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I don't think that the both party is persuaded by the same kind of approach or at least to the same degree. If one party actually cares more (or in any way )about facts, then it might not be enough to just use rhetoric to win their vote. For example, don't you think that a more substance and fact based approach (alongside the usage of good rhetoric) could actually persuade more left wing people to vote for Trump? Who created the algorithm vs computation dichotomy? It sounds a little bit weird to me - I like the structure vs content much better.

Not a good argument. Essentially you are saying - "Scientist was wrong back then, therefore don't ever use the heruistic of trusting experts ever again". We could apply the same kind of reasoning to hard science as well. (like would you use that for physics as well?) . Also, whats the argument for thinking anyone (including you) has a better grasp on a given problem compared to experts? Thats the question that needs to be answered first before we trash the conensus that experts have on a given topic. Like do we think that normies have a better track-record of getting things right in any given area? Of course not, and its not just not getting things right, but the usage of trash reasoning to end up with certain conclusions. Generally speaking people on this topic know fuck all about anything. Most people arent even aware 1% of the research on the topic, and even if they are aware of some research, they have no clue how to properly contextualize it, cause they lack the knowledge and the necessary skills to do so. Its not just that people generally don't have any fleshed out ethics on this topic, its that they have 0 clue about the empirical research and they have 0 clue how to make sense of that research.

Confusion all over the place. 1) You can be a moral antirealist/subjectivist and be vegan. 2) Not all vegans believe in material reality and being a vegan doesn't presuppose any specific kind of metaphysical stance. 3) I don't see the reason why you would make the stance of " to create a healthy society one must promote the healthy development of animals."exclusive to stage turquoise and I don't see why a stage green person couldn't or wouldn't use the same thought process.

Cool ,ty.

Whats the name of the picture?

What is meant by more fundamental there? Something like one is being contingent on the other or you mean something different?

Yes, this is why I said earlier that there isn't any good empirical evidence on this (as far as I am aware) . So we don't really have a good ground to think that it would necessarily reduce it.

It does overlap and thats compatible with what I said. My issue wasn't that it doesn't have any overlap with how normally it is defined, it is that it is too narrow and doesn't have enough overlap with it. Think of it like this: If I would ask whats your definition for 4 legged beings ? and then you would give a definition that only describes horses and exclude all other 4 legged animals and beings. - that case I would say the same thing, my issue wouldn't be that there isn't any overlap, the issue is that the overlap is too small. But again this is just my personal preference, so you dont have to take it seriously and the other thing is that your definition doesn't have to align with how a definition is normally used.

The differentiator is that having a fantasy doesn't entail that you want to act out or to experience that given fantasy in the real world. Thats the difference. Basman's example demonstrates this very well.

Yeah, I didnt meant that it needs to be something extremely precise. The reason why I brought up this definition or way of thinking about this is because under it is clear what the relationship between qualities are and how they relate to each other, but this way of thinking allows for (the content of things that relate to each other) to be vague. So for example, the definition for spiritual development can be something vague, the point is to be consistent with the method that you use when you judge a given quality (at least under this way of thinking).

You shouldn't let him pivot away from that. Press him about whats the symmetry breaker between the two. Because fantasy can't be the differentiator (since both invoves fantasy and in one case he doesn't consider it wrong and in the other he does), so the question is - what differentiates the two, when it comes to the categorization of good and bad?

Is that a self report? Ok , im gonna stop derailing. @Carl-Richard Btw I agree with you , that she gave a very narrow definition that doesn't really encapsulate what I would mean by average in an abstract sense and I would even make the claim that the definition she gave is too narrow compared to what most people would mean by the phrase. @Keryo Koffa Btw its all fine to have this definition, it is just that we need to be careful not to misunderstand you when you use the phrase "average". But im sure you would agree that your definition is very different from how most people use that phrase, right?

So something like rather than comparing certain qualities that all members have , you check for qualities that you have that most members don't have and check for qualities that most member have but you lack?

I know, im just fcking with you. Lets narrow things down, do you mean something like: There is a set (for example humanity), and there are members of that set and each member has a quality with a certain number assigned to it (for example spiritual development or income or strength or IQ) and average would just mean literally the mathematical average or being close to that mathematical average of a given quality. So the sum of all member's quality divided by the number of people who are in that set. Is that somewhat close to what you have in mind by the term average?

This is the reply what Carl was fishing for.

It isn't clear what kind of effect it would have on them. The same kind of question came up in the context of child porn, it isnt clear at all whether it would have a good effect on them or would make them do more harm than good. Finding out the empirics about this is obviously hardly, since even conducting the experiment is unethical in and of itself (unless maybe if we are talking about AI produced CP). So basically if we are rigorous about this and don't just want to appeal to our intuitions , then we probably shouldn't make claims about what kind of effect(s) it would produce, cause they are highly speculative.

Most of this would be fine ,if it would only be a critique of absolute morality (establishing or making an argument why absolute / objective morality doesn't exist) , however Leo seem to be saying more than that. But regardless whether objective morality is true or not (I am happy to grant that there isn't objective morality) - Whats the issue with making subjective moral arguments? Its not like stage yellow doesn't have any kind of subjective values that it wants to work towards. For example, making society more developed is a subjective value and if one can make a deduction or an empirical argument how constraining pedophiles in certain ways can achieve that goal better compared to not constraining them, then thats a valid argument in the context of that value. Also when Leo says there is no difference between a pedo and a saint, yeah sure in the context of objective morality, but that doesn't really respond to the criticism that was made. The criticism is made in the context of subjective morality and there is no claim about objective morality. In other words, the criticism wasn't that pedophilia is bad in the context of objective morality, but that it is bad with respect to certain set of subjective values and goals. So overall, Leo's analysis there isn't very sophisticated and doesn't really say anything other than "there is no objective morality" and maybe a claim about a nature of reality, but that also doesn't respond to most moral arguments since, most of them are about actions and not about the evaluation of the nature of things.

I think this is a fair criticism from JP.

Is your position basically, that God is infinity, and infinity includes all possible world, and infinity cannot not (must) include all possible world? In other words, under this semantics - if God exists, all possible world necessarily have to exist.

I think when Dawkins says "I care about facts" I doubt that he cares only about knowing those facts just for the sake of it - I think he just assumes that all scientific facts are necessarily useful, but thats not the case, especially for everyday people. Knowing about certain facts is completely irrelevant to the quality of your life, and in other cases, knowing about those facts can even make the quality of your life worse. I think the same thought is applicable to perennial patterns and abstract objects as well. If they don't have any effect on you, then the question of 'why should I care about them' comes up and I think thats a valid question in the context of pragmatism. But this assumes that there are no abstract objects that could change you or could have an effect on you.

Lmao. Reading that in JP's voice is really funny. Okay I see.

Is he stuck, or he simply doesn't give a fuck about other things than facts and science? I mean, im not familiar with the model in depth, but I assume there is a difference between having a preference for something and having a capacity to do things. If there is a difference (according to the model), then how do you make the case, that Dawkins doesn't have the capacity ?

I do agree with you on that Dawkins has a very naive realist distinction between real and imaginary, but at the same time I think that Jordan was dishonest and dodged a lot of questions and obfuscated unnecessarily. If a question is given to me in a specific context (in this case, the context was scientific and empirical) for example the question of Did Jesus rise from the dead (not in a metaphorical sense, but literally) - Jordan answering to that "Thats misses the point" or "I don't think its meaningful or valuable" is just a dodge. He can say that those parts of the Bible ought to be interpreted in a non-literal way, and at the same time give his position whether he thinks certain mentioned events actually happened historically in a literal way or not. This is irrelevant to the substance, but my speculation why Jorday doesn't want to give honest answers to empirical questions about the Bible, is because he doesn't want to upset his Christian audience. He probably means - proving it using the scientific method.

Being able to draw infinitely many conceptual distinctions is different from claming that those differences actually exist. In other words - do you claim that time and space are metaphysically necessary (things can't exist without having spatial and temporal aspects / attributes inherently to them) or do you just claim that one can draw infinitely many conceptual distinctions, but those distinctions don't really exist? Which one is your claim?