No, just your comment as quoted. ...is the element I'm having trouble with. To me 'interested in a topic' starts with reading a book about it, or some...
Interesting. What's odd about that phenomenon, if it's true, is that the condescension (perceived or otherwise), would be presumably based on exactly ...
I see. So basically a difference between a consequentialist ethic and virtue ethic, I guess. I wouldn't disregard their contribution, not because they...
It's funny you should say this because it's pretty much the same reason I use to reach the conclusion about academic precedent which you evidently don...
Really? You have quite a low threshold for entertainment. Still...just for you... I believe Freud's ideas are still relevant to psychology today. (sho...
Yes, to a very great extent. Although in such large amorphous groups as we move in nowadays, it's often virtual or imaginary social groups constructed...
Again, seriousness has little to do with it. Even if I considered these conversations to be the most trivial matters in the world, the opinions I expr...
So you're saying that the properties of a generalised set can be used to infer the properties of any member of that set simply by virtue of its member...
the point is that people, in the main, neither adopt nor reject ideas on the strength of rational argument. It's simply to easy to construct a rationa...
Again, if you can't tell the difference between an opinion which is relevant to the framing of beliefs and a statement of fact then there's little hop...
Firstly, it's not about the nature of the conversation, it's about the nature of the beliefs. Why would anyone have such beliefs unless they had some ...
That doesn't make any sense. Quid pro quo isn't about what's being exchanged, so we woudn't expect it to tell us. Ex nihilo nihil fit is about {all th...
What about the suffering experienced by those under 80 at the loss of their beloved over 80 community? Or, for those less well-connected, the sufferin...
Consciousness. You either knew all along that it didn't come from nothing, or your premise "nothing comes from nothing" is speculative because there e...
Yet... So consciousness must be in the class of things that you took account of to deduce that "Nothing comes from nothing". If not, then how have you...
Yeah, this is the important bit. We have to draw a line, and the fact that doing so is fraught and involves contextual judgement does not absolve that...
It's not from what you said. I just mean by it that even in cases where people do renounce ideas after discussion, it's often traceable to the social ...
Are you sure the one resulted from the other, and not vice versa? What could less give the impression we're co-operatively working on a puzzle than pe...
Yes. I think that's true but this is one of the reasons why social media (all internet platforms really) might be such breeding grounds for extremism....
Obviously you've never written for a scientific journal if you think adding a couple of references turns what we have here into anything like one. Tha...
I think there are a small but significant number of people who've somehow misunderstood the nature of the 'marketplace of ideas'. More than average in...
So you're suggesting we should become even more partisan? It's not enough that discussion be seen as a battle but that we must now have a jeering crow...
Where on earth did you get that idea from? Have you honestly seen any evidence of it, in general. Do people, in your experience, generally have a tend...
Actually, when you see something like a pool of water in the distance, what happens is that the little people in your brain ('numbskulls' is the techn...
It's not a factual claim. I thought that was clear from the context, but if not then hopefully this will serve to clarify. Obviously antinatalism cann...
Working backwards. .. All of these claims require support. There's absolutely no point in maintaining an internet space to act as nothing more than a ...
No, I couldn't because you provided no evidence for your assertion for me to examine. Would "no, you're wrong" have been a remotely interesting respon...
Oh it's not fun. Antinatalism seeks to turn the loving relationship between parent and child into one of resentment and blame, seeks to turn attention...
...and @"jamalrob" Just reading through this thread, it seems to me that the site rules would benefit from something against this sort of posting habi...
I don't follow what that's got do do with it. As I said, quite clearly, in my post "The purpose of a citation is so that we can see where the opinion ...
Then why not just include it in the first place. The purpose of a citation is so that we can see where the opinion derives from and follow the line of...
It has to do with... I disagree that stealing from someone you hate is morally wrong for normal people. Hating someone so much that stealing from them...
Fair enough, I misread that. Indeed. So why do you hate the person? Are all wars considered morally wrong, for example, despite that fact that they in...
No. The claim I was responding to was This clearly specifies a reason for inclusion in the category 'morally wrong', not the category 'moral claim' wh...
The fact that you keep making inane speculations on the subject which have been already dealt with by entire schools of thought to which you could oth...
How does this explain the overwhelming grouping of moral codes, the presence of specific brain regions activated in moral decision-making, the similar...
Well, that's great. As I've mentioned before, why don't you get yourself a grounding in social or psychological sciences, put together a research prop...
Then what are we to make of... and... ? If hedonic pleasure is not involved at all "entirely divorced from..." and not "...anything to do with", yet t...
No - hence the 'not only' aspect of the model of decision-making I've been outlining. Decisions are made by the combination of multiple brain regions ...
I'm not talking about a single instance either, that's why I used the word 'overall', and referred to "what 'feels wrong' to most people most of the t...
Just declaring it doesn't make it the case. It is unlikely that in a normally functioning brain antisocial behaviour overall feels good and cases wher...
No, stealing where it only feels good is Kleptomania, it's a psychological illness, not a normal state of humanity. For most people it also involves r...
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