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But you're appealing to a religious doctrine, not a conceptual truth. A person who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent is not necessarily our...

I like Britney. But Banoffee pie? No, I've always found it somewhat sickly and dense.

What a pointless thing to say. I have said that if God exists our lives have a particular purpose (or set of purposes, more exactly). And your respons...

It isn't the strongest. The case for theism is the strongest. By far. If you think agnosticism is reasonable, then you must think that the case for Go...

It depends what stage you are at with your reasoned reflection and what arguments you have been exposed to. For an analogy: imagine that you have gone...

Engage philosophically with the OP if you dare, or go away.

Another great contribution from Ffee Pie.

Hmm, but it seems unethical in the case of innocent adults. If I have access to someone's diary, I should not read it; nor should I watch people all t...

No, it doesn't follow from the fact our intuitions are subjective that morality is subjective. My belief that I have a partner is subjective. For beli...

I am not sure I follow you. God is by definition good. And it seems reasonable to believe that this means God will keep himself ignorant of an innocen...

Where's your evidence? There's no equivocation.

Er, no. The exact opposite, Dumbartonshire. Rational discernment. Ratiocination. Not a guess. I don't know what you're talking about. Purposes. For yo...

No, I think you don't believe in God. You believe in a potato. If God exists, then the purpose of our lives is easily discernible by some rational ref...

Yeah, you don't believe in God. Here's someone else who doesn't believe in God: "My concept of God is the concept of a tuber that grows in the ground ...

That's a category error. What you have a moral duty to do is what you have overall moral reason to do. It is not itself a moral reason - moral reasons...

I still don't see how you're arriving at your conclusion. If God exists, what possible reason is there to think that this life's purpose is to, well, ...

I have no idea how you'd arrive at those conclusions. If it is to look at stuff, why are there blind people? And why isn't everything unremittingly be...

Well if the cap fits... God: I've made you a cake and i am going to force you to eat some. Bert: ooo, thank you - it must be because you love me so mu...

I don't know what you are on about, but it sounds a bit navel gazy to me. Anyway, should you want to understand the purposes for which you are living ...

Er, ok. That's a shame, given there's so much of it. Why would someone who thinks you're great plonk you on a world that's 73% covered in poison? Oh, ...

Oh do think it through Dumbartonshire. God is all powerful. So he could give you all the benefits of a meaningful relationship without any of its frus...

Whether your life has meaning or not is not in your gift. You did not create yourself or subject yourself to a lifetime here, so you cannot be the sou...

No, because the intuitions are 'of' morality and do not compose it. It's to confuse a vehicle of awareness with its object. So, I can see a chair. The...

You are committing the naturalistic fallacy. The word 'is' in 'Because pain is bad' is ambiguous. It could mean that pain and badness are one and the ...

Oh, so you're mad. Nature issues prescriptions. I see. Stones speak to you do they? What are the molecules telling you to do today?

Who is issuing the prescription?

How am I begging the question against the naturalist? The naturalist identifies moral properties - such as rightness and goodness - with natural featu...

NOte too that you haven't answered my questions. Do you think the mindless natural world can issue prescriptions and value things? If so, then are you...

What are you saying, then? IF I say that something is 'inappropriate' I am not reporting how a word is used, am I? So drop the word inappropriate and ...

Although that's a psychological claim rather than a metaethical one and is not equivalent to what I am saying. I am not saying that morality is subjec...

I am not sure I see a problem. There are normative reasons - moral and instrumental being the kind we are concerned with here - and there's what we ha...

I gave an argument in support of it. It's to do with what it takes for something to have representative contents. It has nothing to do with introspect...

I gave an argument in support of premise 1. Read it after you've acquired the necessary intelligence to understand it. THen say something in criticism...

No point continuing this, InPenentrablyS. Premise 1 establishes that in order for us to be aware of anything our mental states would need to have feat...

See the defence of premise 2. Although given how badly you reason there's not much point. Do you now see that there is no contradiction? I can know th...

You really are InPentrablyS! Does 'X is introspectively indiscernible from Y' entail that we cannot know whether we have an X on our hands or a Y? You...

There are different senses of the word 'ought', but in moral discourse the 'ought' is the normative ought. That's the same as in self-help books. The ...

What? You keep doing this - you keep quoting me saying entirely consistent things and then just insist they contradict. I am not going to do your work...

I think it is self-evident, but I also illustrated its credibility with examples. I don't think you appreciate how my argument - and so arguments in g...

So you think the mindless natural world values things? How does that work? I value things. You value things. My chair doesn't. That rock over there do...

Oh, in that case your argument is unsound, as premise 1 is obviously false. "That's morally bad" does not mean "a lot of people use the word 'inapprop...

I should explain why morality is subjective. To say that something is objective is to say something about its mode of existence. More specifically, it...

Morality is subjective. But 'relative' is not an alternative to objective or subjective. The opposite of relative is 'absolute'. So there's whether mo...

Your argument presupposes moral truths and so doesn't tell us whether morality is objective or subjective. Premise 1 in your first argument helps itse...

You've managed to get to 35 with reasoning and comprehension skills like those? Blimey! You must be very lucky. God can do anything. Thus God can chan...

I don't know what you're on about now. Look, my example was just to illustrate something - to illustrate how we can acknowledge that something is meta...

Different. The idea that I do not exist contains no contradiction. Yet I am confused if I think the idea a reality. Similarly, the idea that all of ou...

Okaaay Gwegowy.

No. Because if true, then in combination with premise 2 it tells us that the evolutionary processes that have furnished us with our faculties of aware...

God is Reason and so God can do anything. It's that way around. In virtue of being Reason, God can violate the law of non-contradiction, for it is his...