This seems severely reductive. We also have billionaires exploiting their wealth and that contributes to the structure and arrangement of our society,...
Are you saying that promises are implicit in the claims that we ought not harm one another and those other things? Because those things you listed are...
What about the person who is forced to change, to become stronger and braver or end up dead in a ditch, or so heavily traumatized they are hollowed ou...
I honestly don't know what to think of Kant. I think he would say that both your status as a poster on the forums and what you had to eat for breakfas...
Good point. But even if we knew in totality what the nature of depression was through our senses - even if it is arrived at through some piece-meal pr...
I didn't mention moral facts, but rather that moral claims are propositions, and that the way you used "ought" wasn't the way it is typically used in ...
Okay, so you must have done some reading. I don't think that that is the kind of claim a moral realist would make, but intriguing, nonetheless. They s...
I guess it is easy to act in ethical outrage sometimes, and to suppress such things could be expedient and also more difficult. Compassion might be a ...
Yes, I think that ethics is partially about doing the difficult things we know we ought to. Some people might claim that ethics is largely a will to c...
Insofar as ethics is concerned, the role of will would be relatively controversial, I think. However, I can say my own desire to seek some sort of hig...
Sorry, I said something I didn't mean to say in one of my previous comments and then corrected it after you already responded to it. My newest comment...
I'm not saying that, quantitatively, willpower is constant across people, but rather that what willpower is is the same in each person so defined as i...
Excellent OP, Pantagruel. I'm not sure that it follows that will is subjective, but rather that people have different attributes, capabilities, potenc...
Thanks for the link. Looks interesting. I'll check it out. Their article on moral realism is particularly well-written, btw, so I'd advise people to c...
No, we are, I'm just saying the thing you quoted doesn't apply to you, because you didn't claim that moral realism and error-theory are incoherent. Pl...
First off, the statement you quoted was directed at 180. Parsing whether or not non-moral claims are or are not facts is to change the subject, as I'm...
You haven't made any points. You just assert that moral facts don't exist because they just don't. And what, exactly, is incoherent about my assumptio...
I'm saying that if we had some means of making someone God, it would be wise to go in with some sort of plan formed by science and ethics and such. I ...
You would retain the information your brain contained before becoming God, probably. It wouldn't be qualitatively different from the rest of the infor...
I would make myself exist as something that could cease to exist and then end it. I guess that would suck significantly less. Good point. But I feel t...
Actually, it would be impossible to unbecome God potentially, so I would just make myself no longer exist so as to maintain whatever world everyone wa...
No, I would set things in place and then unbecome God with a failsafe in place. The less time spent as God, and the more minimalistic the changes the ...
This whole thing makes me uncomfortable, but yeah, sure. Sure, that sounds even better. In my earlier comment I added that I would make a failsafe tha...
Okay, I'll take this seriously. I would allow anyone who no longer wants to suffer (perhaps in a specific way) to elect to no longer suffer, whatever ...
First, I would extend my time as God until I no longer wanted to be God. Then I would peer inside 180 Proof's head to see if he actually thinks the wa...
I think I overcomplicated this. Semantically it could be amended to being a moral claim, but it is too simplistic in its current form as it cuts out t...
What, then, is the claim "one ought not double down on shitty arguments"? It is structured in such a way that it could be true or false, and to say th...
That usage of "ought" is not the same as the usage of "ought" people incorporate into moral claims. Your usage is vaguely justified because it predict...
Would you like to address the points I am making? Or are you going to continue to stick your head in the sand? How are moral realism and error-theory ...
How is "taking candy from a baby is wrong" a command? It is implicit in such a statement that one shouldn't do it ("you shouldn't take candy from a ba...
That assumption does not lead to incoherence. You might argue, however, that we cannot verify if moral statements are true, as we have no effective me...
Once again, familiarize yourself with the relevant literature - something I should have done a while ago. And I don't know why you are here either, Sm...
That seems too nebulous. We have to really know if they are malicious or self-serving according to some criteria. An interpretation of your comment to...
I think what Tzeentch said can be said without it being a conspiracy theory: people are denounced because they are perceived to be conspiracy theorist...
Okay, you obviously didn't bother to read and understand the OP. "Torture is wrong because it harms", for example, is an extrinsic moral claim that co...
Probably, yes. But we do trust the mods of this site by and large, don't we? They have opinions, but when they get out of line they are reprimanded or...
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