T_Clark

In this case, you joined @"Jamal"'s company. He owns this pub.

I wasn't questioning your decision to review the book, only pointing out a difference in our approach. For what its worth, I thought your evaluation w...

Thank you for this vote of confidence.

For the purposes of this discussion, I'm am framing this as a question of how much justification is needed. More money, more risk, more justification ...

I'm agin um. They'll make things worse. Maybe even I'd resent people getting money just because of race or some other arbitrary criteria. Plenty of ri...

I agree. Also, for most of us, $10 is no big loss. Screwing someone who's trying to screw us is worth lots more.

My sense of fairness is worth more that $1 or even $10. If it were $10,000, that would be a different thing. On the other hand, telling someone to go ...

Yes, I've always thought that if I want to say something about a book, I should finish it. I rarely write negative things about books. There are so ma...

I haven't read the book. I admire your efforts to give a fair evaluation of a book you didn't like. I would likely have been less generous. More likel...

Civil suits are not the same as reparations, which was what I was talking about. If a specific person was harmed in a specific way by other specific p...

According to the web, Turkey passed a new seismic building code in 2007 but it is not enforced diligently. Turkey has a recent history of earthquakes ...

The present means now. Right here...no wait, now. No, now.... If there are people who are still living with injustice while others have unearned privi...

I don't support payment of reparations for past behavior. It's not the injustice of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries that need to be addressed. It's...

Your attempts at irony don't seem to be making any headway.

Sorry, that doesn't make sense to me. It seems wrong. We can leave it there. Are you saying that things that seem to be true as you've been discussing...

I knew you would enjoy it.

Amusing I suppose, but it is only fundamentalist Christians and perhaps Muslims who believe prehistoric humans ever encountered dinosaurs. Atheists sh...

That doesn't make sense to me. If something seems like it's true, but we know based on evidence, or at least believe strongly, that it's not, do you r...

You say seeming does not mean belief, but it does. It's just a belief for which you don't have very good justification. Things seem plausible. Seem po...

I'm ready to leave it at that.

Probably neither, but I think a gesture of goodwill is probably worth more than a suggestion for self-improvement at a time like this.

I haven't been making an argument. I've been expressing an opinion. Describing my feelings. That's all I intended to do.

In this particular case, I don't need any more justification. It's an ethical question and I am using my ethical judgement, which includes emotional r...

Just like a good atheist... When an international disaster comes along and many people have died or are in danger, that's a good time to pick a fight ...

I acknowledge my reasons for objecting to using people in a vegetative state for gestation are based on emotional judgements, not rational ones. Is th...

No. That seems fine to me. I don't see that as inconsistent with my position on WBGD. Part of it is that I do see organ donation as vitally important.

I'm not sure exactly. Obviously, any living human being. Dead human beings? Not sure. Self-aware non-human beings? I'm not sure.

I'm against WBGD under almost any circumstances. No, I don't know what circumstances would make it ok. As I noted, that's not based on any facts, only...

I understand the distinction you are making between human and person. I meant to say "person" in the same sense you are using it. You and I disagree a...

The quick answer is because it feels that way to me. So what's the longer, more considered answer?....I guess the question is why do I feel that way. ...

I agree with this, but I don't think we only need a stable sense of self for philosophical purposes. We, at least I, need the platform of a consistent...

What is considered a person is something that changes over time. Historically, foreign or primitive people have sometimes been considered less worthy ...

As I think about it more, what makes it sickening to me is also why I think it's, if not wrong, at least wrongheaded. Say what you will, my body is me...

This is a really good discussion with a good opening post, even though I don't understand much of it. You're trying to trick me into learning about Sc...

You can't fool me. You're pretending to agree with me, all the while trying to get me involved in a discussion about the words. It won't work.

Yes, and I do think that these will differ from person to person. I'm sure the ways I use these words as described in my previous post won't always ma...

I guess we could have a discussion on the meanings of "taste" and "opinion." Let's not and leave things where they are.

As I said, I'm not a fan, but I've always found defense more interesting and exciting than pitching and hitting. A home run is a home run, but a throw...

Not to be argumentative, but saying something is a matter of taste is not the same as saying it is a matter of opinion. Be that as it may, in either c...

To be honest, and I'm not trying to be provocative, I gave my daughter a copy of "The God Delusion" as an example of a really bad book.

I certainly have no objection. Many people disagree with me on this. On the other hand, would you suggest someone watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space," ...

I've watched dozens, scores, hundreds of westerns at the movies and on TV since I was a kid. Back then, when I thought of actors, it was always John W...

As I've said many times before, one of the biggest causes of disagreement on the forum, and in philosophy in general, is people mistaking physics for ...

As I see it, one of the main causes of pointless discussions here on the forum is the failure to define terms at the beginning. If you want talk about...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png I tend to default to the Stephen Mitchell translation. That was the one I got...

That's why we need whips, chains, and moderators.

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Thank you. Thank you very much.

There are plenty of interesting philosophical subjects to cover. Unfortunately, there are a few that seem to get discussed and re-discussed to the poi...

I've been thinking about this and I've changed my mind. I have no problem with taking organs without active approval as long as the policy is well pub...