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I really like this. It makes a great starting place by indicating that we have intuitions and make moral judgements not only with them but also of the...

I submit this as evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao

The argument is very simple and it is addressed to you as an individual who has made the quoted statement. But it applies equally to anyone who partic...

Ah, mere feelings? Are feelings overrated? I think they might be underrated, myself, by philosophy and her bastard child science alike. We share commo...

So I hear. But that's why we do reproduce, not why we should. The obligation is "for the survival of the species" whereas the individual reason is "to...

Also, the religious story appeals to the individual, whereas the evolutionary story does not. The categorical imperative of evolution is "survive". Bu...

The still small voice of conscience is what we used to claim as the source of moral judgement, back in the olden days when we were allowed to be Chris...

It occurred to me to make the calculation, how much poorer people are in this case. It's down and dirty, but $1 trillion divided by 340,000,000, (US p...

I think people find it unsatisfactory when they listen to themselves reciting and performing according to the image they have of themselves. They do n...

Then it is inadequate. Nazis cooperate. Mafias cooperate. That is not what anyone wants to mean by morality — well that's too strong, it's not what an...

Ice. Good with gin, bad with scotch. Fairly short video, and fairly clear warnings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_eY4BFVoGU

1. Facts are always about what is the case. 2. What ought to be the case is manifestly not inevitably what is the case. The prosecution rests.

"Because it's there." As Mallory replied when asked why he wanted to climb Everest. Your book cannot end the diversity of viewpoints — so why did you ...

That you post 5 minutes after me suggests that you might be responding to my post, except that you would not have had time to even skim through the vi...

Here is a video about the economic effects of climate change in the US. Similar and worse effects are available elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Yes I remember reading your suggestions back then. I doubt the software allows such limits though. But if one finds one's poor posts being deleted, an...

I find myself reluctantly on the side of the ungodly, though without the contempt. My instinct has always been to refuse to discuss philosophy in pms ...

I wasn't aware of that diagnosis when I commented, but I did see that you were taking responsibility for a situation you clearly had no responsibility...

I wish you had had a better psychiatrist.

Miss Pellin is a bitch.

Almost put this on Vera Mont's tribute thread, because synchronicity. Here is a new observatory in Chile, coming on stream, named after Vera Rubin the...

OK, Jesus. :joke:

Not a bad place to stop. A star set in a background of stars. Thank you!

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved "We cannot afford it." We are already morally bankrupt, and lo...

In a little while we will forget, but not just yet.

In those days there were no digital machines and we had to make our own echos by hand. Nowadays AI does it for us with the millions of corpses it has ...

This is rather interesting. A significant correlation between Earth magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen levels. I would suspect some crankery to thi...

It's a prime characteristic of the aristocracy to be self-deprecating, (which is why Trump is so risible). But you wouldn't know that because the US h...

A crime we used to call 'being a broken record'. A crime we used to call 'being a broken record'. A crime we used to call 'being a broken record'. A c...

Token smile; :smile: Enigmatic simile; like water for chocolate

UNENLIGHTENED COMMENTARY AS AN AID There are many worlds, but only one subjectivity. This subjectivity is cloaked by intellect, by identifications and...

Yes. I specialise in fallout. I can fallout of places you wouldn't think a cat could get into. I do believe I could fall out of a bottle of wine in Me...

I know, @"Jamal" already told me. But I am now part of the UK Nuclear deterrent, so there's that.

I can see you want to destroy the world for ideological reasons.

I like magma flavoured ice cream best. It's so energising.

I might have clarified some butter, but clarifying the already clarified is beyond me. I just want to make that clear if it wasn't already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCy9k_RWlvA This too is a kind of looking - to look is to question the world. 'Who are you?', the world asks itself. M...

Well of course - I think You are saying that identity is important socially? for sure, but psychologically, it is a contradiction as an individuality....

I'm not competent to comment in detail in this; it is too steeped in postmodern considerations that are beyond me, or beneath me, I'm not sure which. ...

The right to change or erase the past is a dangerous nonsense, beloved by dictators and warned against by George Orwell. I didn't say that.

To err is human, but to umm is divine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSjZS63T7s

Psychologists talk about a 'fight or flight' response. An automatic response to the perception of threat. Presumably, psychologically, one has no free...

It is extreme, and inconsiderate to members who have engaged in good faith, as it makes a nonsense of threads when one side of a dialogue is removed. ...

Wow! It's come to something, when even my feeble jokes are intimidating. I'm going to reference the shoutbox in my application to become part of the U...

Also chaps, watch a video of elephants drawing and grooving to music, and stop being so anthropocentric. Especially in the shoutbox, for the devil's s...

To whom it may concern: While I am quite ok with the administration deleting posts, and banning members or "users", as and when necessary, I must prot...

Women philosophers are not so numerous and often cited on this site as to make this an entirely trivial error. Especially when one is banging on about...

Here's a discussion of the UK Strategic Defence Review, of recent publication, and a more general discussion of Nato, threats worldwide, and so on. Ra...

A neighbour went to Japan for a holiday and some conference to do with computer games or something, and brought us back some KitCats as a souvenir. I ...

Standards are slipping in the shout box. I bring to your attention a couple of examples. How can philosophers be trusted if they let these thing pass ...