Why make them? That doesn't even make sense. I don't start off with a blank slate and then 'decide' whether I think mutilating babies is OK. Do you? I...
Firstly, you've just repeated Moore's open question argument without showing how you resolve it. You've argued "we must keep morality intact today, be...
I'm very much a 'meaning is use' person when it comes to language, so the problem you're outlining doesn't even arise. 'Good' when used of a moral typ...
I agree. I think if we had to explain the striking degree of homogeneity with people's moral judgement, evolved mechanisms to keep communities togethe...
Not many, no. That's the point. You want them to behave a certain way (don't accuse people in the way you describe), they want you to behave a certain...
No, but I am already absolutely convinced that doing so would be monstrous. I don't need a rational argument either way. I'm not slightly inclined tow...
Yes. If my position were that some murder was all right, then the kind of murder that might be would be murder committed by someone who thought it was...
Murder committed by someone who thinks it is all right. To qualify - your question doesn't actually make any sense, I've tried to parse it in as best ...
But you haven't explained how murder is an absolute wrong yet, you just declared it to be the case. Why are you asking @"S" to explain how murder isn'...
But the only thing you have actually given as an example of people engaging in the attempt at 'de facto tyranny' are; "... accused of not following so...
But you just said that people do not have the right to try and control behaviour purely on the grounds that they don't like it. Yet, here you are clai...
You're seeking to restrict the actions of people who are carrying out legal activities. How is that any different to what you are suggesting they are ...
Yes, I know what you are saying. I'm asking you why? It's a simple question. Why do you think you are morally entitled to restrict (or seek to restric...
Yes, that would be an ethics question, but the OP did not want his own behaviours to be subjected to restraint resulting from ethical rules, so I'm co...
Yes, I didn't ask you to repeat your assertions, I asked you to explain them. What moral guide, or perhaps religious instruction, are you following by...
I would agree with this much, but then, in finding common ground on this we've reduced your claim to something trivially true "finding facts out about...
Yes, I gathered that. I'm asking you why it is you think that level of 'tyranny' is bad. Why is is that your preferred behaviour (whatever this 'tyran...
I'm not seeing the philosophical relevance. If you want to behave however you like, and to achieve that you're demanding that others desist from behav...
I can only understand the word 'shared' in terms of division, or joint ownership, or maybe joint possession (as in some property is shared). I can onl...
Have a look at the page number at the bottom of the page. I make it sixteen. That's about 200 posts. No one here is a relativist regarding logic, no o...
Yes to the first part (by my particular view of moral subjectivism), but in the second, you're adding terms to the argument that no one (to my knowled...
Absolutely. To be honest I think subjectivism has the edge here and people are using it despite claiming to oppose it. Look at Tim's argument, or VS's...
Right, but how does objectivism help us with this kind of problem? If I was an objectivist about morals, you could just disagree with my reasoning. I ...
Well, here I may diverge from TS and S, but I would argue one of three ways. 1. Everyone else thinks Hitler is a monster (only works if it's true, but...
I think I understand, thanks. Let me check. If someone came into my house (invited or not) and started making racist jokes (by which I mean jokes I th...
I'm not comparing subjective judgements. I'm comparing his actions to my subjective judgement, not comparing his subjective judgement to my subjective...
Right. Its a form of question begging, I think. The hidden premise is {we must defer to what is objective when we make demands on the actions of other...
Right, but on what grounds? All I can think of is that they discover the speaker is probably not going to say the sort of thing they wanted him to say...
If I may. They only must admit that the other's subjective judgement is correct for them (the other person) it is still incorrect for the person think...
But what's the difference between this and the people you're arguing with? Aren't they just a group of people discussing the 'rules' for what can and ...
This is the point I'm unsure on. I basically agree with the rest of what you've said, but I'm still unsure here. As I used in my post above, if one we...
Not at all, Bordeaux is huge (plus the fact that that's its in Burgundy... as well you know)... Damn... No, wait, it was a double bluff, its not in Bu...
Damn, you spoiled it. We could have gone for pages on that question before we reveal the answer that everyone obviously knows. (although it's yellow, ...
Yes, I briefly paid a visit. "If I define everything to mean exactly what I say it does, does {insert thing here} mean exactly what I say it does?" se...
Yes, that's exactly the question I'm asking. What is the line, or general principle people are using to judge the kinds of speech acts which can be re...
If I might dare to bridge the gulf between the extreme moral relativist and the moral absolutist, I think the slightly maligned notion of ethical natu...
Right so perhaps you could correct your title to Quantum experiment is interpretable in a way that I'd already decided was true before the experiment ...
One thing I'm not clear on about this free speech absolutist position, is with what clarity you're identifying suppression of speech on the basis of i...
Everyone else not doing it. Same thing as persuades most people to do most things. Have you looked at society lately? See much rational decision makin...
You see, this is the problem I have with your position. You talk accurately about epistemological when pushed (I've bolded the relevant sections), but...
No, I'm conjecturing an explanation for it. If you say you experience day and night, I'm not being presumptive in suggesting it's because the world is...
I think the reason @"S" said it was a non sequitur was the conflation of normative with meta ethics. The opinion of a subjective relativist about what...
I did, but no one got the, admittedly obscure, method. If I keep going translating paragraphs into other languages, each step is perfectly understanda...
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