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How often do people ask each other if their moral views are just their subjective opinion, or matters of objective fact, ffs? Maybe ordinary people never do so, at least in those words. Probably, what they ask themselves is, "Is it really right/wrong to..." And that's extremely common: It...

When somebody complains about "lies about election fraud," especially long after the election, you know they're feeling vulnerable. They don't want there to be any allegation of fraud because they suspect (or know) there was some. If they thought the whole thing was above-board, they would...

How often do people ask each other if their moral views are just their subjective opinion, or matters of objective fact, ffs? Maybe ordinary people never do so, at least in those words. Probably, what they ask themselves is, "Is it really right/wrong to..." And that's extremely common: an...

This is getting ridiculous beyond words. Only because you're making it so, by trying to put words in my mouth, so that then you can say, "This is ridiculous." People simply don't go round asking each other if their moral views are subjective or objective, There's an example: show me where...

Do you think the Chinese people don't have democracy because they don't want it, then? 🤔 They don't have democracy because SOMEBODY doesn't want them to have it. Or rather, "somebodies." And do you suppose those somebodies asked the Chinese people whether they were subjectivists before th...

I think people respect elections because they prefer democracy to the alternatives. Some do, some don't, clearly. If everybody "preferred" democracy, then we'd have nothing but democracies. Do you think the Chinese people don't have democracy because they don't want it, then? 🤔 They don't...

That's circular. There has to be a better, independent reason that elections are legitimate, or all you've done is essentially say, "You've got to respect the government, because the government says you do." I think people respect elections because they prefer democracy to the alternative...

Ultimately, all knowledge is a social construction. It's "created" by humans for human consumption because it performs a social function. That seems obviously false. Especially when it comes to science, which has knowledge without any apparent social function. You'll notice that the defin...

If they are elected politicians, they do. Where is the code that says "elections" count? I imagine it's written in the law somewhere. You "imagine"? And you "imagine" that the same law upon which elections depend says elections "must" be respected? :shock: Th...

So you think that all the people who formulate our laws, or are responsible for codes of conduct within various public bodies are adhering to some objective moral rulebook? :? If they're not responding to objective moral truths, then what they are doing is exactly what Nietzsche said: merely imposi...

Bad judgment could lead to an exchange of nuclear assets. You forgot. A Subjectivist has no reason to expect the word "bad" to convey anything. Anything that is the "judgment" made by another "subjective observer" has to be every bit as "good" or "bad&qu...

Exactly. I for one expect nothing more. Well, okay, then. But it's not clear why anybody should adopt any particular attitude to Trump based on your ick over what you call his "character" or his "judgment." Those are moral concepts, and you've insisted they're all merely subject...

Nobody is bound by your twinges, either, I'm very pleased to say? Nobody is bound by ANY twinges. That's why Subjectivism does no moral "work" at all. So you think that all the people who formulate our laws, or are responsible for codes of conduct within various public bodies are adhering...

If your appreciation of Polanyi extends to agreement, you can't claim science as an objective source of evidence that "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth." If you are thinking that, then I have to point out that you haven't understood Polanyi. I do recommend you read ...

it's funny how you compare Trump with Hitler when all the anti Semitic protestors are leftists democrats for Hamas and Islamic tyranny the revolution will be glorious -Imp Is that the Marxist revolution, or the Islamic revolution? I'm pretty sure that, other than the piles and piles of dead bodies ...