarded a view that "fact" and "truth" are different and that ...

Force in terms of forcing an outcome. That's the sense of causality I care about. I consider intent, but not intent alone. I don't consider any though...

Yeah, I don't put much stock in it for a number of different reasons including: (1) causality issues, where what I'm concerned with there is force (an...

The term doesn't conventionally refer to something other than the dictionary definition, though. If you want to make a claim about atheists often havi...

Say what? What in the world is "validly reconciling oneself with the prospect of one's mentality"?

There is no intentional offense that I'd consider immoral. When someone is offended I see it as their problem, not the offender's problem.

Atheism doesn't have an aim. It's simply a term for a lack of belief in a deity.

If it's inescapable it's futile to oppose it. One has to learn how to be at peace with it.

There's no need to guess. Learn how to read. Your reading comprehension sucks. You demonstrate that repeatedly.

That's not my view. For example, I don't think there's anything immoral about intentionally offending someone.

Yes he did what?

I don't know if you were answering yes or no to the first question. Per Russell, who was one of the primary influences of this being the standard view...

Yeah, exactly.

By the way, that strong determinism hasn't been the consensus view in the sciences for over 150 years isn't just about quantum mechanics. One only thi...

Are we using "truth" as another term for "states of affairs" ("the way things are") here? And how are we defining "power"? "Power" talk, outside of ph...

The Rushkoff stuff you're quoting seems kind of hyperbolic, sensationalized, overwrought, flowery to me, but at any rate, I like weed. :cool: I'd rath...

Nope. Not what I said. And yet you even quoted it.

Maybe it's a language issue. I still don't know what you're saying. Why are you asking "can you justify that" for example?

With assholes, I just don't want to hang out with them . . . well, at least if they're not consistently assholes. That doesn't imply that I have a pro...

The idea of "ad hoc" is that one is just making any shit up, as needed as a discussion continues, in order to "support a point"/be right.

The idea is that, for example, "needless suffering" and "oppressor/oppressed" are different ideas. If we state that our concern is for one, but then w...

What a dumb response. You quoted me and responded as if you were disagreeing with what I said. But your comment didn't actually address what I said.

Again huh? That doesn't seem "simply put." It seems like pretty gobbledygooky with a bunch of assumptions (including re just what I'm claiming) that a...

If one starts to introduce all of those additional qualifications, they'd need to be supported, and we could just suggest that one state the full poli...

If only that were what I was referring to (for one). Also, if only the idea were just about quantum mechanics. Yet another moronic response from you t...

Well, first we've got to figure out what we're even referring to by folks claiming to be trying to buck some concept of money.

I don't think it's harder for them to express themselves if you call them immoral. I had said that I don't consider any speech to be immoral, and said...

Huh? :razz: Every claim there seems very confused and/or incoherent to me.

Haha. It's weird he doesn't see the category error there, though. Morality is about specific actions, or at least specific types of actions. A person ...

Free will obtains via the fact that the world is not strongly deterministic. The standard view in the sciences, by the way, is that the world is not s...

I'm probably not going to understand this, because I'm a physicalist/materialist who doesn't buy any sort of nonphysical stuff, mystical stuff, "trans...

What in the world would it mean for a person to be morally valuable?

Also, it's hard to take someone seriously when they have this hairdo: https://cdn.britannica.com/93/129093-050-334ACFE7/Antonio-Gramsci.jpg

If one is worried about unnecessary suffering, in a situation where we're censoring some speech, what about the unnecessary suffering of people who no...

Here's a recent post of mine explaining the standard academic philosophical definition of metaphysics, by the way: https://thephilosophyforum.com/disc...

That's not actually the academic philosophical usage of "metaphysics" by the way. But okay, so you're using "metaphysics" in some kind of mystical "be...

You had said, "Well, sure. But I want to be able to trust people." So I thought you were saying that our stances or policies on this stuff was going t...

I don't understand how you're using the terms "metaphysical" and "empirical." It doesn't seem to resemble how I use those terms or what I'd say conven...

Strikes me as a very elaborate conspiracy theory.

Exactly. "Sexual essence/essentialist about sex" is a good way to put it. It's weird to me that the whole thing seems to be based on kowtowing to "sex...

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/8oP3xl2afX4gU/giphy.gif

It's certainly not going to be the case that everyone's trustworthy of their own accord. I don't know how to answer that, because I don't know what "s...

If an argument is stated by Bartricks, then it refutes no rival positions. The argument in the first post of this thread was stated by Bartricks. Ther...

No idea why you're calling that "progressive," but okay. Basically you're describing hearsay there, right? A lot of things about this question seem co...

On a slow day, yeah.

I usually prefer to not explain jokes, but in other words, if we read "trolling research" as saying "research that is trolling" rather than "research ...

Cats might say the opposite.

On the other hand, trolling research is trolling.