praxis

I think that I know what you’re suggesting. Regarding emotions, if the actual feelings we have are some combination of pleasure/displeasure and high o...

There’s a variety of methods. You’re do that thing again where, if I knew what you’re point was, we could get there much quicker.

The general term for the process is learning. But I suppose you could also say conditioning.

"Goes some way" is a rather euphemistic way of saying what? Inadequate. Inadequacy or 'going some way' is problematic in its deficiency. Clearly that'...

If he added an e it could be fuck-ye-all, which has a kinda old English ring to it, although I guess it should be fuck-all-ye if that were the case. W...

I think the basic problem here is in the polarizing of "social-interaction" and "biological world." You can't really separate the two. They are mutual...

I don't believe that biology and neuroscience are advanced enough. No neuroscientist or biologist could examine human tissues and determine why some p...

You could start with the meaning of this part:

I wouldn’t have disagreed with something that I can’t determine the meaning of.

Conversely, are you a cannibal or do you have the potential to be someone who genuinely feels that cannibalism is not immoral, and can happily munch a...

Again, I’ve not denied disposition. I’ve pointed out that disposition is inadequate to account for the plurality of moral frameworks. Can you or S do ...

lol, I believe they call this projection.

I’m interested in your response to what I wrote.

Of course it provides morals. You wouldn’t have a life at all, much less a moral life, without nurturing. Going back to the cloned baby S scenario, th...

I can’t review what doesn’t exist.

I missed where you property responded to the following, btw.

Most of your criticisms have little to do with the subject so I have no interest in responding to them, properly or otherwise.

I’m not refuting it, I’ve only repeatedly pointed out its inadequacy. The source of morals is both nature and nurture.

I think you can safely jump to the point.

With the exchange of information. Maybe rephrasing the question would result in a more satisfying answer.

I can reiterate also. Cultures, particularly in the Information Age, can accommodate a range of moral views and values. Even so, this range is limited...

It seems you're suggesting that some people are oxymorons.

It seems as if you're unaware that moral views in the same culture can vary. And "completely different" in the culture that I've lived in would includ...

None of that negates the fact that lil cloned baby S would love eating people. Perhaps with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I'd like to propose a different sort of silliness. Imagine, if you will, someone cloning you and then placing the cloned baby S into a very different ...

So you’re basically making a distinction between witnessing a morally charged event and personally experiencing one. Does that make sense?

I guess we’ll never know your accounting. :sad:

I began by showing the inadequacy of your explanation which, to reiterate, is its inability to account for divergent moral frameworks.

The 'mysterious extra-mental phenomenon' in the specific case that I mentioned involves concepts such as liberty (freedom to choose), and I guess the ...

What do you mean by indirectly related?

That doesn't explain, for instance, how some people can be pro-life and others pro-choice. There must be some "mysterious extra-mental phenomenon," at...

So what’s with the monkey business? You jealous of Rogers human dna?

It’s a well documented phenomenon that attractive defendants in court receive fewer convictions, and when convicted get lighter sentences, than unattr...

Bacon

What a coincidence, that's my middle name.

Ah, right. Couldn't find a graphic but it looks like Democrats were about 46% to Republican 21% in the mid 70s. That changed to 35% & 31% by the mid 8...

About the middle of the Boomer section, if you're curious about the distribution of that specific time in history.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pbox.php?url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/03/Distribution.jpg&w=1484&op...

Well, it's clear now. 60s generation ? Boomers

Were they? Boomers are predominantly conservative and this affiliation has been consistent over time.

I don’t think it’s cynical. If a spiritual practice doesn’t offer some sort of “coziness” then what good is it. And is it good to be told what’s right...

Not that it’s easy to separate religious & secular values from any culture, but what values are currently missing from contemporary secular and civil ...

With the high taxes, crippling regulations, need to build 37 bathrooms (one for each gender) and designated “safe spaces” on each deck of the ship, et...

It's good to be honored for being a cog in the economic wheel that will most likely lead to collapse and widescale suffering or even extinction of our...

No, wrong again. The claim (it’s not a proposal) is that God exists and she created us, etc, etc. There are few if any claims about the fundamental na...

I’m not sure. If anyone has, and Jake can show the error in this reasoning, and also show a refusal of this person or persons to accept their error an...

Is there another means to “analyze” reality, meaningfully or otherwise? You haven’t shown anyone reasoning or making the claim that reason is useful f...

So it’s good to be honored for economic contributions, right?

No, failure to apply logic and reason to logic and reason is irrational (not logical or reasonable). If I reason, for example, that you’re confused, b...

The predicted set, based on memory. For example, 'the cow jumps over the ______.' Many people would predict the sentence to end with 'moon', and if I ...