What's your objection to anything I have argued? You agree, do you, that the kidnapped person can unhook from the violinist without thereby violating ...
I made an argument. You're not addressing it. You're just asking poorly formed questions. I've already told you I don't have - and am opposed to - sub...
No, you then asked about moral intuitions and about what do make of the fact that people have had different moral intuitions about one and the same ac...
Moral epistemology. Focus on what the thread is about, and not on the 'how do we know anything is right or wrong?" question. Consequentialism about et...
Look, if you had an inkling of insight you'd realize that I do know what I am talking about - that I know what I mean by a right and that I know my st...
Really? First, you don't seem to understand the example (the decision to unhook from the violinist has consequences for innocent others, as does the d...
That's why I asked us to imagine that pregnancies could be caught, just as one can catch a virus. Does that change anything? Would our reason now tell...
Yes. A 'right' is simply shorthand for something force can be legitimately used to secure. That's how I use it. But when it comes to figuring out when...
I argued my case. I did not put forth a 'rights theory'. I am anti substantial normative theories. I argued by appealing to rational intuitions about ...
Our intuitions - most people's anyway - about the trolley cases provide yet further evidence of consequentialism's falsity. Most people's intuitions s...
These are common fallacies that lead people to conclude that psychological egoism is true. First, that a desire is located in you, does not make it se...
No one would disagree that even if we're causally determined, we still sometimes do what we want. And if that is all one understands free will to invo...
Putting your theory to one side, what does your reason tell you is the right thing to do? If your reason tells you that you are entitled to unhook fro...
I think it is ethical to lockdown someone who has a deadly virus - as I said in the OP - and those it is reasonable to believe have it. But I do not s...
Yes, others need your advice - they can't decide for themselves. Consulted a lot, are you? Anyway, what you wrote there was just a personal attack. No...
That's how you determine which ethical theory is true? Which one seems more 'down to earth'? What does that even mean? Arbitrary means 'without reason...
Again, compatibilism contradicts hard determinism. Hard determinism is the combination of two views: incompatibilism about free will and determinism a...
It's no more incoherent than psychological egoism (and no more plausible). Desires can be self directed and desires can be other directed. If I desire...
Er, what? I did. You just said some stuff. Didn't address anything I'd said. Start by reading what I have said and addressing it. That's my advice. In...
And how many of those die from the virus, Xtrix? Virtually none. You'd have to lock us down for regular flue, Xtrix! I hope you don't drive. There's a...
No, matey, you haven't. You don't know, do you? Pssst: it doesn't. Maybe we should stop butterflies flapping their wings - they cause tornadoes, you k...
Again, no need to cry. Now, explain how I'm wrong. Do that without making recourse to sick little tiny Tim. Remember Xtrix, I'm in favour of allowing ...
Can you actually address something I've said? If Tim wants to thump Jones and Jones wants Tim to thump him, what business is it of yours? Whose rights...
No, I have gobs of it. Once more: what risk are the unvaccinated posing to the vaccinated? I am now vaccinated (today, in fact!). Why should I give a ...
That's not an explanation. First, Mill's harm principle outlines a 'necessary' not 'sufficient' ground for restricting the liberty of others. Second, ...
Answer my questions, Xtrix - what about sex? Should everyone be made to wear condoms if having sex? I mean, you can catch things from it. Should every...
Ooo, good reply! Calling me stupid - excellent! Are you 6? What are you going to do for a follow up - make a fart noise with your mouth? Run to teache...
What are you on about? I don't think you have a right to do whatever you want. Talk about straw man. But you are not violating another's rights if all...
What's your view about unprotected sex? Should it be allowed? Spreads disease. Should we ban it? There's a drug that radically reduces your chance of ...
You have presented no argument, just blank assertion. Adding 'bottom line' also lacks probative force. And I am an ethicist and I think it is unethica...
No need to cry over it. Correct. Thus there is no case for intervention. Thus, those who do not wish to take a vaccine should not be made to do so - a...
He may elsewhere, but he doesn't in that article or in the other quote you gave. He's just invited you to think he defends them - and maybe he does - ...
You've just lumped a whole load of different issues in together. Why would you not get herd immunity if 40% do not vaccinate? Do you think the unvacci...
No, I just know how to write and read carefully (not that I always do so, of course). At no point - no point in the article you linked to - does he de...
So we can add 'labelling' to the list of ways you think you can refute an argument. There's 'contradicting its conclusion' (presumably that one only a...
I don't think he would be in favour of them. Indeed, I think it is fairly obvious he'd agree with me. He thought that neither the state nor any indivi...
No he isn't. And if you've ever written an article for a popular venue, you'd know that they typically come up with the title (and that it's often mis...
Maybe you should read John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty". He's a little better than Caplan. Although obviously he doesn't enjoy the prestige and respect ...
So, I've made clear my view on vaccines and defended it. You haven't argued against my view, so far as I can see. You've just contradicted me and expr...
No, he doesn't say that. He describes what some are doing. That's not the same as advocating it. You're the one who isn't reading carefully. At no poi...
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