The second doesn't seem to follow from the first. Why do you think it does?
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OP: Sometimes there's some fun to be had. I imagine some things are enjoyable for you, aim at those. Perhaps that's not enough; this is a question...
The problem with conversations like these is that there is no reason to assume there is a thing as "knowledge" or "justification" as we normally (and...
Yeah! We should forget about morals and laws and just enforce... Wait, why was the National Guard sent to the south?
Maybe the idea is that future generations will come up with something new and better before the end of time, and as such there is less need to build...
Thank you for doing this, I really appreciate it. However, I want to reiterate that I am not claiming that morality comes from language but that...
I do not think that our ability to communicate creates morality. Rather it is part of what allows for morality to arise naturally. I suspect that...
Alright, perhaps we differ in our definition of language. How about this, I change a word in my original post. So, what do you think of this?
How do the female primates "promise" the sex without using some proto-linguistic techniques to commicate that promise? Is anger expressed at the...
No, I don't have any good reason it should not be moved to EM&J. Also, how does language have nothing to do with morality? The only observation that...
I've been trying to write a paper recently in which I look at the general characteristics of proto-humanity that gave rise to morality itself. I...
Yeah I thought the radar could have used a height indicator of some kind. A little thing.
What support do you have for those premises? Why must the universe have had a beginning? Remember not to make inferences from things that have had...
Life is worth living because it seems to be your only chance to experience anything. It is true that answering this question in the affirmative...
I feel like arguing that we do not have any reason to believe our minds cause imagination because all we have is the idea of our minds causing our...
He argued for Idealism, the position that all that exists is mental things, minds and ideas. He says that we have no reason to believe that there...
JDawg, it seems like your "Beneficial" is just "good" with a different value system, where personal satisfaction is deemed "good". I don't think...
In what way is "Beneficial" different from "Good"?
When regarding morality as subjective, what basis does one have for decrying (I'm not sure what the right word is here) someone's behaviour?
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