What makes you think the same doesn't apply to humans? People generally kill people for the sake of (re)establishing social order (whatever they under...
It's dictated by our need for our moral behavior to be relevant, meaningful, worthwhile. And to be such in various life circumstances. When things are...
Rape and murder are easy examples. How about other examples of virtue: If you need an argument to convict you that you ought not drink alcohol, you ar...
They are the only ones who can be taken seriously. In contrast, those who shoot themselves in the foot by openly declaring any extent of incompetence ...
No, this isn't because essentialism would be wrong, but because an inductive approach to the definition of something is backwards. We cannot come up w...
Indeed. For virtue to be "its own reward", being virtuous has to be about more than just the gratification of one's ego; instead, it has to have real-...
But when we actually use a word, we assume, take for granted it has an essence. When we use words, we don't think of them as some kind of amoebic, sha...
It means different things in different contexts. "Religion" means something different to modern Western secular culturologists than it does to a pious...
The problem isn't relativistic morality per se, it's moral trivialism. Ie. the view that moral judgments are essentially trivial. This comes from view...
No, you didn't answer my questions. You made a deprecating remark about some people (apparently aiming it at me), then stated the obvious, and asked a...
No. The whole point of authority is that one's subjugation to it is not a matter of one's choice. Authority imposes itself, and it does so totally. An...
That's how you shoot yourself in the foot, and why so many here don't take you seriously. Such a self-deprecating remark as you make above is either a...
Belief in a morality that transcends time and place requires belief in some kind of "afterlife" (such as in the sense of the Christian afterlife, the ...
Why should the average person "take on greater philosophical nuances and self-reflection"? Why should the less educated folk "enlarge their perspectiv...
I do not recall a single day of my life when I had "free speech". The scope of the consequences of criticizing those in power is a practical matter, n...
No, that's all your doing. I said I want every country to be self-sufficient: If it were up to me, I would enforce self-sufficiency at all costs. How ...
No, that one is only in your mind. I'm not going to defend stances you merely imagine I hold. *sigh* I didn't say all societies throughout history had...
Not in my experience. Throwing the first stone (in whatever form, whether by being the first to offend, to act in bad faith, to hit, to call the polic...
It's standard to do so. The term is "smart goals". https://fullfunctionrehab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/NEW_SMART-graphic.jpg https://i0.wp.com/do...
Five terrorists vs. one infant. In order to prove the implausibility of P2, you'd need to leave the realm of politically correct egalitarianism. Note ...
Sure. The concept of zombies concisely illustrates the futility of living merely for the sake of living. You said earlier The greater number of those ...
What do you base this claim on? Throughout history, pretty much every society has had a social class or category of soldiers, warriors. These were peo...
What one considers to be an acceptable reply to these questions depends on one's intention for asking them. Because there are many ways to reply to th...
Do you know that, personally? Are you able to have bodily feelings or emotions without also having some thoughts along with them? To feel fear, one mu...
You don't and you won't. I don't know what exactly it is, but I can tell whether someone has it or not. There is a certain "quality of the spirit" tha...
Because it's not possible, it's pragmatically not possible. Because Western standards are destructive. They destroy nature, they destroy people. Are y...
Speaking of "being free of the authoritarian bullshit", in what ways are we inthe West "free of the authoritarian bullshit"? Really, list the ways in ...
How did you arrive at this dichotomy??? No, that's the one you're seeing. The majority of the population of any country are plebeians. If they are giv...
I think the difference is in how different people understand "democracy". For some people, esp. Westerners, "democracy" is simply about coming into a ...
Putin, the superhero. You're making the same mistake as those who blame WWII solely on Hitler. It's simply not possible for one single person to orche...
No, I'm saying that they potray them as tyrants. If, say, tomorrow in France, an enormous store of natural gas would be discovered and France would ex...
While living in a democratic country under the rule of law where your neighbor can destroy your home -- and laugh -- and get away with it, is just so ...
I think there's another element to this, pedestrian but powerful: The EU resents being dependent for resources, doubly so because they are dirty resou...
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