Judaka

I still don't know what you're talking about, what examples can you give where obedience is treated as morally praiseworthy? I definitely don't think ...

If you didn't want to discuss obedience in all of its forms then you should have thus stipulated. I am not conflating all the contexts for obedience, ...

A great example for me of why this isn't as good as it seems would be this exercise program that I follow stronglifts 5x5. The guy who runs it, Medhi,...

I don't think rationality and obedience are always separate. Obedience can be rational/logical and I actually think there are more examples where it'd...

I am referring to different stages of an individuals life, I'd say, if you were assigned a gender at birth you're powerless to argue against that unti...

Something being socially constructed means it is an invention or an artifice of a given society. What's your definition?

So first of all, I don't claim gender is subjective. I share your views that it is biologically determined what gender you are and personally I think ...

"Western world" is not fair, take a look at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-10/democracy-index-economist-intelligence-unit-2018/10703184 America i...

This is a dangerous question to asking in a philosophy forum... People can give reasonable, plausible answers that are backed up by logic and theory b...

I'm more pointing out that we are all probably reasonable from our own perspectives and unreasonable in at least a few other peoples' perspectives. Is...

If gender is socially constructed (i.e. not determined by the individual) then it's subjective and CAN be determined by the individual. If it is biolo...

I guess we must all deal with the situation of being thought of as an unreasonable person by at least a few people. Perhaps only because unreasonable ...

If gender is socially constructed then that means it's a learned behaviour which means you can unlearn it.

In a universe without life, nothing needs to mean anything, things just are. No matter what the limitations of understanding between people are, nothi...

Haha... when you mischaracterize me to this extent, it is hard to think I should change. Anyway, enough of this.

I was discussing what transgender people do or don't believe. Then I responded to your comment which quoted me and told you I'm not interested in talk...

I am not arguing gender is 100% biologically informed. I am saying people don't gender themselves based on whether they played with trucks or ponies a...

Most people do think they are correctly gendered to their sex and they know that intuitively, of the people who don't (which is a very small percentag...

My understanding is that transgender people don't all have the same understanding. Some think they were born the wrong sex (relative to their brain) w...

What do you mean by universal language? One where everyone understands exactly what you mean? There are no universal languages like that, the devil is...

I am not saying it must be interpreted by an agent, I am distinguishing between facts and the interpretation of facts. If all beings disappear, the un...

No, I wondered why you asked that and re-read OP and realised I was talking about something completely different.

I didn't realise you're talking about the philosophy of Stoicism rather just the adjective, never mind.

Why not think of stoicism and cynicism as tools and opportunities to be used in different situations? Knowing what you want and knowing reality, you w...

Well, the end result may be agreeing to disagree but here's what I'm saying. If you are going to say that it's totally legitimate to create a subjecti...

I am trying to distinguish between facts and interpretations of facts. Interpretations being necessarily subjective. It is a fact that Susie can stack...

Doesn't Baldur's gate have a lawful evil alignment? Anyway, if you want villains who had the law on their side, why bother with fiction?

Both communism and anarchy fall into tribalism, I think communism at least, you can hope for a benevolent leader whereas anarchy doesn't appear to hav...

Oh yes, I agree we cannot just dispense with our values and get some new ones because we think they'll be more useful :). I am more interested in this...

Well, I don't necessarily think it's wrong to think "I'm better than you". Generally, it's expressing a feeling of superiority and contempt than anyth...

That's a nice image and a very balanced perspective. Thanks for answering my questions.

So you see pragmatism's role as being to save us from pursuing our ideals in an unrealistic fashion? You seem to see the problem of us not necessarily...

I think it's important to acknowledge that nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine million dollars...

I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. I've been going around forums like this for 2-3 years and posting somewhat regularly and I've disa...

Fair point. The problem with talking to you is that you decide what my positions are based on what you think is reasonable. If I talk about meaning, I...

I agree that pragmatism can't exist without values but I don't think values rely on pragmatism, what makes you say that is the case? Your definition f...

This is not what a cup is, there are all kinds of shapes in cups. There are also things which fit this description which are not cups like bowls, pots...

So basically here's what I got from you. 1. English (or any language) has objective meaning 2. However, not all of the language, just some of it 3. Th...

Okay, let's try this again since you gave such a reasonable response. Let me tell you just a tiny bit about myself; I am a hardcore pragmatist, who's ...

You think so? Does no trust mean that you always plan for the worst case scenarios as though they're the most likely? Never enter your house without a...

I agree with most of your sentiment - that capital should be put to better use than accumulating wealth for already uber-rich dynasties and individual...

Yes, I understand. I didn't mean political socialism but socialist policies. I very much agree with everything you said on the subject. You provide a ...

I thank you for introducing me to this concept of r>g, it is such a simple representation of the problem. It really changes my views on taxation. Can ...

Do you have any resources about economies becoming less productive because of inequality? I'd like to learn about that if it's true. Also what I mean ...

Indeed. There's also a question of trust in a pragmatic sense, like I am an employee who has 10 staff members. If I don't trust them to do their jobs ...

Let me clarify a few things, this is what you called me "idealistically" failing to distinguish between understanding and meaning. This is a quote whi...

My premise for question 1 was that you agreed with that your position was that language has rules sufficient to create objective meaning but now you a...

I see. You're right, my apologies. So what you actually said "Yes, and?" to was this. As such I will take this as your argument for objective meaning ...

I do think that Emancipate has a point. My definition is incomplete and while interpretation can work the way I described it doesn't have to. As an ex...

The concept of wealth creation, potential wealth, wealth distribution in monopoly do not replicate capitalism and that is the way OP is trying to intr...