“For pragmatism to IMPLY a belief in objective morality, that means that one can not be a pragmatist without buying objective morality.” That’s like s...
Could imagines scenarios not fall under the category of social, psychological and linguistic etc empirical data? For example when the imagined scenari...
“Pragmatism in no way implies a belief in objective morality (absolutes or not), but sure, it wouldn't preclude them.” This is just plain wrong. For e...
It’s interesting that you say that, after our debates and seeing your replies to others I’m sort of noticing that the line between pragmatist and rela...
Moral Ecology expanded: Take my heated debates with @"Bartricks" After thinking on it last night, I realised I’m not angry at him for being an Antinat...
Well technically for Descriptive relativism yes. Only in saying that the rational relativist sees no moral absolute, but would say these things exist ...
“No, I think most atheists subscribe to some social, psychological and even economic models which they reference in rational thinking. "X will likely ...
well the fact that she is a baroness is very telling of her approach to morality because quite frankly it’s not much better than yours. Never suggeste...
No, I want a space where people don’t break the rules of the site. Read site guidelines exactly. I actually have a masters in applied ethics, so I act...
Yeah, project all you like. I’m not the one condoning the genocide of our species here and all other life too as it seems your argument could apply to...
No, he wants to kill all the children in the world and he’s trying to build his court case for why he’s not evil and that he’s just an angel of death ...
It’s your own argument that makes it wrong. If it is without consent then it is default wrong by your own definition. Also have you actually read Onor...
I can’t believe you really just overlooked slaves moral opinions and said it was conventionally considered morally permissible when it was widely deba...
Yeah, it’s getting to the point where even I’m getting confused as to which thread we are in and I think we have both been dancing on the line of goin...
It’s only morally permissible if you don’t take in the moral opinions of actual slaves at the time. Pretty sure they weren’t calling it morally permis...
I’m starting to have a better understanding of your problems with some aspects of moral realism. How demanding most moral systems tend to be. Would it...
It matters because while a places culture and history factor into the moral ecology of said place, it isn’t the only factor. For example, there is ple...
I completely understand why you’ve made this point. However, “Everywhere” here doesn’t mean literally everywhere. This is the compartmentalised geogra...
What about the men and women who commit suicide upon finding out they are infertile? What about Unwanted miscarriages? Then there is the opposite side...
I’ve got a better idea, how about instead of demanding that I cite your sources for you, you do it like you should have been doing from the start. Lit...
One more thing; Will the antinatalist movement ever convince 100% of the population to A not have children B always use a 100% fool proof contraceptio...
Ehhhh not Kantian. Others have already out argued you on that point. Stellar job on that front folks! Stop trying to use Kant as a brand for your nons...
No. we were supposed to be talking about The moral standing of future people, not subjecting people to suspiciously pointless debates on the non exist...
You do realise that subjectivism and noncognitivism are contradictory views right? You said you were specifically a subjectivist yet you didn’t answer...
@"god must be atheist" Some of the arguments here might resolve some misunderstandings you have about Cultural relativism. Descriptive relativism woul...
“You can't be getting offended that I'm challenging anything from a philosophical perspective, right? You're one of the people who did philosophy at u...
So you’re trying to say sleep walking disorder isn’t real and that we should ignore sleepwalkers as evidence of sleepwalking? By very definition of sl...
That question needs clarified and if you have a point to make I suggest you make it soon. We are getting too far away from the topic of conversation h...
Well cognitive psychology and myself both disagree with the Freudian conceptualisation of the unconscious, there is a lot of empirical evidence which ...
You can not buy it all you like. Your hindbrain and medulla beg to differ. The frontal cortex can come up with all the arguments it likes, but in the ...
Sorry for the snappy last message, thought you were ignoring me. This is a good question. I’ll give you a preliminary answer now and I’ll message you ...
what an outlandish interpretation of law. It’s pretty much a given that the law attempts to make moral arguments and claims, but it also seeks to be c...
Also, what do you mean by “common” moral theories? Do you mean out of the ones you’ve read about or the ones that commonly exist whether codified or n...
So would it be fair to say you are a moral relativist? You believe that morals and value are relative based on things like culture, nationality, relig...
I don’t know that I’d agree with this. If we anthropologically state that humans use ethics and moral values for the biologically driven purpose to pr...
Sorry I meant to get back to you earlier but got distracted. Schweitzer was a Nobel peace prize winner and set up a hospital in French equatorial Afri...
I was with you up until the conclusion “Present Self implies Future Population.”. Could you maybe expand on that a little and clarify. Or correct my r...
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