Well, you're not a careful reader. He's not arguing for state mandates. He's arguing that people should pay the costs of their choices. I agree. Do yo...
So you picked up that he wasn't arguing for making people vaccinate. He was arguing that people should pay the costs of their choices. That's differen...
But not their expertise in ethics? You seem very confused to me. I am an ethicist. You haven't said anything - anything - to challenge anything I've a...
So, do you respect the views of ethicists or not? Or is it only when they say something you already agree with that you respect them? I am unclear wha...
You can't refute me by simply expressing surprise at what I am saying. They're just glorified plumbers. I think you'll find Socrates, Plato and Aristo...
Oh, okay then. Good point. On an ethical issue - so an issue to do with what it is right or wrong to do - we should not listen to ethicists, but those...
Explain. Is the vaccine effective? If it is, then they're not posing a risk to the vaccinated. If it is not effective, then yes - I agree, they're pos...
No, Riled-up, it is 'ethicists' we should be listening to. Ethicists are experts on what it is right or wrong to do. Doctors are not. And this is an e...
Where's your argument? You're just stating things. The unvaccinated are not posing a risk to anyone other than the unvaccinated. So, if vaccines are f...
Well I don't think there is a right to health care. If I go to a bookstore and buy the last copy of a book you want such that you can't now buy it, I ...
You're confusing different issues. What I am talking about is making people take a vaccine. So, there's a vaccine freely available. Those who want it ...
Yes, that is what everyone can freely decide to do. So, those who - despite being vaccinated themselves - are paranoid about getting seriously ill fro...
They did not violate those people's rights. You're blaming the wrong people. It was those who determined who does or does not get a bed, if anyone, wh...
What objection do you have to what I said, then? I mean, I assume you think it is ok for the government to flex its muscles and bully people into gett...
Compatibilism is not a form of determinism. Determinism is a thesis about how events are unfolding - it is the thesis that every event that occurs had...
Yes, there are tons of them. Let's say I proposed that everyone is concerned for the welfare of others and does nothing out of self-interest at all. T...
That's still ambiguous between being opposed to anyone taking them, and simply being opposed to taking them oneself. For instance, I think crystals ar...
Yes, it is highly controversial - it is known as psychological egoism and has virtually no defenders. It's exposed to so many prima facie counterexamp...
What is an anti-vaxxer? It is unclear to me. Is it someone who is opposed to vaccinations? Or is it someone who does not want to get a vaccine themsel...
Well, that's a highly controversial and fairly obviously false pyschological thesis. It's not clear what bearing it has on the current issue - if we'r...
Two reasons First, to have any obligations one needs to be an agent. That is, one needs to be reason responsive - one needs, in other words, to be abl...
I don't know. Something. It's beside the point. Let's say you find yourself in a bed, all bandaged up and hooked up to various monitors. There are als...
So, just to be clear, if people exist prior to birth, then it is wrong to procreate because of the lack of consent. Whereas if they don't, then the la...
That quote doesn't say that "knowing makes guilty" (whatever that means). Read it carefully. It's an argument. 1: If God exists, God would not allow i...
how does that have anything to do with what I said? Why are you talking about the bible? Did I mention it? I haven't read it and don't care what it sa...
Once more: the act of rape cannot be consented to. As you don't seem capable of understanding this, imagine someone cannot give consent to sex - does ...
Yes. This is a prison. You are living in ignorance in a dangerous world. God exists. God wouldn't subject innocent people to a life of ignorance in a ...
You aren't getting it. You can't consent to be raped. So, the fact it is impossible to consent to an act doesn't mean the act is morally permissible. ...
That's because you don't seem to understand its import. You said previously that as it is impossible to consent to be born, this somehow means the cho...
imagine all the world's women decide they don't want to have kids. You think it is ok to rape them? The human species is not a person. It doesn't have...
So if no woman wants to procreate, you think rape is now right? My reason says that'd be wrong. The human species isn't a human. It doesn't die and yo...
The correct normative theory is pluralism. There are a host of features that typically make actions wrong, not just one (sometimes an act is wrong bec...
For my argument - the ought from is one - to go through, an act needs to be wrong or possibly wrong. So the argument goes through. You can get enough ...
It's about as self evident to reason that rape is wrong as that 2 + 2 = 4. Thus some acts are wrong. So, if you try and argue for nihilism your argume...
Substitute x for something that is wrong by a utilitarian's crazy lights. It'll still go through. Incidentally, this argument refutes utilitarianism: ...
No. I have said that a fact is what's asserted by a true proposition. Now, if you disagree then kindly tell me what you'd call what's asserted by a tr...
I have no idea what that means. That too. There's an ambiguity to the word 'is' that makes questions such as "what is a fact?" ambiguous. But clearly ...
You lot are so confused it is painful. So, statements can be true. But statements aren't facts. That's nonsense. The propositional content of a true s...
That's not an answer to the question. That's a false statement about when a proposition expresses a fact. Even if it were true, it would not tell us w...
I think facts are what true propositions assert. So if the proposition "It is raining" is true, then that it is raining is what's being asserted. That...
Sounds to me like you've already decided you know what's what. Are toothache's immaterial? That's a confused question. An 'ache' is a sensation - it i...
No. It's squarely about entities, namely what kind of entity a mind is. Philosophy is about using reasoned reflection to figure out what's true (as op...
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