Thorongil

I'm tempted to say I have none, but will say virtue ethics for now.

OK, cool.

Is there a way to block certain users?

And it seems you're an ignoramus who's trying way too hard to sound clever and ironic. I don't like conversing with you, as I said before, because it'...

Absolutely. I don't know. They already are. People in the region have demanded military assistance to drive out ISIS and Assad for a long time now. So...

I would, were it a serious one.

Women, children, the Syrian rebels (some of them), the Kurds, and the Iraqis. The idea would be to let the Syrians decide by implementing a democracy ...

Then you're blind. Assad, ISIS, and Al-Nusra. It is the internally fractured nature of Islam at present that is the problem. Indeed. Indeed.

We never listened to the wise and, as it turned out, prescient words of George Washington in his farewell address about the dangers of party:

No, it's very clear in the present case. No one ever said, or ought to say, that military intervention would solve the crisis within Islam at the mome...

Those stats are of philosophers, not atheists as a general category.

Which often results in moral relativism or nihilism.... How many atheists are unabashed moral realists? I honestly doubt there's that many.

So you're capable of flippant mockery. Congratulations.

It will take more boots on the ground in my estimation, or else we will continue to see very slow progress if any at all. The Syrian situation called ...

It's strange to hear you essentially espouse a summum bonum. What led you to such a seemingly robust teleology? Although, you do say "would be." Does ...

Interesting example. It still sounds contradictory on its face, but I shall have to think about it.

Hmm, so what are you proposing eudaimonia as, if not an ethic? I don't know about that....

It's clear that suffering can be instrumentally good. I wonder, though, what other ethic than utilitarianism is "suffering focused." Eudaimonia as hap...

I think there is more than one systematic tendency in philosophy, yes. :-| In other words, a monumental abstraction that is, likely by design, well su...

I see. An assemblage of sources rather than a specific book. I thought it might have been the latter, hence my curiosity.

I don't personally. The state does. This is the distinction I have made three times now, which means your question is not, and hasn't ever been, answe...

My judgment is based on reasoning and I am not in doubt about it, so it is not a mere opinion. Even if it were, saying "you're just expressing an opin...

First of all, the pregnant woman has a responsibility to raise the child. If she reneges, then it is society's responsibility (and specifically the st...

No need to patronize. I'm not pretending to be anything. You shoot these posts from the hip, so they have a stream of consciousness vibe to them that ...

No idea what you're talking about.

You can repeat this all you like, but that will not make your claim any more coherent or accurate. You have not shown that I am not pro-life. You have...

:-d Again, you're presenting a red herring. The topic at hand is the moral status of abortion itself, not whether one (and here this can mean society ...

Let's please not make this into reddit. Death to all downvotes, I say. It encourages the worst sort of Internet behavior.

What you say is not practically possible, so no conclusion as to the practicability of pro-lifers can be averred based thereon. No, it's quite meaning...

God in classical theism is separate from the universe, so this makes little sense.

You always seem to have ready to hand a list of relevant and quite specific information for many topics, BC, for which I commend you. Do you know wher...

But it's not, so it's meaningless to speculate. No. You are simply assuming that rights only apply to persons and not living things more generally. I,...

You have an interesting story that is not dissimilar to mine in some ways, as well as some keen observations. Of the forms of Christianity that I am d...

That seems to be it, which is precisely backward to me. If you think all of your examples cannot be met with counter-examples, then you are hopelessly...

What a load of crock. First of all, whatever effects the political appropriations of philosophical or other ideas may have, that says nothing whatever...

I grew up as a lukewarm mainline Protestant and then starting in high school had a brief flirtation with Christian fundamentalism. Then I followed Kie...

>:O I find Cox irritating at times as well. The current crop of science popularizers is pretty poor, in my opinion. There's too much ass kissing of ps...

Inasmuch as materialism is a realist metaphysic, I see this claim as advancing some sort of phenomenalism or idealism, so we can no longer be talking ...

Of course. I take a certain philosophy to be true and so try to act in accordance with it. To do otherwise would be completely irrational.

People do, but not me. I agree the mother and child need adequate care. But that's a separate issue from the moral status of abortion itself.

>:O

To even ask the question is already to give too much credit to the anti-vaxxer wingnuts.

I think not and find this to be a fatuous remark. Even if they did, they would still be open to the same arguments against abortion that I and others ...

I wish to interject here that I am pro-life, but not virulently pro-gun, if only to confirm that such individuals do exist, despite your having implie...

Modern life is one long struggle against boredom.

This and other fora make the need to be on the Internet less tedious and boring for the time being.

Zing! I might have to use this one....

Sounds like a red herring to me. I wasn't talking about child care. Simply because I oppose abortion doesn't mean I oppose providing adequate childcar...

One does not simply join a monastery. One has to join a Catholic or a Buddhist or an Eastern Orthodox monastery. I am not ready to accept the doctrina...

I find this dubitable. What counts as addiction? Some shrink putting a stamp on your forehead? I think we're living in unprecedented times, when adole...