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I never thought about it that way before. It nicely alludes to agnosticism being a variation of atheism rather than the neutral position its often tou...

I dont think it undermines it at all, since as I mentioned this is specifically about a nefarious culture of outrage and victimhood, not about innocen...

A result of a sloppy work on my part, I didnt mean “you” you, but rather “you” in general. Poorly worded/phrased sorry. I switched between general use...

Two things. First, perhaps a differentiation between intersectionality and weaponized intersectionality. If all you mean is listening/understanding pe...

The problem with that is that things like race or sexual orientation are not nearly as strong an indicator as the actual individuals traits. You get m...

Dont feed the Bridge Troll ;)

Ill second andrewk, you are asking real questions. Philosophy isnt just about the catagory of existence, anything is fair game up until (imo) it overl...

I think that by definition omniscience precludes philisophical skepticism. Its knowledge of all that is, including all the facts, all the answers to a...

Honestly I think people are already waking up to it. The groups themselves are in the minority and people are wising up to the dangers of this sort of...

Im not exactly sure what exactly you are offering for discussion here, but your coments seem accurate to me. There is a problem, and its clearly firml...

You might be desperate to not believe in god if you were living through the horrors of religion run amok, wouldnt you? If the idea of, in the words of...

Depends on what we mean by human dignity. Ill confess I do not have a clear idea of what I myself meant by it. Concerning morals and ethics, I think o...

I would say the former, a function of the brain.

My brain doesnt always feed me the truth. Its functions can be quite deceptive, and quite easily deceived, so as I said I think objective corroboratio...

Objective corroboration.

And how do you do that? Thats the exact thing Im asking you about, and wonder how you differentiate between that feeling you have and delusion.

How would you differentiate that from delusion?

You quoted me and then responded to the quote by addressing “aggressive atheists”. Was it not your intention to attach the behaviour you describe to m...

Irrelevant sidestepping. I did not make a nonsensical statement, thats what I was addressing. Your suggestion that I should have clarified isnt even v...

Lol, so you felt the need to specify it because...?

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You do, as evidenced by your response here.

I mean tool in a general sense. Something useful or enabling of any given task. Ethics/morality are tools for us to get along with each other, to crea...

I do not worship science, this is a purely ignorant statement on your part. I also said nothing about everyone having to share my world view. Presumpt...

No its not, as someone pointed out if god is said to exist physically then science would have a role to play.

Yes, science deals with physical world. Do I really need to specify that?

Hawking makes a scientific case for there not being a god, which he is perfectly qualified to do so. Now, either you go with that or you posit god as ...

I didnt say rules are bad, I just meant that ethical rules are like any other rules. I dont understand “this place is like one”...? I dont think we ta...

Ah, I see. Yea, like any set of rules.

I guess it depends on what you mean by idealised...to me that seems like an unnecessary layer you are adding there...

I prefer to think of morals as inconsistent or consistent rather than true/false. Its not about what moral position someone has, but rather how they a...

Unfortunately Im not sure what you are asking my opinion on here. Do you intend those quoted portions as false moral axioms? It doesnt seem odd to me ...

Lol, ok well let me see if I get it here.. Sounds like you are saying any given conception of morality results in synthetic a posteriori conclusions a...

Well I imagine things that are very polarised like religion result in more of this poor behaviour we are talking about. It doesnt help that with relig...

I think the burden should not be on the OP so much as the people responding. You should clarify what someone means before trying to counter-argue or e...

There is more to this that just common vs stipulative definitions. Further confusing/adding difficulty to these online discussions is intellectually d...

I really like that phrasing. The capacity for freedom is what makes the freedom something deserved. Thats really the only reason you need. I would tak...

The foreknowledge of what the person will choose doesn't effect the choice the person will make, unless the person with foreknowledge tells the person...

I think he meant the specific characteristics he mentioned, the 3 “O”’s as it were. I would take it a step further and suggest the traits themselves a...

Why would a person have free will just becuase someone else has foreknowledge of the choice they will make?

You are you as a result of a dynamic combination of nature and nurture, a deterministic result. You are not the person next to you because the person ...

I certainly do not agree to that. It isnt “like” a religion either. You’ll have to forgive me, I didnt know I was wading into part of an overall agend...

Now you are just backing further into the weeds sir. Anything you are committed to is a religion now? You are certainly free to dilute the word religi...

This is just a gross false equivalency. Live by the sword die by the sword, how about another definition showing your false equivalency: de·vo·tion d?...

You are just choosing to look at it generically, there is still a fact of the matter as to why the ball rolled. You say it “adds no real information”,...

I have never heard that QM shows us the impossibility of eliminating all disturbances, I was under the impression that QM is still struggling to lock ...

It is certainly not a presumption on my part. I in fact cannot think of a reason why it would be impossible. You seem like you want me to accept simet...

You guessed wrong unfortunately. Sorry. Until today I hadnt given it much thought. If it turns out to in fact be impossible, i cant imagine why I woul...

I cant think of a reason that it would be impossible.

Its not necessarily either. Each are factors that could have had a part or whole in the displacement of the ball bearing. There are reason(s) why the ...