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In: Rebirth?  — view comment
Yes, and subjects can appear to know facts that they appear have had no means of knowing, for perfectly normal reasons (such as coincidence and acquir...
May 12, 2019 at 12:31
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The research isn't fringe or alternative. Scientists research the testimony of children for all sorts of reasons. My own field, psychology, is greatly...
May 12, 2019 at 11:53
In: Rebirth?  — view comment
That right there is the unjustified prejudice you've been accused of all along. How the hell do you suppose science ever arrives at new 'means' (gravi...
May 12, 2019 at 11:12
How? What would the mechanism be by which this would be brought about? Is there some gatekeeper somewhere that I'm unaware of ensuring that YouTube vi...
May 12, 2019 at 08:09
Yes, but no one has provided either a definition of what law in general, or law in principle, actually is. Nor, most importantly, how it is more than ...
May 12, 2019 at 06:59
You didn't only claim that morality was inter-subjective. You additionally claimed that some morals were "near universal", and it is that issue that I...
May 12, 2019 at 06:53
What distinction is that? Still not seeing the link you're making. I am always subject to the law of my country. OK. Then you leap to me being under a...
May 12, 2019 at 06:38
I'm not confusing the two. I'm claiming that things like 'law' as law do not exist. Law, as a concept is not coherent. It is 'some laws'. 'Law' is the...
May 11, 2019 at 20:16
I don't believe it does. I think the obligation exists already as a desire. Not seeing the jump there. That the relativist refers only to his own feel...
May 11, 2019 at 17:30
But we've been through all this and you're just not adapting your argument, or acknowledging counter arguments. I've just spent time explaining why it...
May 11, 2019 at 17:23
What's missing from your argument here is the mechanism by which this happens. Are you suggesting that there's some system in place which ensures ever...
May 11, 2019 at 10:01
I have a problem with the racist implications of this. Not that I suppose for a moment that you intended them, let me make that abundantly clear first...
May 11, 2019 at 07:16
No, not by necessity. If you want to argue that respect for the law 'as law' is prior to the creation of laws individually, then you'd have to again p...
May 11, 2019 at 06:38
... Or... Are you saying that people know instinctively who is a member of their community, such that this category is (near)-universalised by biology...
May 10, 2019 at 11:03
But this doesn't cover places like Nazi Germany. Here, "the Jews" were turned into "the other" and thus it was considered morally OK to murder them (o...
May 10, 2019 at 08:45
Yes. So none of this relates to his "hard work" at all. It's an aside, but it riles me this reference to "hard work" to imply some virtue to the top o...
May 10, 2019 at 08:32
What on earth is "edgelord rubbish"? I mean, I'm guessing it's bad...
May 10, 2019 at 07:28
I'm happy to go along with this definition but I'm not sure what it gains in terms universality. The imperative "do not murder a member of your commun...
May 10, 2019 at 07:24
One key component of your argument is that one "benefits" from being in a community. If the black population of South Africa at the time of Apartheid ...
May 10, 2019 at 07:12
Just felt the need to highlight that this is ideological garbage. Democracy is the pacifying of those who might otherwise turn to violent revolt by pr...
May 10, 2019 at 06:41
So explain to me how 2+2=4 without invoking Peano's axioms. How 2+2 just is 4 without any premises at all that we must first agree on. I'm beginning t...
May 09, 2019 at 19:54
This is probably the most amusing thing you've come up with yet, well done. God really wanted some intelligent life to entertain him so he created som...
May 09, 2019 at 15:42
Oh no, I dread to think what that would be like... If only there were some kind of Internet forum where that happened literally all the time... It cou...
May 09, 2019 at 15:30
I hope you are feeling better now. Publishers, corporations supporting advert-funded media like Breibart and YouTube, and funding foundations like the...
May 09, 2019 at 10:07
Woah, cool. You're a psychic! Yes. We can talk about unicorns without establishing whether they exist too. I don't. I suppose I would be asserting whe...
May 09, 2019 at 07:35
Any reason you missed this bit out? It seems like most of what you've put under 'reasoning' (which should be only logical relations) belongs here. Let...
May 09, 2019 at 07:12
..and we're back to arguments which you have already had countered. There is not a 'probability' of the existence of God. You have misunderstood how p...
May 08, 2019 at 17:24
But it's neither, because it's not a massive fluke if it wasn't by design. If no one was aiming for or wanted a life-supporting universe, then it wasn...
May 08, 2019 at 16:00
Wow. @"Merkwurdichliebe"'s ramblings actually sound like something...anything... You've done a better job than me of squeezing so drop of meaning out ...
May 08, 2019 at 15:57
It doesn't 'happen to be' it is the only number it could ever possibly have been because had it been any other number we wouldn't be here. We are here...
May 08, 2019 at 15:50
Yes. So there are perhaps more than a billion ways the universe could be (or could have tried to be). So what? If ask you to pick a number between 1 a...
May 08, 2019 at 15:38
It's not a billion to one fluke, for fucks sake man. It's like talking to me brick wall. It's not a fluke, a win, a gamble, a lucky break, a surprise ...
May 08, 2019 at 15:26
No. We did not 'win' because we were not playing. The lottery was played, the variables set, and then we evolved directly because the universe was tha...
May 08, 2019 at 15:17
I'm talking about "exists" in the sense in which one would answer "no" to the question "do unicorns exist". Not in the sense in which one would answer...
May 08, 2019 at 12:27
...would have been a much quicker way to have this conversation.
May 08, 2019 at 09:36
Is it? To what alternative weakness do you suppose most lesser mortals succumb? Losing the basic sense of their meaning in the face of dissent? Are yo...
May 08, 2019 at 08:50
Yeah, that I can definitely see being the case, so perhaps I did read maw's comment wrong afterall, if that was the limit of the implication. This is ...
May 08, 2019 at 08:42
At the risk of just pissing everyone off by disagreeing with all sides, do you really think it's "silly" to think that billionaires don't just donate ...
May 08, 2019 at 07:03
How are you determining that the "neurons, synapses, and things like that" are not the pattern? Again, you're begging the question. You're assuming 't...
May 08, 2019 at 06:57
I don't really want to get on the wrong side of this, because I'd happily see the Koch brothers pistol-whipped, but this hysteria (of maw's, not you) ...
May 08, 2019 at 06:43
I'm commenting on your tone and attitude, exactly as you are doing with me here. Ad hominem is a fallacy of avoiding or detracting from the topic by r...
May 08, 2019 at 06:25
Well it didn't take long to get back to the condescending attitude did it? I disagree with you about what 'the law' is, so I must "not know" what it i...
May 07, 2019 at 19:07
No it isn't. We are here to remark on it, which means we must have won, which means the fact that we did is not remarkable at all. A billion to one sh...
May 07, 2019 at 16:27
Firstly, this thread is 19 pages long. No one has dismissed your arguments without consideration. They have been dismissed (where they have been dismi...
May 07, 2019 at 15:48
I really don't think that is the way things work, but it would take quite some investment in the social psychology literature to even review the argum...
May 07, 2019 at 13:03
Your syllogism is correct, but I don't agree with (nor can see any reason for) the premise. Why would our ability to measure something have anything t...
May 07, 2019 at 11:21
Apologies for not responding this earlier. My intention was not to confuse matters thus, but only to re-emphasise the significant difference between w...
May 07, 2019 at 10:09
I'm not seeing the link there. All I'm saying is that if de-platforming attempts like those in response to Shapiro were somehow stopped, then such peo...
May 07, 2019 at 09:31
The difference is that Devans is trying to do maths with the numbers and using the resulting probability as an argument for the unliklihood of the cir...
May 07, 2019 at 09:06
I agree, with one important caveat. Where there is a widely accepted body of knowledge which relates to a position, I don't think a person unaware of ...
May 07, 2019 at 08:49