Arcus
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Arcus replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the… in the forum Politics 8 years, 10 months ago
Tom Sarbeck wrote:
@arcus asks, ‘Why such militarized language?’ I’ve been there. Try it some day.And where is “that” exactly? Which dictatorship imprisoned and tortured you?
Admittedly I find expressions like the one in this post juvenile of the “I’m 14, and this is deep” type.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the… in the forum Politics 8 years, 10 months ago
@Arcus asks, ‘Why such militarized language?’
I’ve been there. Try it some day. -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic Burn Baby Burn in the forum Theism 8 years, 11 months ago
@Arcus – if people find that that model works for them, then good luck to them. I’m not going to argue against its correctness, since it’s a cousin of a model that I agree with. There’s more than one way of looking at a complex situation.
But if it’s claiming to be a complete moral framework (i.e. an underlying structure on which to hang the r…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Burn Baby Burn in the forum Theism 8 years, 11 months ago
@Arcus – “While these models are good, they are a bit convoluted”
– I prefer Haidt’s to Schweder’s model. I don’t find them convoluted at all – I’ve had no reason to disagree with them, I find that they match up with the overall evolution of morality, starting with the “second-personal” relationships within the small groups of our pre-human…[Read more]