They don't always get away with it. Sometimes they get away with it, just like sometimes good people suffer. I think the suffering of good people is e...
It is pointless to ask a question whose answer and explication necessitates and presupposes that which you put into question. "Why am I conscious?" is...
Very interesting post. Both metaphysics and religion are matters of faith; they do not have truth-value but rather represent commitments - ways of bei...
Only if the hedonist has such a desire for the good in the first place. Also it gets hard to wrestle with when someone has a desire for pleasure; the ...
I admit there are situations such as the one which you here describe. But the examples I have provided to Landru, and he has provided to me, were not ...
Well I agree that the dictator in question SHOULD give up their self-interest in this case. But they may not. And if they don't, it's a decision of th...
Bingo! There we have it. For you, being happy is the most important thing. However, for many people, simply being happy isn't. They want to live a cer...
I agree. Read the other thread with Landru (about happiness) where I state exactly this, contra Landru. However the dictator may agree that it were be...
To my mind, this example merely proves my point. A dictator would rather die than cease to be a dictator; which means that (s)he isn't willing to be h...
I disagree that goodness has to be in my self-interest to be goodness. I identify many things which aren't in my self interest, which are in fact dama...
The judge of morality doesn't have to be stronger than those weak people. He can be just as weak as them, and yet identify that it would be better if ...
Very well - that doesn't matter. Because I agreed to what was essential in your point, namely that I wouldn't act that way in some situations. But I a...
Don't avoid answering the important part :) I didn't special plead to avoid your point, I actually tackled it by means of another example, which I wou...
I agree with this remark. However, it must be added that someone who lives a good life without examining their life can only live a life worth living ...
I don't find that to be an instance of abetting a robbery. Nor do I find giving a thief my own money to be something morally wrong. Let me give a bett...
So you think your argument can convince a theist to become an atheist? Why do you think an argument can facilitate this conversion, as opposed to life...
I just sought to make the point that most atheists are atheists due to emotional motives, so they don't really need an "emotional argument", which is ...
I am such an atheist Reformed Nihilist. But I despise atheists generally, because intellectually they are very shallow, just like S. Harris, R. Dawkin...
No need to do this. Most atheists already disbelieve God for emotional reasons, which are merely masked under elaborative arguments, which, however, u...
Thanks, Happy New Year to you too! :) I think you are confusing an attitude with a system, and attempting to systematise an attitude, which is somethi...
One is committing immorality by forcing the other one to make a decision, the other one is committing immorality by sacrificing their family/friends f...
There is no difference Landru. It's still a failure to live up to my moral standards. I know I won't be able to in those circumstances, but that's bec...
No I am given to moral introspection. But look Landru. If I sell my wife in slavery in order to save my life, I have still done something immoral. The...
You should denounce them - a traitor is a traitor. There is no excuse for immoral behavior. Probably I would be a traitor too, if I was in their shoes...
I didn't know a beach is a pile. It's sand grains together. So the property of a single sand grain is hardness. The property of a group of sand grains...
There's potential problems. The poor of the US are rich in other parts of the world. They may be more depressed because they come in contact with peop...
Yes which is my point. Those studies are biased, many of them. Pretty much all of social sciences are biased because 90% of social scientists are libe...
I don't think so my friend. There's a lot of misinformation around. I trust the WHO statistics that I provided, rather than Hanover's university studi...
No. There is no reference to what they are meant to be. You introduce a lot of asinine concepts that I do not agree with and that do not form any part...
Would you not agree that, in practice, non-global villages are generally formed, in large majority, by people sharing the same cultures and values? Su...
Eastern European peasants are some of the most moral (and happy!) people I have ever met. A struggle for food, within reasonable limits, is good. The ...
No, it is something that isn't even desirable. Why should we want to be a global village? I don't. The idea of being all one is nonsensical and stupid...
False. Deriving requires access to say two objects, and involves extracting an understanding from the two of them of their relation, which is a proces...
Good. Thus it requires the processing of an understanding. Just like all sand grains are hard, but certainly all sand grains are also soft. Yes. Neith...
So if we agree that I shall deliver you beef meat, and instead I deliver you horse meat, claiming that it is beef, and you take it, assuming it to be ...
Yes it should. In open marriages people agree not to request the other to be faithful. In closed marriages, people make vows of faithfulness to each o...
No it doesn't. The harm still exists, even if the victims are unaware of it. The harm is in the breaking of the marriage vows which already happens as...
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