Tom Storm

Yes, it's just a variation on the bodily autonomy argument. It seems a bit of a strange and abstracted formulation to me but I am only looking at the ...

Nice. I'd be interested to hear more from you on this, perhaps in a different thread. :wink:

I think conscience is just self talk. People’s conscience also tells them they should have killed that rapist when they had the chance. They should ha...

I think many would agree but I wonder how accurate this is and how far it can be pushed. The problem is that any meaning derived from a religion or ph...

1) This is called feedback. 2) Having different views on 'what philosophy is' is kind of the point of philosophy, or any kind of dialogue. It may well...

Nice. Thanks.

Whether you believe in a gods or not probably comes down to personal taste and aesthetics (not to mention enculturation). We then modify our beliefs w...

Thanks for your feedback. I don't care. :wink:

:up: If something is done well that’s different.

Interesting point. I wonder haven’t you also encountered young men who fancy themselves Nietzsche’s heirs, who talk bravely and with great bluster abo...

:up: I think there’s a lot of us who dislike kitsch and cant.

I think so.

Exactly. On holidays when I was around 11 my mum gave me a sandwich to take away and said, 'See you at dinner.' I left the house at 8am, on my bike, a...

I agree. Some people do seem to become fixated on these sorts of questions and can't imagine how others are not. I remember my philosophy tutor (I stu...

I understand but I would say that is a bit harsh. I have heard a number of distinguished philosophers criticize the idea - people like John Searle, Hi...

I agree. But I'm not sure people always consciously do this. They tend to use arguments as surrogates for value systems. A classic example of this is ...

Not for me. Philosophy is about how you orientate your values, then come the arguments. My view is that people often settle on beliefs that appeal aes...

So is it more about the argument than a vital part of how you live? I am always interested in why people argue or hold positions.

I’m not making an argument, it is a question for you. By the way I should have put a comma between no and what. It wasn’t meant to be so what!

So what if there is no world? What then?

They didn't come to me, I knew them through projects I worked on in the media here. They were not seeking assistance and I am not sure about their lev...

Yes, I think that's right. Personally I love contradictions and imperfections - almost a form of wabi-sabi - and delightful for similar reasons to me....

This highlights some interesting quirks of human nature in general. The psychologist whose own relationships are out of control. The actor who has soc...

I don't see this either. @"180 Proof" seems to be asking for evidence to support a series of claims that keep getting repeated without significant jus...

:up: Life and the process of living isn't rational.

Risk has entered business thinking and clinical services mainly to avoid death, injury, litigation and loss of money. Having a risk mitigation strateg...

Interesting. Not sure why it would be about a 'victor'. Isn't the point that morality grows out of a sense making process? Morality will vary in detai...

Nicely put and this resonates with me. Can I ask you about the expression 'intelligible forms of social interaction?' This might be seen to contain a ...

I wouldn't use that word. For some suicide is to punish others. For others it is a grand gesture. For others still the goal is to end suffering (howev...

There's a lot of nonsense said about writing. I've known a number of successful writers and I think it's not unusual for people to be drawn to writing...

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That's a very interesting observation which I mainly share. In the West, a history of divine command theory, linking morality to compliance and hellfi...

Agree.

As a non-philosopher with a secular orientation, I've generally assumed morality simply referred to a culturally held (intersubjective) code of conduc...

Nicely explained. Thanks.

Thanks for taking the time.

How useful is the term moral realism? The only people not covered by it would seem to be some types of relativist who say anything goes.

Ok, I see that. In that case a moral realist can say anything. I was assuming that to be a realist you had to have some sort of foundational guarantee...

I’m deaf to this too, I’m afraid.

Well, I would put it this way, I would like people to share my foundational principle - but I have nothing to point to its truth other than I choose i...

I guess the same way I justify aesthetic taste. Plus I generally assume there’s broad intersubjective agreement about many matters based on shared hum...

I don't think I have ever heard an argument for moral realism that is overly convincing. I know where I stand on some moral questions, but I have no i...

Well, if they are appropriately trained in counterespionage by the CIA, then there's a fair chance for a small victory. But overall the pigeons win. N...

It's called roosting, hence the fortune being made by companies around the world putting up spikes and bird netting to stop them from roosting in publ...

I think this is the most likely explanation.

What am I, David Attenborough? Oh and don’t forget feral cats and pigs - billions of these fuckers too. Antipodean fecundity seems to know no limits…

An infestation.

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My work had a pigeon problem 10 years ago. A guy from local government came in and placed poison baits on the roof. For the next week, pigeons fell ou...

I can see how this might work. What I'd like is an accessible article on the matter to flesh it out a little more.