Tangentially from that: I watch a number of markets (stocks, bonds, gold) daily just in the course of updating my daily financial records (my retireme...
Beware to differentiate between descrfiptive and metaethical moral relativism here. Moral realists (or more broadly moral universalists, not all of wh...
So after about a week of collecting results, with a sample size of 35, it looks like the forum leans: - pretty strongly libertarian - moderately egali...
Yeah, the problem at hand is "how do we figure out what's good?" If someone doesn't care about what's good, then they will be unpersuaded by means of ...
That isn't the first time I've seen this suggested (though the other times may have been you as well), but I haven't seen anything to suggest it. Poin...
I think aesthetics and ethics have the same relationship to each other as logic and metaphysics. Despite those relationships, "descriptive" things sti...
I could get behind that. It's not a solution to the problem but it's palliative of the symptoms, and harm reduction is priority #1. So I guess the Uni...
But an approachable one. All we need is some notion of what makes something closer to or further from correct in order to comparatively evaluate opini...
Two people who agree that there is an objective answer and disagree about what it is have reason to try to sort out which if either of them is right. ...
Someone will be happy to sell you an insurance product to cover that. It could even be the same person who would otherwise have been your landlord, if...
Would-be renters would be able to be owners instead, and just like owners now could, they could always walk away from their purchase if they don't min...
Then you're talking past me, because I'm not criticizing the way ordinary people usually think, I'm criticizing a bad philosophical argument. So if yo...
Yeah, and then in the absence of the rental market the purchase market re-adjusts to its natural state, and nothing of value is lost. Anyone who wants...
Nobody would be forbidden from living in a place or letting someone live at their place or giving or receiving money, but contracts whereby someone ow...
Stop paying the way I don’t have to keep paying to use my desk because I own it already. Who would rather have to pay in perpetuity to have a desk if ...
compared to how real people normally think no. compared to the false standards raised for the sake of philosophical argument it is. there is a very im...
the fuck they dont. why would you want to keep paying for something when you could instead just have it and stop paying? you can keep paying someone e...
Right, and those things people do are fighting against death. Mitigating death. And those things are fighting against capitalism, mitigating it. They ...
"Could be" isn't "has to be". I arrived at critical rationalism (the rejection of justificationism) not via justificationist means, not by appealing t...
It was struggling with how to overcome practical real-life problems that lead me to find a foundation to the more abstract philosophy I was already bu...
No, you don’t. That there is no good reason to reject anything is the default state of affairs. The onus is on those who want to change your mind to s...
Exactly. In the strictest sense, I agree that there might not be anything real or moral at all. But all we could do in that case is one of two things....
“Not necessarily” what? Anti-trust laws are a check against capitalism. As is the natural consequence of capitalism. People not being in a position to...
An authoritarian, hierarchical state will survive longer against the threat of revolution if it asks its subjects what they want of it, and gives them...
"In private hands" as opposed to "in public hands" means precisely "in few hands" rather than "in everyone's hands". Not relative to the population si...
It can be partially private without that kind of completeness, sure. I'm not saying that the only options are Randian capitalism or uniformly distribu...
Capitalism is a product of (if not wholly a part of) a political system. Discouraging the tendency toward consolidation would be precisely fighting ag...
Which is an argument against capitalism, because capitalism organizes things in a top-down fashion: the owners are the top, the people who live on and...
If that private ownership were truly considered complete and sacrosanct, then the taxes that fund the social programs of a welfare state would rightly...
A welfare state is a counterbalance to capitalism, keeping its excesses in check. Without one capitalism would eat itself alive. It's thus prudent, fo...
That has happened to me too and my takeaway was that this person isn’t actually interested in me personally so it’s no loss to not stay connected with...
:up: Mackie et al’s problem is in conflating “objective” with “descriptive”. Though to be fair “robust” moral realists do the same thing, so Mackie is...
Politics completely aside, I think this is probably true of any ideas whatsoever. Most of my OPs haven't been about politics at all, but more about th...
Parler was shut down by another private service that they were using, though. Push comes to shove, Trump can always (ask whoever runs his website to) ...
I think that’s pretty on the mark. I’m a white man, more or less (I’m nonbinary but AMAB, and one of my grandmothers was an “octaroon”), and both my g...
And th usual “left or right” poll would be better? Because that’s the kind of bias that was accused in the other thread. My idea here was to suss out ...
One important thing to keep in mind here is that we don't have to put a bunch of car and energy companies out of business and their employees out of w...
"'Cause this whole system's rigged, and we all know the riggers! For the past 8 years this country's been run by— " -Trump "Don't get your fans stirre...
Like a lot of deep social problems, it seems like the only true solution to this one requires somehow convincing people in general to change. There's ...
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