When we say cancer is an evil, it is poetic. It is not literally evil. Poetry makes sense subjectively insofar as cancer feels like an evil done to us...
:up: One of the profound epiphanies that Covid gave us is that people will claim to believe anything, no matter how utterly, insanely stupid, in order...
Unlikely. More likely this is given as one of a great many explanations as to why they do not adopt a religion henceforth. The overwhelming reason why...
False. And trivial to demonstrate. There are many religions, and all can't be true. All have had intense believers and martyrs and they can't all have...
I don't think you know what you're saying. Yes, a tyre can be good or bad. But it can't be evil. What value you think pointing out that a tyre can be ...
You can wtite a pamphlet to try and convince people you're right. You can't create one to "take over Rome and the west". The spread of Christianity di...
Good and evil are moral categories. They do not admit non-moral elements. But this is a semantic issue. Point being, pushing a child is not morally po...
Mass is considered a charge, charge being generalised to cover electromagnetics, nuclear force, and gravity. Why it's positive and negative is simple:...
Pointing out that there are specific situations in which clothing is not required is not the same as showing that clothing is unnecessary. To do that,...
Any theory that assumes that the act itself has moral character will inevitably generate absurd moral statements. It doesn't take long to think of exa...
If neither side agree that the other is being reasonable, how do you know they both mean the same thing by 'reasonable'? Case in point, I've never see...
Yeah, we're dastardly like that. I have a question... Why do people who think that Jews are super-organised and super-villianous always announce thems...
Yes, I was going to suggest looking at how we assess the moral value of an action taken by an actor in a given scenario, how, in order to estimate tha...
I don't know if someone already posted it, but this seems relevant: https://youtu.be/sfXn_ecH5Rw As a songwriter, accident plays an enormous role, and...
Sorry, late for the party. It depends what you mean, of course. If you simply mean the rejection of objectively true moral statements as per the OP, y...
You cannot talk of length-contraction and hold that what light can or cannot do is irrelevant. That makes absolutely no sense. Relativity is fundament...
Sorry, I went down a rabbit hole for a couple of months. I've produced three entire albums in the interim, with two more on the go. Insert caterpillar...
Can't be any worse than mine. :) I'd turn this around and say: isn't it simpler to postulate individual morality from common natural history and more ...
I think you're overstating my position on Kohlberg. I referred to it because it's a well known system and I just happened to have selected punishment ...
I think this is somewhat back-to-front. If children were fully functioning moral agents from day one, that would be distinguishable, not just in the d...
I don't think they have the same goals. BJ is an opportunist. If there's a personal advantage to be had, he will agree to anything to anybody. That is...
I don't particularly. I don't think punishment says anything more than how punishment works. It's not a general theory of child development, just an e...
No, it's besides the point. This argument of yours is like responding "You're wrong, all bananas are curved" to the statement "Not all fruit is curved...
Kohlberg's data is known to be limited. This is why his interpretation which generalised more than it could is faulty. (For instance, Kohlberg wrongly...
If I consider a population of 99 fully-functioning social humans and one psychopath, 99% of them are moral agents, not 100%. That is, if I, as a fully...
If 99% of the population can practically follow a rule, the rule can hold statistically, not objectively. This is the point you are countering but I'm...
Data doesn't expire. Ideas are developed, rarely overthrown. That's not how science works, except on TV. No, if you referred to a 40 year old theory t...
Why do you believe that statistics is impossible with categorical data? I do statistics with categorical data all the time. My point was that one cann...
Not at all, the difference between social and antisocial is categorical. Psychopaths are not outliers, they are qualitatively different. The word "mor...
Terrible job done then, since Kohlberg is still cited regularly to this day and his terminology (e.g. "post-conventional") is well and truly in the ma...
Yeah I've read some of Gopnik and Meltzoff. The Scientist in the Crib was a recommendation I was going to give you, but I find books aren't usually ve...
Mea culpa! It's a long OP. There will be errors, sorry. If you have no confidence that an altruistic deed will be reciprocated, there is no personal b...
This is oxymoronic. If psychopaths have no emotional empathy, and no cognitive empathy reflex, their frame of reference cannot be considered moral. Ho...
I didn't note sources, sorry, but I'll do what I can. So the first part of this is, I think, uncontroversial: children show signs of distress well bef...
As I understand it, our original conceptions of good and bad in childhood are based on what feels good abd bad. Two gamechangers are the development o...
But it is of course a nonsense claim. As I said, the proposition is absurd. You may as well ask me what it would mean for morality to be made of chees...
Ah. So by: it should be inferred that: and not that the person maintaining the rule is "endeavoring" to do so, but rather that someone may be "endeavo...
Fundamentalism is an answer to the question "How do we figure it out?" Fundamentalism is itself a strict adherence to dogma about what we should and s...
That wasn't the easiest to parse, but I think I can safely say yes: if gods were the actual phenomena underlying our morality, it would be meaningless...
Yeah, you're outted now :rofl: I need to check I follow you correctly. The perceived additional context-dependence is that just because X > Y, it does...
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