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Are there people promoting the non-medical use of puberty blockers on healthy children? If so, it's probably linked to pharmaceutical sales somehow. Pharmaceutical companies actively lobby doctors and hospitals for their products, sometimes leading to overprescription. Close. There's HUGE money in ...

I don't happen to believe in a block universe; like you, I think causality is a thing. The point is that science would not look any different in a block universe, nor an idealist universe, nor a simulation, nor if we were Boltzmann brains, nor any other underdetermined hypothesis you fancy. I don't...

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 5:44 am

Why am I wasting time even talking with you? Never mind...that's a question for me, and I'm about to answer it.

Are you sure?

Now? Very. I'm going to do something much more useful now, like bathing my cat.

Here's a mystery. Why would grown men want to promote the non-medical use of puberty blockers on healthy children? Could anyone think of a reason for this? Puberty blockers keep children looking like prepubescent until the age of consent and beyond. Men...prepubescent children... What's the connect...

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? I wasn't going to say anything. I didn't understand your objection, and was wai...

In order for morality to be effective -result in some "good"- there needs to be some compulsion to abide by it, so some feeling of obligation, or "duty", would be necessary in that respect. I think we're starting to find a point of agreement here. If somebody had a desire or ide...

Atla wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:43 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:35 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:22 pm (who knows, maybe you'll finally win a game)

No longer interested.

You're no fun,...

Still not interested. Not going to be.

Atla wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:22 pm (who knows, maybe you'll finally win a game)

No longer interested.

Atla wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 8:54 pm

So you're missing on every cylinder. I can't help you.

Ad hom

Not ad hom. Based on your responses. Were they sincere? If they were, then the evidence is in.

But I can't waste any more time with you. It's clear you're not up to the game.

Yes yes ad hominem always means something else to you than it does to others. No, it means something other than the way you're using it. Here: https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Ad-Hominem.html So it's you who are wrong, and you who are out of step with "others"...

An ad hominem would be if I immediately assumed that this adolescent level stuff is indeed high philosophy for someone. Well, that's not the meaning of ad hominem , but this site admits everybody, so not everybody's really going to know what we're talking about. And to such, it's bound to look unne...

We all had those arguments when we were adolescents, here they were refuted in like 2 minutes. Ad hominems , like the above? Of course they're childish. But I wasn't the one foisting them on the conversation. An ad hominem would be if I immediately assumed that this adolescent level stuff is indeed...

Yes in theory, but you try to do it in practice anyway. You have no idea what I do, of course, or of whatever motivates me to do it. What you would know is what argument I raise...if you'd ever address it. Throwing mud is sooo much easier than thinking. :wink: We all had those arguments when we wer...

Okay, let's do it then. You could start by explaining what you think morality actually is. Funny...that's exactly the first question I was going to put to you. So I agree: let's start there. I have some idea of what "morality" means. You have none I can identify. So help me out here. Let'...

If you weren't trying to score points with God, you wouldn't have written 20k+ pointless comments here. :) You don't know that Christians don't "score points with God," or anything equivalent? Yes in theory, but you try to do it in practice anyway. You have no idea what I do, of course, o...