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Intro To Philosophy 5: Ethics #2

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Uploaded by on Sep 7, 2006

Are morals subjective and optional?

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  • This is an amazingly good series of podcasts. They are really helping me elevate my understanding of the subject, and to better found some of the conclussions I've managed to vaguely justify accepting before.

  • @Xeogt thanks!

  • Stefbot, you've done it again! Supurb 5 star! Is there a part 3? :)

  • Thanks, there certainly is!

  • You argued that if people don't have a "right" to property, it is immoral to use property. However, you have also argued in your podcasts that people don't have a "right" to healthcare. Obviously you don't mean by this that healthcare is immoral. So I'm not so sure about the equation "no right to X = immoral to do X".

  • I'm not too sure about that either -- I do remember arguing that no one can propose a moral theory that denies property rights without exercising self ownership and using property -- that is a logical contradiction I do remember talking about...

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  • @NativeNewMexican

    Oh damn, I used preferred symbols in a linguistic lexicon. Damn you and your logic Stefan!

  • I have an argument that preferred behavior does not exist:

    QWjii1•™@

  • Stefan, this is really too complicated. For example, you repeatedly said, "You can't just make stuff up". I think that's beyond the comprehension of the ordinary person. ;-)

  • You are an idiot! Why? because you said in the N. Korea and the Soviet Union only some people had property rights.

    This is idiotic, because people in those countries owned clothes, houses, and had the right to buy and own a car, if they had enough money. Yes, they went to work and earned money.

    How do I know this? I use to live there.

  • Well I prefer that this preference is the only preference that really exists. lol

  • preferred behavior exsits, but changes and morphs all the time......

  • @hweiglein

    No kidding. 

  • @bobbincygna

    No, UPB is universal. Proper language is just a subjectively preferable.

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