You are definitely right, though: my argument would likely flop because of the breadth and depth of the practical, and also largely intractable, philo...
I grant all of this. There is tremendous confusion as to what the afterlife might consist of. My argument only deals with this problem in so far as it...
Unless I'm mistaken Epicurus just makes the point that there is no evidence of an afterlife, and that therefore it is speculation to comment on it. Th...
It seems to me that equivocating the dogmatic fundamentalist with the radical relativist might be a bit inaccurate. First off, it isn't entirely clear...
Yes, well, I guess torture is kind of funny sometimes. Oh, wait, no, it isn't. That the narrator killed Erika and a time loop was initiated when he wa...
No one had the intended interpretation of the story, and Hanover's unhinged rant made me wish I hadn't submitted anything. But thanks for the reasonab...
Another great one. Definitely a five. Laird is an idiot. I'm trying to guess what his wishes were other than his appearance, immortality, and money. T...
Baden revealed himself basically, or he is very committed to making it seem that way. Either way, go read "A Special Christmas", it deserves the love ...
I didn't like all of the references to classical compositions and composers that I've never heard, but I can overlook that. I think that the pianos pl...
I think more time was spent on your analysis than was spent on the story. I was about to write something clever, but I was interrupted by a notificati...
I saw it coming, mostly because I've had such thoughts about sleep myself. Still, it was decent. The infodump was necessary, I guess, but it didn't re...
Started to really enjoy the story about halfway through. I liked how the purpose of the mission was gradually unveiled, and the fact that the flute wa...
Okay, you are referencing the Arab-Israeli War. Just because Egypt and Jordan didn't allow the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank to form...
One group was initially wronged and wronged more severely over a period of time by another group. If the first group starts attacking the second, mayb...
If you read what I was saying, I was differentiating between one thing that might be construed as antisemitic and one thing that definitely was. That'...
Okay, so what is the takeaway? Yes, Hamas is going to do whatever it takes to win, but we have zero capability to change them, and it has long been kn...
I could not possibly go through all of the posts in this mega-thread, but you seem to believe that there is a difference in the moral character of Isr...
I'm basically saying that the internal logic of an argument is more important than adhering to some sort of arbitrary dictionary - but those words in ...
I think you are mostly right. But this: and the points you make based on this seem to be shaky. Just because a child learning a language picks it up w...
Yes, dumb mistake. Just replace meta-ethics with morality and my post hopefully makes sense. Okay, so we have propositions about what will be that can...
Disregarding that this might not apply to, say, Jihadists, this sounds pretty reasonable. But many people also feel compelled to reduce others' suffer...
I agree. I also believe that to be a brute fact. But for the purposes of discussing the is-ought divide, I feel obligated to mention that we don't hav...
Demonstrating why something like that might be true could constitute merely pointing to a relevant fact about why it is wrong to harm people. That isn...
I know. Are you saying you are a realist and thus that your claim that one ought not murder is a moral fact? It sounds more like you are just adopting...
Okay, so there is an outcome within the parameters of the model that validates an ought if it occurs. But this ought is totally contingent on the vera...
That the glass will break might be an extrapolation deriving from observing something that occurs so often that you can predict a likely outcome - but...
I think that people are genuinely confused, and when they aren't they are as likely to be devastated by clarity as they are to be enriched by it. Peop...
Thanks for the reply. I actually agree with that, thus: Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I do indeed think human behavior is largely predictable, and,...
I am not familiar with Bushido, but that sounds mostly ideal. Honestly, I don't think anyone just doesn't have an ego, although it may appear that way...
It seems to me that the state you describe is at best conditional, as everybody has fears - and if they don't, they just don't know about them yet. So...
This seems like a trick question to me. You ask if the pilot and the men from group A are equivalent, not the person in group B who ordered the pilot ...
I think that this challenge is even less straightforward than we think it is and that the quoted portion must be evaluated first. When one says that t...
Yeah. Obviously this forum has a leftist bent, which is understandable, but we need good leaders, not just ethical ones. Not to mention there is no vi...
Yes, I agree that people don't feel nearly as much of a sense of duty as could be expected or desired, but I don't think that it is all that difficult...
Me too. When one is actually given a measure of power and is exposed to the kind of game politics is, I think it is easy to become afraid of misusing ...
It is not quite as incidental as it seems, because I am making an appeal to the duty of certain people to lead because they would do a lot of good in ...
Look, Banno, it is easy to send these little snippets of sarcasm and ill will at people trying to argue their point of view in good will. If you want ...
Probably the best reply yet. I agree with you. Duty is at best a vehicle for (likely deontological) moral convictions and an outlet for action, as dut...
... Those are undoubtedly good questions. I'm more concerned about how to go about getting the right people to step up and give the people who want ch...
No, I'm saying that said it was slavery to give a fetus rights in another post. I don't think it's slavery either, and thus tried to call him out on t...
180 said women should have abortion on demand even in the third trimester, and that it is basically slavery to give the fetus any consideration other ...
Would you say that we should take into account boredom when discussing why a nazi became a nazi? Or would you attribute the joining to a mental weakne...
Maybe so, but once they joined the movement, they had some idea of the duty they had to the movement and its leader; the expectation was that they wou...
Maybe you don't know this, but when we do philosophy sometimes words are used differently. In fact, sometimes we agree to give words new meanings with...
The point of the experiment was that he quickly formed a fascistic super movement. That it was localized at a school means nothing. It didn't have to ...
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