Terrapin Station

I take trolling to require a lack of sincerity. I don't believe that Bartricks isn't sincere.

I can tell you the laws I'm in favor of, I can tell you what the laws presently are (if you're incapable of looking that up for some reason), I can te...

Right. I'm not in favor of any laws about "psychological harms." Why hasn't that been clear from what I've said? That's not at all what I'm saying, by...

Being an asshole, a bitch, a dick, etc. I wouldn't say it's a "moral flaw," no, although I suppose often enough it leads to behavior that I'd classify...

So if you're not asking me what my view is--what I think should be legal/illegal, what I think is moral/immoral, etc., what exactly are you asking me?...

Yeah, but you're saying that most Americans were racist. If I had enough info about things they said where I considered some of those things racist, s...

https://www.harris.com/sites/default/files/images/solutions_grouping/thumbnails/night-vision-ground-sm_1.jpg

So in other words, you're not really going to go through a critical examination of anything with me. Part of what we'd be critically examining, by the...

Here's an escrow company I've used: http://smprtitle.com/services/escrow-services/ Is that okay with you? We need to go over the terms/devise the ques...

A minute ago you didn't have $10k

Sure. How much are we wagering? And we need to figure out the terms. For one we could use the scenario I set up earlier re measurements and the true/f...

I don't recall where you are. Just wager whatever you can afford. You don't send it to me. Again, we put it into escrow and draw up a contract. (No wo...

Yes, that you're a bullshitter.

You put the money in escrow. You draw up a contract specifying the terms. There's zero risk unless you're talking shit. If you put up enough--say at l...

Which means that you're talking shit. I'm not. I'll seriously wager any amount on this. Here's when I won't take a wager: when I'm not more or less 10...

I'm not talking metaphorically. If you're sure you'd win, I wouldn't be getting any money from you, right? You'd only be getting money from me.

Okay, so the wager?

What? You don't believe that you'd win the wager? (I'm trying to confirm that that's what you're saying.)

Okay, so you're sure that you'll win the bet re "correct" having a normative connotation. So how much are we wagering?

Sure. We do allow all sorts of personal identity influence from parents/other family members. I don't know how we'd avoid that.

S (and maybe Isaac; I know it was someone else) complained about my criticism of calling something correct/incorrect, just because it's common/accordi...

And are you open to a critical examination of the paper and its claims?

I'm pretty sure parents aren't allowed to decide whether their kids even have hormone therapy related to that. It hinges on what the kid says in sessi...

What I've said over and over is that the word "correct" conventionally has a normative connotation. You can use it however you want to use it, of cour...

Can you give an example of the psychological evidence you're referring to? At least that would take the conversation somewhere different.

If you wanted to try to forward an empirical claim that all moral stances of a certain type MUST be based on earlier or intuitive moral stances of ano...

That's fine, but as I noted, I do this all the time myself. So I'm left with (a) it apparently being the case that you do not do this--which is fine, ...

I'd not allow anyone to make this decision for someone else, unless the person in question is considered (a) at a development stage where they'd norma...

If you do a google search for "should you do what's correct," in quotation marks, you get exactly ZERO hits. Why? If "correct" doesn't have a normativ...

We have a standard. A particular measurement of x, measurement A, is in accordance with the standard. Another measurement of x, measurement B, is not ...

I don't know why the other posts were deleted. Anyway, again, yeah, obviously I have unusual views, including unusual ethical views. I've stated this ...

The way I'd not be "immune" to negative feedback is this: You make an argument--an actual argument (it doesn't have to be formal, but at least a rheto...

Would you like to make a wager on whether a large majority (say >85%) of people assign a normative connotation to the word "correct" in various contex...

Without bothering to clear up just what I said, all you're doing there is saying that you're incapable of even buying that someone can have a view tha...

Yes, I'm from the U.S. by the way. How are we establishing that, exactly? (I just quoted that because it was the first thing there's an issue with.)

I'm telling you what I'd do. What do you want instead--tell you what someone else would do? I'm okay with "child abuse" when it's only psychological, ...

You're bringing up too many issues to address at the same time. I think this is the most important thing to address first. When ethical stance M is fo...

Yeah, I lost that subthread a bit--I forgot exactly what the context was overall. But basically I'd say the same thing I said above. A measurement can...

So you're going to tell them their preferences, wants, desires?

What would be an example of a performative contradiction of mine, then?

That wasn't the case. I was interested. I must have not seen it. Sometimes I miss posts addressed to me out of my own carelessness, especially if I'm ...

I wouldn't say that. It's just that it covers situations such as the rock-throwing scenario.

But it explicitly was. And earlier you were criticizing my consistency. What would you give as an example of some P that I've both asserted and denied...

I'm skeptical that that's really possible. S thinks there are certain moral stances that need to be adhered to, via some combo of reason, consensus an...

Okay, but explicitly means that I explicitly said the opposite of what you're saying.

Sorry, I didn't catch that you were trying to represent my position with a claim that I'd explicitly disagree with.

What would determine who it includes?

Not even what I said.

I don't know what another sense would be, really. Relative simply refers to the idea of being dependent on particular relations (while not obtaining f...

A simple, non-controversial example is inertial frames of reference. They're relative, but not subjective.