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That makes sense. bet it's from Time enough for love. edit... ah, Stranger in a strange land. Thanks, Tom.

My recollection is that it was Spinoza, but I may be wrong, who said that a necessary condition of being in love with someone is that your happiness i...

My point is the familiar one, that it can't be made well-formed. That is, it is ungrammatical. Existence can be treated as a second-order predicate, a...

:ok: Take care...

By the standard developing along with the improvement. The alternative is to presume you already have a standard that is applicable to every situation...

...so... Glad you said that. I gather Tim wants to say something like that to develop one's moral character one musty first know what moral character ...

Set the circularity out.

Ah. Nasty.

I'm not fussed whether you call it an "ethics" or not. And I don't see how what you are proposing differs from what I am proposing, since you too fall...

Yep; the OP is rigged. The pretence of even-handedness is belied by the content. Is @"TheHedoMinimalist" a priest?

Cheers.

I'm accused of being a Wittgenstein fanatic; I don't consider myself to be such. It's just that almost all of the issues on these fora are best consid...

None of you came back to this. Curious. Why not?

Seems to me to be the same point. All talk occurs within language games; all language games are embed in -constitute - the world, what can be said. @"...

Commitment. The OP is extraordinarily numb; anyone who seeks an evolutionary account of love is not in love.

The physics here is unnecessary. The sentence above is simply not well-formed.

Sure, complicate the issues any way you want. In the end what you do is still down to you. Your choice of what rule to follow or what consequences you...

Then, since you bothered to interject, you might bother to set out clearly @"Apollodorus"'s argument.

Yeah, it is. As you point out, the question then becomes which rule, and the judgement is simply moved a step further back. That's not a solution; it'...

What proposition, exactly? So you are saying that the cat being on the mat is one thing, the proposition "the cat is on the mat", a different thing? A...

A virtue is a personal attribute. Virtue ethics is about developing ethical personal attributes. The list usually includes things such as integrity, h...

So what? Why should gender determine one's role?

Stop sharing my crib notes. :kiss:

That'd be one approach. The core of ethics is what will I do now. The consequences of your actions should be taken into account; but they are not enti...

Generally there are three approacher to ethnics: Following rules; examine the consequences of one's actions; and becoming a better person. The questio...

Some games invoke the modification of their own rules. That's not necessarily a termination.

Your axioms of discourse appear typicaly liberal to my eye. It seems I presumed too much. We might leave it there.

Well, that's not what I would have supposed, although care is needed here. Russell commented that "Mr Wittgenstein manages to say a good deal about wh...

Hm. Why disavow liberalism? Is there a considered reason?

Really? You set out some of the basic tenets of liberalism. Was that not your intent? Then we have some agreement.

A singularly unproductive conversation ...and the part played by the Taliban remains unexplained.

This was the comment that started this pointless discussion: You suggested money used for abortions be used for adoptions or raising kids by the state...

Yes; and...?

That was not Wittgenstein; that was Humpty Dumpty.

Paying a mother is paying a carer. Seems as you are having trouble following this. What it has to do with the Taliban is quite beyond my keen. Again, ...

Paying mothers to stay home is the state raising children. Well, no. The mother is the one raising the child. There's something quite odd in the logic...

A tremendous improvement.

That's a good response; Pop's path has the hallmarks of idealism.

Barnaby Joyce declares he won’t be ‘bullied’ on climate science Scotty must be so pleased to have such a free thinker as his deputy. The group Farmers...

...unless, say, there was a basic income payed to carers. Your "...only..." shows an impressive lack of imagination. Miscarriage? No, you mean women w...

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I am. Now you are, too. It's pretty much spot on the topic of the OP, having just introduced a law aiming at limiting the rights of women. You raised ...

Republicans seethe with violence and lies. Texas is part of a bigger war they’re waging For your erudition.

I agree. And if she still chooses an abortion, that is her choice, not that of Texas.

It was a discussion of Epicureanism. That was one of the ethical paths all but wiped out by those who disfigured the statue. Religion distorts ethics.

Oh, most assuredly, provide support for mums. And it should refrain from restricting women's choices concerning their own health. Let's have abortion ...

Here's a symbol for you to consider: http://www.maicar.com/GML/000Iconography/Aphrodite/slides/6228.jpg Aphrodite, disfigured and baptised during the ...

...the result of a hundred and fifty years of fighting for equality. That's a pretty slick, sick comment.

Ah, there it is again: Stove's Gem. I taste oysters only with my tongue, and hence I never taste oysters as they really are. As if this meant one neve...