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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"]The phrase "initiation of force" cannot be logically defined without circularity[/quote]Nonsense. Do try to grasp that words have definitions. [/quote] How do you conclude that "nuclear weapon production...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Brainpolice"]But to address the original question, I'm not exactly a utilitarian (in the sense of making use of a pleasure/pain principle or in the sense of trying to make morality metric).[/quote] By calling you a utilitarian, I meant that you...
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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Brainpolice"]I don't advocate the Kantian Golden Rule and the universalizability test. In fact, I've blogged repeatedly on why I think that universality by itself is insufficient, and sometimes too rigid.[/quote]Question: if someone...
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"]circularity doesnt come into it when you are talking facts.[/quote] Alfred Korzybski (1933, pp. 429-432) will probably attribute the conflation of the 'mental self' with the 'physical self' as the confusion of orders of abstractions . Read pages 429...
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[quote user="Zavoi"] [quote user="AJ"]Else please define "objective" more precisely to distinguish the two.[/quote] "Objective" means "true or false independent of the preferences of people." It contrasts with "subjective," which refers to statements...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Lilburne"]I might, however, ask him whether he feels stealing, assault, and enslavement are wrong. If he answers affirmitavely, I would then prove him incoherent by deriving "ought" from "ought" and showing him that he is actually...
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"] "'Natural law' theories derive their 'moral codes of conduct' from the mere laws of logic, without any reference to 'empirical' constructs such as 'human biology'."[/quote] thats...
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[quote user="Lilburne"] [quote user="Juan"]I'm simply stating the common sense position that there's right and wrong, contrary to what a bunch of relativists who fancy themselves great philosophers believe.[/quote] The common sense position regarding right and wrong is that...
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[quote user="hashem"]"“Aggression” is defined as the initiation of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else." [/quote] That definition is circular in the sense that it uses terms that refer to the same thing as the word as you...
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[quote user="I. Ryan"] [quote user="Anarchist Cain"] Only because you fail to define it. Amoralism is defined as lacking a distinction between right and wrong. [/quote] So, if you are an amoralist, then you could not comment on the rightness or the wrongness of the proposition that...