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jakelafort wrote:
Is there such a thing, a default human morality, that is innate? Or are we hairy apes so malleable in our beliefs and behavior that there is no such thing as an accurate representation of human morality?

Morality appears to arise in pursuing joint goals.  Each evolved joint goal, together with an evolved method of achieving it,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
the idea that there is some cosmic, universal, absolute, undeniable, provable ethical system or even individual ethical facts (“It is always wrong to…” “One must always…”) would require an appeal to a cosmic rulesmaker. A deity, in other words.

I think you’re right, that’s the only way it makes sense.  Because God says so.  However…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Ethics has no foundation.

In my opinion this is an interesting attempt to justify moral realism without any evidence or reason.  The author, Andrew Sepielli, ends by invoking the difficulty of how we can know anything.  Hmm.  The problem he has is that he has an irrational attachment to the idea, for no good ap…[Read more]

It sounds like the guy didn’t know he was hurting people by ghosting them, when he should have done, because he was.  Maybe British people are used to it, it’s normal to them, so they expect it.

He had a failure of empathy (cognitive perspective-taking) driven by a lack of empathic concern (caring).  He should have cared enough about someone he w…[Read more]

Pope, you definitely touched on a genuine aspect of why ghosting is so easy. For some people it does require flexing unflexed muscles. In my work, we have to use extreme care with everyword and put significant thought into how we phrase things. This is the opposite of typical locker room talk, where in my icehockey changeroom every ginger is…[Read more]

Thanks for all your replies. I would say that you don’t have to be specific when letting someone down. In your trans case, just tell the person you’re sorry for wasting their time, you aren’t feeling it and wish them the best.

To give you an idea of how prevalent ghosti g is in Scotland, I had chatted with a lad for 5 weeks, almost daily.…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
In this scenario, are you maybe doing something rude but not morally wrong? Or is it wrong?

It’s reasonable to politely ask to be treated as a human being, and not an ant or a fly.  If nothing else, it might improve the other person’s behaviour in the future.

In my version of evolutionary ethics, ghosting would come under the category of “unnecessary harm”.  Most of the time, people could take the time to let someone down gently and using words rather than ghosting.  So they don’t need to be causing this harm by ghosting.  They are able to give benefit rather than harm, and what’s more, they have a re…[Read more]

 that Islam as written (and practiced) can coexist within the framework of a liberal democracy.

No Abrahamic religions as written can coexist with liberal democracy. I cannot understand this obsession with singling out Islam. Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as written in their books, are ALL entirely incompatible with liberal democracy.

Liberal…[Read more]

Yeah that is a colossal bummer about Hirsi. Having said that, she had slowly been becoming a liability to the reputation of atheists. Even for fairly innocuous non-controversial seeming things, she was saying very unhinged shit. Best comment I had read so far was that, going Christian would help bring her more money and more attention to her…[Read more]