I do not see how that follows. To be clear: I think we have always existed. But I do not see how this follows from the fact that now is the time at wh...
You don't seem to understand what it is to be rational or to be very yourself or recognise it in others. You seem to think - question beggingly - that...
My view is that you are wrong. Wrong to think that it is ok to subject people to lives here for your entertainment; wrong to think that we are here fo...
so the thought of highly rational people having kids makes you shudder, but you're okay with thoughtless people having them. Okaay, and they wonder wh...
Yes, I accept that some may have benevolent motives. But frog-marching someone to the secret place (which is also quite a dangerous place) would still...
I don't think all parents are culpable for their decisions, or equally culpable. It depends on what informed the decision. And it depends on the circu...
Ted Bundy. Parents good (as parents). Him, not so much. Anyway, even if kids are cool - and they're not, it is an undignified state to be in as most k...
I couldn't agree more! We all know that life here is fraught with risks and that we have to work to survive and that for large portions of our lives w...
The WHO's guidelines are issued by persons. Who do you think wrote them, exactly? Was it a person or persons? Yes. And when we talk of an institution ...
So, again, replace 'morality' with 'jam'. I have argued that jam is made of strawberries boiled with sugar. Your reply "Humans enforce, discuss , and ...
Well, this is pointless as you're not grasping the point. When you 'assess' a norm you do so by reference to a standard - or...norm. When we 'morally'...
Again, a 'community' is a person. To think otherwise is to commit the fallacy of composition (a group of people is not a person). But even if it was a...
Moral norms and values are norms and values. A norm is a prescription. A value is an attitude. Only a subject - a mind - can issue a prescription or v...
The question - the question to which metaethical theories are proposed answers - is "what are moral norms and values made of?" So let's change it to "...
Once more, you simply ignore the decisive refutation of the view you keep asserting. The moral beliefs of a group of us are a) not norms, but beliefs ...
You really don't, otherwise you'd address the actual argument. This is how silly our exchange has been. Imagine that I had argued not that morality is...
No, ironically it is you who is making the category error. Mental states are states. A state is a state of a thing. Just as water is sometimes in a fl...
Like I say, you're just not addressing the argument. Your position, which is asserted and not argued for, is demonstrably confused. But only someone w...
No, you're just making points that are false, but anyway orthogonal to the argument I have made. You don't show something to 'be' part of a community ...
It's obviously true. Just imagine that everyone apart from you has just fallen down dead. Okay - are you still a mind and can you still reason? Yes an...
I do not know what you mean. You mentioned biases and motivations. No, communities are made of collections of minds. So the individual mind is primary...
You don't seem to have an objection to the argument, but just an unfounded psychological thesis about my motives. I do not 'want' morality to require ...
They surely are: my mind is mine, yours is yours. I am not part you and you part me. I am entirely me and not in any way you, and vice versa. I do not...
Yes, perhaps. But if she's defending a symmetrical view then there's not much that's new or interesting in her view. She's just a standard compatibili...
Yes, human laws are not constitutive of moral norms. So 'moral law' is ambiguous between a law that is moral (that is, a law that there is a moral pre...
But the point here is not to do with the justification of human laws, but the constitution of moral norms and values. Imagine that someone objects to ...
But if you accept that without human laws moral norms and values would still exist, then this suffices to establish that moral norms and values are no...
But unless a law says no more than 'do what is right and do not do what is wrong' (in which case it refers to moral norms but does not itself constitu...
Yes, Finger, that's right. Although causes do not 'decide' a result as decisions are mental events and causes aren't minds. But apart from that misuse...
To be morally responsible for forming an intention to do X does not depend on whether X itself occurs. It isn't a difficult point to grasp and it is o...
No, that's the bonkers view you expressed earlier and then disavowed when its bonkerishness became apparent. To be morally responsible for intending t...
What in blue blazes are you on about? The question you asked me - and that I am patiently answering - is whether we would still be morally responsible...
In that case you simply didn't understand the original point and you used entirely the wrong words to express yourself. I am morally responsible for m...
Well, I think you're going to be on your own there. So, just to be clear, your view is that if I attempt to kill Sarah, I am not morally responsible f...
I do not understand what you mean. Seems confused. A mind is a thing. An object. Minds do things, such as think, desire, decide, hope and so on. Think...
They are states of mind, not really 'things' as such (a state of mind is a state of a thing - minds being things - but it is not itself a thing). I do...
No, I don't see why you'd think it did. Moral responsibility requires being the originator of one's decisions, I think. And that requires being an imm...
No, they don't define it, not in any substantial way, for the definition is the end-point of analysis, not the beginning. Again: they are talking abou...
It is not a good idea to ask average members of the public questions about complex metaphysical issues, as most of them are complete berks. But among ...
Well, that's fine if her view is that blame and praise come with the same control and origination requirements (I am not sure if that is her view - th...
I wouldn't give them the same weight - some appearances appear stronger than others, and other things being equal that translates into them giving us ...
I am not sure I follow. If right-doing requires the ability to do the right thing, then right-doing does not require the ability to do otherwise. But ...
Yes, because the answer to my question is that no, it would not be wise to think such a thing. I can and do know that "where the hell is my iphone" is...
Yes, I do not deny that her view is coherent. Ought implies can, and ought not implies can not. Which seems sufficient to explain how it is that right...
I wouldn't get into a conversation with someone to whom the law of non contradiction did not appear to be true. Read your original post and then read ...
Some people prefer questions to answers. You are one of those, I think. In dismissing appearances you do not just dismiss me, but Aristotle. Do you th...
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