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The function of morals and morality is to guide humans in their behavioral choices towards "rightness" and away from "wrongness". Unfortunately for moral objectivists, those terms are subjective. Not dissimilar to how a fashion sense or taste guide humans on choices on what to we...

The Left is intellectually bankrupt, thus their reliance on thuggary and starting wars. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfNl--ZBItE Pelosi (Democrat) : Joe Biden created nine million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president, so we just ...

Not quite. Those who believe there is ANY thing called "morality" are obligated to provide grounds for us to believe in it, and to recognize in it the features that "morality" has to have -- such as the ability to confer an obligation on people. But our opposition here is not ge...

Good luck with that. I've been waiting 8 years to hear Peter provide a rational justification for his ethical subjectivism . He doesn't have one. All he has is the never-fully-articulated inductive (and invalid) argument that because he, Peter Holmes, has never yet been convinced that any objectivi...

You've required us to assume that morality is subjective, and that having any authority behind morality makes it somehow not moral. But that's your key weakness: you need to prove those suppositions, not just to tell us to assume them, and then build your case out of them. Good luck with that. I've...

Huh? You are mixing up the concept that every individual has a (different) set of moral codes to guide themselves in life decisions, with the (erroneous) idea that acknowleging this reality equates to personally agreeing with each and every individual moral code in existence (which is an essentiall...

There is a big difference between acknowledging that an outlier set of rules exist and personally agreeing with that set of rules. I agree if one is merely discussing and giving their view on the difference stances of morality then they are not adopting any particular moral stance. But in the conte...

"Ignoring the licks and solos would be a huge mistake." And neither Fagen or Becker are instrument virtuosos. Neither one of em can shred but they're unmatched in the studio when it comes to writing and producing songs. The music is so well thought out, arranged and polished that even the...

Thesis: Moral Relativists Condone Torturing Killing of Babies for Pleasure ... if you are a moral subjectivist or relativist, by definition, you MUST tolerate the moral maxim "babies can be tortured and killed for pleasure", if there are certain groups who insist such 'heinous' acts are m...

Steely Dan Cousin Dupree https://youtu.be/80b4Y_d8W8o "Now I've come back home to plan my next move from the comfort of my Aunt Faye's couch. When I see my little cousin Janine walk in Well, all I could say was, "Ouch" Honey, how you've grown Like a rose Well we used to play When we ...

"Personal truth" is just a relabelling of what used to be called (more accurately IMO) "personal reality". Which implied your personal reality could be separate from the truth. If you replace the word "your," with the words "POTUS Biden's," you will have a co...

Is there anything more disgusting and hideous than what Christian morticians do to dead bodies. Infusing us with toxic chemicals and throwing us into the ground for a prolonged rot over centuries like plastic bottles? I'd like to be cremated or recycled by the natural food chain. Thoughts? Uummm......

Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:58 pm hopefully the Princess of Wales fully recovers...

disease can be the great equalizer

-Imp

Have you heard what type of cancer? Saying "cancer" is like saying "pain", doesn't mean anything specific.

Can God cease to exist? Futile question. Human understanding is limited by constraints God imposed upon it. You could say God does not exist and I can't prove you wrong but for the sake of a thought experiment- Silly question. The vast majority of the gods humans have worshipped over time have lost...

How could you possibly make this claim? You don't know what their internal logic is. If you knew you'd be a more omniscient/omnipotent god yourself. Ha ha, nice one. I didn't originate the idea, thinking individuals have found those concepts self contradictory for millenia. Yes, the misinterpretati...