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This 18 year old man, Tal Mitnick, has more courage and moral decency than any of you armchair, pro-zionist Einsatzgruppen who have been rationalizing...

Go troll yourself.

Germs. Gravity. Children. Promises. Memory ... wtf, think! :sweat:

Judgment, not a ruler.

Sorry but I don't understand the question?

If you say so ... :roll: "Measure" what? I didn't propose to quantify anything.

Addendum to: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/768274 Not this tired old 'idealist/antirealist' caricature again ... :roll: "The probl...

Yes and, regardless of Thomistic wordplay, a tautology is a tautology – vacuous.

I don't find any of your objections or commentary substantive so I won't respond any further to you on this topic. Good luck with your inquiry. Maybe ...

More or less – I'd put it: 'Prevent or relieve more suffering than you cause'. As I've already pointed out ... To follow any rule, the context in whic...

A few days ago I offered this (ignored by @"Joshs" & @"mentos987") ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/864587 Thoughts?

This Thomistic fetish doesn't make sense: "absolutely simple and immutable" excludes "properties" just as, for instance, a triangle excludes parallel ...

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You're entitled to your opinon, so we disagree on a number of points. Let's resume this discussion ten and a half months from now, Relativist, and see...

This is a vacuous definition, not an ostensible claim. Demonstrate this entailment. Invalid inference from underdetermined "propositions". Ergo, "FET ...

This far out from the 2024 election, polling only indicates relative name recognition and nothing more. What will "turn this around" is GOP primary vo...

If a majority of GOP primary voters want a chance at taking back the White House in 2024, then they will show SP-1 the door in the spring (or sooner)....

Another vapid strawman. :shade: Go troll someone else, kid.

I disagree. "Dishonesty" is caused by intelligence; it is often an effective social, business or political tactic. The world is not static, it is entr...

:up: :up: Only an idiot can't tell – won't admit – the difference between a territorial concentration camp and a self-governing, cosmopolitan city.

:up: :roll: Besides misquoting me, rationality =/= "to rationalize", lil troll.

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Ah, okay, I assume ethical naturalism (as suggested by my reference to 'eusociality' and 'culture' in my old post linked above).

It is unclear what you mean by "immoral" and therefore that these are "possible worlds". No. Your false dichotomy doesn't work. I see. My bad, I shoul...

If you say so ... :roll:

:death: :flower: A naturalistic, twenty-first century formulation of 'Hillel's principle': :sparkle: Merry Solstice & Reason's Greetings :sparkle:

From an old thread "Why should I be moral? – Does the question even make sense?" ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/533345

Homunculus fallacy – "ego" and "conscience" are constraints on, or conditions of, volition and not agents which can "enslave" (i.e. act as masters). "...

Silly question. Besides generational migration to space habitats, thinning the human herd is much easier and more efficient. :smirk:

Ubiquitous AI-automation would eliminate that "scarcity" (as it's already incrementally doing now).

No. IME, "dictionaries and definitions" are sometimes useful, at best, but not significant for doing philosophy.

So what's your point?

Suppose (the only) "meaning of life" is to live meaningfully¹ in order to die meaningfully ... :death: :flower: (creatively & thoughtfully)¹

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Given that my "ideal society" consists in post-scarcity economic democracy, "wealth" would be measured only as personal reputation acquired by positiv...

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If some are, then trivially so. I don't find it so (though I've never been fluent). As far as I can tell, Goethe's verse isn't "more logical" than Sha...

Yes, which is why I think "moral judgment is more a matter of habit" and not only or always a matter of habit.

Formal languages (i.e. systems of substitution-rules) are "more logical" in structure than natural languages (i.e. conventions of ambiguity-constraint...

"Reason's Greetings, y'all. And Happy Solstice. :sparkle: https://youtu.be/jykteSQg--0?si=9ceHOLSNVm4Nn7i4 "Love Me Like a Man" (3:56) live, 1989 writ...

'A child older than her parents' is metaphysically impossible and logically possible insofar as there is not a contradiction in terms but an inconsist...

Do you think moral judgment in situ is more a matter of habit or "choice"? Like Aristotleans, Epicureans, Stoics, Spinozists, Nietzscheans, Peircean-D...

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The one I gave ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/862580

Mathematics and logic seem "better" (for deeply rather than shallowly adapting to nature) than natural languages.

In this context, "person" connotes subject which suffices for my example.

I agree, which is why I say person and not "human".

If the person can't comprehend what has been said clearly (i.e. supported by the context), then that person certainly can't understand its justificati...

Ah yes, the dominoes keep falling ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/trump-colorado-presidential-ballot-disqualified-14th-amendment :...