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Good religions and philosophies train people to be empathetic towards outsiders too, Islam trains people to be psychopathic towards them. It's the exact opposite of humaneness. Islam is a machine that churns out little quasi-psychopaths. Everyone knows that Islam is the most evil major religion in ...

This is not correct to say about Islam which means peace. Only an opinion is arguable, so only an opinion may serve as the thesis statement of an argument. To say Islam is evil is wrong; not only in expression and ignorance of the evidence. May that evidence be direct or indirect Islam is a peacefu...

By the way, morality is not "shared across all cultures and species". Some cultures practice polygamy, others monogamy. The ancient Greeks thought trading with non-Greeks was cowardly and contemned it. Some societies enslave other humans, others do not. Sharks, I'd suggest, don't have mor...

Arguments against moral objectivism 5 Anti-realist arguments for moral objectivity Anti-realist arguments sometimes have the following form. We humans necessarily perceive, know and describe reality in human ways. Therefore, either we can never know what reality really is, or there is no such thing...

Go back to the distinction between facts - things that are the case, expressed by factual assertions with truth-value - and judgements, beliefs and opinions. And don't bother with your 'FSK' bleating, because you're happy to appeal to facts to support your moral objectivity. I have argued There are...

The term 'philosophy' is now a very loose term. What you are hinging on is the bastardized form of philosophy. The origin definition of philosophy is actually inherent in all humans, i.e. the love of wisdom from knowledge and critical thinking. Whatever of reality we are dealing with must be confin...

And agin. until you address salient points, you are not really presenting what might be called an "argument". What you are very good at doing is repeating, paraphrasing and regurtitatihg points that have been refusted time and again by myself and other on the forum. WHy not have a love-in...

So here's your argument: for philosophy to be serious, it must be objective - it must deal with facts. The only facts that philosophy deals with are facts about the ways we do or could use certain abstract nouns, such as knowledge (epistemology), goodness (ethics and morality), being or existence (...

That one factual discourse and practice can produce data and conclusions that inform another factual discourse and practice is obviously true. But morality does not constitute a factual discourse and practice. The issue is this: are there moral facts, so that morality is objective? And your useless...

Notes: KIV

Notes: KIV

PH et. al. claimed there are no objective moral facts but only moral opinions, beliefs and judgments which are subjective, therefore morality cannot be objective. To PH, 'what is fact' is a feature of reality that is the case, states of affairs or just-is that is independent of the subject's opinion...

Arguments against moral objectivism 4 Instrumentality or goal-consistency arguments The claim ‘action B is consistent with goal A’ is not a moral assertion, because it says nothing about moral rightness or wrongness. The claim ‘if we want goal A, then we ought to do action B’ is not a moral asserti...

Hume went close with his matter of moral fact, i.e. 'sympathy' but could not go further due to the limited knowledge in his time.
At present, we have advanced knowledge and thus could go further than Hume to establish what are objective moral facts.

Here is an example of how a non-moral fact when inputted into a moral FSERC generate a moral fact. I have posted examples [somewhere -got to search] how one FSERC fact when inputted into another contribute to generate a fact in another FSERC fact. Here is one example .. Another example, is the weat...