On what grounds do you claims a private understanding of 'exists'? I get the distinction you're making between our mental activity (which is private) ...
Out of a population of 41 million, that's a death rate of 0.243/1000 (assuming a full year of war) Rates of avoidable mortality in Ukraine (due to lac...
Exactly. @"Cartesian trigger-puppets" has misunderstood what the term 'justify' means. One does not justify to one's self (other than perhaps to rehea...
I haven't even mentioned well-being. That they'd still have necessary conditions of existence. You don't care much about babies born on the other side...
It couldn't have happened. It's impossible. One could (or could not) have created a person. One could not do (or not do) anything to a person or on be...
None of that makes sense. The state of affairs you're talking about are a necessity for the 'someone else'. So your second statement is absolutely, un...
Yeah. The interesting question then is whether (and why) those 'disembodied souls' have any criteria necessary to their existence. I mean, it seems pr...
Both created you, of necessity. Neither were done to you. A claim which is performatively contradicted by your grammar...which was the point of my com...
Your complaint isn't the illegitimate part. Your blame is. No one did this to you. Being you requires that you survive or die. So it's impossible for ...
Sure, but in relation to the balance of value to citizens vs the value to the state. Simply declaring that citizens benefited won't cut it. We're talk...
I'm quite happy to admit they're forced too. But not on you. There's no 'you' without them. It's the difference between a fireman complaining about lo...
Yeah. Lava pits are dangerous and babies need not be born into them. Someone did that to the baby the moment that baby was born (or conceived even). I...
Why are you telling me all this? It's the topic of the thread. If you want to start another thread about the history and function of conscription, do ...
Yes, indeed. One of the limitations of scientism (among many) is that the proponent's outlook is necessarily limited to those scientific models that t...
No. You can whinge about it all you like. Saying it was forced upon you, is nonsense. There's no 'you' without it. The trouble with all your arguments...
But enough people do vote. So that's not something I have to do anything about, is it? Yeah. I don't object to voting, or with a compulsion to vote wh...
Exactly. I can't see where people get the idea that the products of human societies are somehow unreal. On the one hand we have idealists telling us n...
Fascinating stuff. A few questions arise. How do we identify the old beliefs from the new beliefs? Do they have some kind of labelling system? Why don...
You're asking "what does it 'mean'?" and then claiming that discussion of how words 'mean' something is 'off track'. If you have a particular direct r...
You already do. That's the point. If you ask me "what does the space above Glen's head contain?" Am I equally likely to say "Nothing", "A hat", or "a ...
Same could be said of the Russian Crimeans or the the independents in Donbas. Same could be said of the Basque separatists, the Scottish, the Taliban ...
Your bitter fantasy is getting the better of your grammar again. The situation is a necessary part of being you, it wasn't forced upon you. There is n...
The answer to this question depends entirely on what one's prior expectations about the space above your head are. We require proof not to believe thi...
More of a risk than marching toward a line of machine guns? I doubt an annexed country would be given autonomy. What's so special about autonomy? I li...
Here's Routledge... It goes on to cite Crispin Wright... "Punching old ladies is right" is an assertion which is amenable to being true in exactly the...
Well they might. Or they might not. that's the point. the argument is about the degree of imposition the government considers reasonable in the face o...
How is language not part of the world? An entire community of real people really use the word 'wrong' in association with the behaviour shoplifting. T...
You said moral realists believe morality relates to objective facts. Being part of a group of behaviours associated with a particular word is an objec...
No. It could be otherwise. It could be that shoplifting is wrong because God said so, regardless of whether entire language communities use the word '...
If you ask "what does 'tree' mean" would you expect an answer other than just to point to a tree and say "It's one of those"? why would you expect the...
Are languages not real? I'm using this definition of moral realism, by the way... It is a fact that shoplifting is one of the behaviours we use words ...
I know. You're still not relating any of this to justifications. It's simpler to just answer the question, but whatever.... If you don't have a capabl...
It's not tautologous. We use the word 'wrong' to describe certain behaviours, shoplifting is one of them. There's nothing tautologous about that claim...
Why need there be one? We don't use the word 'wrong' to describe wrong acts. We use the word 'wrong' to describe some acts and not others. You're assu...
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