Still peddling this?... As we've been through before "...actually account for" and "...requires the least effort" are no less subjective than the term...
It's things like this that I don't know how to respond to, and yet your posts are littered with them. Am I to take such brazen declarations as somethi...
Yes. It's shocking. I don't know if you keep up with UNICEF as well, but this was one from this month... And yet the UK Government is set to cut £2.9b...
I disagree with this framing. I can see where you're coming from, but moral theories are not like scientific theories. Firstly, our moral theories are...
What do you mean "it works". What would it not working look like? This is a fundamental axiom we're talking about here so there's supposedly no more f...
No, it is explained in the rest of that paragraph which you've ignored. It's because your argument fails without them, but including them invalidates ...
But it absolutely evidently does not. Surgery being the obvious example where causing harm does not make things worse than not causing harm. Which is ...
The argument there wasn't about the label, it was about the objective. It makes no sense. why would you want to reduce harm if no-one benefits from th...
I couldn't possibly say that, I've not read most of those. No doubt some fail on that count, maybe others don't. I can only argue against positions wh...
My bad. By normative force I simply mean something like persuasive power with regards to action - ie the the difference between saying to someone "you...
In that he'd be against the essentialism, I think yes, but I'm not that familiar with Rorty. The point I was making though was not so much about groun...
No, not at all. Reduction of harm makes absolutely no sense whatsoever unless there is someone to benefit from that reduction. That's the whole point....
You say Your argument is essentially. .. -By Kant's definition of freedom, riding without a helmet is not freedom. -We all think freedom is a good thi...
Yeah, that's pretty much how I see it. The only way we can even make sense of what the elder means when he uses the word 'moral' is that we know rough...
As I said, look into the private language argument. 'Your meaning' and 'My meaning' don't make any sense. There's no private meanings to words, only p...
No. You can't equivocate like that. You said... That is a statement about courses of action, not definitions. What we 'call' such a course of action i...
What? You're seriously arguing there's no definition of the word? How on earth do we communicate using it then? Are you familiar with the Private Lang...
I can't make sense of this proposition, you seem to have used 'freedom' in two different ways and whilst I understand the latter, I'm unclear on the f...
A more lovely example could not be presented of deciding in advance what one is going to consider right and wrong and then constructing some pseudo-lo...
That's not what you're arguing though, you keep loosing the thread of the argument and so it's become very tiresome. Your claim was that features of c...
It's worth having a look at the SEP entry on defining morality. We're looking for that 'something else', in your framework to justify the claim that i...
So "you should use a 10mm spanner if you want to undo a 10mm nut" is a moral claim? Weird. IF you want to explain the origin of Kant's 'goodwill', the...
I'm not arguing that no-one thinks inter-country comparisons are useful, so I'm not sure what this interview is supposed to teach me. You were the one...
Where have I said anything like that? I can quote several places I've said the exact opposite. If you're not going to actually follow through the argu...
Yep. Meanwhile half a million die from preventable heart disease, but not a penny of additional investment in health initiatives or legislation around...
You're not following the argument. What does then make a thing 'moral'? Our agreement that it fits in some loose category. What causes us to agree on ...
Yes it can (to an extent). If we did not have a drive to co-operate, for example, there'd be no material cause for us to "decide that acting on the dr...
No problem. Yeah, things look bad either way. We seem to have no good options. What I find difficult to swallow is why, given these hard choices, our ...
You mean like Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University who called comparing countries' performances a "completely fatuous exercise"...
I don't mean 'job' as in employment. I just mean that you cannot sensibly say that something is the 'job' of a particular type of person(or investigat...
It's not a job if the standards are arbitrary. There's nothing to be done. Plucking a rule out of thin air is not a 'job' in any normal use of the ter...
That's better. I wondered what had happened to the old MU with all this "I'm sure the experts know best" malarkey. This is much more like it - startli...
Yeah, I'm worried. Research in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found the lobbying expenditures ($248.4 million) and new lobbyist registratio...
Well then you should have no trouble cherry-picking some experts who claim that the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing transmission and symptom ...
Again, you haven't explained a) how this 'job of ethics' is to be done - what do we use to judge, and b) if there's not a naturalistic explanation (pr...
Sort of, but normal safety protocols for new drugs aren't designed to pick up on those kind of long term potential consequences either, it's just too ...
Well then you should have no trouble citing the published results demonstrating this effectiveness. Here is an overview. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...
You're missing the point. We have those imperetives. That's what we just established. The's not some 'other' you that gets to decide what the 'natural...
Well then it's not arbitrary, is it. Unless there was some global coordinated government ruling on what counted as 'moral', that I missed. If we gener...
Yeah, this is certainly a concern. Having said that, a phase III trial is a phase III trial, if it's come about two years earlier, it's not necessaril...
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