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by RCSaunders
Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:06 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 745814

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Not sure, but maybe you're referring to the 'subjective goal/objective means' argument, which I think informs, for example, Sam Harris's approach. The argument is that morality can be objective, in the sense that, given a goal, there are objectively better and worse ways to achieve it. I think this...
by RCSaunders
Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:27 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

Moral behaviour is for the purpose of cooperative collectives enhancing individuals' lives. Cooperatives are instantiated by a powerful individual or collective who see that cooperative behaviour would produce more than the sum of individual labours. Then there is hardly anything more evil than wha...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:53 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

seeds wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:13 pm In other words, your complete lack of ...
I have many shortcomings. I can live with them.
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:42 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

Huffiness and careless language don't advance your arguments. If I thought you were an idiot I'd not even reply to you. I'm not making an argument, love. I'm telling you what my position is. I really don't care whether you or anyone else agrees with or likes it, because truth is not determined by o...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:33 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

so much for your role model status :) Good! The last thing I want to be is anyone else's role model. No one can succeed in lfe by trying to copy how someone else lives. As I just wrote to DPMartin : Every individual is different and what will be success for one may very will be failure for another....
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:16 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

so tell us, how does one fail in life? and that would be life according to who? you? If one is not totally satisfied with their present life, if it is not without regret or disappointment and they do not know they have lived the best life they possibly could, and especially if they want another lif...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: Limitation of God
Replies: 17
Views: 1647

Re: Limitation of God

God supersedes freewill and when it comes to choices men have God has already chosen what men can choose from. I thought the TULIP Calvanists were extinct. Are you one? people who believe in freewill when it comes to the God of Israel always go there when their ideas of choice are challenged. I wou...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:31 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

I do not care about my own feelings and regard them all as deceptive. so much for your role model status :) Good! The last thing I want to be is anyone else's role model. No one can succeed in lfe by trying to copy how someone else lives. As I just wrote to DPMartin : Every individual is different ...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:23 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

... if He remembers you its really irrelevant what one remembers or not, also since He can restore Life to you then surly He can restore to you what He remembers of you. As my Grandmother said, "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride." There is no evidence that what follows your, "...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:10 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

Huffiness and careless language don't advance your arguments. If I thought you were an idiot I'd not even reply to you. I'm not making an argument, love. I'm telling you what my position is. I really don't care whether you or anyone else agrees with or likes it, because truth is not determined by o...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:42 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 745814

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

The problem is the word, "moral." No one has identified what moral refers to. What does the phrase, "moral fact," refer to? The words, "right," and, "wrong," certainly can have factual meanings when they refer to objectives or purposes or goals. That which ac...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:21 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

RCSaunders wrote: Why are you sorry? Are you sorry you maybe hurt someone's feelings? If the latter you'd do better to not remark on the cartoons. It's just an expression. Nothing you say can hurt anyone else. If someone has a negative emotional reaction to something someone else says, it's their o...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:12 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 745814

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Good grief! A hundred and fifty five posts and what morality is even supposed to be is never identified, and this ding-dong idiot is claiming it's been proven objective? If it has, so has astrology. Good grief. You are closer to the grave than to the vagina and you still don't understand that the n...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:09 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: An afterlife and forgetfulness
Replies: 173
Views: 11597

Re: An afterlife and forgetfulness

First of all, let me address a major problem in your reply. The fact that in one post you say the following... ...and in the very next post say this,... ...shows me that you have no problem making contradictory statements in the course of a debate. I mean, did you think that I wouldn't notice that ...
by RCSaunders
Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:56 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: If a person watches the news coverage, of Ukraine v Russia, are they contributing to the war between Ukraine and Russia?
Replies: 49
Views: 4002

Re: If a person watches the news coverage, of Ukraine v Russia, are they contributing to the war between Ukraine and Rus

You're not going to make them free. I hear ya, and you're probably right...even so, I think I'll keep at it a while longer. Well, I'm not trying to discourage you. If it's what you choose to do, and I thought it was possible, I'd only wish you success. Just so you know what you are up against, here...