Michael

I promote happiness because I enjoy it and because I have empathy for others. Moral considerations do not factor into my decision making at all.

I'm trying to explain that it doesn't matter if it is immoral to cause suffering. If it is impermissible to cause suffering and I cause suffering then...

I'm not trying to. I'm not arguing in favour of moral realism and ethical non-naturalism over moral subjectivism or error theory or divine command the...

Then "this is immoral" means "one ought not do this". I don't care if I ought or ought not promote happiness or if I ought or ought not cause sufferin...

I'm not working under any cultural framework. I am assuming, for the sake of argument, that Moore's ethical non-naturalism is correct: that "this is i...

I'm concerned about promoting happiness and reducing suffering. I don't care whether happiness or suffering is moral or not.

Perhaps I can make this easier. Assume, for the sake of argument, that everybody knows with irrefutable certainty that it is immoral to kill wild anim...

I address this in the first part of my post: 22% of people believe that eating meat is immoral and 88% don't. Either some (or most or all) of the 22% ...

@"Merkwurdichliebe" has been banned for trolling and child-killing apologism.

I'm not saying that they are. 50% was just an example. If you prefer, we can reconsider my question using the actual apparent percentages (according t...

This isn't relevant to the argument I am making. Let's take this example: Half of everyone believes that it is moral to eat meat and half of everyone ...

There's an ambiguity in your proposition that "he could argue that pleasure is good". Are you saying that "this is good" means "this is pleasurable" o...

That's a consequence of acting contrary to moral beliefs. They won't come to see me because they believe I acted immorally. They might be wrong.

That's precisely my point. If ethical non-naturalism is correct then moral facts entail no consequential outcomes. Suffering is still suffering, so wh...

Moore doesn't have a definition. As he says in the Principia Ethica: And as I mentioned before, the way you've worded your examples doesn't reflect th...

What is the connection between acting immorally and causing suffering? Remember that I'm arguing about the implications of ethical non-naturalism. I'l...

I'll quote Moore's Principia Ethica: --- Hedonism is the theory that we ought pursue pleasure because pleasure is good. I'll quote Bentham's An Introd...

There's Moore's impersonal consequentialism.

That would make my degree in Philosophy all the more impressive.

Ethical naturalism Hedonism Moral naturalism

The more relevant question is: Given that I already believe that this is immoral, what follows if my belief is true and what follows if my belief is f...

Hedonism is an example of ethical naturalism. I'm addressing ethical non-naturalism. Richard Hare is a non-cognitivist. I'm addressing ethical non-nat...

I'm asking why that matters. What is the motivation to be moral?

The action performed in both (1) and (2) is the same: I eat meat. The outcome of the action performed in both (1) and (2) is the same: my hunger is sa...

practical adjective 1. of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas

1. If a) eating meat is immoral and b) I believe that eating meat is immoral then c) I won't eat meat. 2. If a) eating meat is not immoral but b) I be...

I haven't said that. We do make choices. But there are no practical implications of making a moral choice and no practical implications of making an i...

Possibly, and that will be for the Supreme Court to decide. It certainly hasn't already been decided by a Senate minority.

The Colorado Supreme Court disagrees.

Being acquitted under Article 1 Section 2 Clause 7 doesn't entail that the 14th Amendment no longer applies. You're reading something into it that jus...

You're denying the antecedent. Also see https://www.justice.gov/file/19386/download

They are the ultimate authority and final arbiter on whether or not a President is to be removed from office. They are not the ultimate authority and ...

That facts about how the world ought to be have no practical relevance. The world is what it is and will be what it will be and that's that. It just d...

The Colorado Supreme Court disagrees. I didn't realise that the Senate was the ultimate authority and final arbiter on the matter. They're not her own...

It mentions "officer of the United States" and the President is an officer of the United States. The Colorado Supreme Court disagrees. Under Maine law...

I'm not saying that the natural sciences study the normative value of pain and pleasure. I'm saying that pain and pleasure are natural properties. Moo...

If he's ineligible under the 14th Amendment then it isn't illegal and isn't a legitimate campaign.

They don't like that he tried to illegally prevent the legitimate transfer of power.

Again, it was tongue-in-cheek. Do you honestly not understand this? Are you that incapable of inferring the intention behind someone's words? Can you ...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325099845045071873 Trump claims he won all 50 states in the 2020 election

The 22nd Amendment says "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". It doesn't say "No person shall be sworn in to th...

Sign me up.

I don't think he actually believes that. It's all a grift to stoke up his delusional supporters.

The obvious defence is that "elected" in the context of the 22nd Amendment refers to being elected by the Electoral College, which he wasn't. Funny al...

Brilliant.

That's precisely my point. Moral beliefs matter. Moral facts don't. A moral belief being false has the same practical implications as that same moral ...

Maine secretary of state disqualifies Trump from primary ballot That third challenge is hilarious.

Well, there is such a thing as being English, but it's not a biological or behavioural feature of people; it's a legal status. If humans are conscious...

So this is just begging the question. Are abstract qualities physical? If not, are they real?

Because no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge? But that aside, I'm questioning NOS's assertion that because the adjective "conscious" is used to...