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This is actually not true. Most people who have awful and painful childhoods (in most cases these are intense emotional pains, not physical as well - ...
May 19, 2016 at 16:44
Not exactly, but in discourse we treat each other's affirmations ("There is a cup") as if they were "The other person think there is a cup". Of course...
May 19, 2016 at 16:10
Unless they are able to identify what they have done as wrong, agreed. But to identify an action as wrong merely requires the association of pain to s...
May 19, 2016 at 16:03
When you make that statement "there is a cup" it means "I think there is a cup". The statement "there is a cup" itself is purely factual and independe...
May 19, 2016 at 15:01
Read my correction. "I agree that there is a cup" means what "there is a cup" means. It also means something more than just that. Do you not understan...
May 19, 2016 at 14:44
Not necessarily. "I agree that there is a cup" refers to assent to (someone's) factual statement "there is a cup". "there isn't a cup" refers to a fac...
May 19, 2016 at 13:55
Why are you wary of centralised power? Maybe you don't, but I do ;) Lol joking. But if Europe was one country, we would be able to increase and regula...
May 19, 2016 at 11:57
No Hume actually advocates for a world founded in tradition and NOT on philosophy. I don't know what crankery you're on about, but David Hume was a co...
May 19, 2016 at 11:47
Serial Killers, and rapists of the like I mentioned above aren't most people. Most people would also regret killing someone and the like. Serial kille...
May 19, 2016 at 11:40
Yes if there was no sin Jesus would never have died on the Cross. A man cannot be reconciled with God unless they LIVE a life IN Christ. This means so...
May 19, 2016 at 11:26
Depends how they are organised. Organised the way many are today, probably not. I broke up with her, although probably, looking back, or rather if I c...
May 19, 2016 at 11:13
All of them? Not as long as they are active in their porn career. Not really, just deceived, which came close to cheating though. Actual, proper cheat...
May 18, 2016 at 23:47
Why doesn't it sound horrendous? If he did what he did, but he apologised in court, cried next to the victim's family, etc. then I would say no to tor...
May 18, 2016 at 23:43
If people left their pride, then they would easily choose this option, as we would all become stronger. With forming a USE? Why? Nooooo, they've only ...
May 18, 2016 at 22:21
In what sense has salvation conquered sin if sin remains? The whole purpose of Jesus's coming, which finishes with the Last Judgement at the Revelatio...
May 18, 2016 at 22:05
Disagreed. There is no necessity in this, even if you can treat it like a STATISTICAL law. Then Jesus came for nothing. Can you believe that while sti...
May 18, 2016 at 20:12
It's not always wrong, it depends on what motivates it. I thought I was quite clear about it. If this is motivated by immoral desires, then yes, it is...
May 18, 2016 at 19:52
Let's kick ehm out, let's kick ehm out! ;) (at least those refugees are conservatives! :p )
May 18, 2016 at 13:05
Britain has no chance to win the out vote :p . Some EU immigrants (who are Residents) can vote, and they will all vote against leaving. Historical Bri...
May 18, 2016 at 12:49
Only Marxists are products of systems ;) :D go ahead, immortalise me! ;) Most transexuals are not hermaphrodites, so this is a falsification of facts....
May 18, 2016 at 12:37
That's your presumption, which is clearly not the likely interpretation of the story given the rest of the Bible and teachings of Jesus and the contex...
May 18, 2016 at 12:27
That wasn't the point. The point was that Hume wasn't a global skeptic, nor was he a progressive ;)
May 18, 2016 at 09:35
I do recall the parable; fortunately it is part of the Gospel of Luke, which I've read, took notes on every page and read many commentaries on in my s...
May 17, 2016 at 22:53
Fine, then your definition of ought simply does not cover all the uses of the word ought in a moral context. To be metaphorically commanded to eat whe...
May 17, 2016 at 20:50
They are not the same "values", lesbian, homosexual, and transsexual. Transexualism is a moral abomination and is most definitely wrong. I'm not sure ...
May 17, 2016 at 20:41
I didn't mention sex (an activity) but rather sexual conduct which refers to the way and manner in which the activity, sex, is conducted. Thanks for t...
May 17, 2016 at 20:17
God and one's own nature, and ultimately, sub specie aeternitatis, the two aren't any different. In a different meaning of obligation and command than...
May 17, 2016 at 19:43
What if, as I have said before, "one ought not to" simply MEANS "it is contrary to human flourishing"? I have claimed that this is a framework which i...
May 17, 2016 at 14:35
What counts as a moral authority? How do we identify moral authorities? I have offered no sense to it, I have merely illustrated that moral obligation...
May 17, 2016 at 14:27
If someone asks you to show that this is a contradiction, you will offer a syllogism. How shall we decide on the soundness of the syllogism? A syllogi...
May 17, 2016 at 14:15
I disagree with moral obligations in the sense of legal, or obligations. Obligation simply does not have the same sense in the case of morality as it ...
May 17, 2016 at 14:08
You're using ought in two different senses - in a moral sense, and in a non-moral one, without establishing the connection and interchangeability of t...
May 17, 2016 at 13:41
Equivocation of ought, as I said before.
May 17, 2016 at 13:36
So I don't understand what more you're looking for. I showed that your initial argument is false via a reductio ad absurdum, as well as that your firs...
May 17, 2016 at 13:34
Yes and this argument has absurd conclusions, namely that starting a sentence with lower case letters is immoral. Therefore it is false.
May 17, 2016 at 13:24
Yes, fine. But your big argument has still been reduced to absurdity, regardless of the veracity of this bit of it alone. http://www.merriam-webster.c...
May 17, 2016 at 13:15
That is impossible because they form one single argument. So it's a reductio ad absurdum if I can show that your argument entails nonsensical conclusi...
May 17, 2016 at 13:04
:-* I agree, but morality is a choice not an obligation in the sense you use it here. That's why morality depends on freedom. Agreed. What does this h...
May 17, 2016 at 12:52
Nope. The way you use ought here equivocates on the earlier usage. This is not an ETHICAL question regarding the pawn, unless you want to say that I a...
May 17, 2016 at 12:39
;)
May 17, 2016 at 11:40
Nope, unless you alter the usual useage of the word "rule". At the moment premise 2 is ENTAILED by premise 1, even though you don't make this necessar...
May 17, 2016 at 11:30
LOL - not a bad explanation ;)
May 16, 2016 at 23:11
Lies lies lies... my comment makes sense so long as sexual conduct affects well-being; it does not have to be equivalent to well-being contrary to you...
May 16, 2016 at 23:09
Then you don't care about the well-being of others, pure and simple. Consent is not sufficient to make something moral/virtuous/ethical - in fact it h...
May 16, 2016 at 22:25
No. You fail to realise that the so called poor argument I put forward is sound - there's nothing poor about it, even in the uninformative way you wro...
May 16, 2016 at 22:23
No I'm not against LGBT "values". I'm for maintaining social order and a healthy morality. That particular person X is lesbian, homosexual, transexual...
May 16, 2016 at 18:27
Why do you assume this? What part of my writing states that I think someone should spend their time shaming sluts, etc.? Maybe because 1. it answers y...
May 16, 2016 at 16:10
That is alright - but they shouldn't be forced to do this. If you want, invite them in your home, make them pay an entrance fee, and let the show begi...
May 16, 2016 at 15:31
Right - that's where our money needs to go. I think LGBT have separated themselves from everyone else by calling themselves LGBT and organising themse...
May 16, 2016 at 15:11
I am against the spread of hypersexualisation, be this gay movements, anti-slut shaming movements, etc. Patriotism is spreading a value - love and res...
May 16, 2016 at 15:07