Michael

Ignore. :)

Looks hard. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MDCU5MZENbI/hqdefault.jpg

You have high expectations.

I have a background framework. I understand that it is good to be kind to people and bad to be needlessly cruel to them. I'm a capable moral agent who...

Exactly. And I don't have a reason to believe that celibacy is morally superior to casual sex. Sorry, can't be bothered with a debate on meta-ethics.

It can be. I don't need evidence that there isn't a cat in my kitchen to believe (and claim) that there isn't a cat in my kitchen. And at the very lea...

Because it is false. I'm guessing it has something to do with your Christian faith. Either that or, based on some of the things you've said before, a ...

I've given you the reason. I have no reasons to believe that celibacy is morally superior to casual sex. All you have is a bare assertion that it is. ...

No they're not. No it isn't. You might as well ask why I don't think that not eating apples is morally superior to eating them every now and again. To...

Better in what sense? Morally? Again, no. And it's not a case of either you're celibate or you act only on instinct and desire, so that's a strawman.

Yes, but it takes three viewings in one day to see it.

A bear is bare and so bears nothing.

You should read the conclusion: "Future studies should address whether abstinence has a causal role in promoting healthy behaviours or whether women w...

You misspelled "people".

Nope. It's not a case of either celibacy/monogamy or sex being a competitive sport among men, so this is fallacious. Your sense of moral superiority i...

I can multi-task.

There's a reference here to Wong, D.B., 1984, Moral Relativity, Berkeley CA: University of California Press. who argues for normative relativism. He d...

False dilemma. There are degrees of intimacy. Again, I might want chocolate but not an entire chocolate cake. Do I suffer because I only have a small ...

Is the "ought" here a moral ought? So we (morally) ought to tolerate the behaviour of others because nobody is right or wrong. Which then also means t...

And psychologists are more knowledgeable than you about psychology (assuming that you're not a psychologist yourself, but an engineer, say), and they ...

Also, you make quite a step going from "casual sex is bad for your (mental) health" to "casual sex is immoral".

With this line of reasoning one can dismiss any and all evidence. So I don't see much point in discussing this with you. You're just going to dismiss ...

Because the psychological studies have come to the conclusion that casual sex does not always lead to a decrease in psychological well-being. So this ...

That was meant to say "casual sex".

I didn't say that it proves it. I'm only saying that it suggests it. And in lieu of evidence to the contrary, the claim that sex isn't always a bad th...

No, it might be mistaken. But it might not be. These people might genuinely have not suffered (and will not suffer) negative psychological consequence...

You can't defend your claim "casual sex is wrong because it has negative psychological consequences" from the attack "the evidence shows that casual s...

So? How does that show that casual sex is wrong? And, again, the same can be said about marrying someone you love and having sex with them.

No, but is that relevant? Is your argument now "casual sex is wrong because there could be (unrecognized) negative psychological consequences (either ...

What do you mean by "wrong" here? I thought your argument against casual sex was that there are negative psychological consequences. I've provided you...

But it means that you can't condemn casual sex on psychological grounds, given that the psychological effects are culture-dependent, and not always ne...

The literature on the matter isn't conclusive. Casual Sex and Psychological Health Among Young Adults: Is Having “Friends with Benefits” Emotionally D...

But is the mystical aspect necessary? Or can you condemn casual sex purely on psychological grounds? Can you say "casual sex is wrong even if there is...

The "mystical" part is problematic. Unless the rest of us believe in such a thing then all your arguments are going to fall flat. It would be like arg...

Is this bond just some sort of psychological thing? Or by "spiritual" do you mean it in the mystical sense (as non-physical and non-psychological)?

As an aside, it's not even my view. I was just making sense of (cultural) relativism. I'm inclined to a collective view than includes cultural relativ...

"The man" refers to whomever gets the job. Compare with "the winner of the match between Murray and Djokovic will receive the gold medal". Does "the w...

Do you accept the real laws of nature as a brute fact? Or must they also be explained?

I'm not contradicting myself. It's not the case that those societies believed that slavery was ethical. It's the case that slavery was ethical in thos...

Of course it's possible to be wrong about morality, just as it's possible to be wrong about the law. But it's still the case that whether or not some ...

Doesn't follow. A thing is legal if it's agreed upon by the legislature. If some members of this legislature would prefer something else to be legal t...

According to the moral relativist, yes. It's true by definition. Because people want and like different things. They'd prefer a different morality.

7th reply. ;)

If to be morally acceptable is to be acceptable by the majority, then yes.

Are these contradictions? "this statement doesn't correspond to some obtaining state-of-affairs" doesn't correspond to some obtaining state-of-affairs...

It's not true. The sentence isn't truth-apt. It really is a straightforward proof by contradiction. If it being either true or false leads to a contra...

Any of them. Edit: sorry, thought that was directed at me.

What I'm saying is that the truth (or falsity) of that statement isn't derived from some set of axioms. You don't say "the liar sentence is true becau...

So if I were to say "if you're a man and you're from Wales then your name is Bob" you wouldn't respond by saying that the conclusion doesn't follow (f...

The answer to this is the same answer I gave to The Pinocchio Paradox. The stated rule ("I will return the child if and only if you correctly guess wh...