ToothyMaw

I definitely agree with Prinz and the other people who believe that certain moral positions are better than others based on empirical ("meta-empirical...

It seems to me the argument in the OP is ambiguous about this: he says that no moral axioms are true, not that no moral claims at all are true. You ca...

First off, I appreciate the clear, surgical OP. Why you had to relate your argument to torture I'm not sure; you could have easily demonstrated your b...

Thought about it some more. So maybe we have God and then some incredibly powerful being capable of creating us and the universe/world. I remember bac...

If God didn't even create us or this world, why should we think that he cares at all about anything we do or think? But then again even if he did crea...

Most of the people on this forum are not so cantankerous as Bartricks, and in general if you post a decent opening post you will get a critical, but n...

Thanks. I won't.

And by what process does one evolve their nature/constitution according to Nietzsche? Pain? Suffering? Incremental progress? Discipline? By developing...

Yeah, I admit I don't understand it. If God made a contradiction true wouldn't the principle of explosion follow? Or would it just mean that logic sti...

Lmao, why on earth would I delete that? Go ahead and post it on a billboard with my real-life name.

Yes, I can come up with those for days. I suppose you are right insofar as the logic and reasoning is somewhat valid, even if, taken literally, it is ...

You actually think we shouldn't try to get people who hear voices and think they are God to understand that their beliefs, and the voices they hear, a...

Didn't read past the second word.

Yes, we all agree, there are corrupt people in power, but you might want to structure your posts such that they can be read more easily. You could be ...

I don't think I equated the kinds of experiences you just recounted with being called a white privilege denier or racist. Being called a racist does a...

This is probably my favorite. Bartricks basically leverages the problem of evil into a syllogism demonstrating that since God would not suffer innocen...

I will. Just give me like 20 minutes.

If you guys would take the time to understand his arguments instead of getting triggered, you would realize that many of his arguments make a lot of s...

So, your conclusion is basically in support of anti-natalism. Sensible meaning a world in which there is no suffering or injustice? Or just orderly?

I totally acknowledge that the justice system is severely flawed, but I have trouble believing that there are such confounding factors that people of ...

We understand quite a bit about the brain, actually, if not what gives rise to consciousness. We know that people, for instance, can undergo radical c...

That makes political activism sound really cool, ngl.

Yes, tensions over race are palpable in the US, or so I have found. I have had a variety of roommates, and honestly it seems to me that all of the bes...

You really have a bone to pick it seems. Unfortunately for you the Philosophy Forum doesn't give out participation awards. Or any awards. Must be the ...

Yes, you seem to be competent at linguistics. I only know the basics - and not very well. Maybe try to be a little more focused? My problem has always...

I'm trying to follow along here a little, but I don't understand any of this. What could logic have to do with spacetime, for instance? The OP specula...

I see Smith is suspended. That was a pretty dickish post right there. So we should allow a catatonic schizophrenic incapable of consenting to taking m...

Good point. If the right cared about all institutions and the well-being of everyone in the country, regardless of skin color, they would give more su...

You'll just have to tolerate my word choice, as I have no idea where you picked that out in my OP. Maybe try to contribute meaningfully to the discuss...

I think it is okay to use those terms as long as one understands the weight behind them.

For myself, I think the first discussion should be about some form of reparations, honestly, and from there we could find some solutions to the proble...

Ideally protestors would not even come into conflict with said pseudo-military police departments. But I don't see anything wrong with the police doin...

As much as I appreciate you, Smith, you should probably stop posting irrelevant one-offs and non-sequiturs.

Yeah, and the right doesn't seem to care what you do at all so long as you toe the line. If the citizens of the US, be they left or right, actually ca...

I appreciate your measured reply. So many republicans had no desire to see Trump become president, yet the Republican party has supported him through ...

Seriously? I say that we should have a more meritocratic society, and you say that I want everyone to receive participation trophies. I just want peop...

The analogy just went over your head. I understand letting children suffer would be an injustice - thus I pointed it out. If we allow those whose cond...

You conceded that even if logic were messed up, one could still use it to come to correct conclusions, such as in the donkey example or your mail exam...

I never claimed that human logic can cope with contradictions. It can't, despite what Benj is saying. edit: you were talking about what Benj said, my ...

That's what I'm saying: if God messed up the logic in the donkey example, at least, we would know because the logic wouldn't work. If we can do the lo...

But if we can confirm that the appropriate application of logic always leads to correct outcomes, or almost always, then why do we have reason to doub...

If the logic still can be used to describe reality, is it even faulty?

I'm saying that we wouldn't be able to use the donkey logic at all, but we reliably can, and that would indicate that our logic is not faulty. If the ...

If the logic didn't work, we wouldn't be able to combine the separate statements that donkeys are both small and gray to describe a donkey. The logic ...

I actually made this argument against Bartricks. But we have no reason to think God has made any important logical statements contradictory. Although,...

Yes. God, if he exists the way theologians formulate, could be anything at all, and could even just be a human with no powers if he so desired, and co...

The position of a projectile in motion can be derived from unchanging equations - or just one when combined - that govern its trajectory. We have a sy...

Don't get me wrong - suffering and hardship builds character, but not in gratuitous amounts.

Would you say that adults should allow their children to suffer injustices at each other's hands merely so they can be judged by adults? That we shoul...

Most religions deal with injustice by suspending typical moral reasoning, something I am speaking out against doing in this post. We should treat God ...