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If it impacts on your health and ability to function ... dont do it.

I think that having tastes and preferences is a part of morality, but they have causes and they can be intelligent tastes or otherwise. If man is constantly at war he will suffer badly and its not arbitrary that people tend to disapprove of such a state of affairs. On the other hand a permanent...

Well inductive reasoning, by definition, is contingent. Its answers and conclusions are probably true, but by implication also probably false. Therefore in at least one "possible world" (conceivable, logically coherent set of circumstances) inductive reasoning fails. What the problem seems to...

I dont think he argued that entirely, that more my argument too. Thats true. For me the proof of an ethical system is in its adaptive value but what this system actually is cant be derived from basic principles. You need psychologists, economists, ecologists, politicians etc. But that doesnt...

I think he may mean normative ethics, but I checked the index of The Moral Landscape and all mentions of evolution are pretty negative in this area IIRC. I think that the obvious point that could have been pointed out better is that welfare, well being, flourishing etc are all (if morally...

I think that the basic idea that flourishing or welfare is better, so one ought to pursue it, is logically sound. The problem is with the utilitarianism. It is better for the majority or greater number, but not necessarily the better option for all. So if I have a duty to pursue my personal...

i suspect the antimessianic, antikhalifate DAJALL DID IT. he lives round there with his hairy she spy THE JASSASAH!!!

well being necessarily good for owner, therefore transworld ethics possible , albeit basic. contingent unto others so love and hate possible virtues for them given apt context. eg i am aiding or harming their well being.

so much for the shia crescent. mehdi not shown either. wait, werent shia ~hubs~ taken in dst storm? eg al sadr at fallujah? sawing the branch or what?

I think that for extreme individualism sociopaths are equally dignified as any other creature, eg bat, dog, human, cat, shrimp etc. In that he may have (I suppose) a sense of quality of life, or value in being, in that emotions - however weak - help constitute his life world. But when morality...

For philosophy of science copnsciousness it probably just another letter in the pluralistic alphabet of all those physical properties like magnetism, temperature, luminosity etc. For philosophers of ethics and morality on the other hand its the point of emergence for a whole new board game...

my current view is ethics ought to pursue rational attraction to being (culturally, behavouraly, spiritually). makes sense relative to evolution that ethcs would be inwardly and outwardly adaptive or synchronise positives in a feedback stream. inner life is an adaptation because of its dignity...

best explanation ethically as well as epistemologically... the most attractive must exist?

he's got limited life on his exposure suit, so Spock is hurrying the Enterprise to his new location. Kirk reports that he has explored, trying to fix his location. He walked a mile south, a mile west and a mile north, and to his surprise had returned to his starting point. Starting point on the...