I think you misunderstood what I meant when I was talking about prudential values. Prudential values are often an umbrella term that is used in philos...
It seems to me that I can provide you with plenty of examples of ought claims that are not expressing authoritative statement that an agent has a mora...
I think that going to prison is bad for the same sort of reason that you think that it would be bad for every woman in the world to get raped. Both ou...
I was referring to your view of ought claims rather than your view on moral and aesthetic evaluations. I’m arguing that it is prudential consideration...
I don’t see anything contradictory about it. In fact, when it comes to the normal and mundane decisions that we make in our life, we pretty much alway...
I want to point out that I’m egoistic hedonistic utilitarian which means that I’m not even sure if the suffering of the rape victim would actually giv...
The reason that I think that pleasure is valuable actually has nothing to do with people desiring pleasure. I just think that it’s simply the case tha...
Well, that seems to be a description of how the currently popular moral values have come about. I agree with you that objective moral values probably ...
Well, it seems to me that there is public evidence to support various value claims. For example, when I try to argue for a value claim, I usually make...
I don’t think that the fact that your right hand has 4 fingers can be empirically verified though. This is because there are many alternative explanat...
Well, my deepest and darkest secrets aren’t actually things that I’m ashamed of. They are just things that would be most damaging to my reputation and...
The is/ought divide is not the same thing as the fact/value distinction. The first distinction was briefly mentioned by Hume in literarily just a para...
I would say that you are close to people that you care about the most and would be willing to prioritize their interests over the interests of other p...
Well, there’s some secrets that I have that I wouldn’t want to share with anyone. Simply because it wouldn’t have conversational value and there’s no ...
I agree that telling secrets is often quite bad and I believe that people shouldn’t be excessively honest. As you have mentioned earlier, just because...
I think that my mom’s motive was either that of curiosity or that of concern for my welfare. She didn’t ask me this question over the phone. Rather, s...
I agree that this actually would be a case of dishonesty but I don’t think this case is quite analogous to the Sally case or my library case. I think ...
I agree with you that the answer that you gave here is more honest than the answer that I gave but I don’t think that this necessarily implies that my...
Moral claims are not ought claims though. You can make a moral claim without using the word “ought” or even implying an ought claim. For example, you ...
Well, the first thing that I want to point out is that there actually seem to be some ought statements that cannot be called prescriptive statements. ...
I want to elaborate a little more about my views on honesty and dishonesty. My use of the phrase “perfect honesty” was a poor choice of words that I w...
Well, I think that you can avoid being dishonest while still withholding information from others. A person doesn’t have to tell you everything that yo...
I don’t think that your mom was dishonest. She really was in the shower and so what she said wasn’t false. Also, I think genuine dishonesty causes mos...
The way that humans experience pain is one aspect of human nature. By the phrase “the way that humans experience things”, I was talking about private ...
There can be intense pain that wasn’t intentionally brought about and some of those unintentional pains can be more intense than most intentional pain...
Well, with that mindset, I think nobody would rent anything and we would often have to spend way more money buying something. The benefit of being abl...
What do you mean by common nature in this context? I thought we were understanding common nature in discussion as just a short way of saying common hu...
Well, there are plenty of cases where the government does seem to be justified in using physical violence if someone refuses to comply with something....
Well, I think it’s also analogous in that both cases do not seem to constitute theft. The question of whether or not taxation is theft is different fr...
I agree but I think taxation can also be justified if the state uses this money for the maintenance of civilized society that allows us all to be some...
If the adult child wants to move out then the father would have to give the console back. Though, the father can demand the console as rent if the adu...
Well, I think I started a potentially good dialogue on that. After all, it seems to be the case that most of our taxpayer money goes into servicing th...
I’m arguing that the common truth to be discovered is the truth of there not being any universal human nature. I believe in objective truth but I don’...
Stubbing my toe hasn’t ever caused me to scream as much as my physical abuse did. Stubbing my toe only ever caused me to have a mild scream. Me gettin...
I’m a young man in my mid 20s and I actually already have a 30 year-ish Suicide plan for the exact same sorts of reasons that you expressed your desir...
Not really, I don’t find that painful at all. Yes, but it’s not worth suffering intense pain(for me at least). The badness of pain is not just determi...
Well, I think your stories mostly just suggest that you are less sensitive to physical pain than I am and you are also probably more afraid of death t...
Suppose that I were to get sexually touched by a pedophile for 15 seconds when I was a child. Wouldn’t you think that it is appropriate to call that s...
Ahh ok, I actually agree with you there. It’s kinda hard to have regular casual sex with a woman for awhile without there being any discussions about ...
Well, I think I’m just much more sensitive to physical pain than most other people. I get really upset if I have even a fairly bad cold. The worst mom...
Well, I think the effectiveness of the modernist solution is that it led to the modernity that we are living in today. If one agrees that modernity is...
Well, I was talking about the views of many philosophers that I have encountered that seem to be critical about the age that they happen to be alive i...
Well, what is the difference between modernity and modernism? I’m a little bit confused by your use of the word modernism. I thought modernism is just...
Well, I think my comment about preferring to die by the age of 55 was a little bit misleading. I don’t value dying at a particular age for its own sak...
Well, I don’t actually care about living longer. I actually think one legitimate criticism that people can have of modernity is that we spend too much...
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