Indeed, and yet above we were talking about 'popular and sought after' policies, not 'reasonable and scientifically well supported' ones. That the two...
No, but I didn't refer to the services that were 'required'. I was talking about the services that are desired. So... Why would they need to be scared...
I get the theory, but doesn't it leave a rather unconvincing model of a governing system that somehow has no way of determining what services are requ...
What would be the object of these protests if the changes required are considered too impractical to be adopted? Presumably, living in a democracy, su...
Interesting story, thanks for sourcing it. My twopenneth - I think it might be related to the concept of Cultural Lag (Richard and June Brinkman - can...
I don't know if it is de rigueur to resurrect such old threads, but I was quite interested in your thought process here prior to being knocked out of ...
No. I have no doubt that there's a 'theory-building' element to one's political worldview, and if you still think I'm a reductionist about these matte...
Well, if replication is an issue for you, what's your alternative? If I'm supporting an argument for mitigating circumstances to reduce the sentence o...
Because contextual legitimacy doesn't mean that resolution is reachable. Just because I can see how someone might have arrived at a position, it doesn...
Yes. I'm not quite sure my full critique of Haidt's position is quite appropriate here, but in summary, I think he's right to invoke the factors he ha...
It wasn't so much a misunderstanding as a declining of your opening gambit. Indeed. As I said to Frank above, I don't even hold that there are such th...
Maybe. I wasn't really responding to the OP by then (which turns out to be just a thinly disguised repetition of the all-to-common neo-liberal whingin...
The same would be true of field's sins, no? Reductionism is not a flaw limited political psychology, nor is it a flaw which exhausts political psychol...
I could, but I fear I'd run out of hair, there's precious little left as it is. Why? Saltpeter, charcoal and sulphur are dissimilar yet we can model t...
I said ecologists are not expected to know the biology of the individual species to any lesser extent. Clumsy wording. One cannot study the ecology of...
Yes. If by 'point' you mean much the same as the 'point' that trousers go on button-frontwards, or the 'point' that one shouldn't piss upwind, then ye...
This entire sub-topic has already had more serious consideration than it deserved, I'm not going add the deconstruction of a sarcastic rejoinder to th...
I think this is a good analysis. what's happening in antinatalism is the consequence of seeking some foundational principle behind a set of moral intu...
No, @"Maw"'s got a point. I'm personally giving up work and retraining as a philosopher - I can't believe some people in my profession say things whic...
I was referring to the expression of belief when I talked about rhetorical games, the reason why we think the two sides are different is largely the e...
I don't really think either apply. It's pretty clear that the arguments put forward by either side are moves in the rhetorical game, so I think if one...
As I said, I wasn't discussing the matter seriously. It's like trying to have a serious discussion with a child about the virtues of bedtime. I get it...
Indeed. And Astrologers no doubt. wasn't treating the matter as a serious discussion. Though one wonders whom it is we should be consulting in matters...
I doubt that. But hell, I'm paid an awful lot of money for my moronic guesswork so at least I've got something to cushion the blow... it's a wonder th...
Brilliant idea. Next election we'll let the fascists and Neo-liberals use psychology to target advertising to directly appeal to their core supporters...
What definition of morality are you working from? We've already agreed to this. I was just correcting the simplistic analysis presented. A morality ca...
Well yeah, that then is exactly what I'm talking about. You put all stuff that your have to do for others in terms of your own benefit. "I have to pay...
I'm not sure I'd describe it as 'the point' of the book, but I wouldn't deny that there's been a growth in interest, and perhaps leaning more toward p...
By the way, if anyone is interested in the state of research on this, Darren Schreiber has published a retrospective, only a few years out of date htt...
They may, but it seems likely, given their purpose, that the psychology they point to is more that of the closest socially acceptable narrative, rathe...
That might be true, but do you think it actually matters? Are there situations in which you think either side remain unaware of the arguments of the o...
Which political wing most supports environmental conservation? 'Conservation' is just a gloss for the right. It's about individual's rights to take fr...
No, I'm saying that having the avoidance of all suffering as a moral maxim is incoherent because moral maxims by their very nature, require at least s...
I don't exclude the possibility that the two might sometimes overlap, but if they necessarily overlap, then morally 'right' (as opposed to morally 'wr...
Yes. Enacting a moral course of action, in order for it to not count simply as 'whatever we wanted to do anyway' inevitably involves suffering either ...
Which leads to moral absurdities like not wanting to trip up a gunman who's about to massacre a thousand innocent people. So that should be discarded ...
Anything from opening a door for the person behind you to throwing yourself on a grenade to save your comrades. In the past it's generally come down t...
No, the context was comparing faith in 'string theory' to faith in God/Religious claims. The two are completely dissimilar for the reasons given. Stri...
Right. Seems at odds with... and and I have great aversion to learning from people who's lives seem like they're not living well, and many aspects of ...
Still not seeing what any of this has to do with the issue. What's at stake is whether (to rephrase it in your terms) it is reasonable to have an expe...
You're confusing active inference modelling with synaptic pruning, they're not that same thing. No, many of the processes are deliberate and conscious...
Yes, morally I think that's a necessary boundary. I don't think any external authority could possibly take on such a role though (if that's where you ...
I really can't see how any of that actually meets the charge of neo-liberalism. It seems completely unrelated. Hyper-individualistic notions like "why...
Repeating it doesn't make it less absurd. Suffering is a very complex state of a human mind. It's only relevant with the alternatives in play. If ther...
Yeah. I think that there's no reason to assume our intuitions will not ever prove contradictory if we imagine scenarios that we've never encountered b...
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