Rational Ethics: Introduction, Part 1

Its impossible to have ethics in reality or human nature because they can't be tangibly measured so the notion of ethics' being significant is diminished to nothing.You can't see or touch ideas.And I mean this as politely as possible.They are only relevant to conditioned ethics, that is, learned behavior.

What he's describing is the the scarcity principle at work and its deterministic effects on environmental conditioning.From the most complex human to the most aggressive bacteria its a far reaching concept.

Not every human has arms. ;)

And a book on how to throw baseballs probably would have no utility for such a person.

However, that does not invalidate the utility of such a book to the vast majority of people who do have arms.

"However, that does not invalidate the utility of such a book to the vast majority of people who do have arms."

Baseballs?

I'd say the vast majority of people with arms have no valid utility for throwing baseballs, much less reading a book on the subject.

Besides, I was hoping we were talking about something more meaningful than idle recreation involving baseball throwing.

I was making an analogy.

I know.

I was trying to continue the analogy by suggesting that your audience is a lot smaller than you may think it is. Is that the point of ethics? I'd prefer to think of ethical discussion as inclusive rather than exclusive.

i dont believe in man made global warming i believe its all natural.....

we have had cars and factories since before WW2 why is it just now warming up?

and i heard of a water runned car, dont water vapors realease even more green house gasses...

al gore, is the smartest man ever!! he was able to pull off the biggest money and politic scam, the world has ever seen or heard, and people still believe it...

he wants full release

This is an excellent beginning to your series, and I look forward to the rest.

I, for one, have always maintained that free will and causality are compatible and have rejected the determinists' claim that, just because actions are caused, that implies that decisions are illusory. On the other hand, I have debated against dualists who asserted that, because choice is real, it must be that the mind is exempt from the laws of causality and, even more radically, from physicality as such.