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henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:16 pm ... I wanna burn 'em with napalm

You seem like a real nice guy, Henry.

And can there be such a thing as ethics without a agreement? Yes, there can be. When an individual engages in self-development ...unless we want to interpret that as his/her agreeing with an ethical principle, or a previously-made commitment he made to himself to grow in morality. ...answering to o...

Why does man, need a agreement? Animals don’t. All the evidence points to the conclusion that man is just another animal. ...an animal with a more-developed cerebral cortex, able occasionally to reason, and to imagine the future and make careful plans to enhance his/her species. Most normal people ...

Hey everyone: :?: Did you know :?: that the Ultimate Goal of Ethics, according to Dr. M. C. Katz, is a Quality Life for all. What is "a Quality Life"? It is having a good character and having well-being. What is "well-being"? It’s a life rich in meaning, one full of ‘mountain-top’ experiences and wa...

Prof, I read some of the works cited. That speaks well of you. You are open-minded enough to expose yourself to new ideas. The question of "why should I be moral?" needs a more complete answer than self-interest. There needs to be a bit of logic that is really easy to remember ...[the] theory shoul...

The question of "constructing" an ethical system is in itself an ethical question that ends in a loop. Back up this claim with some reasons! Why is it an "ethical" question? The Golden Rule is a self-referential universal ethical system the [sic] constructs itself. Yes. And back in 2017 I devoted a...

I often negotiate with myself: "Shall I eat that sweet stuff even though I know it's bad for the health of my teeth? Shall I care more about my teeth and gums, or shall I care more about my (possibly apparent) hunger? ...Or is that "hunger" actually "just appetite "? Sometimes I decide that it was n...

Yes, ethics is a system.... that functions at the social, not individual scale. False. One may be ethical toward oneself. See the definition of "morality" in Chapter Three here: http://www.myqol.com/wadeharvey/PDFs/THE%20STRUCTURE%20OF%20ETHICS.pdf It is incredibly dynamic. True. By the very defini...

Maybe the following topic belongs in the Applied Ethics forum rather than here.... I came upon this newspaper article; thought it might be of interest: https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1211/p20s01-ussc.html It tells about the Johns Hopkins University Civility project. Can any reader here give us an up...

Anthropologists today find and record, in most every culture, examples of compassion, fairness, generosity. and actions that implement the Golden Rule. Cooperation, normally the ethical way to proceed, is not ethical if it is accompanied by some exploiting of outgroups seen as threats. In the recent...

"To murder is to deliberately kill a conscious individual with malice aforethought. To have malice is not to have respect. Therefore murder is wrong. ...by definition." Mebbe so, prof. Still, murder it may be: 'some folks just plainly need to be dead'. What does your philosophical analysis tell you...

. To be wrong is to violate a moral principle. such as "have respect." [When expanded this principle reads: Have respect for yourself and for fellow members of your in-group; and continuously strive to widen your in-group.] To murder is to deliberately kill a conscious individual with malice aforeth...

WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEFINE THE MEANING OF 'HUMAN FRIENDLY' IN A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. I suggest, logik, that you or your fellow computer scientists, get access to IBM's Watson and ask it: How to maximize love, learning, joy, and thriving for humans? Then program the policy advice received from Wa...

It would help if computer scientists of good will devise human-friendly programs and put them to work Here is what you deserve for this comment. A vulgar and impolite FUCK YOU. As well as a kick to the groin. You have no clue what ethics is about or how to apply it in practice. Isn't it nice that t...