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I haven't actually read this thread, I'm just making a joke. In case you missed it, the joke is in misreading "can God do anything?" as: "is it the ca...

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No, God can't do anything. Because to do is to be. And God don't be.

I think that you take “ideology” and “opinion” to mean something different and much more pejorative than I do. To “have an opinion that such and such”...

In other words, good reasons.

I’d go one step further and say that the “objective” in “objective knowledge” or “objective reality” or “objective morality” just means that same thin...

The who what now? Contradiction in terms.

You probably already know this and just misspoke, but it's not the "most risen" stocks that get bought more, it's the stocks with highest market capit...

Related anecdote: I was raised in a very loosely religious family, and exposed at a young age to Christian original fiction that seemed to me just lik...

I'm pleasantly surprised to see Isaac of all people being my staunchest defender here, but yeah, he's basically said everything I'd want to say in res...

One thing that I found helped me a lot when I was going through some really awful existential dread about death and the end of the universe etc back i...

If they’re well-intentioned just for bad reasons, that would put them in group 2. E.g. if you’re a socialist atheist and a socialist Christian agrees ...

Think of it as similar to the coherentist branch of the trilemma. What you're basically looking for is a complete set of beliefs that doesn't contain ...

I do. The "fence sitter" in the conversation elsewhere that inspired this thread reminds me of a younger me. It's for the sake of people like that tha...

I do. That doesn't necessarily mean that the person who did it is blameworthy per se, but it certainly would have been better if the good ends could h...

I agree here too. I was thinking specifically of cases where one knows the person in question and has seen them fall in with bad views in real time. I...

I am definitely anti-consequentialist in my views, but that doesn't mean that consequences are irrelevant. As I said in my first post in this thread, ...

I don't mean to suggest that we should treat the truly ridiculous ideas of the "other side" as legitimate like that, but only that we shouldn't treat ...

So is capitalism. Distribution of ownership is all about how to allocate the proceeds. If the people broadly own the means of production (socialism) t...

Maybe being a friendless loner for most of my youth... and now most of my adulthood... basically every time besides my early 20s experiment in being a...

Self-reflection is good for you behaviorally, but often bad for you experientially. When you reflect upon your thought patterns critically and assess ...

One is only worn by a voluntary subset of religious practitioners, the other is sometimes mandated for all women. Choice is the difference.

I don't think that that's a "happy medium" in the sense that anarchism is too far in one direction, but it is a medium, and yeah, it's an alright one,...

Why does the positive get priority? If you do 1/-0.1 you get -10, 1/-0.01 you get -100, 1/-0.001 you get -1000 ... 1/-0.0000000001 you get -1000000000...

In the sense that it's concerned with yourself, yes, but "selfish" is only a bad thing is it comes at the expense of others, when it means like "greed...

I’m not trying to make an argument against religion here, though in another context I’d be happy to e.g. dispute your claim about its role in coordina...

Any positive number divided by x approaches infinity as x approaches zero (negative numbers instead make it approach negative infinity), and anything ...

Lots of the advice here is good, and a lot of it connects to general advice for learning: we remember things best when they connect to other things we...

I'm not saying that anyone ought to be against freedom of thought and speech even when it comes to religion, but rather, that the people who would be ...

Consequentialism definitely only seems to consider the future; that's the whole point of ends justifying means, only the ends count, doesn't matter wh...

Religious fundamentalists primarily, plus all manner of kooks, cranks, and quacks who have their own little proto-religions they follow in defiance of...

I'd say yes, but that doesn't mean that the industrial revolution shouldn't have happened. It just means that it was done wrongly in some ways, and sh...

@"simeonz" is correct that your "intensionalism" sounds like it's basically virtue ethics. I think that these different approaches to normative ethics...

LaVeyan Satanism and Nietzsche are both overreactions to overbearing Christian moralism. They are great in their criticisms of the faults of the latte...

I’m thinking that I’d like to rephrase that “love and be loved” part in a way that’s a little more parallel to “learn and teach”: I’m looking for some...

True, which is why I’m not against markets, nor against privately owned means of products per se, but against concentration of the means of production...

I was thinking more of how it being possible for rich people to extract money from poor people by owning the things they need to use and charging them...

Capitalism is a disruption of the market.

...baby don't hurt me...

Correct; it is also known as Agrippa's trilemma.

The existence of agricultural technology is independent of the ownership of it. It is the technology that feeds the billions of people on earth today,...

And capitalism hasn't? Over 9 million people starve to death every year, in a world that is pretty much entirely capitalist nowadays. Why is that not ...

Anarchism isn’t lack of governance, so there could be methods in place to track down those roving antisocials in an anarchic society. I won’t derail t...

A purpose is just what something is good for, so the question is "is living good for anything?" That hinges on what in general is good. Whatever is go...

Are you suggesting that logical contradiction or consistency is only a matter of subjective opinion? Or merely that people can sometimes wrongly asses...

If your actions cause harm to a person, then those are not good deeds, at least not on my account. It is still possible that you do only good deeds an...

I directed you to a Google search, as a rhetorical device indicating that you should understand these things already if you're going to take the high ...

Well in this particular case it's enough that the ends simply aren't known to be good. If you don't know the ends are good, then they can't justify th...

I'm referring to many previous discussions in which you repeatedly, and I think willfully, misinterpret "reductio ad absurdum" as "reducio ad somethin...

No, and you should know that already, because we've been around this merry-go-round many times before and if it didn't sink in the first million times...