No, it wasn't mockery I should have broken the post into two sections. The first was an attempt at some casual advice on herding cats to a thread via ...
How do you ask about a money trail and then complain about an analogy? The criteria for an analogy isn't a one for one literal comparison. Why not jus...
I wouldn't defend that statement to be honest. I felt your interpretation of my localized use of a label over reached, so I demonstrated the phenomena...
No it isn't. Calling it language philosophy implies it has a corner it ought stay in which it resents. It's titled with terms Language Philosophy in t...
I selected the case because I know how many systems rely on human suffering in order to make a determination. I thought eliminating this element would...
So, things can be wrong in a non-moral sense; and in this non-moral sense aesthetics are relevant. I thought it was just a reflex to arguing with peop...
Why does my lone perception carry less moral validity than some one's imagined consensus with the universe? I expect the opposite to be true. If I had...
People like their own ideas, so starting with a concluded matter that isn't pre-distributed is asking a lot. The most success I've had is when I truly...
Or the opposite is true. We in fact already know and can't explain it. The test of a theory against intuitive morality is done with the expectation th...
If it were a true conflation, I was aware you meant harm to people. I know you don't consider these uses of harm to be equal. I took for granted that ...
Interesting, I'm not trying to be difficult. But, you seem to include criteria that isn't necessary for making a judgement - in this particular case -...
It harms a painting. I won't assume it harms a person, so it's not wrong(if I apply your criteria for you). Yet, it seems wrong to destroy a painting ...
Knowing there is a methodology to making the incorrect moral decision adds at least a theoretical check on the decisions we make. Prior to committing ...
I give him a hard time, but I'm certain any position he has represents quite a bit of work. One could easily point to poetry and call it nonsense writ...
At the present I seem to be spending a lot of time fishing in a contradiction of sorts. Which makes my proto-position hard to articulate. The first ob...
The trouble I gather is the result of tossing out the context of an action. An objective morality would still examine an action within the context it ...
I am at least to some degree. The reduction of suffering alone is the best guiding principle for a moral theory. I'm not sure how to measure this in t...
I believe you are attempting to communicate with me and I value your input. I'm not sure how to best put my response in the form of a riddle. But, I w...
OLP informs what it means to say "I know"? People have been arguing about what it is "I know" means. The philosophical problem best addressed by OLP i...
I think we might disagree semantically, but the understanding of the implications seems to be the same. The opinion of the actor isn't a determining f...
The system works in the sense it can be applied. But, I can't suppose the outcome of your criteria. I don't want to assume to know and the matter be l...
Look me in the eye and claim this isn't bullshitting. I don't mean can you rationalize it either. Rather, is there really information content that cou...
You have created your own example of the extent OLP has practical application. Wittgenstein was surely a genius, but he ought written a book for the r...
Meta-semantics? The point I should be making is that if you can't say something coherent about simply 'words', then stop. The first quote describes wo...
I still disagree, but it's good you have addressed the issue. It is much easier to make a tangential case that suffering is a reason to question the i...
The article says what I said. Evil is a cause of suffering, but not all suffering is evil. You have to be pretending not to understand how this reduce...
Yes, I see it's more clever than just resignation that things might always be a bit off. As long as it's inconsistent in such and such a way then info...
If the case of A and not A, then B. There is some way in which A and not A implies B. But, A and ~A is a contradiction. So, some As are contradictory....
What people where? They should be treated differently because fools will mistake an aversion to a thing as proof it is the same as another thing. And ...
Yes, now you've got the proper focus as far as building a basis for the remove people from the planet argument. Life on earth must entail suffering be...
Right, that's why the auto-discussion that follows doesn't really get started. If life doesn't entail evil or suffering doesn't entail then the follow...
Right, so I'm saying we shouldn't retain that bit. So, what follows in a sense doesn't from my position. Is the purpose of the first bit just to make ...
Well, my complaint was casting too wide of a net by equating suffering and evil. The solution you are offering is broadening it and adding a specific ...
Yes and No, it doesn't require the extremes you mentioned, but it does involve the variables. The GPS is adjusted for both. One for the distance to ea...
Yes, otherwise there will be an overabundance of inefficient firms in the marketplace; putting pressure on companies that do operate efficiently and p...
The trouble this runs into is it equates two things. We know not all suffering can be the result of evil. It's a good starting point because it casts ...
I'm largely in agreement with your criticisms, but the phrase "I just know it" is an idiom. It's nonsensical to take it literally; with the exception ...
I misread a book on cats once in such a way that I thought it said the sounds they make imitate human language. I took it in a specific sense to mean ...
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