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2	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? You've given non answers to any questions Again with the assertions without argument. It would be like if I asked you what time it is, and you tell me time is relative (which is true) so it's actually impossible to tell time The issue is that (it's impossible to tell time) is not entailed by (time is relative). Have I made any such error?	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 09:57 PM
2	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Oh really? I've been rambling about nothing? Care to back that up? Supervenience is "nothing"? It's easy to make an argument when you can just accuse your oponnent of saying nonsense, instead of actually making arguments. As an aside though, even supposing that I've been rambling about nonsense, this is absolutely terrible evidence for the notion that philosophy is, in general nonsense. Afterall, if an engineer rambles about nonsense for a while, that in no way discredits the entire field.	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 07:26 PM
1	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Well, to start, we need to establish that there exists some sentence of the form "X ought do Y" that is true, I've given arguments for those, and you haven't responded to them. Why don't you respond to the arguments that I've given for there being some sentence of the form "X ought do Y" is true first? It seems that you don't even believe that there are any such sentences, so let's argue about that first, I've presented arguments, and all you've done is ask weird, ill formed questions about the …	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 07:23 PM
1	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? What are the propositions that constitute "morality" to YOU, SPECIFICALLY. list the propositions Obviously I can't give a complete list of the ethical propositions, but I think some might be variations on, "Agents ought not act in such a way to knowingly reduce the net well being of sentient beings" It's unclear though, since your position seems to smuggle in a relativistic assumption when you say "to YOU", I mean, it doesn't make sense to say "list some mathematical propositions that constitute…	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 06:22 AM
1	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? As an irrelevant aside, I have degrees in Math and Philosophy, and I like long walks on the beach, but that has precisely nothing to do with anything. It's just the logical positivists trying to save face and turn something that isn't a science into a science I'd love to hear some kind of, you know, evidence for your arguments, surely you do have that engineering don't you?	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 04:38 AM
2	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? I like how I answered his questions, but that counts as bullshit. Do you have some sort of, I don't know, argument?	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 02:28 AM
0	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Well if dismissing someone who disagrees without you without argument and then repeating ill formed questions that were answered counts as good argumentation, I'm beaten. What is morality Morality is a set of propositions. what is the Genesis of morality (where does it come from) Morality is supervenient. what are tge moral precepts of the morality you are asserting For right now, I'm merely trying to argue that there exists some prposition of the form "X ought do Y" that is true. and why should…	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 02:00 AM
0	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? I did the best with what I could with ill formed questions. Which question didn't I answer? What is the statement "Johnny is from Philadelphia". Where does symmetry come from? Why are all bachelor's bachelors? The correct answers are: It's a truth apt propostion Symmetry doesn't "come from" anywhere, it supervenes It's analytically true that all bachelors are bachelors. The questions that you're asking are of the same form as the above three. I gave the answers to them.	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 01:51 AM
0	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Stop bullshitting. Yes, let's just assume that an entire academic field is bullshit, and can be dismissed without argument. What is it I'm not sure what you mean by this. This is like asking "What is 'Johnny is from Philadelphia'", I guess you could say it's a statement, or truth-apt proposition. where does it come from I'm not sure what you mean by this. There are plenty of objects that don't "come from" anywhere (read symmetry etc), rather they supervene with the world, I would hold that moral…	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 01:42 AM
1	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Did your course cover meta-ethics? If yes, I'm sure you're familiar with the Open question argument	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 01:41 AM
3	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? There is no such thing as magical universal morality without religion, there is only law. I think it's interesting that most professional philosophers, while atheists, would disagree. Now, maybe you're right, and they're wrong, but I think you need a bit more than a one sentence assertion. Check out Russ Shafer Landau's "Moral Realism: A Defense" Give me a reason I shouldn't kill animals besides inchoate moral question-begging platitudes like "killing is wrong" and " because you shouldn't". Give…	/r/PurplePillDebate	18/03/15 01:17 AM
3	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? Sure, but by the reasoning you gave, if I want to do X, X is sufficiently justified", it seems that wanting to kill people is sufficient justification to kill people. If you don't think that wanting to do X is sufficient justification for X, then the argument you presented for eating meat and wearing leather is incomplete. Of course animals and people are different, I'm responding to the logical structure of your argument.	/r/PurplePillDebate	17/03/15 11:40 PM
3	Question for Redpillers - does this affiliation affect how you might think about veganism? You don't understand, I wanted to rob that bank and kill those people	/r/PurplePillDebate	17/03/15 11:16 PM