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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="Juan"]BP, Can your position be described as some variety of utilitarianism ? [/quote] The Kantian Golden Rule and the universalizability test function like 'utilitarianism' in the sense that they require one to imagine if it has positive and negative outcomes. For instance...
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[quote user="wilderness"] every time you respond you prove that life, liberty, and property is... good job [/quote] You're defending the status quo. Why should life, liberty, and property be maximized ?
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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...