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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...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:16 am There are some threads which are tits for tat.

Damn. I must have missed those.

It must be really annoying for you people when you go into a library or bookshop. All those books you have to walk past that you're not interested in, before you get to the ones you want! My heart bleeds for you all.

Also, I'd like to point out that VA has organized a 5-or-so-year-long, angry, obsessive, relentless witch hunt against anyone here who is more or less a "philosophical realist". It borders on insanity. Rather reminiscent, in fact, of the more-than-7-year-long obsessive, relentless (and ye...

Also, I'd like to point out that VA has organized a 5-or-so-year-long, angry, obsessive, relentless witch hunt against anyone here who is more or less a "philosophical realist". It borders on insanity. Rather reminiscent, in fact, of the more-than-7-year-long obsessive, relentless (and ye...

I think it's for me to decide what I should be in that respect. Absolutely. But the term for what you're describing is something like "Solipsism." Well I am a bit of a loner, to be honest. 🙂 I've noticed that, despite my best efforts, you won't be drawn into defending or justifying your c...

How does that work? Read my OP for an explanation. No, it's far too long, and far too indirect. Just say what you mean. Give me an example of an empirical observation that issues in a value. I have done just that, in my OP. I'm not going to compromise my explanation to suit your laziness or short a...

But of course, if God exists, morality IS created... If God created morality, wouldn't that mean that he could have created a world in which morality worked the opposite way from the way it works in our world? A world in which healing the sick and feeding the hungry were evil, and murdering and tor...

So you're a moral objectivist, then? Only a moral objectivist could say that anything is "evil," let alone that being an "interferer" made one a "monster." What's the basis of your moral objectivism? Where did you find the precept written, "Thou shalt not even thi...

Very sad. The only person who rises above philosophical incompetence in their replies to me on this thread is Flash, and he seems to have caught Peter Holmes's disease of intellectual sloth. What on earth is the point of this forum, if this is the best it can produce?

Is it, or is it not, morally acceptable for a sexual relationship to take place between two people who are either not married, or of the same sex? Yes. Everyone who thinks otherwise is an evil interfering monster. So you're a moral objectivist, then? Only a moral objectivist could say that anything...

Harbal wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:48 pm Is it, or is it not, morally acceptable for a sexual relationship to take place between two people who are either not married, or of the same sex?

Yes. Everyone who thinks otherwise is an evil interfering monster.

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 5:32 am Are you ethically obligated to stay alive if you're a better person than the average one who would probably exist in your place?

Yes, of course.

Thanks to people for their comments, which I will try to respond to. Up to my eyes at the moment, but here's something to be going on with. To be honest, I don't see anything in CIN's arguments either. Okay, "good" and "bad" are two fundamental qualia, I agree with that. But when...

Thin-skinned.... No, just weary of the poseurs and cranks who infest this forum and can't do proper philosophy to save their lives. Annoyed at tossers who use my thread to promote themselves and their weird and unfounded ideas for the millionth time. Depressed at the thought of having to wade yet a...