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What sort of language is that sentence written in? "Justify my agreeing with you that I myself had brought it up?" What??? Try to keep your sentences ...

Based on what?

In order for me to answer the question you asked, I need to understand just what you're asking. I was trying to answer this: "But the point is moot if...

Okay, and are you claiming that distinction just as a personal idiosyncrasy, or as a statistical commonality with respect to usage, or are you saying ...

You mean statistically a la what most people would have in mind? I have no idea, and you don't either. No one has done surveys about this. But why wou...

You might not have that expectation, but some people would. For example, people who supported prohibition for moral reasons. Likewise, maybe some peop...

Which could just as well be meant legally. I'm just clarifying what you're asking about. What is a strict versus non-strict liability in a non-legal s...

That would have made more sense if your gin example had been, "I don't like gin," or "this gin tastes bad." "Gin is bad" is just as often meant normat...

First, let me clarify if you're talking about legal liabilities per se.

You haven't given any reason why futile deaths per se (and of course, ignoring the idea that it's kind of ridiculous to suggest that that's really the...

I don't think there's a distinction between them, but what do you see as the distinction? Are you simply talking about the fact that at present, one h...

No it isn't. There are either different senses of responsibility being used, or it's the same sense and there are simply different penalties. You clai...

I wouldn't say that those are using the idea of responsibility differently, though. They apply different legal upshots to responsibility based on whet...

My first response in this thread was explaining why people use the word "pedantic" when they do, especially when they use it with normative connotatio...

I wouldn't say there are different senses of responsibility that I'm using in this regard. What different sorts of senses of responsibility are you us...

Why would futile deaths offend people who aren't sex workers, but not the sex workers themselves?

Whether someone is detrimentally "pedantic" or not, yes. That's fine, but I'm telling you how people actually use the word in conversations. You can c...

There you go again, by the way, with simply reporting norms--and unfortuantely demonstrating that you seem not to be able to think very well outside o...

You made the claim that people do not feel responsible, on a personal level, for events such as sneezing. I said that that's not the case for everyone...

Really it just depends on whether you like the other person, if you like what they're saying, if you like the way they're dealing with the subject mat...

And do you care if your observation is wrong?

Well, then it's a monetary issue, or an "I don't want to do work" issue or whatever it is.

So no concern with issuing claims about how people think about something when it's clear that some people don't think about it that way?

If the people if actually affects don't care about it as a health and safety issue, why would people who it doesn't affect care about it as a health a...

If it were a health and safety at work issue, then the lobbyists for it should have been porno actors.

But no, there are no objective purposes/meanings.

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It doesn't follow from that that you know the content of P. You're stipulating that you do not. You only know that it's true. For P to be unknown, you...

It's amazing that after so many explanations you can't get this. By knowing Q you know that is is UNKNOWN whether the color of someone's hair is red. ...

I don't know, at this point I see that basically as a combination of (a) a side-effect of us having evolved in a way that required us to use our intel...

We have to clarify what we're asking re whether the have the same meaning. Obviously, as a nominalist, I don't believe that they're literally the same...

I don't see how that's not projection on your part. I feel as responsible for my sneezing, say, as I do for choosing to respond to you again in this t...

So you don't really understand my view then. It's difficult to have a conversation under those conditions.

You understand that on my view, subjectivity doesn't at all imply disagreement, right?

Yes to both questions. Again, isn't obvious that that's how people operate in these situations?

On my view there's nothing particularly interesting about moral responsibility with respect to the free will issue, because there are no facts about m...

Are you asking me to literally report what we do? What we do should be obvious if you spend time talking to other people. It's not like you saying you...

You don't have to accept that any stance on free will versus determinism has any particular implication re moral responsibility. Of course, one big re...

Insofar as truth goes, they're making judgments about the relation of a proposition to something else. I state that as "something else" because not ev...

It seems in this comment that you're understanding "subjective" to imply something like "there is little agreement on x." Is that right?

One thing re people debating about or constructively discussing morality, aesthetics etc. is that if people do have the same or similar foundational v...

Really, the reason that most people have kids is because they fall in love (or lust) with someone and have sex with them. That's it. Aside from that, ...

The confusion is that subjective doesn't only refer to mental and that it implies that people will disagree. He's asking you why pain is a negative th...

Why would the fact that morality is how people feel about things imply that we'd have no rules? That's what morality is, and obviously we have rules. ...

It's not something you have to do. It's just that if having an overarching "point"/purpose/"meaning" etc. is the sort of thing you're attracted to, it...

Value is subjective, of course. Different people value different things, and they can't be wrong (or right) about what they value.

If you use the term to denote things that are equiprobable, then it would be a false dichotomy to say that events are either determined/deterministic ...

Yes. That's a difference between freedom and determinism. Free will is ontological freedom in conjunction with will phenomena.

I'd say it's compatible with both, although the latter is a different idea than folks usually talk about. Keep in mind that "random causation" need no...

It's objectively pointless and meaningless but that's like noting that objectively, there is no opinion on whether to have pizza or salad for lunch. I...