@"Brett", if you want to argue that one thing is more complex or less complex than another thing, then you must have a metric of complexity. Much like...
This what you stated and called as obvious, is actually a false sentence and a false proposition. Humans have created much more complex things than hu...
Bad values, maybe. If you want to judge someone else's values. Or useless, or negative values. But a value is a value is a value. An inherent worth or...
"A critic knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. A cynic knows the price of truth, and the value of humour." -- Socrates, or Aristot...
It is true that basic American values, core demonstrations of American heritage, and democratic self-realizations are trying to sweep the world -- suc...
Can you name at least 5 more different ways as per the fundamental brainchild-outsourcing by Socrates and/or Chin Gao Tum, and / or Hirohito, in which...
Not at all. Self-approval is not a quality. It is a noun. Adjectives describe quality. You realize that this second quote by you is bad fantasy, gibbe...
You asked two questions. I numbered them in the quote above. My replies are correspondingly numbered. I don't know. No I have not. Are you trying to p...
That is true. And it may be closer than it appears in our rear-view mirrors. Not because of global warming; but because of the trade deficit to China....
Thirty countries have power reactors. There are 195 countries. I'm sorry to say, but I am afraid that your rebuttal does not make sense statistically....
Rather Laconic, Lif3r, but how I interpret your reply (may need to be adjusted, but your lazy one-word reply is too short to fine-tune my understandin...
Truth is the correspondence of perceived to actual. Some statements can be true; but they don't need empirical verification. They don't reflect the tr...
Bartricks, you are up to your old bar tricks. I wish bar tricks would be barred, but barring that, a bar would be nice to have, that would bar your ba...
"I think we can answer that one decisively: all rational reflectors will be satisfied the question has been ansered when the answer is one that their ...
This makes truth a subjective thing... you are asking if we believe a thing is the truth, is it really the truth? And you answer this: Please forgive ...
Not necessarily true conclusion. Just because someone does not value a quality in himself, does not mean that he has no high amounts of that quality. ...
Well, electricity is created in most of the western world by at least 50% nuclear fission energy. Transportation energy, you're right, is mainly fossi...
This is true. It is also true that migration is not precipitated by climate change, but artificially overpopulating a land that is unable to support a...
A politician's meausre of success is getting elected. Another way to measure how successful he is would be the achievements he proposes and creates fo...
Be sure to do your research before you put a down payment on a lot in Greenland. There are no inland lakes to speak of. I saw once a National Geograph...
I want female students if I am to teach in the style of joint. If I am to teach in the style of the great classical Greek masters of philosophy. I muc...
I would say everything could be viewed as a pocket-pussy, not as a vibrator. Everything is fair game to go after sexually, as long as it moves. This I...
Consequently, balance is a perception, and human judgment thrown on the cosmos, like a straight-jacket. There is no balance; there is constant compens...
If balance were the underpinning of our universe, then there would be as much evil as goodness, and people would accept that. There would be an equal ...
This is true, but try telling it to a human: "You gotta stop being, man. Your time is up, give way to cockroaches, bloodsuckers and tapeworms. Sit dow...
Right. To arrange life on a different orb, sustainable, continued life for humans, would take such a humongously huge human effort, that it's waaay ea...
I live in Canada. I like climate change. It's -49 degrees celsius on the shores of the biggest natural lake in Canada in the winter. I know I am short...
This entire argument is about the usefulness of yourself to society, and your purported value as a professional human being. You said somewhere that y...
I know this was addressed not to me, but I am actually proud of my ignorance of adaptive pragmatism and its (and not "it's") approach to ethics. I am ...
Outside of what? Morality? Beg your pardon. Outside of Ph.D. group? Yes. The Ph.D.'s consensus is not the same consensus as the common man's. It has b...
You did not break my logic, and it is not broken. My points get ignored when there is no logically reasonable defence against the logic involved in my...
Precise statement, I concur with this. I don't think I am studying or enquiring what ethics is. I am into disproving that it is possible to objectivel...
I do claim that moral philosophers who have earned Ph.D.-s in philosophy overcomplicate things, because earlier I showed that morality and ethics are ...
Mark Dennis, although you were very careful in making my prediction come true, meaning that a post of mine will be completely ignored for content, ina...
I concur. Progress itself is a term laden with judgment. It is arbitrarily giving some value to change. It is true, and I accept, that progress is pos...
Generally, it is accepted that you can't define a concept or a word by using the word itself to describe its meaning. Morality is not defined, and is ...
I checked your references. Some say potato, some say potahto. Please consider: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy states that the word "ethics" is...
My understanding is that for every philosopher whom we study at great detail and pain in educational institutions, there is a great number (please don...
A lot of my philosophy, or arguments, if not all, are ignored. When people face an argument they can't face, but they are still in love with their pet...
I should have thought that morality and ethics are complete synonyms, unless and if not separated by the author and specifying the differences. What y...
Aha. So insurance appraisers and home valuators, as well as antique clock experts are the most ethical people of all people. According to the quoted d...
Aha. "This table is worth five dollars." I've done my good deed for the day, so I can go out and spend money recklessly on tables with no regard to th...
Morality is problematic because it depends on creating good, and good can't be defined, only conceptualized. Morality is problematic furthermore becau...
Did you want to say this? That (some) people put their wants before other people's wants in order to satisfy other people's wants? I know you said the...
I proposed to ask a question which presents a challenge to Dr. Prof. Pigliucci. My proposal was based solely on his presentation of what Stoicism is. ...
I respectfully submit my question to ask Dr. Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. I hope it's of reasonable length and will be found worthwhile to ask. This quest...
Apparently all males have an erection at 4 in the morning. Ruth told me that. They are asleep at the time, so it's all wasted. I don't know if this ap...
Whoa... @"DingoJones" makes in the OP as if he had started the sentient computer thread. And now we have @"Zelebg" take ownership of the topic. Is it ...
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