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Look at the thread title. The title asks "WHY search for moral objectivity?". I told you. And your response was that people don't change their beliefs and people don't want to change their beliefs. Which seems to be clearly false. Would we say that moral truth came and slapped him in the ...

You'll be wrong about everything the 2nd; and 3rd; and 4th and Nth times too.

You are always wrong about everything.

If you're wrong about everything then you are also wrong about being wrong.

Do people really change core beliefs very often? I don't have statistics on how often people change their beliefs. I seems sufficient to say that people do change their beliefs and that people search for objective truth and objective morality. Introducing fuzzy qualifiers like "core" and ...

I've also seen people pursue justice or fairness when it costs them personally, that is a commonplace thing that you see every day if you pay any attention at all. But who are these people who have searched for objective morality only to find out their own prior beliefs had been mistaken? Happen to...

I'm wrong about everything. Now what?

Is there any progress in philosophy?

What's the connection between those two statements? What does "progress in philosophy" have to do with you being "wrong about everything"?

You failed to bring up that OJ Simpson and George Floyd can be spoken of together. That national, and certainly local L.A. opinion, desired to see Simpson acquitted as “payback” for the police’s treatment of Rodney King. Some part of this is forgivable since no one was able to clearly see the evide...

Is that what I want? Or do I secretly just want for my own set of preferences to be the ones that everyone has to live by? If you're only concerned about your own preferences then you're not talking about morality, because morality is also about what other people need and want. I've certainly never...

Why search for moral objectivity?

Because moral objectivity is the best behavior in any situation. It's like knowing the best move in a game.

Step 1 is to figure out why you are stubborn.

What do you get out of being stubborn? What do you get out of conflict?

What is your motivation?

I am interested in her research and how she arrived at this assertion. But I will repeat that there are many reasons to be suspicious of academics and academia generally. And sensing her *agenda* I admit to a certain concern. Yet I do want you to know that I recognize that she and people like her c...

You might find this article interesting: Pope Francis has spoken openly about homosexuality. In a recent interview, the pope said that homosexual tendencies “are not a sin.” And a few years ago, in comments made during an in-flight interview, he said, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord ...

1) I am certain that the infiltration of homosexuals and homosexuality into the Church is disgusting to all, and specifically to those of traditional bent (old style mass & liturgy — pre-Vatican ll) who see it as part of a whole process of corruption. Do they realize that there were homosexuals...

That sounds similar to my take on things as well. 8 billion is a lot of people on this planet. If no one ever dies and babies keep popping in at the rate they are, then it's going to get more and more cramped and miserable eventually. I prefer to go before that happens. I'll let the next generation...

Let us suppose — and I think we all know it will not happen — a return to strict and defined social restraints of that Christian/Catholic sort. All sorts of things would be restricted and yes banned. It is a fact. But isn’t the issue here that when we contemplate restraint and restriction that, giv...

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