In the UK... It costs about £70,000 to build a house - a nice modern insulated one. The average house price is somewhere around £270,000. The £200,000...
This suggests that there is a quantity of opprobrium that cannot be created or destroyed but only deflected from one to another. But gays were never r...
No. if there is an individual, then its preferences are itself. It is only in dividing the individual that one part, the preference can be an impositi...
You need to stretch your nostrils if you want to reach into your brain and grasp your preferences. There are bits of yourself that can be grasped, and...
This is another homunculus argument very similar to the one that proves we cannot see things. Light enters the eye, optic nerve signals, neurons fire,...
Sounds a bit arbitrary to me. I'm the king, so everything morally belongs to me. And such relations are either god-given, or socially given, I can't s...
:D Well I must say I am inclined to present the same argument to those who say "taxation is theft". It seems to me that either position is unjustifiab...
It is both literal and figurative. Please don't expect me to defend sharing our shirts, it would be un-hygenic. I'm not arguing that property should n...
Well it certainly questions the assumptions of this brand of libertarianism, but if one is putting freedom at the centre of everything, I think it is ...
I am a monetary antirealist; I don't belive money has any intrinsic value. But I know the people at Walmart like to collect it so I take some to them ...
Perhaps you address this elsewhere, but I would like to see some engagement with Proudhon. To put it very simply, property is theft, and taxation is t...
You believe X. A's believe X. Therefore you are A. A's believe Q. Therefore you believe Q Q is false. Therefore A's are wrong. Therefore X is false. I...
Huh? Does that relate in some way to This? Is there some reason why a white male professor should be preferred? And if there has been an instance or e...
Indeed! Love requires freedom, because love that is coerced is not love but a reaction from fear. Love requires the absence of coercive policies, the ...
So all your arguments about the union of two as one, and about love are irrelevant. Your policy is not about promoting love at all, nor is it about pr...
No, that's you. Marriages break up because people do not want to continue with them. There is nothing natural about the preference for virginity; it i...
Back to your tried and failed analogy. We agree about the 70%, then and the government could prevent them from marrying by preventing marriage. The pr...
It does not follow at all. I have presented the alternative that adultery should be prevented by preventing folk from entering contracts that your own...
Y'all may feel insulted by my failure, until now, to consider this thread worthy of my response. Indeed, if you don't, I feel insulted that you value ...
I hesitate to offend your sensibilities, but in the interests of my love, I have to inform you that it was only in the act of adultery that she was aw...
Yes she would be hurting me. Do you think divorce is less painful than adultery? I assure you that the rejection is what hurts, not the mere breach of...
But I have adopted it. I am the injured party in this hypothetical, and you want to injure me further by punishing my other half. But more than that, ...
The thread is about punishment for adultery. Punishment can only protect to the extent that it deters through fear. But let us be clear. Punishment fo...
No, I'm not advocating that at all. I'm saying that contracts are fine in a limited sphere, and so long as the terms are reasonable, and there are sui...
Can't argue with that, I chose it myself. A strong argument that anything I say can be dismissed without argument. It is not a fact. Show me the stati...
Marriage should be banned. It is a form of enslavement, which the emphasis here given to adultery illustrates. It institutionalises the ownership of a...
Not wanting to disrupt the reading group, but here is an old-fashioned analysis of the highly ambiguous word "meaning". Probably don't bother to read ...
Become a philosophy moderator; you get to be penniless, do philosophy, and be edifying. Or if you are really selfless, any of the caring professions w...
If will-be propositions) cannot be derived from is propositions, then it seems we start out with will-be (independently of is)? Well not exactly indep...
Fortunately, one can conceive of a brick without having an actual brick in one's head. Recite this mantra whenever such problems rear their befuddling...
Perhaps I am out of date; my recollection is that laws of nature are derived from observations of regularities. Where there are no regularities, such ...
Choice (or if you insist, "choice") determines and is itself determined under determinism by initial conditions. At the end of the road I have a choic...
I don't think it disallows anything, it merely allows that while I condemn them as bloodthirsty, racist bigots, they also condemn me a a weak-willed d...
Amongst the questions seldom asked by philosophers is, "what are tools for?" One does not expect much of an answer beyond "tools are for doing things....
Can I ask you to clarify something? If it is sensible to say that an act is good or bad, 'eating babies is morally wrong', say, then beliefs that lead...
I was referring to myself. But as this clarification indicates, I wrongly assumed that someone who is fucking offensive is an offensive fucker. You ca...
You've seen it many times, because I consider it necessary from time to time, and not unnecessary. Moderators are here doing quite tricky, and necessa...
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