yes, that's how one does philosophy. Just express your view, but at all costs don't engage with arguments. Blimey - is there anyone here who can actua...
Why not? They're not just comments, but arguments. The good and the right. They're not the same. There's what's good, and there's what is right. It'd ...
A place can't disagree with someone. And you don't seem to understand how arguments work. You need to address an argument with an argument, not just e...
Yes, I am generally opposed to codifying things. I believe in judging on a case by case basis - I believe that's how they did it in the Ancient world....
I don't care that you reject it - that's just you expressing yourself, isn't it! Anyway, a debate about what exactly an intuition is - which, no matte...
Yes, the reasoning behind such claims does seem palpably bad. I think this can be illustrated by focusing on cases where the reverse is true - that is...
A normative proposition is a proposition about what is to be done - it concerns action - and so it would be about the rightness or wrongness of an act...
Yes, let's make this about basic issues in moral epistemology - which is what you'd do to any debate about anything, right? But not that it matters, a...
Yes, because moral intuition has no role to play in trying to figure out what's actually right and wrong. Good point. We should just consult the law o...
No, that's not it. The Google educated. Sigh. It is 'A defense of abortion' by Thomson. An article which you wouldn't consider to have any philosophic...
Really- you think the OP has no philosophical content. Okay. Well, you know better than stupid old me and my silly thought experiments - you're right,...
Oh gosh, I never realized that. Golly. So, philosophical reflection on the nature of ethics has informed the law. Wow. I see. Cor, thanks for that ins...
More great points. You're on fire today! Do you have anything at all philosophical to say about the arguments made in the OP? Or are you just Bartrick...
No. Try thinking about my examples. It's called thought experimenting. Or just 'thinking' for short. It's how you gain ethical insight into controvers...
Yes, excellent point - what the law says is automatically right. We do not need to discuss the ethics of any particular laws. Good point. You're good....
Er, okay. Good argument. Such insight. That is how it works. If you want to find out the right and wrongs of these matters, my method is the one to be...
THis is not about what the law says. This is about what the right and wrongs of the matter are. If you honestly acquire a stolen car and then crash it...
My intuitions agree with that - if the original item that was honestly acquired is in its original state, then it goes back to its original owner and ...
Well, I was well and truly bored by the time I got to the point where you told me how bored you were. But anyway, you didn't address anything I argued...
That's not additional - it's part of what being omnibenevolent involves. No, as I explained above. Learn to follow an argument. And it is you, inciden...
You're not following this. This is just silly now. God doesn't allow injustices. So, if God exists, there are no injustices. Wrongs, yes. But no injus...
God, via our faculty of reason. But note, all philosophers will appeal to the representations of our faculties of reason as the source of insight into...
Because, er, that's not what I said. I "quite literally" didn't. Sheesh. I said we can infer something about God's character from the content of our m...
So you don't think their innocence is the issue? What is especially terrible about harms befalling the innocent is that they are innocent. Now, perhap...
I don't know what you're talking about. You're assuming I'm an off the peg religious person, yes? Don't. I'm not. Just address my arguments and resist...
Like I say, you're just ignoring all those representations of reason that tell us about moral desert. Ironically, if you genuinely do not believe in t...
We use our reason. Our faculty of reason is our source of insight into what is right and good. And from such intuitions we can infer something about G...
Again, why do you keep just insisting that people are being punished disproportionate to their guilt? If that's not something a good person would allo...
Well, that's a controversial and counter-intuitive moral view. My view is respects our moral intuitions about what goodness actually involves; you're ...
And where do I say otherwise? You don't seem to understand my position. If God exists, he does not allow injustices to occur. He's good and omnipotent...
So you accept that this is a world full of wrongdoers - full of people who deserve to come to harm of one sort or another. And it is a world in which ...
This takes us away from the topic. My point was that there's no higher authority than reason - so, if, for example, you think there is no reason to ta...
Again, you're not staying on point. This is about the problem of evil, not the credibility of divine command theory. I am assuming that morality has t...
Er, no, it is not a problem. It is called 'divine command theory' - it's a metaethical theory about the fundamental nature of morality. According to t...
No. I. Am. Not. I have no idea what that means. Here you are once more straying from the problem of evil and into the relationship between God and mor...
I have not mentioned Christianity. I am not a Christian. I don't know much about it or care. I am a philosopher, not a theologian. I have made an argu...
I have not done that. God is omnibenevolent and there is no problem of evil. Clear? I am not denying that God has any of those properties. A good, all...
You seem just to be ignoring the case I have made. What I have said about the relationship between morality and God was not to address the problem of ...
I don't see how the example of your mother constitutes a counterexample. The hatred does not seem unjustified and time has passed. There are some inju...
I never said otherwise. My point is that an omnipotent being determines what's right and good. My point wasn't that they will sometimes do what is wro...
Well, that's a bit confused. Premise 1 is not necessarily true - I don't think any proposition is necessarily true, precisely because God exists and s...
You're putting the cart before the horse. An omnipotent being determines what is right and good, for otherwise they would not be omnipotent. So it is ...
Where have I said anything to imply otherwise? We are living in ignorance in a dangerous world. We deserve that. And what form to those dangers take? ...
If one freely does wrong, one thereby comes to deserve harm. That does not, of course, entail that others are obliged to give one the harm in question...
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