It's a cultural issue, and removing the root problem from one's life is challenging in the West. Even if one is determined to remove the processed jun...
I'm extremely individualistic, in so far as I oppose collectivist thinking, but individualistic thinking that I disdain is where international, system...
Another comparison could be of viewing obesity through the lens of the health cost it incurs on the public. The critical factor is that an individual'...
It is not just about "human motivation", it is about characterising human motivation, and that makes it philosophical. How could science provide a def...
It's a characterisation based on interpretation, and so, it is definitely a philosophical statement. Its bearing on philosophy alone would make it a p...
Indeed, that is how it factors in. Haha... Since the ideas of neoliberalism and liberalism have been purposefully tied together, and the idea of freed...
Governments could reduce the potential for addiction by regulating or banning the use of substances or tactics proven to cause addiction. Laws could i...
That's true, but people's decision-making within the context of addiction could be construed as being compromised, and that the poor decision-making o...
If a social constructionist view is an impetus for this change, then we risk making potentially harmful changes to mitigate problems under a false ass...
There's a similar feeling with nature, there are so many amazing landscapes a few clicks away, but scrolling through a catalogue of them, they feel li...
Lmao, I can see how uninterested you are in power, your response is one big flex, you vastly exceeded my expectations. You're proud of purposefully mi...
Why are you so insistent on taking me out of context? The top 1% or 10%? That was in reference to things like fucking card games, board games, compute...
You're deliberately taking me out of context. This is all irrelevant. I was not arguing that 100% of men outcompeted all the women, or anything close ...
I don't think it's inherently undesirable, we'd need to look at the process of filling those positions, and what our goal was. If we found that the pr...
I am certain that you are working under the same principles that I've outlined. There is not a single case of sexism that you agree with, not a single...
Yes, morality is in theory, a mental affair, your actions do not matter. To be good, in a moral context, requires the desire to be good. This view of ...
Huh? I was talking about board games and card games and other competitions, and why men dominated them, what you've quoted has no relevance to my view...
The difference is in intent, what I'm describing is a natural consequence of the differences between men and women, though, I do appreciate that it is...
Is this your basis for saying there's a patriarchy in these "contemporary societies"? I'm not interested in a modern feminist reimagining of what patr...
Gender differences are trivial compared to the commonalities between men and women, but as we organise our language, culture, customs etc around gende...
I agree with everything @"apokrisis" has commented, I was fussing over how to phrase my argument only to find everything I wanted to say has already b...
I read through it. I wonder how you expect me to react to it, or why you wanted my reaction to it. You're definitely right that morality and philosoph...
The upside of talking to me is I won't take offence to anything you say, the downside is I'll likely say something to offend you :P. You've connected ...
It's a feature of power. The acquisition of ever greater power is assisted by possessing power. This occurs in capitalism, as you've described, but it...
In terms of the citizen's perspective, capitalism goes against their interests, our productive capacity should produce a much higher standard of livin...
Not exactly sure what you're not agreeing with. Gender roles have always been heavily tied to morality, and have always been expressed in a moral cont...
Sure, morality can cover any topic, including manners, nothing special about that. We would ask if it is fair, reasonable, or justified to be ill-mann...
Do you consider basic acts of kindness to be part of morality? I don't... Morality certainly has a wide variety of meanings, which makes it a very dif...
If we take an example of a moral system you don't like, an Islamist or ultra-nationalistic perspective, then you'll happily call those same elements c...
These two things aren't the same, morality overriding other considerations and morality excluding them. I agree with these two points, and they togeth...
In so far as morality can be conceptualised as part of one's "moral compass", or as you're talking about "self-coercion", I wouldn't have called it co...
This is an implicit agreement, is it not? What groups are in question here? If one is born into a culture, a religion, or a society, don't they have r...
Is your argument that conformity requires thought because you need to decide to conform? I'm not sure whether you've just decided to react to this com...
I don't necessarily disagree that you can describe it that way, but only as a characterisation, it's not like morality is literally just conformity to...
You're right, but I don't have a purely positive view of morality, as many aspects of it are destructive and terrible. I refuse to only call morality ...
I don't view morality as a set of principles but as a set of emotional and psychological characteristics that allow humans to perceive fairness, justi...
So what does it mean for something to be immoral, if it's permitted or encouraged? Lying is wrong, I'm allowed to do it under various circumstances, b...
I agree morality is often overapplied. A completely amoral society would still have the social contract, it would still have laws, there would still b...
A moral system may state unequivocally that "Theft is immoral! No excuses!". However, not only are there many exceptions but since one has complete co...
I'd say concepts such as reasonableness and fairness are everything in morality, and even moral systems that supposedly are strict and rigid only appe...
No, I think morality has to be coercive and unrealistic, and even if we could change it, there are many advantages to it being this way, it's not clea...
No, I don't think it changed. The word "morality", as with many other complex English words, is bloated, filled with concepts that are distinct from e...
I think there is a lot of performed morality in both adversarial and collaborative contexts, but if I had to choose, then I would say it's more common...
It wasn't my intention to characterise morality as the result of coercion by groups, and I'm not claiming that the groups one belong to are doing the ...
The breaking of a promise seems relatively straightforward, especially without giving any reasoning that could be used to defend it. Fairness and reas...
Even if your thought was that everyone should decide for themselves what to do, and nobody should be able to tell anyone else otherwise, you'd still b...
I talk the way I do about the influence that trans activists have had because I believe that we are talking about an extreme minority of people, with ...
Definitions aren't enough, even if the "transgender community" accepted them, that doesn't mean they would accept your conclusions using these definit...
In the context of philosophy, both sides should be making logical arguments, that's just a pre-requisite for reasonable discussion. You've interpreted...
The politics on this issue are the result of the differing philosophical views of opposing parties, your view clearly shows which side you are on, the...
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