Echarmion

This is honestly confusing to me. Can you not address the answer I gave? Because the obligation is not absolute or all encompassing. There is an oblig...

I am not going to be able to fully derive a system of moral philosophy right here. If I ever do that, perhaps you can buy it as a book. But I can try ...

What is an immoral basis for pursuing an abortion? If you have already discussed that, I might have overlooked it, the thread is long.

Financial interests don't have the same moral weight as the integrity of life and limb.

You are jumping between two unrelated concepts here. Responsibility is a relation between a subject and an event. Consent is a relation between two su...

I have no background in mathematics, but the first step in turning a statement into a mathematical formula would be to express it as a deduction in fo...

That does not make sense to me. Your initial argument was that the mother implicitly consented to the use of her body by the fetus. That implies that ...

No, if we are using the legal definitions of the term, at least approximately, then you can implicitly consent to someone elses actions. That's actual...

An interesting angle. The consent seems manufactured though. You cannot implicitly consent to a result you explicitly try to avoid. Having sex entails...

I think an important question would be what we are trying to protect when we protect cultures. Are we protecting merely individual rights? In this cas...

The answer to this will depend on what you think you can know, and of course how. There are those opinions where the answer is obvious. Having blue as...

I'll second @"Joshs" here. Value is not an inherent attribute of an object, it's a relation. All value is dependent on the frame of reference, as you ...

I get your point. I think I would agree that there is a qualitative difference between needing a specific amount of resources and wanting an unlimited...

You are oversimplifying the argument if you reduce it to a pyramid of suffering with humans at the top. If you want to make moral judgements, the firs...

I wonder whether there is a qualitative difference between "fighting to survive" and "fighting to thrive"? Aren't both just attempts to fulfill your n...

You do realize you are arguing against morality or ethics existing as anything other than mere feelings and preferences? That you are a human and dese...

But, we do have a different mode of teaching morals to children. We don't hand out fines or throw them into jail. You are incorrectly assuming that "p...

But I still observe the objects in my present. Either we are referring to an objective present, in which case all information I currently observe refe...

Thats already inherent in the notion of "observation" isn't it? Or are you arguing that gaining any information is impossible?

But "children" is a very wide term. A 3-year-old might be ignorant of morals. But what about someone who is 8? 12? If you define punishment as "any ne...

Well the obvious first answer is that you are not supposed to "punish" children, you are supposed to discipline them. The second answer is that, from ...

It is unknowable, yes. The term is not meaningless though, because the transcendent is an area where you can make neither positive or negative claims....