Isaac

I don't think the evidence goes that far. It could still be the other way around (the negative effects are the smaller, more specific group, and the p...

Yes, that's exactly it. Perspective taking generally increases empathy and sympathy and makes system justification less likely. The exception seems to...

Very kind of you to say so.

As with your other posts, it is nothing but your odd ontological commitments (plus a general dissatisfaction with life) which lead to anti-natalism, y...

The information I've presented shows that there is limited and as yet un-replicated experimental support for the idea that the term might have undesir...

Yes. Better for the people who experience the world absent of the negative situation, not just 'better' in general. There's no general sense of 'bette...

I don't see how. How can anyone meaningfully say they would prefer not to have existed when not existing negates any ability to experience a state of ...

Edit 3 still contains the concept of preference. It's incoherent without a preferer.

I think that makes sense. It's not quite my experience of the term's use, but I do think we can put that down to our respective fields or social circl...

Doesn't even make sense. Who would be around to do the preferring? Something can't be preferable without a person to prefer it. Preferring something i...

I hadn't thought of it like that. I suppose I was initially more thinking about building solidarity with those who should be united (white poor, black...

Possibly. I suppose, again, it depends on the circles one moves in. I do agree though that 'check your privilege' can have this meta-function which is...

The basic go to is Lord, Ross, and Lepper's 1979 'Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently conside...

Yeah, but not everyone is going to put the work in to interpreting it. That's the difference between a technical term and one out 'in the wild', you C...

Most importantly we mustn't read too much into the results from a single un-replicated study. There were methodological issues (there always are!) and...

Ah, I see. As far s I know, it dies have such an origin in critical theory, so I presumed that was your point of reference. More interesting though, i...

That's fair enough, but I think its naïve to think the term in current public discourse is being used the same way as it came out of critical theory. ...

Thus is an entirely reasonable premise, but if you want that change to take place then the critical power has to be realised, not just theoretical. It...

Nothing here tells us that they are indicators of human flourishing. That's your own personal opinion. What scientific, objective fact tells us that e...

You still haven't made any progress whatsoever on this this. 1. Your notion of what exactly constitutes 'flourishing' is just your personal opinion. S...

This is really important (here, but also for any understanding of frameworks which deny brute facts). Mere taste is a model of my own mental state. "I...

Just as a matter of rational principle, it most assuredly doesn't. In order to end something one only need know its causes. There's no inherent necess...

I see. Now I understand your reference to atoms and ecosystems which had been opaque before. You're saying that Marx claimed to know how social instit...

Phew, what a stroke of luck! We dodged a bullet there. I do hope whiskey remains morally acceptable, fingers crossed.

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Marx needed to know everything there is to know about human behaviour. It strikes me as odd that you phrase it that w...

No one here is claiming that they are. The claim being contested is that there's no such thing as human nature, no statistical tendency to respond to ...

OK. Whether to help a friend in trouble. Two year olds know to do this, no science is required because the challenge has been resolved before we can e...

I have literally no idea what you're talking about at this stage. Are you asking me if I'd like to be turkey? Or if farmed Turkey's are healthy? Eithe...

By what force do those laws apply? The only actors in human history are humans and their environment. We either respond to that environment in a predi...

Neither really, just that (as you later allude to) as models they need to have something to hook them back to the thing they're modelling. In models o...

So how would we know the success of any given strategy other than by measuring the extent to which it has successfully lead to propagation of genetic ...

That seems irrelevant, it would still be human nature. To respond in such-and -such a way in one situation and some other way in another. I don't see ...

Yes. Very strange. For a start if a gene for aggression existed (it doesn't) why would that make us unable to prevent people from beating their wives?...

It seems from the latest post though, that @"Thomas Quine" is equating 'flourishing' with nothing more than long-term population numbers. So that woul...

It seems quite relevant. The argument against Marx is rarely "we don't want a fairer society", rather it is "such a system wouldn't/hasn't work(ed)". ...

Why not (for a sufficiently specific definition of x)?

But would "This sentence is true" have elicited any different consequence?

You're equivocating definitions of meaningful and truth. There's two potential conversations here and you can't bridge them in the way you're attempti...

We've been through all this, so it's obviously not 'helpful' at all. 1. Is false. Living species do not all seek to flourish, they seek to propagate g...

It doesn't seem like the sort of thing I'm likely to ask, no.

Well how come it's finished then?

Well, if you don't think 'cause' is the right word then you've begged the question. You can't genuinely pursue the question of free-will from the pres...

Yes. I couldn't hold the belief that "this sentence is true" because there's nothing I'd be inclined to do differently to if it were false. Part of th...

How does a 'motivating factor' cause behaviour without a the 'desire' toward a certain response?

Out of £100, you can bet any amount on either LNC being true or false, with, let's say 20:1 odds. I'd put £50 on it being true and £50 on it being fal...

Wow. You must get up very early in the morning to gather all your own news, well done. Stirling effort.

Sure, I mean to ask if one's arrangement can be assessed or evaluated on the same basis as the truths it arranges. It seems that arrangements are gene...

But I couldn't dispute whether it's true?

I'm not sure how. If your evaluation of your arrangement relies (even in part) on "it turns people away from caring about important issues due to supe...

And some of those outcomes are truth evaluable themselves, yes? For example "it turns people away from caring about important issues due to superficia...