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Please provide an example. As it currently stands, I can argue that, for example, it is immoral to wear certain colors because the majority of people ...

As @"andrewk" points out, this a loose rule of thumb at best. The issue that sticks out to me are the terms "unecessary" and "unjustifiable". Via an a...

Philosophy is not a straight forward major. You do not get a lot of direct career and future possibilities out of it like you would with something fro...

What do you want to do with it?

I did not mean to imply that atheists are not open to arguments. Rather, I think there tends to be a difference in thought between someone who identif...

I'm currently reading through Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice, which appears to relate to what you're saying. The book deals with the notion of tran...

Define what you mean by "subjective" and "objective".

Keep in mind this is an American perspective: I put moderate left because I generally find the answers to problems coming from conservative thought to...

Agnostic. I would say atheist but that is only really towards certain conceptions of gods inside popular religions. I consider myself generally open t...

No, but nothing in the example you provided indicated that everyone in the child's life withheld information about all other possibilities for employm...

If she did so of her own unrestricted will, then, in the relevant moral and legal sense, yes. Everyone fits that criteria in regards towards their own...

These individual phrases? No. But there are people who argue for religious experience and feeling, pragmatism, and faith on philosophical grounds.

I'm siding with @"darthbarracuda" on this one. To be honest, the only people I see bringing up this distinction between belief and knowledge are athei...

I second this. Anger will occur. Getting this feeling of anger in certain situations may be appropriate. However, anger should not guide our actions. ...

The bias is not necessarily innate. Reading through a link on Wikipedia, there seems to be cultural differences between how people access their abilit...

We are really drifting towards political philosophy at this point, but two things: 1) The claim, "it's immoral," is not a good reason to ban anything....

Having sexual desires is wrong? Why must sex be personal? Sex is often personal, but it need not be. Further, why is making actions public to consenti...

The phrasing of the Kalaam Cosmological Argument's first premise is worded as such to avoid criticism from infinite regress issues in the extremely ba...

Consequences. I'm not a die-hard consequentialist, but intentions tend to rank very low in determining whether an action is good or not. Who cares if ...

It's simple. Free will is an illusion and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool. :P Obviously, I jest. But I think one thing you should consider is...

Possible scenarios of a better world are themselves evidence of better quality lives. By the standards of the possible world, we live "worse" (by some...

Your argument is bad. It does not follow from the existence of a better possible world that the current one is not worth living in.

I'm not exactly sure where to start my critique, because pretty much the entire thing is questionable or, at least, needs further clarification. Where...

I disagree with your assessment of western culture not valuing productive jobs. If, by "western culture," you mean "artwork and similar media," you mi...

Yeah, I don't really get the division in that one. I've heard that the reason they want to have women's only events is to attract women into the sport...

Further question: you put freedom of choice in possessions under the secondary category, but put property in the tertiary category. There is a tension...

Question of clarification. Does the right to life include things such as health care and environmental policies aimed at mitigating the effects of pol...

Thank you for answering. I now understand your exact position. I admit you did answer them, though I believe the spacing of the posts and the massive ...

But the idea of a religion being at odds with practices other than the religion is nothing new; the secular law not based in the religion is just an e...

Where did you answer the question about how your version of natural rights applies to viability as the definition of personhood? The "we are all creat...

Last time I checked, agreeing with Augustine was not a core component of the Christian faith. The notion of the religious law of god overcoming the se...

Paragraphs are useful to make text easier to read. Sorry, it is really hard to read, especially on my phone.

If we are to assign rights that are inalienable, then the federal-state distinction is nonsensical, as it means a large governing body can take your r...

I think you are missing my point. My point is that everyone thinks that they are the special one who "gets" it. They get the world and how it works. F...

Abortion is like every act of potentially immoral killing- it needs to be dealt with on its own. Simply calling it murder and the opposition an echo c...

So, can the state (governing body) just dictate that women cannot have abortions unless their health is severely threatened? In other words, could all...

Would, under your interpretation of the Constitution, the state be able to force women who are pregnant as a result of rape or incest to carry their p...

Whenever people talk about philosopher kings or only an elect number of people having access to hidden knowledge, I think of this comic: https://imgs....

It is irrelevant. Even if it was hedonistic pleasure or some other utilitarian related ethics, your hive mind is akin to a utility monster. Even if th...

I get that vibe, but I wonder if it is more to do with all the popularity surrounding him and his style of writing (dialogue between characters).

You didn't get the argument then. If the hive mind is one puree mind, then joining it is, for all practical purposes, like death. I might as well kill...

The individual who would produced would be so far off from me that I might as well just kill myself. I would not benefit from the exchange if it becom...

You really do not want this. At all. I can understand the benefits, but we can get most of those without actually getting a hive mind. Not to mention ...

I think we are missing the mark on the issue. We can argue all day about the merits and interpretations of Islamic texts and traditions. However, I th...

Not to get side-tracked because this argument is different from the one in the OP, but I do not understand how that deals with Hume's argument. If we ...

I thought one of Hume's big arguments was to say induction could not be supported as a valid way of reasoning to knowledge because its justification w...

Like the Platonic conception of good, we can understand it in a very real sense, but there is still a lot we do not understand. We may come to underst...

I'm going to defend some smarter Calvinists, and not the ones like Fred Phelps. I'm going to avoid all the theological reasons the Calvinist may have ...

Actually, the space within objects may be expanding, just on a level and rate so low that we do not notice it. I'm not a physicist though, so I have n...

I have not read Hume, but what he may be arguing is that all the causes we see may not be causes at all. He is not claiming that there are no causes; ...