The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

In the few thousand years of “Western Civilization” and philosophy stretching back to the ancient Greeks, we’ve yet to discover what is objectively good or bad, right or wrong. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Seneca, Kant, Camus, Hume, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer…none have done it. Many have made claims and made arguments. Many others have refuted those claims and poked giant holes in those arguments. If you’ve discovered objective morality I’d write down your argument and submit it to a journal. You might win a prize.

Discrimination, rape, slavery, and genocide are bad things. Anyone that disagrees is a bad person and they should be judged for their character and actions.

I don't care about a single unifying theory of objective morality. You know it when you see it.

 

[payn]

I got the gloves done for my cosplay

Train conductor?

 

[overgeeked]

Discrimination, rape, slavery, and genocide are bad things.

I agree. I just try really hard to not confuse my opinion with fact.

I don't care about a single unifying theory of objective morality.

Nothing so grand is necessary. Even a simple statement about what's objectively moral would be more than enough to win a prize. As long as it survived argumentation that is. A good chunk of modern philosophy is stuck on the is-ought problem. If you've solved that, good for you.

You know it when you see it.

That's an historically terrible means of identifying abstract concepts. Famously porn was defined thus for decades. That definition was used to suppress and censor a lot of historically and culturally significant art.

 

[trappedslider]

Train conductor?

No, Chandra from Magic: The Gathering
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I better be getting credit for the philosophy class I'm in.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Unacceptable. Nobody sent this to my desk for review, this change is neither approved nor authorized.

I demand an inquiry.

 

[Cadence]

"Well that was a useful reply." <- Evergreen

 

[el-remmen]

There goes the neighborhood.

I knew what I was talking about when I posted this.

 

[Umbran]

That's literally the problem.

No.

"The problem" is that as humans, we take a great many opportunities to neglect the welfare of others, and accept or create a great many excuses or apologia for doing so.

 

[Umbran]

The one thing that gets me is when you make a comment and someone responds with something like, "Well, that's just your opinion." Well DUH! Whose opinion would I be using?

When folks phrase things as statement of facts, they should not expect folks to respond as if it were a statement of opinion.

 

[payn]

I knew what I was talking about when I posted this.

They got a committee to get me off the block
'Cause I say my rhymes loud and I say 'em nonstop
Because being bad news is what we're all about
We went to White Castle and we got thrown out