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| Originally posted by venomX Wow, whats wrong with you. |
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| Originally posted by DJ Shibby Your ignorance is what's wrong with me; you poison this entire world with your bullshit. You're still talking to me about the subjectivity of science in the face of religion? I don't give a shit about either science nor religion nor philosophy; they're different tools to look at the world. I don't give a shit about your narrowminded virtual reality that you've created for yourself. Don't you fucking dare say "what's with you" to me, like some fucking zealot in Isabella's spain seeking out heretics. Fuck you, you hypocrite. PS: Did you really think I was trying to "disprove gravity"? Are you really that fucking stupid? You just miss the point every time. You can't see past your own glaring errors, and that's why you will never be the person to come with any decent idea regarding anything, much less gravity or your structure of reality. You're a follower, a tool. Band together all you want; a million of you won't equal even one god-damned free-thinker. I can't believe I'm sharing this planet with such disfunctional, neurotic bipeds. excuse my frustration... there are just too many of you. and obviously there is something wrong with things for things to be the way they are. i don't expect you to come to a grand revelation overnight... i'd just like you at least try; it's about not being a selfish prick. think of the other human beings sharing this planet with you and having to deal with this great big stasis of progress. |

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| Originally posted by venomX Wow, you remind me of when i was in high school and i went with the whole, "oh everything is subjective" to attack all the people that dared argument against me. I've read the philosophy and the religion behind your reasoning, you think what your writing down is something new? Please, be a bit more realistic. "Free thinker" eh? You really think you arrived at all those "illuminated" thoughts all by yourself eh? Makes you feel self righteous dont it? Pathetic. Save your bullshit diatribe for some other person. I've been where you are and noticed that it doesnt serve any purpose and sadly its not practical for my life goals to "rediscover" the world every day. You want to do it? Feel free to do it, but your never going to be able to prove that science is inferior to any other system of thought, and for that matter, your never going to be able to prove that the other "angles" in which information can be viewed are more useful. Shove your sophomoric recycled oshoist ideas up wherever they fit the less ![]() Edit: And just in case you really think you're that much of a "free thinker", let me know and ill quote quite a few books that propagate exactly the same mindless propaganda you do. "Everything we use to measure things is constructed by ourselves and hence biased" Fuck, if everyone adhered to your standards we would never get anywhere. And if believing science is more useful than philosophy and religion makes me a tool, then goddamn i must be a sledgehammer. |
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| Originally posted by DJ Shibby I don't mean to just argue with you... I'm only upset because I love science. You also don't really know how or why I think about any given subject, since you've misinterpreted alot already and never bothered to ask. cheers |
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| Originally posted by Moongoose Just a thought i had for a while, not really that important in this discussion but still... I find it funny how creationists think that since we havent found a transitiona fossil yet evolution must be wrong and therefore creation (ID) must be right. I mean like finding that precise fossil you need is easy stuff. I just sat down to study and i cant find my notes that i made yesterday and all Im talking about is a bunch of paper hidden somewhere in my 4m x 3m room, not a fossil that could be hidden anywhere on the face of the planet, hell it could be on the bottom of the deepest ocean where we will not be able to get to it for another thousand years but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist, just that we havent found it yet |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Failing to address my direct replies to your posts do not contribute to your argument in any way. Kindly attempt to respond if you could, sir. |
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| Originally posted by NebulousQ For someone who does not believe in "absolute morals" they have no moral responsibilities except that which they make for themselves. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Incorrect. I have responsibilities to uphold all laws society creates because not only is it in my own personal interest to do so whether it be to protect me or my family, but also to have a more cooperative and progressively forward society rather than one based on selfish anarchy and subjectivism of morality. Again this can be argued without any absolute moral authority from a God to answer to. |
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| Originally posted by NebulousQ The basis of your arguement hinges upon the belief that society is more important than the individual, because if it is not than society's laws create no responsibility on the individual to act in any certian way. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Incorrect. That was not a statement of neither the society nor the individual being more important over the other. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Surely you're not going to give me a fallacy of argumentum ad populum, are you? I know many people that stick their fries in Wendy's Frosty's too, so what? To what basis do these "many people" support your argument with evidence? |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Incorrect. That was not a statement of neither the society nor the individual being more important over the other. In fact, one could argue that it benefits the individual just as much as society to follow such laws, but I really wasn't intending on such an argument here. I was merely pointing out that such decisions were not based on a moral authority. I would also add that is not exclusive in of itself - decisions made of right and wrong were also based upon my own past experiences. For example, having too many drinks the night before an exam - if my exam score is poor, it would serve me well to consider not having too many drinks before the next exam. I would therefore pass that class and have a better grade if I didn't destroy myself prior to an exam. |
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| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Perhaps you should explain yourself with more evidence supporting such arguments before we could go any further. |
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| Originally posted by NebulousQ Why should I respond to garbage? |
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| I put forth the statement: "For someone who does not believe in "absolute morals" they have no moral responsibilities except that which they make for themselves." You said that such a statement was incorrect in that such a person has moral responsibilities from the society they are in. That person has a responsibility to, or in other words "should" follow the laws of society. The two reasons you gave for this are it is in the persons best interest and "to have a more cooperative and progressively forward society". Whether or not it is the best interest of the individual to follow the laws of society cannot be argued with any semblance of objectiviy if you do not say whether or not the individual is more important than society. To give specific examples of times when you see it as beneficial to the individual if pointless becuase you assume that what you see as best or beneficial everyone else does as well. |
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| The infinite variety of moral or legal decisions with the infinite possible consequences viewed through the diverse points of views of each person cannot decide whether it is beneficial to be law abiding without first agreeing on whether the individual is more important than society. |
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| This ties into your second reason why a person has a responsibility to follow societies' laws. "to have a more cooperative and progressively forward society" in the second reason you put forth. If you are to take this issue separate from the issue of importance and leave that issue unresolved, then I ask: Why does the individual have a responsibility to promote a "more cooperative and progressively forward society"? You would most likely fall back on your first reason and say it is in his best interest. |
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| This is were I say says who? and thus my statement "that many people do not agree with [you]" Why do I say this? Becuase of garbage like this: You say you want evidence? What evidence did you bring up to support your initial points? None. |
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| Your posts in this thread have the audacious tone of "I am right and you are wrong", and the way you present your arguements implies that you think the opinions you hold are the gospel truth. |
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| It seems you try to convince yourself of this with phrases like: "a fallacy of argumentum ad populum" or "a straw man" that do not serve any purpose but to remind yourself of your "greatness" and to further cloud the arguement. |
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| Whether or not I know what these phrases should mean is irrelevant, this is a message board with people from all walks of life and to use such phrases does not necessarily help to convey the idea you are trying to get across. |
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| I was not using the "fallacy of arguemntum ad populum" to support my arguement but to show you that your arguement, which you had provided no evidence for, was not widely seen as the gospel truth. |
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| I shall just point this out for now and say that many people do not agree with the importance of society over the indvidual. |
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| Now back to the discussion. Why does the individual have a responsibility to promote a "more cooperative and progressively forward society"? This again cannot be argued unless we first have decided whether or not the society is of prime importance, to separate the two is to enter into the realm of pure opinion. Opinion is present in all these arguements but will be the only platform we have to argue from if we cannot agree on which is more important. |
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| The basis of your arguement hinges upon the belief that society is more important than the individual, because if it is not than society's laws create no responsibility on the individual to act in any certian way. |
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| "In fact, one could argue that it benefits the individual just as much as society to follow such laws, but I really wasn't intending on such an argument here." So what? I could argue that the moon is made of cheese. Bringing this up in such a way adds nothing to this discussion. |
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| I have responsibilities to uphold all laws society creates because not only is it in my own personal interest to do so whether it be to protect me or my family, but also to have a more cooperative and progressively forward society rather than one based on selfish anarchy and subjectivism of morality. Again this can be argued without any absolute moral authority from a God to answer to. |
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| The basis of your arguement hinges upon the belief that society is more important than the individual, because if it is not than society's laws create no responsibility on the individual to act in any certian way. |
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| I have responsibilities to uphold all laws society creates because not only is it in my own personal interest to do so whether it be to protect me or my family, but also to have a more cooperative and progressively forward society rather than one based on selfish anarchy and subjectivism of morality. Again this can be argued without any absolute moral authority from a God to answer to. |
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| "I was merely pointing out that such decisions were not based on a moral authority." What decisions? When did this turn into a discussion about "decisions"? This has been a discussion about "moral responsibilities" and where they come from; it has never been a discussion about specific decisions. |
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| Which ties into your crap about drinks and a test. What does doing well on an exam have anything to do with "moral responsibilites"? Maybe you are trying to show that each decision has a "right and wrong" consequence. Why would you be trying to say this since it has nothing to do with "responsibility", I do not know. |
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| However who decides what is "right" and what is "wrong"? You said you base it off of your past experiences. Good for you, do I care about your past experiences and the things you have inferred from them? No. |
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| Your past experiences and having inferred something from them do not constitute evidence even for your irrelevant rambling on "right and wrong". Why even in your example the question of importance comes up: Which is more important drinking or getting good grades? |
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| This parallels the same conundrum we have in our discussion about "moral responsibilities", if we cannot agree on the relative importance of things then we cannot proceed with our discussion. |
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| I fear to state my definition of "absolute moral authority" because I do not wish to argue about that issue. |
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| I am sure that my definition of "absolute moral authority" and your definition are similar enough to not cause missunderstanding. And if you dont think so then read a freaking dictionary and I am sure that will put you close enough to "my" definition of absolute moral authority to avoid missunderstanding. |
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| In this discussion no one has brought up or "complained" about relevant evidence,other than your "complaining". So far this has been of discussion mainly of logic, reasoning, viewpoints and precedent, so if you want evidence lead by example. |
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| Originally posted by Renegade Haha, well that's a pretty instructive paradox I guess. We can't ever say "absolutely" that there are no absolutes because that would be a self-defeating logical proposition (if absolutes don't exist, how could we know that absolutely?), but I still think it is possible to say that absolutes don't exist without having to reach that sort of internal, logical impasse. It is impossible to prove an absolute without invoking another absolute and it is impossible to prove that absolute without invoking yet another absolute and so on. So, at least on the basis that it would be impossible to prove that an absolute absolutely exists without deferring to an infinite regression of absolutes, we can say safely, I think, that there can be no absolutes. |
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| All mathematics is tautological and so it is only "absolute" in the most meaningless of senses. Saying that "2+2=4" is the equivalent of saying "4=4", which in turn is the equivalent of saying "x (as we have defined it) = x (as we have defined it)". If what I said before (about it only being possible to prove an absolute if you invoke another absolute) is true, then this proves my theory: you invoke the number 4 as an absolute and prove that it is absolute by equating it with itself. The number 4 will absolutely always equal the number 4. This mathematical "absolute" merely boils down to the premise that all things must necessarily be what they are: this is no great revelation (although it is no small matter in an epistemological sense either, admittedly) and this sort of absolute does not advance our knowledge in any way at all. It's an absolute, sure, but only on the most meaningless, superficial level possible. |
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