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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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I feel as though I am trying to punch above my weight posting on this forum but there is no philosophy department at the university I attend and no other students seem to think its a fun topic. I am a 22 year old law student and from England, I have no formal education in either philosophy or politics...
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Hi my name is David Frenkel, and im an eighteen year old member of Freedomainradio. I live in Sunnyside New York and im very into philosophy,pyschology, Anarchy, and Art. Im going to School of Visual Arts next year and i plan on dedicating my summer to becomming "a lover of wisdom". Im very...
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Hello. I started with Ayn, stumbled upon Stefan on an Objectivist board, and, frankly, have found Molyneux's philosophy to be, if not better than Objectivism's, at least friendlier. Not that Objectivism is unfriendly: it's ethics are amazing, it's just that I'm sick & tired of...
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In another thread, I took the side that you cannot get an ought from an is. I think I may have been mistaken. I actually did a quasi-'first principles' thought experiment about morality. This is what I came up with: Any objective moral system for humans, what is referred to here as 'universal...
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Nathan: They aren't using violence, if you broke the law and are doing something illegal then you should be thrown in jail. being 'thrown in jail' is using violence. you didn't refute what i said at all.
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Stef, this is your question in the comments: << But people say that there are no universal preferences to say that one *ought* not to argue for them, right? >> The way I would put it is to say that ethics is consensual and non-objective, and that there is no such thing as an objective preference...
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how would one go about proving that morality is not subjective to somebody who believes it is? i'm at a loss here. i'm not even really sure i believe in objective morality as a whole, though i am sure there are many examples of actions objectively immoral. and how would one go about verifying...
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Why should anyone follow rules of nutrition or exercise? To be happy, of course! Just make the case for the moral rules, and everything else will fall into place. Human beings are run by moral arguments. And if anyone really honestly asks you: "Why should I be good?" ruuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...