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Thanks for your excellent responses. I am against religion as much as the state of course, as both are irrational and abusive power structures, like too many families. If you have a little time, you might find my free book on secular ethics to be interesting, since I do attempt to create a rational framework...
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That is certainly true, of course, my perspective at least is that it is almost completely irrelevant to any modern discussion of ethics. For instance, since we allow governments to clearly initiate the use of force against their citizens in the forms of taxation, kidnapping, and imprisonment - and since...
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From birth no less! Nog how I love Science! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080711080957.htm
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I've recently joined the forum, but I did so out of a problem that I have in a debate. Right now, I've been debating someone on the wider context of whether the State is better than individuals deciding for themselves. Currently, I'm at the impasse to explain why morality is objective (relation...
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(I still go to highschool btw) I take a history course and my teacher, a good teacher i presume, likes to have class debates. Im not really a huge history buff, as i find its usually a debate based on who has the best/most recent information, but we were talking about the spanish, the gold and the breakdown...
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I've noticed that some forms of universally preferable behavior are universally preferable because they are the only valid means to an end. For example logic and consistency are UPB because they are the only means to achieve valid knowledge. Using a common language between two people is universally...
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One does not use the "Against Me" Argument because one does not want to put a gun to the heads of his/hers family and his/hers friends. If one wants the violence to stop, one needs to retaliate with devastasting blows which is VERY hard to do and this is why we are still slaves. I agree with...
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First, I apologize if this has been discussed earlier. If so, I didn't find it. Considering morality, I constantly think of WHY something is moral and something else is not. There has to be a reason for this. Even if violence is evil, WHY is it evil? I think that morality and moral rules are the...
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...a silly theistic argument. [youtube:tukXUrqyAQA]
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Is it an objective right that people can publicly lie to groups of other people? Is that an inate right? Or is it immoral to censor things in certain situaions? I can't decide. I know that we generally agree that a parent lying to his kid for years is immoral. We consider religion pushed on children...