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Do people really change core beliefs very often? I don't have statistics on how often people change their beliefs. I seems sufficient to say that people do change their beliefs and that people search for objective truth and objective morality. Introducing fuzzy qualifiers like "core" and ...

The West is tolerant only to views that align with its own, which are in turn essentially depraved. For example, if you are a gender-fluid mostly homosexual transgender drug addict who lives off prostitution by giving sloppy blowjobs in dark back alleys, your views will not just be tolerated, they ...

You said: " We're talking about the "educators," particularly in Florida, who have been grooming children in public schools with perverted books", those were your words, and all I am asking is that you take responsibility for them. In order to be able to make such a claim about ...

Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:27 pm Maybe age's audience finally showed up

They probably came here to read about compatibilism

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:12 pm how honest and direct I have been

Good one

I've also seen people pursue justice or fairness when it costs them personally, that is a commonplace thing that you see every day if you pay any attention at all. But who are these people who have searched for objective morality only to find out their own prior beliefs had been mistaken? Happen to...

Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? If you're only concerned about your own preferences then you're not talking about morality, because morality is also about what other people need and want. I've certainly never...

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:22 am God knows everything that we will ever do

Forgive my blundering into theology, but does God already know everything that he will ever know, or is some knowledge reserved for some future, even more knowledgeable God?

Throughout history, it never even occured to 90%+ of people that morality could be anything other than objective. Such a concept, such a possibility didn't even exist for them. Wanting it / valuing it / searching for it, didn't enter the picture for them. Those people lived in little mud villages w...

I managed 9 minutes, roy, and then the tedium engulfed me. :( During that 9 minutes, did he happen to explain how "This statement is not being read" is a paradox rather than just being a proposition that is sometimes true and sometimes false? He spent the entire time explaining, yet nothi...

Because moral objectivity is the best behavior in any situation. It's like knowing the best move in a game. Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? I've certainly never witnessed anybody who is looking for this moral...

"This statement is not being read." https://youtu.be/Dy-4zt_ebRY?si=jgSV8TRGfN-3cel3 I managed 9 minutes, roy, and then the tedium engulfed me. :( During that 9 minutes, did he happen to explain how "This statement is not being read" is a paradox rather than just being a proposi...

Why search for moral objectivity? Because moral objectivity is the best behavior in any situation. It's like knowing the best move in a game. Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? I've certainly never witnessed any...

There's a lot of conversation going in circles hereabouts, I propose we point the circle the other way round for a little while to see if we can break it. So my question is not imediately one of what would make morality objective, but rather one of why we would want to have the objectivity at all, w...

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:57 am I will unilaterally ignore VA for the rest of the month. I hope you and Atla and FDP join in.

I... I think VA might be retaliating by going on some sort of philosophy strike?