Hah! Nudnik wins again.Indeed so. Annoying, but i completely agree with this. — unenlightened
This might be specific and not general — Hanover
In fact, I'd go as far to say that there is an equivocation error throughout because the word "trust" changes meaning when the prepositional phrase is added. I trust you to be here at 9 am means I expect you'll be here at 9 am. It has nothing to do with an assessment of your veracity, but just my expectation. But, if I say "I trust you," that's an assertion of my belief in your honesty.. — Hanover
Companies are even more predictable than the weather as long as you know what feeds the bottom line. — Baden
Then you're saying a company is an inanimate thing. — Metaphysician Undercover
The problem with human influence is that what feeds "the bottom line" might change, but with the weather it always stays the same. The question then is how much of this is publicly disclosed, or to what extent can the company hide the exact nature of what it feeds on. A company must be endowed with some capacity for privacy to provide competitive equity. — Metaphysician Undercover
Yes, companies can maintain privacy on certain issues and can mislead and manipulate us, but the 'rules of the game' are largely transparent and the playing field in full view. — Baden
So, yes, they might fuck around a bit with our data but they won't deliberately give us the wrong result when we search for a cake recipe. In other words, the contours of the trust landscape are well-defined. — Baden
Sorry Un...
... jumps off bandwagon and exits stage left. — creativesoul
and a large portion of the blame lies with the moral relativism/nihilism of much modern philosophy. — unenlightened
People do not give an iota of a damn about the prevailing mood of academic philosophy — fdrake
philosophy percolates through social science that again most people ignore, and from there into think tanks, and so to political rhetoric and media headlines. — unenlightened
Seems to me the prevalent mood of philosophy is deflationism and silentism on the big questions rather than nihilism/relativism. "Whereof one cannot speak..." etc. Whereas the prevalent mood among the populace is a mixture of obliviousness, confusion, and cynicism. — Baden
agree with this, but philosophy percolates through social science that again most people ignore, and from there into think tanks, and so to political rhetoric and media headlines. — unenlightened
Calling yourself a democracy or a republic or a representative form of government carries the burden of doing what's best for the overwhelming majority. It also demands an immediate redress and subsequent correction when it doesn't. — creativesoul
Thats a really attractive slogan. What of the protection of minorities? What you have there is the tyranny of the majority, the dictatorship of the proletariat, or rampant populism.
I'll give you another slogan. The form and makeup of a government is less important than its moral stature. A good king would be better than a corrupt and venal populism, which loves to persecute minorities as scapegoats. — unenlightened
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