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Come on, Wayfarer, you can do better than a feeble ad hom. My stereotyping contempt has nothing to do with the gap in your argument, beyond my finding...

Good for you. So what. It remains that the choice of creed is yours. It remains that you cannot just dump your moral responsibility on to god, any mor...

Again, you have here claimed that the wellbeing of society is what we ought do. Why? You havn't grounded your moral system, just assumed it. Well, no,...

All this to say that one must convince oneself of one's religion; kid yourself into it, so to speak.

Kipling is for children.

Existentialists would say that accepting a creed as one's moral guide is an act of bad faith. Faith as bad faith. Go figure.

The naturalistic fallacy remains: that babies act in a certain way does not imply that you ought also act in a certain way.

The naturalistic fallacy again. Why ought we promote the wellbeing of society? There are moral systems that say the opposite; that what is right is th...

So an unconditional good is something you would find, something you would come across out in the world. But that is not how moral statements work. The...

Rocks are neither good nor bad. Morality is about what we should do around others. Hence, your view is wrong.

Ok.

That makes sense. Let's hope no one thinks it a good thing to do so.

That's sad. the video says: Yes, that does say something profound about human morality.

Seems we are in agreement. Haven't understood the electorate since '75.

Wikipedia eventually makes clowns of us all. But you think that morality derives from human nature. SO you do not think that we ougth in some way seek...

https://votecompass.abc.net.au/ I'm still off the top of the progressive scale, but I've apparently moved to the right - previously I was to the left ...

Well, there is something to be said for government by bumbling, self-serving incompetence, provided you are not unemployed, burned out by a bush fire,...

How is "This moral view is objectively right" different to "this moral view is right"? What does "objectively" add? If it is right, it's right, object...

Hmm. Couldn't human nature be immoral? There's plenty of examples of moral thinking that exhaults one to transcend or go beyond one's human nature. Is...

Well, morality is certainly concerned with interactions between people. Actions that do not invovle others are neither moral nor immoral. But why both...

The notion of "subjective values" deserves some attention. The word "subjective" went through an almost complete reversal of meaning over the last cen...

There's a lot more to be said here, concerning the social intentionality behind property and theft. There's a reason stealing looks absolute. Theft re...

The WIki definition leaves a lot to be desired... like what "intrinsic" is doing in there... The Ethics Centre offers this: It goes on to explain how ...

One way in which moral statements might be thought of as absolute is if we consider their scope - to whom they apply. This is an old argument, to do w...

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d254d9fb4e79e6a572de322ad49d7a77?src From ABC, average poll results.

Really? So, what is moral absolutism? That might be a good place to start. Well, who else will you trust? Who better?

SO the boy from marketing has worked through all the potential issues, settled his court cases in NSW and finally screwed himself up enough to call th...

Is this a better place to continue our previous discussion? Rape is wrong and we agree it is wrong. Drop the "because". Now, is rape wrong? Do you agr...

...and this cannot be done; hence the approach taken here will not work.

But Wittgenstein does not hold that knowing the world is an empirical knowing. I think this has been explained before. Firstly, the atomic proposition...

The very hungry caterpillar.

There's only one? That "thirty" should have been "thirteen". Hey, it was a long time ago, but definitely more than a couple of metres long. It was dur...

There's your problem, right there. Just don't. There are better ways to spend your time. Take up walking, or gardening. Get a pet, or start making min...

, ... The "doing" is a form of life; it involves our experiences as well as our acts, and also the things we take as granted, those "hinge proposition...

That ought be an "or"? That metaphysical speculation is vacuous is not just an assertion, but is demonstrated. Pointing out that Heidegger or Husserl ...

Folk used to say that koalas never drank, getting all their moisture from eating leaves. It was bullshit, though. The leaves are not moist enough, but...

The Wee Free Men.

Ah, so we end our discussion in silence? Might make tea.

Hmm. I'll take that as an apology.

My friend, Kant is traditional metaphysics. It's pertinent that those who emphasis Wittgenstein's rejection of metaphysical statements so often stop a...

You accusing me of pragmatism? Wanna step outside to discuss this? Or take your insult back.

If any such explanation be given, one can ask that that explanation be explained... and so on. One can stop where one likes. I stop at the eggs. They ...

The intransigence of the Liberal government dow nunder is potentially, insipently, leading them to be bypassed. States and electricity companies have ...

I'd noticed that. It's articulating our differences that is of interest. I'd go back a few more years, to Moore's Principia, to trace the notion of th...

Yes! But not being bombed by Russians helps.

So, we might re-draw your circles as disjointed, not concentric. One circle with science and other explicit statements, the other with god, ethics, ae...

Here's the article in situ. Now, what do you find problematic, or curious, in it? It's a good article.

The chooks laid two eggs for my breakfast. That'll do.

We. might modify this to "an ideology that pretends to ultimate authority..."

Hmmm. Fires and floods seem to be focusing folk's attention. One might be hopeful.