Why wouldn't they? I can think of several reasons why they would... They might like the company - unpredictable, quirky, and irrational as we are - or...
Yeah. I agree that deterring crime doesn't at all capture the objectives of criminal law. My concern (clearly very badly expressed) was with a style o...
Then why on earth did you bring it up as a counter-example to the claim/query... I've still yet to pin down who you're arguing against here. Now you'r...
That's what I had in mind, yes. Like if one person wanted two antagonists to stop fighting so they don't wake their sleeping baby and another just 'ca...
Say, for example, that laws were largely devices for those in power to manage their estates (I'm not saying that's all they are, just using it as an e...
Wouldn't that just be self-fulfilling anyway. If some group were not able to enforce some proscription on behaviour then by definition they wouldn't b...
But that's not how laws are made. Laws are drawn up by civil servants to the specification of politicians who've (usually) been mandated to do so by a...
Yes, indeed. @"Pfhorrest"'s system is like fitting a line to series of data points (the hedonic affects of each person in each circumstance). It relie...
What I'm struggling to understand here is how you're forming an argument that hedonism is the only alternative to "...because X said so", yet also arg...
Now that's an interesting difference. I was speculating that one could capture the extensional features of retributive justice in a sufficiently wide ...
How would that repair the damage? Large canopy trees take hundreds of years to grow so the ecosystem would certainly not be 'repaired' within one gene...
Really? You think we could repair the damage we've done to an ecosystem like the rainforest in less than one generation? I don't think you've quite gr...
I understand what you're saying, but the manner in which I meant it is the manner in which your first proposition is undermined by your second. You sa...
I think you might be getting the wrong impression of what I meant here. I don't mean the likes of Lane-Craig or some such arguing the rationality of g...
Well, there's socialism... Seriously. There are, unarguably, a number of factors which help prevent the impact and spread of this, and future, pandemi...
The point is that if, for whatever reason, we're needed to do the replanting, we'll also be needed to do the tending. You can't invoke a self-sustaini...
It literally makes it a tool for extracting money from the population. That may or may not be a bad thing depending on whether that tool happens to be...
Well, since religious people accept their ethics on faith, not rational argument, I can't understand why you would put such effort into it. Your argum...
I don't know what you might mean by 'false equivalence'. Really? This is a highly technical subject and the best you can do is a Penn and Teller YouTu...
I meant trial data. As if that wasn't obvious... Right. I've given the data I have in previous threads from reputable journals like the BMJ and STAT. ...
Absolutely. Being anti-vax is a position that vaccination is never the solution in any circumstances . That's not the same as saying that vaccination ...
As yet, yes, but I live deep in a rural backwater, the decision is a different one for me than for others. I'm not particularly concerned about short-...
Yeah. All that @"schopenhauer1"'s argument ever seems to boil down to is that being born is a terribly bad thing for one to have happen to them - whet...
It's not a 'view', it's in black and white in the articles of association for the company. They are incorporated to make money for their shareholders....
Did the poll control for confounding factors like confidence, trust, or question misinterpretation? Did you check before concluding that it represente...
But of course it does, because 'we' don't discover anything, individual people do. So absolutely any method which involves applying some fact about ho...
It's not an adventure if we've all been there before, it's just proselytising. You pronounce things that seem to you to be the case to be "self-eviden...
Trouble is what's common is possibly only that they produce the same cognitive function. Other than that... The problem with any neuronal representati...
Just a fly-by post this, not intending to join the discussion, but you might find this paper interesting in this regard. It's not so much about brain ...
No, because if the whiskey were called 'Three Barrels' and I asked for 'Two Barrels', I would not be given two thirds of a whiskey, I'd just be given ...
The concept 'could have done otherwise' means something different depending on whether one has a foundation of indeterminism or not, and if not whethe...
Leaving a fundamental flaw unresolved and pushing on with the detailed implications nonetheless seems rather like ignoring a gap in one's foundations ...
Right. But that's the meta-ethics bit. So when you say... What you actually mean is just that you don't agree with those meta-ethical positions. After...
That's just a repeat of the same assertion. Why is it logically impossible for you to have another's experiences? Well no, my definition of 'your brai...
True to a point, but not entirely. I mean simple lesion studies can isolate broad parts of the brain associated with those things. Remove a section of...
Why not? What's evolution got to do with the judgement of sensations? Evolution requires that appropriate behaviours are produced in response to envir...
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