NGOs do and can enforce legal and/or natural rights. A recent example of this was there was a spate of attacks against Jews in New York earlier this y...
This is why you don't base your practical ethics on some possibility which may arise in 10 million years which wouldn't involve any of the participant...
Isn't there also the potential that the cows turn into an extremely intelligent, powerful species and wage war on the humans? Shouldn't we get a head ...
When we make moral decisions in the real world we're dealing with actual, flesh and blood beings in the here and now. In the current reality that we f...
I think it's more than that. Especially in the case of killing, you're ending that being's potential. Humans have potential, cows don't. It's not just...
A few things to consider: 1) A law may exist but it may not be enforced. On the flip side, an action may be legal but there could still be dire conseq...
Yes, something could be a natural right but not recognized by law and therefore not enforced by any sort of governing body. It could still be enforced...
Inalienable/natural rights such as life and liberty are first - atleast in the Anglo-American tradition - recognized as such and then enshrined into l...
Eh, a policeman is duty-bound to "serve and protect" and takes an oath swearing to uphold these norms. People in society don't just exist as free floa...
My question was with your original statement that it's not appropriate to speak of rights that were unenforceable which confused me a little. Enforcem...
I don't understand this. Many natural rights just are legal rights across the globe and many natural rights are enforced by governments. Even if there...
What would your thoughts be if we broadened this standard a little and took the emphasis away from "unchanging moral principles" to more like "the sou...
I've noticed that women can really get into the nitty gritty of it, but around my friends (late 20s-early 30s) we don't really talk about it. Come to ...
He was disillusioned with the forum because we weren't all praising his work and calling him the second coming of Russell or Wittgenstein, which he be...
I'm honestly thrilled about this one and I stopped engaging Pfhorrest ages ago because he is not at all a reasonable person. I could have seen from a ...
I'd honestly scrap the word 'confidence.' It's not about confidence. You're looking for a justification, and I'm no mathematician, but I'd look toward...
Yeah, that's a game. I wouldn't think it's a problem to find game testers or people who'd want to try out some mod, but reading and providing feedback...
I think topics pertaining to ethics and liberty and justice do actually gain a lot of traction. The thing is - and this isn't targeted towards you - b...
There's a few posters here who I like hearing from. There's also a few posters who are likely/possibly educated philosophers who hold PhDs or an MA in...
I think the idea of the laws of nature is an interesting comparison here. Lets say I took the position that if X is subject the laws of nature then it...
Our "disagreement" is with the attitude more than it is with the facts. You seemingly really, really don't like the system of production & consumption...
I have paid attention to your arguments I just don't think our "disagreement" is over anything factual....it just seems to be over attitude which I wo...
Are we really even having an argument? You basically just have a jaded attitude which you justify to yourself on a cognitive level with the idea that ...
So that's all it's doing? We're just feeding more people to be ground up by the machine called society? Because that's the whole of human experience, ...
Sure, I can accept that increased production and consumption is the upshot of these "social controls" or "social goals"... whichever one we want to ca...
I'm not really arguing with the explicit intention of discrediting antinatalism. I engaged this thread to talk about society, not antinatalism. I thin...
I think suffering is just baked into the human condition. We could have the perfect society - whatever that might mean - and we'd still have suffering...
If we're talking what I'd consider mainstream American society - and keep in mind America is extremely diverse - I would have to say the main messages...
Lets examine two claims here: "Western society is largely concerned with wealth, production, and consumption." - Ok. I think most people would find th...
I feel like you're just viewing everything through this one lens. I could be equally dogmatic and say "the real function is to get you loosened up so ...
I don't know how I would be able to disprove this statement if I were to try to attack it. There are plenty of therapists and religious leaders who ar...
Maybe if you asked a businessman that would be what he says is the goal of society. If you asked a pastor or some other religious leader he'd probably...
...I guess it depends how you define social control. If someone provides a service for a paycheck and that paycheck allows the one who provides the se...
I cannot just leave work in the middle of the day and never come back. I would be AWOL and subject to arrest. Other people would lose their paychecks ...
I wasn't talking about potential futures here in terms of exploring potential variations. I was talking about an evaluation of the actual position (i....
I wasn't talking about chess computers being able to solve perfectly for every position on the board. I'm not saying that there's an objectively best ...
That's not what I'm saying. The sicilian defense is the sicilian defense merely by convention. It's just what we call 1.e4 followed by black playing c...
"Better" is about winning games. If I ask you who is the better tennis player - you or Roger Federer I feel like there wouldn't be this kind of confus...
I would say that strict objectivity is possible. An example would be chess strategies, or even just strategy in general. No one argues that humans are...
Yeah, different fields use specialized, technical language. The difference is these terms are often heuristics (in other words, they're more just usef...
I don't think we know how to just prevent viruses in the first place. Honestly, the bulk of my knowledge from this subject comes from this two minute ...
Sure, we could do a trade embargo in protest of a cultural practice. I think that's fine. In the case of China the disease arouse from wet markets and...
It's fine to criticize cultural practices even if the harm were only to be localized to that culture or society. It's not just about having the idea t...
Personally, I would use theoretic as an opposite of pragmatic. I would never pair theoretic and strategic as opposites. The opposite of strategic woul...
Because he's a really good writer. I'll tell you what I enjoy most about him: He's able to flush out different ideologies/viewpoints through certain c...
Does anyone have the poems? The only info I could find on D's anti-semitism was from a letter where he responded to a Jew who accused him of anti-semi...
He's critiquing rationalism. I've felt the same way recently. The world is a complex, messy place and system-builders often attempt to sort of gloss o...
Obviously we have a stock market crisis on our hands, but the main reason is the virus and the day to day measures that we're taking to prevent it lik...
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