Mirko von Berner

Reading the texts of Islam, Judaism and Christianity I honestly don’t think there is any way to pick which one has the most vicious revolting God who is a wolf dressed sometimes in teddy bear outfit (or atleast a radiant brilliance, sometimes one of love and forgiveness). The Torrah has an unbearably cruel vicious god. Allah in many surrahs is…[Read more]

Simon, could you please quote an actual philosopher who has used any of those terms in a philosophical work. Name of philosopher and name of philosophical work where they clearly and unambiguously use those terms. You seem to be confusing the study of ethics in other fields with moral philosophy, which is done strictly within the confines of…[Read more]

Simon the two authors you quoted are psychologists (and one is also a linguist). They are not philosophers nor do they speak with authority in philosophy (as you alude to) nor in ethics. It’s one thing to say “I read two books about this topic by two psychologists” it is another to say that these concepts are well established in moral philosophy.…[Read more]

It’s well understood in the field of moral philosophy, under the domain of “reputation” and universal monitoring and moral evaluation.

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Moral evaluation is part of deontological ethics so I don’t know how you could throw watery poetic definitions into it. Could you please briefly describe what the f…[Read more]

I guess he means, God makes everyone equal.

Jordan Peterson is a misogynist pig, racist, homophobic and very insulting of those with no religion. Being equal and any form of meaningful equality is completely absent in his writings. Women serve a lower simple purpose and are so some extent subservient to men. LGTB don’t deserve respect or rights…[Read more]

So, I think his view is valid.

How on Earth can your view be valid when you advocate two things that fatally conflict with one another? For example, if I define political progress as that of the open society, individualism and opportunity (only instead of using those words I type out a five sentence mumbo jumbo) and then I relate my definition of…[Read more]

I am referring here to his central claim (the stuff in the bold text) and not what follows which is a confusing babble that fails to relate his definition to Christianity and throws in a whole lot of hyper-generalisations about humans (as well as bizarrely with gender/sexuality). It’s an interesting definition however it’s also partially babble.…[Read more]

I really hope that is how it goes down.

That, and that the last human isn’t as sociopathic as humanity has been for most of it’s history. That is, that the last human has a modicum of empathy for others in general and not a blind supporter to policies or laws that pointlessly make life miserable for others. Both of those would work for a great last human.

By the way, do you think that speaking up against religion also “just strengthens the right”?

That depends entirely on the country and the religion being discussed. Criticizing religion (practices not people) is rather uncontroversial in most of northern Europe and society is so secular that right-wing parties wouldn’t have a hope of getting pra…[Read more]

Not another bloody outrage over false accusations of rape. Jesus fucking christ.

What is bullshit is obsessing about this problem solely through the lens of women accusing rape. There is a bias screaming out in most of these complaints and it focuses on three things. 1 Rape is a different kind of crime than other crimes. 2. Women often claims…[Read more]

yesterday is much less important.

Pity. I used to respect what you had to say and found your commentary, even stuff I disagreed with, useful. But you’ve jumped into the deep end of whatever this is called, and seem to take pleasure in ducking and dodging. I hope you aren’t up to the same trollish antics on other websites.

Tom, for the first time you have ducked and dodged questions and possible answers to your questions. First of all, this was an international effort and no the US taxpayers are not the only contributors. You’ve also totally ignored the fact that the entire project is well documented over the last several years in major respected journals. You’re…[Read more]

There is life breathed into its cytoplasm.

Thanks Michael for the very clear and coherent response. Oh how I love reading your replies and trying to figure out how they answer my questions. So I take it as a no for Harry Potter? Is that correct?