Michael

They're not. Whether you want to say "all statements are false" is false or "all statements are false" is neither true nor false, it is still the case...

It's alright. I have at least 500 with a score of 10, so the other 3,500 don't need to be good.

Let's say that a perfect score is 10 and that every one of your posts is perfect. Your quantity × quality score is 5,000. My posts would only need to ...

Again, Kant disagreed. From the The Critique of Practical Reason: You're interpreting Kant's words according to your own views on morality and freedom...

This is debatable. Some (e.g. non-cognitivists) would understand the sentence "You should love everyone" as the command "love everyone". Commands aren...

You're saying that one is only obligated to obey the categorical imperative if one has free will (in a weak sense, where ordinary coercion negates fre...

And that work entailed the duty to not lie to the murderer, as Constant recognised, hence his objection. Your suggested "out" seems to be a misunderst...

Given that Kant disagreed, I'm confident in claiming that you're wrong.

In fact, he even says "What else then can freedom of the will be but autonomy, that is the property of the will to be a law to itself? But the proposi...

That's just him arguing that we have free will. It doesn't provide him with an excuse to lie to the murderer.

It was entailed by his earlier work, which is why Constant brought it up. This later article didn't change his system; it reaffirmed it in light of th...

Kant disagrees:

You can still search for members. Just can't read any posts. Actually, you can search for posts too. You just can't click through to read the whole di...

Alright, I'll add the 12,382 from the old site, giving me 16,566. You had 3,236 at the old site, giving you 10,533. Tiff has the most with 17,682 + 99...

This is my 4,183rd.

The rest of my post. The part(s) you didn't respond to.

I have training in defending against knife attacks. I don't have training in dodging bullets. I think any sane person would rather a would-be attacker...

On its own it wouldn't do anything (as I've said previously). But it would give the federal and state governments greater freedom to put in place stri...

I proposed an idea: repeal the second amendment.

And you're still wrong. According to Kant, one's duty doesn't depend on others being dutiful. It is wrong for me to lie even if others lie. It is wron...

The second premise is false when we include the term "imaginable". Am I stronger than Superman because I exist, or is he stronger than me because he's...

Your "solution" is wrong. Kant specifically says that one is duty-bound to lie to a would-be murderer. So you can either accept this as a reductio ad ...

The first part of Person B's claim is actually Person A's claim: Person A: I don't think more gun control would have stopped the recent mass shooting....

Nirvana fallacy Although looking at it now, the related perfect solution fallacy is the better term: "an argument assumes that a perfect solution exis...

Then I must be dense, because I don't see it. Not only do I fail to see how current advertising affects your rights, I also fail to see how a change i...

Which seems to me to be a type of nirvana fallacy. Someone who would commit murder were they to have a gun. If we took their gun away, would they find...

I'm not exactly sure what the content of advertising has to do with your rights.

And that people want to molest children will not be nipped in the bud by not letting them work in schools. They'll find other places. But it's still a...

Do you have a study to back this up? According to this, regarding the International Sexuality Description Project, led by David P. Schmitt, PhD, which...

The Philosophy Forum - this may all be pointless OK, that's our tag line.

I wasn't actually arguing that this reasoning is correct. I'm only arguing that my reasoning is the same as Hanover's. My ulterior motive is to have H...

I've given it. In Hanover's case the set is The Philosophy Forum and in my case the set is Michael. The former set isn't numerous enough to make a dif...

There is no disconnect. We're both saying that if a particular set (a set that may include just one member) is too small to make a difference then the...

This makes no sense. You might as well respond to Hanover's comment with "but if those of you in America fight for gun control than you can make a dif...

You seem to have missed the point. Hanover is saying that the members of this forum bear no responsibility (for gun deaths) because our advocacy is in...

I'll try to make it clearer. 1. God is defined as the greatest being imaginable 2. The greatest being imaginable is imagined to have the properties of...

Huh? I'm saying I don't vote because my vote wouldn't make a difference. What are you saying?

My vote wouldn't make a difference (well, almost always; in 1910 the Conservatives won the Exeter constituency by 1 vote).

That's why I don't vote.

I agree. Obviously the military and the police force's armed response units can have guns.

Golden. :D

Omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient, and sexy. That, of course, proves that God must be a woman. As I said before, this term "greater" is so unclea...

I believe the rationale is that it's in the child's best interests, and the child's best interests are more important than the interests of the parent...

Did you know that "wosret" is an ancient Sumerian antonym of "stoic"?

Thanks. I put a lot of work into it. The focus group was very positive.

What I was trying to explain is that "people will find other ways" isn't a good defence against a ban.

The point I'm making is that "people will find other ways" isn't a good defence against a ban. We need to talk about Kevin Wosret.

Here's a nice extreme example: Child molesters will likely find a way to molest children even if we ban them from working in schools. Therefore, there...

I don't even know what you mean by blind trust, nor why such a thing is required to forgo the right to bear arms. If you're really concerned about the...

We're saying that the second amendment should be repealed so that better gun control laws can be put in place. So this response makes no sense in cont...