god must be atheist

Or connect it to love... or Love. What is Love? How does it differ from a computer keyboard? THAT's what would have made an interesting question.

Is there a metric for quality of posts? I think not.

I don't know if you're right, @"Metaphysician Undercover". One can cite "there is no accounting for taste". Maybe taste is justifiable (by saying it's...

1. Buying vanilla instead of Rocky Road is not a sin, or an unethical act. 2. It is the taste that is unexplained-- and hence, unjustified. To buy som...

I think correctness is a superfluous, unnecessary and irrelevant aspect of the preference that one has for an ice cream flavour. Your demand that it h...

@"Metaphisical Undercover", it is true that it is not justified why @"Banno" likes vanilla ice cream. But it is also conceivable, that not everything ...

A religious person certainly has the world fit the words of the bible. Hence, bible scholars. I met a bible scholar who said, when reading the line fr...

Except it is not. It is not a personal opinion of mine that you failed to give one example even that would have disproved my claim. It is not my perso...

Here, you haughty "better than thou":

You're pushing your own blunder's onus on the community? Pfuy.

Other comments in this thread or elsewhere? I never read all your other comments in this thread but the general ones, the ones directed at me, and som...

What about "doing everything in our power, to avoid catastrophy and at the same time not make an impossible pre-judgement whether our efforts will be ...

No, no, no. You are throwing out the baby with the bath water. You said, "any" and meaning all, "measuers are ridiculous." You show impoverished thoug...

You made no distinction between unjustified optimism and general optimism. You are moving the goal posts now.OPTIMISM encompasses all optimism. That's...

I did not claim I understood what you meant. I said what makes sense and what does not make sense. I even gave all the qualifiers, and stated my opini...

If that's how you feel, fine. I accept that. It is your personal opinion and I can't fight personal opinions on a philosophical vein. I rest satisfied...

The bolded ones are personal opinions. The italicised ones are principles that are not defined, and have no definitons anywhere. (You): "The word can ...

Ay-vey. You are going at it from an angle you ought not to. Apples exist. But to show it to a person who denies the existence of apples, you have to s...

That is simply not true. Many people don't rob banks because they know they will get caught and get severely punished by law. Many people would kill i...

You can change people's behaviour to recycle paper and plastic bottles, and to even eat less, or to breathe and exhale carbon dioxide only 17 times ev...

Aside from the quote not making any grammatical / semantic sense, it is nonsense to think that optimism is a help or a hindrance in the face of advers...

What if optimism tells us, "hey, God will save us all, don't worry, we are made in his image, just forget it." Good luck then to you. Optimism alone o...

Neither pessimism nor optimism plays a role in pragmatism. Your personal opinion on the future of a physical phenomenon is completely negligible. It i...

@"Creativesoul":Jerry and Tom call Tyson's mother a whore. Phil, the strongest boy in the class who is a good fighter, does nothing, though he knows t...

I don't think any reasonable employer would allow his employees to spend time on the job gambling illegally, instead of doing work. I am surprised you...

@"Creativesoul": Jerry calls Tyson's mother a whore. During math class, Tyson retaliates by starting a fight. Tyson's behaviour is not acceptable. ---...

I can't fight against private opinions. I disproved that your description stands. You stand beside it, but IT does not stand. Understand.

Creative soul, if at work which is computer programming, I start to play loud music, or else start to sing loudly, or play roulette with my co-workers...

Just a side-issue: You denied that the example we talked about was a principle of ethics; you said it was only a feature (again, I may have misquoted ...

Precisely!! You got it right. Now show me that ethics is a different thing from everything else, by showing at least one quality (which may be a combi...

Which part did I ignore? Maybe we cross-posted. I so totally did not ignore anything you wrote. If I did, please point it out. P.s. I am going shoppin...

Right, but it does not apply exclusively to ethics. Please read my car seat example as a support of my claim in this matter. So you can say that ethic...

This is so that we can separate ethics from other things. I say ethics as a universal quality does not exist. If you can give just one thing that is e...

Thanks, look forward to it.

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but it will take ten years of analysis at $400 a session, and the lightbulb itself wi...

I lived in such a country. Basically they kick the mentally and/or emotionally problematic people around. The community gives them the scraps of every...

"There is no such thing as a free lunch." = proverb. If you feel guilty about sex, that's the price you pay. Other people pay strippers, or hookers, o...

God is the ultimate miscreant. He's been in power for the longest-running reign.

You say there are commonalities between ethics globally. I hope I did not misquote you this time. Please name a global commonality between ethics glob...

Is there a philosophy of good, such as the epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge, and ethics is the branch of philosophy ...

You're right. It is not a code of ethics. It is a CHARACTERISTIC OR PROPERTY OF ETHICS. But it is also a characteristic or property of many things. (A...

They may or may not play vital role in the preservation of the interconnected food chain. Their poop may be a delicacy to those microbes that are the ...

Again, I must call attention to a Youtube video. I am not allowed to post links, but I can post here the search terms to find it. Try ethics private a...

When you say something is wrong, it is a judgment, and judgments can be derived only by comparing a deed to a code, or by personal gut feelings. I wis...

Artemis, Tim Wood, Mark Dennis, et al, I still think you are misguided in thinking that there is an overriding, or underlying, or penetrating ethical ...

Albert Einstein, Karl Guttenberg, Keppler, Galileo, the inventor of the Steam Engine, the sheep, the wheel, intromarital sex, the Information Superhig...

I always thought that ethics was not defined and it is undefineable. Because it is societal indoctrination, which does not even stick with everyone, a...

Thanks, folks, we found a winner. Thanks, TS.

I could not define an explanation, but I sure recognize one when I see one. Same with understanding. There is no need, in my opinion, to define these ...

Finally we agree on something. Europeans don't want guns, just like you said, and Americans insist on having guns. Europeans want clean, renewable ene...