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If [you] aren't qualified to judge anything then how can you judge my arguments to be incorrect?
Quote: (07-16-2017 04:56 PM)weambulance Wrote:
The only person you're going to convince with retarded lawyerese of the sort you spout is another lawyer. No doubt you think you're clever, but you sound insane to a normal person.
You're a high verbal IQ type--giving you the benefit of the doubt, since you're on a mobile device; your formatting leaves much to be desired--with no capacity for understanding and applying logic. Else, you would not leave gaping logic chasms in your arguments that a six year old could pick out just by paying attention to what you say.
Quote: (07-16-2017 06:42 PM)weambulance Wrote:
Cute, Suits. Another drive by snipe, conveniently well after the thread had moved past your failure to step up.
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Anyone can judge. Absolute moral exist and when individuals violate those morals, they should be condemned.
Quote: (07-16-2017 06:47 PM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 06:42 PM)weambulance Wrote:
Cute, Suits. Another drive by snipe, conveniently well after the thread had moved past your failure to step up.
There's nothing unreasonable about a forum member not answering a question that has already been answered in detail.
You can't simply demand that a question be re-answered again and again until you get a response that is convenient to your purposes.
That's not how a discussion works.
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:16 PM)weambulance Wrote:
In point of fact, starting from common ground with simple questions and basic principles is exactly how many good discussions do work. Perhaps you're familiar with the Socratic method?
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Moral absolutism is an ethical view that particular actions are intrinsically right or wrong. Stealing, for instance, might be considered to be always immoral, even if done for the well-being of others (e.g., stealing food to feed a starving family), and even if it does in the end promote such a good. Moral absolutism stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism, which holds that the morality (in the wide sense) of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act.
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"Now you've turned your own original strawman into a claim that I said I was unable to judge anything at all. Absolutely absurd.
That was your claim. The part I quoted, you said "who am I to judge?" then you spent this entire thread making a judgment that my opinion is wrong. Apparently, you *do* think you are in a position to judge making your original non judgmental stance wrong. If you don't see how that isn't contradictory, I don't know what to tell you.
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:30 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:16 PM)weambulance Wrote:
In point of fact, starting from common ground with simple questions and basic principles is exactly how many good discussions do work. Perhaps you're familiar with the Socratic method?
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So, you admit to there being multiple ways of carrying on a solid conversation and yet refuse to have one in any other way but what you desire.
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:34 PM)weambulance Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:30 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:16 PM)weambulance Wrote:
In point of fact, starting from common ground with simple questions and basic principles is exactly how many good discussions do work. Perhaps you're familiar with the Socratic method?
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So, you admit to there being multiple ways of carrying on a solid conversation and yet refuse to have one in any other way but what you desire.
Good timing, slick.
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Quote: (07-16-2017 07:34 PM)weambulance Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:30 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:16 PM)weambulance Wrote:
In point of fact, starting from common ground with simple questions and basic principles is exactly how many good discussions do work. Perhaps you're familiar with the Socratic method?
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So, you admit to there being multiple ways of carrying on a solid conversation and yet refuse to have one in any other way but what you desire.
Good timing, slick.
Always refreshing to know others are in agreement with me.
Quote: (07-16-2017 07:32 PM)weambulance Wrote:
- Murder and rape are not granular acts. They are acts in a specific context. The acts themselves are "killing a human being" and "having sexual intercourse" respectively.
- Discussions of absolute morality discuss acts at their core. Moral absolutism explicitly states that an act is inherently good or bad, regardless of context.
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Moral absolutism is an ethical view that particular actions are intrinsically right or wrong. Stealing, for instance, might be considered to be always immoral, even if done for the well-being of others (e.g., stealing food to feed a starving family), and even if it does in the end promote such a good. Moral absolutism stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism, which holds that the morality (in the wide sense) of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act.
If you're taking the position of moral absolutism that certain acts are always wrong, you cannot allow context to enter the equation. In absolute terms, if killing a human is wrong, there is no extenuating circumstance that can make it "right".
Quote: (07-16-2017 08:05 PM)therealpoder Wrote:
Ah…I see the difficulty. We have been talking past each other because we do not agree on what “moral absolutism” is. I do not agree with the definition you posted for the simple fact that unless context is taken into account, you cannot define “rape” vs. “consensual sex” or “murder” vs. “manslaughter”. This discussion would have been more productive if we clearly defined terms but oh well.
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Quote: (07-11-2017 05:01 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Who cares - back then the masters of the households fucked their maids, all their legal servants, every girl opening their legs and likely a good deal of the servants. Even if he did that, then who cares?
Yes. I agree. If something is common enough, it's basically OK. Like rape accusation.
Women making false accusations of rape is now commonplace. Who cares? No big deal.
It's normal.
Same goes for school teachers having sex with their under-aged students, male or female. It happens all the time. No big deal.
Or gay faggot sex. Pretty normal now. Who cares?
So if someone made a false accusation of rape against you, or if you had a 10 year old daughter had a male teacher and her teacher banged her, it is okay because it happens all the time?
Just because an immoral act is common does not mean that it is no longer immoral. This moral relativism that is displayed here is no different than not having any morals at all. It makes it impossible to condemn any act as wrong.
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Quote: (07-11-2017 05:01 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Who cares - back then the masters of the households fucked their maids, all their legal servants, every girl opening their legs and likely a good deal of the servants. Even if he did that, then who cares?
Yes. I agree. If something is common enough, it's basically OK. Like rape accusation.
Women making false accusations of rape is now commonplace. Who cares? No big deal.
It's normal.
Same goes for school teachers having sex with their under-aged students, male or female. It happens all the time. No big deal.
Or gay faggot sex. Pretty normal now. Who cares?