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I thought this thread is about patriotism, like when you identify with a country and choose to serve it. The political yet again? Okay.. It's simple, ...

I can't know what your atheists are thinking but I don't see a clean or tidy Universe anywhere. Not to mention that the nature of the room is unimport...

That someone is experimenting on test subjects.

I think one can have any irrational belief as long as it doesn't affect their reasoning. I think even though there's no necessary context, Sapientia w...

So you don't see filing a lawsuit against someone as a kind of condemning? Legality or not, seems to me we're concerning with the guilt of the person ...

How is this: context for this: ? You 1st dismissed his reasoning, then you addressed it anyway but the latter doesn't disprove the 1st. Ah, forget it....

So you would do prevention but not punishment? Is that what you're saying?

Like any other speculation about a negative. I guess the choice would be between filling the position with a placeholder or leaving it vacant. It seem...

For example, I have procedures on how I choose and how I prepare my meals because I can't eat the same food everytime but I also can't let any food sp...

Order is not defined as resulting from the actions of a conscious agency. If there's no God, there's no proof for God's existence. There's no proof fo...

According to logic*. I don't have to come up with a counterargument if your argument is fallacious.

One thing is to be irrational, another to be fallacious or nonsensical. Too bad this forum has no moderation.

Which doesn't follow, it's just a non sequitur which affirms the consequent, a formal fallacy. And it fallaciously concludes there's someone who made ...

So in layman terms: it depends.

If I would know you well (enough), would I be able to know when you're acting immorally? Also, would all kinds of constraint that would prevent you fr...

If there's a conscious agency, then there's order. There's order. Therefore there's a conscious agency. The conclusion is not a necessary consequence ...

Non sequitur: Affirming the consequent. Like any other sophism. It's a fallacy, it's not even worthy of consideration.

So are you saying that you're always acting according to your moral beliefs (or according to what you really feel or your personal preferences, if you...

From all I know about the porn industry, there's nothing that confirms what you're claiming. Like any other activities or substances that give a rush ...

Cthulhu

Let me guess: says.. you! So, would you be so nice as to clarify that view for me? Do you claim there's nothing in common between all versions of mora...

Then take: wishing for criminals to suffer. Can that be considered immoral on its own? Maybe yes, because it lacks a good motivation. And what would t...

But I don't think you're wrong, I just think you're not right. I don't even know what's the basis of your argument.

Simple, we all have our own beliefs reinforced by such an arrangement.

That would be challenge. You doubt that? You deny it? I'd argue that's challenging the very idea. Face it, either you agree or disagree, with challeng...

I don't get it, you really want me to educate you on addiction and porn industry? But I lack the required authority. Still: Are those rhetorical quest...

If you think I'm wrong you should give me studies to refute my argument and drive home my ignorance. I don't even get the perception that the porn ind...

They do it because they choose to and in the same way they can quit. They're not forced to do it more than any other wage labourer is. Anything that g...

From its definition, it's intended to stimulate sexual excitement. But what's their purpose? Are they some kind of anomaly? Don't they serve any funct...

I'd have prefered for laws not to be made and implemented by the many (or by the many of the many's representatives) but by those responsible and up t...

It seems to me that moral dilemmas direct us to what's convenient and what's favorable for us, not to what's moral. Your example raises the questions:...

Doubt and certainty are compatible. I'm uncertain of my knowledge, yet I rely on it to come to a conclusion regarding it. To know something, you need ...

Oh, really? I've said I'm too arrogant to have such thoughts and consider it a proper philosophical response. What about: Stuff you'd like to say but ...

I'd think their statements could be infered from their very nature and the situation they are in. I'd view it as a commitment to authenticity relying ...

And this follows from? I think you're delusional... I'd argue anyone who refuses to live in the present is.

This: Doesn't follow from this: Learn the difference between expiration and termination.

He's touchy when it comes to his political persuasion so tread carefully.

Then:

belief: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof That's saying you don't need science to believ...

Michael is right. Also you don't understand what beliefs and opinions are.

I wasn't arguing about any of my statements but about: There's nothing nonsensical in this quote.

Do you mean to say that without the impulse for sex, there would be no propagation of human life? Morality isn't based on arbitrary concepts like murd...

Not me, that would conflict with my arrogance. Say it tastes like excitement. Then stop trying to explain irrationality in a rational way. Like a univ...

Because that understanding is gradual, that's what I meant. or maybe it really is not, maybe we just didn't figure out philosophy itself yet.

No, it's not the same thing. Beliefs can be challenged only when the one holding them refuses to doubt them. I'm just saying a gun is valuable because...

Usefulness?

But there's no argument against that in this thread. Not true: If you accept these particular definitions, you come to understand that one must confor...

You made no argumentation and you're still the one complaining. What makes me a sophist? What do you expect from a discussion? Clarification would ind...

Then why do it? to owe: to be under obligation to pay or repay in return for something received to reciprocate: to make a return for something If you ...

Owing implies an obligation to reciprocate so unless you consider worship valid, there's no way to reciprocate so then owing a conceptual entity our s...