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Promises are not true or false in an empirical propositional sense of course. but what may appear to be a promise that is insincerely made is not a tr...

Underlined is the very definition of sophistry. Perhaps you should try the Sophistry Forums instead!

Are you not familiar with the idea of kinetic energy and the difference between that and the idea of potential energy?

It would be counterintuitive to say that to act morally could be to act unkindly or that to act unkindly could be to act morally. To say that just wou...

That is completely counterintuitive; why would you say it?

About this no argument from me!

True, but I don't see that formulation so much in relation to particular instances " He wants me to make him feel the lick of leather" or "she wants m...

Is moral judgement founded in those 'moral emotions' or are those emotions occasioned by moral judgements? You haven't said yet what "more" than perso...

No, it is not inherent in a threat that it is something you sincerely state and sincerely intend to act upon. That condition is inherent in a promise,...

Terrapin uses the term "personal preference". Are you prepared to say that 'individual moral judgement' is anything more than personal preference? Ter...

Serendipitously, just this morning I read a passage in Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein which says "Jesus's Golden Rule has been misconstrued an...

I think I would call that a threat rather than a promise. To me a promise is something you sincerely state and sincerely intend to act upon, and it al...

I just saw this reply of yours...somehow slipped through the cracks... Could it reasonably be said that taboos (proscriptions) are generally stronger ...

I am running out of time, but I can't let this go! Is it not the case that to say that sincerely promising or "voluntarily entering into an obligation...

I'm running a bit short of time now today; so I am going to have to stop. I don't recall "shutting down' on any objections you presented which were no...

"If person A promises to plant a rose garden on Sunday, then it follows that there ought be a rose garden the day after, not because one ought keep hi...

As I see it I have already elaborated ad nauseum. What could be gained by further elaborations? It would just be more repetition of the same. I don't ...

OK, you're entitled to your viewpoint; however mistaken it may be. That is one thing upon which I have no doubt we agree. I honestly don't believe I h...

I haven't had time, apart form any other considerations, to respond to every 'mention', and have not deliberately ignored anything which in my judgeme...

I don't understand why you single this out. If exploiting others equals exploiting ourselves that will be so on the basis of some facts about human na...

Don't we all "talk about what we want to talk about"? Whether something is or is not relevant to a whole field such as meta-ethics is largely a matter...

Judging from your last reply you continue to totally misunderstand what I have been saying, and it seems that our interpretations of what ethics consi...

All your disagreements here seem to consist in what I see as a misunderstanding. Ethics is about how best to live; that is what it consists in. Obviou...

This in particular warrants some more attention. I do agree with you about this exploitation, and I think it is lamentable, but I don't think it is tr...

I should have amplified the question to not only ask whether it is sensible to think that people should follow their passions, but also to ask whether...

I was very busy yesterday when I responded briefly to this. Today I have a little more time to read and respond more thoroughly to some points which I...

They had little choice but to be complicit, and it was not considered murder because the Jews were not accorded status as properly human by the Nazis;...

I am not asserting normative judgements; I am saying that what is near universally valued and dis-valued reflects the reality of the human situation a...

Fuck, man, how many times? Murder, rape, torture, exploitation...basically anything which treats the other as means, and fails to recognize the inhere...

I'm not sure about your distinction here. There are more or less serious taboos, just as there are more or less serious mores. Taboos are the kinds of...

I don't think so; it may well be the other way around, that 'object' derives from 'objective'. objective /?b?d??kt?v/ adjective adjective: objective 1...

If you don't judge health and functionality to be good and ill-health and dysfunctionality to be bad, then we have nothing to talk about. If you don't...

Yes, of course, they would have a detrimental effect on the life of the community. You might say that is because of how everyone feels about it; and o...

I think that's the way to go... I feel as though I have certainly participated in what I see as the useless parts of the overall discussion that compr...

Mores can differ markedly between cultures, but I tend to see those more in terms of different forms of etiquette than of central moral differences. I...

Right, and I think the "differences in already determined moralities of separate individuals" are relatively insignificant when it comes to the centra...

Another example of simpleminded thinking! "Ice phenomena" are of the whole various sets of conditions that give rise to them. Water is not isolated fr...

This is simpleminded. It is based on seeing individuals as self-contained atoms, and ignoring the fact that everything we can say about individuals' m...

I have never claimed that moral stances are "correct/ incorrect" in themselves. What could that even mean? You argue that they are correct or incorrec...

These things are all perfectly obvious to anyone who allows themselves to see them, so, no, it's not just my "personal vision". Of course, it's coming...

It is objectively so that they share the attitudes, and the effects such shared attitudes have on communities are objectively so, and communities are ...

It's not my personal vision; it's a general phenomenological fact of community. If you don't think so, then provide some counter-examples.

You're kidding yourself if you think you can survive without the community. What will you do for food and shelter, not to mention companionship? Nothi...

Right so morality consists in intersubjective participation. It exists for the purposes of the community; to protect individuals from harm so that the...

Of course, but so what? Those people exist and share attitudes, don't they? Shared attitudes which will be more or less suitable to the flourishing of...

Most of the things you say are too simpleminded to bother responding to, because I know you will just come back with some more simpleminded shit, and ...

'Herd morality' is what people believe is right because it is good for the herd. I am not claiming such attitudes are always right, but ti would seem ...

Are you saying that social behavior has nothing to do with the mental or that cultural attitudes have no actuality?

Inter-subjectively shared attitudes to murder, rape etc. are not merely a matter of 'popular opinion', they are matters of life and death for communit...

No, I'm saying that is what morality is as a social phenomenon; it obviously is that. Morality consists in social mores. You can interpret what you th...