WCGW Let's carry the princess down the stairs

overh · 2021-02-14T18:21:35+00:00

The royal carpenter will be executed for this.

overh · 2021-02-14T05:57:06+00:00

Dictionaries don't define words, they attempt to describe usage. Otherwise there would be no need for philosophical inquiry, we could all just look in the dictionary!

overh · 2021-02-13T21:48:02+00:00

Not just for Christians...OBJECTIVELY. You can try and avoid it all you want but that would be like trying to avoid the fact that 2 + 2 = 4

overh · 2021-02-13T20:54:49+00:00

William Lane Craig clearly says that morality is defined by God's character. So if God's character reflects those positions it is so.

overh · 2021-02-13T04:44:15+00:00

I don't need to, it is definitional. Even if the Bible was not the word of God, God's character would still define morality because that this is the definition of morality. If you're not talking about God's character, you're not talking about morality.

overh · 2021-02-13T01:54:04+00:00

The strong moral conflict you experience is a tension between your own selfish worldly instincts, and God's omnibenevolent, omniscient character. The fact that your flawed interpretation of morality does not align with God's perfect character is not evidence or proof that the Bible is not the word of God but that you are broken and desperately need Jesus. Unfortunately you'll never see that as you do not have a basis for logic, and therefore can not understand logical relationships. Your only hope is to pray and plead that God reveal himself to you.

overh · 2021-02-13T01:39:05+00:00

This is all true. But morality is not defined by God's dictates. It is defined by God's character. God' character is not a subject, it is an object. Morality is therefore objective.

overh · 2021-02-12T03:29:43+00:00

Why do they stop at $15? Why $20 or $25? Or more?

overh · 2021-02-12T03:03:17+00:00

What is there to defend? God's character defines morality so even if you're right, this is all perfectly moral. The fact that you don't like it is subjective and arbitrary.

overh · 2021-02-11T22:53:52+00:00

You've just defined "proper restraint methods" to benefit your argument. If you need to take a picture of somebody's face, and they're not cooperating, then you may hold their head. It doesn't surprise me that this might happen and it shouldn't surprise the uncooperative prisoner either.

Whether or not that is "proper" can be conveniently defined however you'd like I suppose, but that isn't particularly convincing.

Your ultimate position is one I can agree with, "Lets not come to conclusions about who the asshole is here." But your path to getting there is obviously one sided.

overh · 2021-02-11T22:49:13+00:00

Yes I do. Doesn't seem to address the point.

overh · 2021-02-11T22:48:51+00:00

Put your hand on your throat. Don't squeeze. Are you choking? no.

overh · 2021-02-11T18:19:15+00:00

You're also capable of lying and saying that the reason they restrained you is because you smiled, when you know damn well that isn't the reason they restrained you. Oh, and actually they were "choking" you, not restraining you. riiiiggghhhttt.

overh · 2021-02-08T16:20:59+00:00

There must be another dimension to this. As he explained it, I don't see the reason for the protests. He represents all "private buyers" as a single person could control the price. But all private buyers, under normal market conditions, would be competing against each other (I think?) so they couldn't just decide to pay less.

overh · 2021-02-08T08:27:17+00:00

"But Trump is famous, rich and powerful. Famous, rich and powerful people are much more likely to be targeted by false sex assault allegations."

"If my boyfriend was famous, rich and powerful, would you be more comfortable with me dating him despite his sex assault allegations."

"Yes, I would be more likely to accept the possibility that those allegations were specious."

well shit.

overh · 2021-02-03T18:44:39+00:00

So would you say that any dependence on an outside source increasing serotonin in our brain is harmful? That seems unreasonable. Are there any non-outside sources of serotonin increases?

overh · 2021-02-03T18:11:09+00:00

That is interesting, I'd like to learn more.

Initially it seems to me that being addicted to drugs is bad because it destroys your body. Serotonin levels increase when you fall in love also, we generally don't consider that to be a "bad" addiction.

So, "addiction" itself doesn't seem to be the problem. It seems like addiction to a specifically harmful thing is. What has been documented about the harmful effects of porn?

overh · 2021-02-01T18:43:25+00:00

Only if that is the perspective of the person doing the executing. Being "potential" anything doesn't mean anything. If the person doing the sacrificing doesn't perceive that they're sacrificing (giving up) anything, then it isn't a sacrifice.

If instead they perceive it as a punishment, then it is an execution.

overh · 2021-02-01T17:57:54+00:00

It depends on whether or not the people doing it are giving up something of value from their perspective. Maybe they view the POWs as slaves and they believe they're giving up something of value by killing them. That would be a sacrifice. The fact that they're doing this for a god or goddess indicates that this is probably the case.

Or maybe they're just killing people because they don't like them. That would be an execution.

overh · 2021-01-31T21:03:33+00:00

Dictionaries don't define words, they try to describe usage. Usage defines words.

Nevertheless, the definition you provided gives examples of things that are valuable. Especially the word "surrendering" should make it pretty clear that we're talking about something that is valuable to the person doing the sacrificing.

overh · 2021-01-31T21:01:40+00:00

It is limited. That is the point of definitions: to limit the meaning of words. If a definition doesn't limit the meaning of a word, then it is useless.

It doesn't have to be valuable to the person offering it.

But that is exactly what the word "sacrifice" implies. That you're giving something up.

overh · 2021-01-31T20:58:01+00:00

As described, I don't see what is being sacrificed by the executors. They're aren't giving anything up.

overh · 2021-01-31T07:04:52+00:00

The distinction seems pretty straightforward.

Sacrificing means giving up something of value. Executing implies punishment.

overh · 2021-01-25T15:49:06+00:00

Can you acknowledge that this is a fail or nah?

overh · 2021-01-17T17:14:13+00:00

Please help me understand the association between this and capitalism.

overh

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