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Might-is-right will forever favor the fittest and most evolved humans. This is what the guy with the little toothbrush mustache believed. It was also an astonishingly popular view back in the US, where they were sterilizing "inferior races" and promoting aborting minority children, before...

Might-is-right will forever favor the fittest and most evolved humans. This is what the guy with the little toothbrush mustache believed. It was also an astonishingly popular view back in the US, where they were sterilizing "inferior races" and promoting aborting minority children, before...

As an agnostic, I have an open mind on the matter of God’s existence. I am looking for a rational proof and/or empirical evidence that God in fact does exist. Are you? Well, then, I can point you to a great quantity of literature where you can find all the demonstrations of it you may ever need. Wh...

Morality doesn’t exist. What does exist is dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest, which has existed since the time of prehistoric humans. I commend you on your logic...perhaps not so much on the ensuing morality. You have a good grasp of the logic of people like Nietzsche and Spencer also, in some wa...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:11 pm

commonsense wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:02 pm Breaking a law—a just law—is immoral.

Why?

Because it’s wrong. Why else?

Well, that's an empirical question. If God exists, then as the Supreme Being and Creator of all, then obviously he's the basis of everything that's real. So the only question is the empirical one: does God actually exist. And that question will not even be touched by somebody just claiming, "W...

Let's start with something you can be quite sure you and I can agree is morally right, or something we can both agree is morally wrong. I'll totally let you pick it. The field is wide open to you. What will you pick? Charity? Slavery? Racism? Theft? Educating women? Foreign aid? Feeding the hungry?...

Let's start with something you can be quite sure you and I can agree is morally right, or something we can both agree is morally wrong. I'll totally let you pick it. The field is wide open to you. What will you pick? Charity? Slavery? Racism? Theft? Educating women? Foreign aid? Feeding the hungry?...

Harbal just say: “I give up, you’re right IC”. You’ll feel better and then there will be a base to build on. I’ll say it: I give up, IC. You’re right, IC. Except for being wrong about God being the basis of Objective Morality. Well, that's an empirical question. If God exists, then as the Supreme B...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 4:36 pm Harbal just say: “I give up, you’re right IC”.

You’ll feel better and then there will be a base to build on.

I’ll say it: I give up, IC. You’re right, IC. Except for being wrong about God being the basis of Objective Morality.

The Jews dragged the Christian world into that conflict, otherwise the Christians don't even care about the Middle East... Not true. CHristians have always been front and centre of Israel/Palestine. Sir Arthur Balfour, a Christian wrote the Declaration handing the territory over to the Jews. Sykes/...

I don't know what "correct bad" means. Help me out here, if you would. Sorry. bad was a slip of the fingers. Just ignore the word. I will edit it out. No problem. Would you be so kind as to rephrase the question itself? I seem to be missing the intention. OK—what are you going to say next?

Well, I commend you on your consistency. That's exactly what a person who believes morality is individual would have to end up thinking. At least it's rational, which makes it at least more sensible than Subjectivism will ever be...if the assumption that there's no basis for objective morality is t...

Concisely stated, heroism is the action of knowingly placing oneself in danger in order to rescue another from danger.

Right! There’s no such thing as objective morality, subjective morality is unworkable, and there’s really no such thing as morality. Well, I commend you on your consistency. That's exactly what a person who believes morality is individual would have to end up thinking. At least it's rational, which...