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How do you propose to measure this?

What do you mean? That people who mindlessly peruse FB have mush for brains?

Or, to quote you, "Don't be a cunt." It's just that for Harry, Dick is a cunt, and for Dick, Harry is a cunt, and neither of them think of themselves ...

To begin with, iIf something is a "commandment", who is the one doing the commanding, to whom, under threat of what penalty? Do you still want to go w...

Of course it does. Your system of morality is structurally the same as a religious one, except that in your case, it isn't a god sitting at the top. B...

Commandments in terms of morality/ethics only make sense within religion. Outside of religion, the very concept of a commandment (in terms of morality...

More and more people nowadays don't believe there is such a thing as "society" to begin with, which renders the topic of society's responsibility for ...

You have a black cat?

Probably because he and his supporters are not anarchists. They do value the idea of various institutions and institutes, but not necessarily the part...

It's a kind of thinking that completely refuses to acknowledge authority or the power of others. As in: Judge: I order you to pay this fine. Refuser: ...

And yet there are people who pretty much live like zombies, at least some of their time. Not people in a coma, but people who mindlessly peruse Facebo...

Yes. This can't be pointed out enough. That same disdain, ridicule, and supremacism on both sides. Were it not for mere names, one couldn't tell who's...

Not loyalty to Trump per se, but to what he is taken to represent: a ruthless will to win, the belief that life is a struggle for the upper hand. Many...

Things like this are not new, just look at the history of monarchies and big religions. People fighting for power.

I don't understand how metaethics can be so neatly separated from normative ethics. All ethics are, by their nature, normative, that's the point of et...

And to think that granpa fought in WWII so that people can do nonsense like this ...

This is doubtful, already physiologically. A human infant's vision is qualitatively different from that of human adults; also, infants have not yet ma...

But @"Hanover" is a lawyer, right? He has to make sense of things in a way that is consistent with his profession.

You're a lawyer, right? What one can readily see in practice is a gross inequality before the law, depending on one's socio-economic status. If one ha...

Yet you can't have an ordinary conversation with ordinary people.

Much of what people call "petals" are actually bracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bract Since it's the season, what you see in a poinsettia, those ...

Exactly. You're thinking like a lawyer, not a philosopher. Except that we're at a philosophy forum. But must these judgments amount to a certainty tha...

The psychological equivalents of solipsism are narcissism and egoism. Which are fairly common, and appear to be on the trajectory to becoming virtues....

How could we possibly know?

Responsible to whom? Answer to whom? To make it intelligible, clarify, qualify, be read to/by whom? Judged by whom?

But @"180 Proof" don't hear you ...

So what are you really saying? Might makes right?

What do you mean here by "responsibility"? Legal responsibility?

It's not about others lying or being mistaken. My personal example here is that I have a non-dioptric vision problem because of which I can't see some...

The Shoutbox doesn't show on my smart phone. I checked the forum by categories, in the Lounge. My desktop computer is dying. I don't think I'll buy a ...

It's often 'projected and sold' in a decontextualized manner, especially socio-economically decontextualized. Eastern religions are often being presen...

That's not the recognition of diminishing returns I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone who works hard in order to be able to afford the prover...

No, the force of habit might make them say "I think", but the absolutism is central to them. "I think xyz about, what I think, is London" is unintelli...

Because at the end of the day, they do. It's what makes them realists.

Only on the assumption that everyone is equal. In practice, there are usually multiple standards of morality. E.g. "Members of group A hold it is immo...

But for a realist, this makes no sense. For a realist, statements with "I think ..." or "From my perspective ..." are, at best, expressions of less-th...

And this is the kind of attitude that gets trumpism elected. Ser.

I used the term "subjective" earlier in that particular context. Like I said: Objectivists and moral realists talk as if it's not they, persons, who t...

Cunning. Man is cunning. And I refer here to the double meaning of the word "cunning", which in the beginning didn't have the negative connotation it ...

With a lot of interpretation.

Speaking of vision problems: There are vision problems that are impossible to correct or compensate for with various devices. Such as color blindness,...

Not having senses as acute as those of some animals or technological devices is common to all humans, so nothing special. There's no threat to one's e...

Of course it's a religious/spiritual view. Religions/spiritualities start from the premise that _ordinary_ people don't see things "as they reallly ar...

The whole point of objectivism or realism is to go beyond decision-making altogether.

@"Hanover" Of course, people will generally make concessions of weakness, fault, or deficit when it comes to small or trivial things. But they are unl...

In fact, "having reasons of justifications for accepting moral realism" would undermine the whole project. But I think it's possible to pose as a mora...

It's subjective in the sense that it's people who are talking about its existence. Objectivists and moral realists talk as if it's not they, persons, ...

No. My gut feeling is that there might be a misnaming going on. I suspect that some people merely pose as moral realists because it is often advantage...

@"Michael" It's my gut feeling against theirs.