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I didnt identify what facism is, I just referenced it. You dont have enough information to say whether or not im using the term properly, since I didn...

I disagree that it is just a subset as you described. Its more than that, if thats all those people were doing they would be much easier to ignore. Th...

Ah, I see. I misread that. Ok, I understand.

I think the OP has more than just “in general” in mind. I think he is talking about a specific phenomenon or movement on the left, “SJW” activists who...

“Automatic and not mental” doesnt seem accurate here. What is the difference between the brain states that makes one “mental” and the other not? Are y...

To the OP: I think there is indeed a culture of victimhood and outrage on the left, a PC culture that hides behind social justice and equal rights. I ...

I didnt intend to connect my question to anything Terrapin was saying. It seems a very strict use of the word, that if you experience any doubt or kno...

Why do you want to lock down the use of “convinced” in this way? What purpose does that serve?

It depends on how exactly you mean, but in general, sure. Why not? If genetic tinkering can make the lives of humans or animals better then I see no r...

Lol, im trying to understand what YOU are saying. I may not understand what you are intending by the word “being”, so I wanted to know in what sense y...

Ok, when you say “necassary being”, are you talking about an entity, or a first cause? Do you mean “being” as in existing, or “being” as in “a being”?

An objective claim is not the same thing as an objective view.

I dont think that gives us an objective view, I think it gives us an objective standard. An objective view is not possible when the viewer is a subjec...

Indeed, that is why I tried making the distinction between first cause and a “being”. People often try to masquerade the first cuase as a theistic arg...

I didnt get a notification for this, for some reason. Im aware of that usuage, but it seems pretty clear that Rank was using it differently. “A necess...

Have you seriously considered that you do not know what you are talking about? You are clearly philosophically ignorant, and unlike Terrapin I simply ...

Ya, I agree.

Ok, I understand the way YOU view those instances but that isnt what you said, you said “everyone” whether they “realize/admit it or not”. I think you...

Well when you said “how I feel about the behavior in question.” I took that to be your feeling in the moment, rather than your feeling when you decide...

When they reference a moral code rather than their feelings. Yes, the code has its basis in feelings essentially but thats not necessarily whats direc...

Im not sure I understand, you want an example of a moral instance? Why would you need a specific example? It applies to all moral instances...well pot...

I understand that feelings are at the root of morality and ethics, I think we agree there. That doesnt mean feelings inform all instances of morality ...

It isnt very important to him, nor does it in fact matter to him. His moral views preclude your inclusion of them, and your attempts to hold him (or a...

I didnt suggest you should, just that you shouldnt make an erroneous claim about the mechanism “everyone uses, whether they realize/admit it or not”. ...

Not everyone uses that mechanism for “the behaviour in question”. One could adhere to a principal that they dont particularly feel like adhering to at...

No apology needed, I was just interested in hearing how that might work! Lol

Ah, I see. I would have called that subjective, relative sounds like they change depending on there position to one another....

How do you mean “relative”?

I agree, I think the focus on the action in morality/ethics leads to inconsistency, and consistency is one of if not the main basis for ethics. It doe...

Im not asking you to discuss cause vs being. You said a case can be made for being, Im asking you to explain it. Typically a person who says they can ...

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Yes, in asking why.

It is definitely not just a semantic point. “Being” is very different in its meanings and implications.

I understand your point, I just dont understand why you use “being” or “entity” rather than “cause” or simething similar.

Right, but how do you get to a being or entity?

How could we possibly know if the first cause is a being?

Also faith has no explanatory power, it isnt a good reason for believing in anything. Its the answer people give when they have no reason, and then ac...

A first cause maybe, but being not so much.

Including gods existence itself.

You sounded like you were lamenting how much more we could be doing if we embraced science, is that what you intended? It seems like the world at larg...

Non-theistic is precisely what Atheism is. It is not a claim that god doesnt exist. On atheism alone you aren’t walking around claiming god doesnt exi...

You are still making a category error. The law of identity doesnt apply to “music” and “the song of Kashmir”, music is a universal and Kashmir song a ...

Trees and matter are the same catagory error, even though you are trying to make a separate point.

Music is not a particular, it is a universal, or type. It is a catagory error for you to use the Law of Identity in the way you did, there has been no...

We can just agree to disagree as you suggested if its getting frustrating. I was just trying to track your view here and started from the beginning, b...

The purpose of the baby example was to illustrate what it means to not have a belief about something. I guess it was a bad example because it wasnt me...

I disagree with your first sentence. Not believing in something is not a truth claim. This is what the teapot analogy illustrates. This is precisely t...

Ok, so you are wanting atheists to have a similar position towards god as you do towards the teapot? To assert there isnt a god? Is that right?

Hilariously flawed, you are talking right out your ass. First, you tell me im trusting an authority called reasoning and therefore my view is no more ...

But you do? You have decided suffering is the basis for morality, how is that different? You discovered it written into the code of the universe by go...