No. Show me. No, examples like these don't affect my position. One can be mistaken about what constitutes a good intention, such that even if one thin...
Yes, in the sense of being the cause of the event. The stone is responsible for it, but it isn't morally responsible, clearly. I think there may be pr...
I distinguished between moral blame, which is to assign moral responsibility, and simply blame, which is to assign causal responsibility. This questio...
Blameworthy and negligent, yes, undoubtedly, but not morally so. I'm still missing the reason why it is the latter. The problem is that your position ...
Correct. I see nothing absurd about this. You are at fault, may have to pay damages, etc, but not morally at fault. If there was no malicious intent t...
Because being the cause of something isn't the same as to be morally blameworthy. That ought to be a simple distinction to understand. The lack of int...
Correct. You are to blame for the action, but not morally to blame. If an inanimate object caused the explosion, has it done wrong? Like you, it never...
Fine. I still disagree. If you kill someone but don't intend to, I wouldn't say that you've committed wrongdoing. There's a difference between wrongdo...
Assuming he does, then if he chooses to fend off his attacker and in so doing happens to kill him, despite not intending to, then he had the right to....
But how do we determine the morality of an action if not the intent of the agent who performed it? The only other way to determine it is by the conseq...
But it would be morally permissible to kill your assailant in self-defense. That wouldn't be murder but manslaughter. Look up the principle of double ...
I sometimes wonder if those of us who don't get along on this forum would get along in real life and those of us who do get along on this forum wouldn...
But how can it not be? Look at your first premise: Here you speak of humans, plural. Your clause at the end speaks of structural suffering, which refe...
Where in that quote did you surmise this? The bolded part? As far as I can tell, you just pulled this accusation from your rear end. It's ironic, beca...
This doesn't make any sense to me. You exist from the moment of conception until death. I am talking to an adult human being. If we wind back the cloc...
I hesitate to post it again, but if you do a Google search for Three Stooges GIFs, you can find lots of them, including the one I used. Curly and Moe ...
Looking at the thread, I see you deleted my reply with the Three Stooges GIF. I wasn't aware the antics of vaudeville comics constituted pornography. ...
Where are you getting the idea that all killing is wrong? Have you not heard of the principle of double effect, which is taught by the Catholic Church...
Females today are not fragile little creatures needing your protection. No, but I would be as hands off as possible. I requested this before, but ther...
The EU and Merkel's immigration and open door refugee policies could not have been more disastrous for Europe. One by one, each European country has b...
It's not so much that I feel offended, but that I find you to be a rather offensive and offense-taking person. I've never reported you or anyone else....
Kevins, no apostrophe. No, apparently you need to talk about Kevin and are so desperate to talk about him that you have created a thread nine miles lo...
Yes! But if you grant, as you have here, that you exist at the moment of conception, then "coming into existence" isn't a harm, because there is no on...
The "no one" referred to the nonexistence of any person prior to conception. We can trace your existence all the way back to the point at which an egg...
Yes, and we can be reasonably certain that "go fuck yourself" was followed by "don't make me smack a bitch" on the part of the first person's interloc...
Found an interesting, relevant article. I quote from the final paragraph: So, Agustino, I don't think Beebert and I are off the mark in detecting Prot...
I find it ironic that Agustino expressly and quite legitimately requested that this thread be devoted to his suggestion and not to the topic of sexism...
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