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It's not all gold.
September 11, 2021 at 16:01
If your going to be ruthless, then why be slightly ruthless?
September 11, 2021 at 15:58
I don't recall saying this or suggesting it; which proves my point better than my argument. A person unwilling to devalue the worst amongst us in prin...
September 11, 2021 at 15:56
In principle it sets one further apart from Nazism. Considering things in the context of active military engagement presupposes quite a bit. I'm not s...
September 11, 2021 at 15:47
I share the sentiment with regard to the struggle in today's landscape. Taking the 'high road' in the moment looks like weakness, but we forget it's a...
September 11, 2021 at 15:45
If it prevents one from becoming a Nazi then maybe it's a worthwhile consideration. The Nazis were firm believers in your position; not mine.
September 11, 2021 at 15:34
Devaluing groups in the context of war is a good strategy for war. Do we want to create a society that operates on the rules of war?
September 11, 2021 at 15:19
I still argue that it is better isolate the ideas from the people. I don't think we lose anything from failing to make additional assumptions of worth...
September 11, 2021 at 15:10
Compelling contrarianism.
September 11, 2021 at 14:59
I think I understand this argument. It acknowledges that the individual and the group ought be assessed in different ways; at least acknowledging that...
September 11, 2021 at 14:49
It's the basis for tribalism. The foundation of fascism. It reduces the human condition to some narrow division of ideals and places us further from a...
September 11, 2021 at 14:46
This is a way of blaming them for one's low valuation of them. Historically lumping undesirables into sets and devaluing them has preceded atrocities....
September 11, 2021 at 03:20
It's bad practice to devalue groups of people.
September 11, 2021 at 02:36
Rephrased it reads "I didn't understand the point of the thread, nor properly interpret the OP" Is this literally asking about the morality of produci...
September 11, 2021 at 02:34
What? We don't consider the present is exactly the same as the projected future states? How do we pretend cardiac base tissue is a person, by other me...
September 10, 2021 at 15:07
Nailed it
September 10, 2021 at 15:05
So he drops the qualifier 'potential' in order to present a bad argument. One can't do crimes against potential things. Or another way. Every living p...
September 10, 2021 at 07:47
What? It's the name of a color. They make a crayon. I didn't get to label it. I maintain that this phrase above is never resident in some one's mind d...
September 10, 2021 at 07:32
I thought we sorted this one out already? Ideas are physical if you need them to be in order to maintain a cherished belief that a non-physical thing ...
September 10, 2021 at 07:17
No great marriage ends in divorce. People should be free to take actions that finalize their internal state. I don't recommend "normalizing" infidelit...
September 09, 2021 at 02:51
The OP requests the indescribable; I try to make posts to order. To demystify the matter colors are describable by hexadecimal and I imagine even more...
September 09, 2021 at 02:39
Agreed. In this context french grey is actually a static color that I happen to enjoy. Really, grey itself represents a unique balance, but a little b...
September 09, 2021 at 02:36
I'm certain it does change; I hadn't been aware of the greenish verision until earlier today. I'm not sure I can endorse "no common agreement"; rather...
September 08, 2021 at 06:40
Granted, but if I do an image search for french grey I'll get any number of different colors. In order for something to be described it is necessary t...
September 08, 2021 at 03:32
The OP hasn't suggested an intention to advocate a position. So, the omission of arguments seems reasonable. I believe 'yellow grey' is also attribute...
September 07, 2021 at 23:40
The color french gray defies description.
September 07, 2021 at 23:22
I think you are correct. Prior to an attempt at liberation there was at least a space for emotional existence. Probably a patronised and exploited spa...
September 06, 2021 at 18:41
Choices are funny things. Maybe we don't get to pick our ideas, but maybe we do get to pick from a few options. Sometimes people do seem compelled and...
September 06, 2021 at 02:44
Even if we're manipulating some ununtterable field, it's still happening via or about the head.
September 04, 2021 at 19:35
Our banking system and some industries reward psychopathic skill sets. I think people in general have the capciety for both; but if one spends all day...
September 04, 2021 at 19:02
Sun up? I read something about logic being preformatively unquestionable and you lost me.
September 04, 2021 at 02:10
The number of contexts in which the idea is relevant and the resulting explanantory power from understanding the idea. Like, Maxwell's equations would...
September 04, 2021 at 01:51
In a matriarchy both genders are subject to becoming narcissistic coroporate machines. Then, we end up raising a generation of psychopaths that keep s...
September 04, 2021 at 01:38
I've heard varations of this argument over the years. One professor claimed that failing to give a movie a bad review would somehow lead to the fall o...
September 02, 2021 at 21:58
An alternative to your response would be to address the entire sentence. What color is your "Covid Passport" for internal travel within your borders? ...
August 30, 2021 at 18:06
https://philpapers.org/archive/VARKAL.pdf It's more of a semantics matter to me when presented in this way. If you feel the precision of language achi...
August 30, 2021 at 16:28
Well, I said; it was immoral and permissible in the conditions set forward in the OP regarding a man's wife asking about another woman's appearance. I...
August 30, 2021 at 14:59
More compelling already. I got nothing to come back with off the top of my head.
August 30, 2021 at 05:17
Kant has a legal definition of lying that is misunderstood. To lie in Kant's legal sense entails cheating some one in some way. It's been misunderstoo...
August 30, 2021 at 05:11
Based on a thread I spun a few weeks ago it comes down to analysis of two parts. One is strict morality and the other one permissibility. It's immoral...
August 30, 2021 at 05:01
If you were in a Georgia swamp this time of year; I bet you'd understand. You are right there's a western tradition of dismissing a whole host of mate...
August 30, 2021 at 04:34
The mind thinks. It's takes the reference points created during our evolution and triangulates ideas. I think philosophy is this process being carried...
August 29, 2021 at 22:24
:up:
August 29, 2021 at 22:04
Does that work for blueprints. Where the idea maps a future territory?
August 29, 2021 at 22:00
No, the US oscillates between the Southern Democrats of the mid 20th century and the moderate/progressive Modern Democrats. Obama was a major step for...
August 29, 2021 at 21:45
To me meta-physical the word implies what you are saying. Something that exist in reference to the physical world, rather than something that exist in...
August 29, 2021 at 21:33
Interesting, I see your position was more nuanced than my attempt to simplify it. I'll have to reconsider the matter. I think we have different defini...
August 29, 2021 at 20:45
What jurisdictions? Nursing homes and hospitals?
August 29, 2021 at 19:37
It was meant as a bit of faux concession in hopes I'd have 180 off guard following his acceptance of it. Well, he took the bait and ate it. I don't re...
August 29, 2021 at 19:29
I was going to try and sum up the position I believe you are communicating. It's not meant as anything definitive; just a chance to look for misinterp...
August 29, 2021 at 19:25