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3+ year listener and new to this forum, or any forum for that matter, and my debut youtube video as well sharing my thoughts on philosophical matters. Please share your thoughts with me about the video with critiques and criticisms as I'm sure there are many. Look forward to your responses! -Harrison...
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Determined “Morality” “Morality” is a concept which claims to explain optional yet preferable behavior for human interaction. In order to be a valid theory of “morality” it must be, like any theory, rational, i.e. universal, logical, consistent, reversible, predictable...
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[quote user="Arius"]It is permissible for the husband to do nothing. It isn't permissible for the druggist to withhold life-saving medicine from the woman. I'm not saying all medicine should be free, nor am I arguing for "free stuff for dying people". It simply seems that...
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Oh, hi Stef, nice to quasimeet you [quote user="Stefan Molyneux"]A big enough plot of land to cultivate inside a room?[/quote] Read my first reply to Dave Bockman. [quote user="Stefan Molyneux"]Also, 'property' really refers to what is created, not what already exists, I.e...
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I hear it all the time from statists that anarchy is chaos; that anarchy is lawlessness. However, anarchy simply means statelessness. And, when I present this to a statist, I always get the response: "Statelessness means no police, or government, and therefore no law. " So, in return, I've...
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I'm currently in a discussion with someone that is claiming values to be the same thing as principles and virtues. But, I'm having difficulty getting this individual to express how he reached this conclusion. As I understand it, universal principles aren't values. For example, it is universal...
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Just to make sure we're on the same page, I think it's important to recognise UPB as a deontological system of ethics. Deontology (sometimes called duty ethics) asserts that a moral principle is right for reasons other that a consequence, that the moral value of an action is independant of its...
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"Don't be a quitter" "it's important to stick to your commitments" My wife is a big fan of Vickie Berman's blog, Demand Euphoria, and yesterday talked to me about a post on being a 'quitter': http://demandeuphoria.blogspot.com/2011/02/im-quitter.html Her initial...
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I finally got around to reading this book trying to understand what the fuss is all about and I have to confess my ADD just wouldn't allow me to get through all of it. I mean I appreciate the attempt that has been made and I'm sure there's valuble thinking in there somewhere but it is also...
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I heard some of a sunday call in show, about UPB. I heard Stef dismiss a line of inquiry suggesting that to refute UPB is to engage in UPB and thus support it. I think it is a similar line of reasoning that supports the praxeological statment, "Man acts". I have heard it supported saying that...