Andrew4Handel

What if there was a law giver like a deity or innate moral rules in reality (a la the laws of physics)?

Isn't what someone thinks is good for them based on feelings? The problem is that moral philosophy has failed to reach a consensus about morality or r...

What would class as objectively wrong? What is the value of a morality based on fluctuating feelings with no truth value beyond how one individual fee...

It is not clear what brain and mind states are in relation to experience. But the mind has representational qualities so that they can be about someth...

It is not clear on your position what would cause the feeling someone has. If I dislike the taste of bacon it is eating bacon that caused that sensati...

Is this pragmatism?

I think morality should be a guide for action. But I don't see how it can be a guide for action if there are no right answers. I also think that the i...

I am distinguishing between separate feelings here. The feeling or experience of something as unpleasant but not immoral (like the taste of food you d...

I have not read your whole post yet but I am not saying that it is unreliable to feel something is wrong, but rather that it is not evidence that some...

What about actual harm? For example people have felt repulsed by homosexuality, women and different races etc. But harm is not evident by being one of...

I think even though we know something is fiction it can still effect our beliefs and emotions. This happened to me as a child. I think in order for fi...

It also seem to me that parents justify creating a child based on their claim or feeling that their child will have a good quality of life. But you ca...

I think my social worker example illustrates this concerning when they intervene to take a child from his or her parents having made an executive deci...

How people feel can be coherently correlated with facts. You might compare this to the mind body problem and I don't know your stance on that. If you ...

This is simply not true.

Your post doesn't make sense. There is no significant difference between being in pain and a value judgement. Being in pain is the experience that X i...

If someone is a pain you don't need to invoke a magic value judgement to assess that situation. There is no magic leap between assessing someone is in...

It depends on how an anti abortion argument is framed. On the future value of life argument that video presents a refutation. I think the value of a c...

This relates to the morality issue. You can say "It is not wrong, in my opinion, to stab someone" But you can't realistically say it is not harmful to...

It is relevant for making causal explanations and predictions. If someone was going to cheat on their spouse they might not cheat on their spouse beca...

This is just a bald assertion your making. Things have functions such as the human heart and there is telos they can be described in terms of. If a ca...

What does a personal quality mean? Are you referring to individual conscious experience regardless of the functional state of the body and environment...

Like I said in my last but one post the way they feel is dictated largely by their spouse cheating on them. It might be that they are really happy to ...

We seem to be focusing on individual cases but life is not just one person. That is like solipsism. I think that there is a solipsistic feel to consci...

Quality of life is their spouse cheating on them. The assessment does not equal the quality of life. Quality of life is someone living in poverty not ...

I think that if someone thinks they have a great quality of life, but their spouse is cheating on them, then they have made a false assessment and the...

What doesn't make sense is if someone opposes abortion but does not help suffering children. If someone thinks abortion is wrong then why would they n...

I could ramble so much on this subject.

I agree. I think obviously we would want each individual to feel good about his or her life (I hope) and value their feedback. But like I said in my l...

You originally said: I am saying this personal assessment is not everything and can be wrong. I am not reducing quality of life down to what one perso...

Someone can assess their quality of life based on misinformation. Someones quality of life can depend on objective facts and the access they have to t...

You are claiming that a stage of existence necessary to be human entails being human. Therefore any stage of causality required for creating humans is...

I don't understand the question you are asking. Are you claiming an assessment is purely subjective? I don't accept that premise. An assessment involv...

An assessment of one's life is not purely subjective. If someone cures cancer and saves millions of lives then there life had an immense impact on oth...

A human beings life starts at the big bang by your reasoning. Conception is necessary for human life but that does not make it sufficient.

The claim that people have a bad quality of life is not a moral claim. I think a moral claim is subjective. but the reality of other peoples suffering...

I had a severe toothache once but during that time I did not have the belief that I had a poor quality of life. The judgement I have a poor quality is...

It is quite possible to have an abortion and value human life and not harm anyone else other than the fetus. Life is a lot more nuanced than you seem ...

I don't think abortion is right or wrong. I don't think it is ideal or great for sure. I think it is the lesser of two evils. But I don't accept most ...

I think if there were "ought's" that would be problematic. For example should we give all excess wealth that we have away to save starving children? S...

Is a dead person a human? At what stage after death do they stop being human?

I am bringing the bible up in the context of these debates and asking whether or not people that are opposed to abortion have a hidden religious motiv...

Where do these moral truths come from and what do they consist of? They bible is not a good source because it is contradictory along with other proble...

You cannot win a moral argument because there is no evidence of any moral facts. If there were moral facts and rules nature breaks them all.

I think you can argue for the value of falsehood. See Kant and lying to an axe murderer at your door. Also I think the truth is hard to come by so peo...

Quality of life is a belief and beliefs can be false. You seem to be unjustifiably pinning quality of life down to one individual instance and how som...

The fact that someone can only express a desire after their body has reached a certain level of functionality means that there is a certain necessary ...

I think that if you had a very depressed person and a very happy person they would still both responded negatively to being burnt on the hand. I think...

But some physical states are functional and relied upon to keep a human body alive. No one could flourish in an environment that was lethal to the hum...

I could concede to some degree on the idea that what is most important for well being is possibly how someone feels.Although I think how they feel sti...