Please take care!

Thanks for the interactions. You left an impression on me. Keep it real!

19, 198, 1989, 19898?

Look, Americans are good people. They just don't want to live in fear despite bed fed it 24/7.

Must be the fluoride in the water or some nice chemicals in the air or bleach white bread.

None of which was his fault. You want more neocon New World Order shit?

Unless you're a volatility trader I don't see the upside. — Benkei

Well, supposedly in the long run we're all dead.

And then there's this:

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/403815

A comforting thought, eh? American lawyers are really closet Kantians, haha!

:cool:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/negligence

Definition
A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances. The behavior usually consists of actions, but can also consist of omissions when there is some duty to act (e.g., a duty to help victims of one's previous conduct).

Overview
Primary factors to consider in ascertaining whether the person's conduct lacks reasonable care are the foreseeable likelihood that the person's conduct will result in harm, the foreseeable severity of any harm that may ensue, and the burden of precautions to eliminate or reduce the risk of harm. See Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harm § 3 (P.F.D. No. 1, 2005). Negligent conduct may consist of either an act, or an omission to act when there is a duty to do so. See Restatement (Second) of Torts § 282 (1965).

Four elements are required to establish a prima facie case of negligence:

the existence of a legal duty that the defendant owed to the plaintiff
defendant's breach of that duty
plaintiff's sufferance of an injury
proof that defendant's breach caused the injury (typically defined through proximate cause)

No. Now it's time for you to give a definition of negligence. At the moment it's a moving target. — tim wood

No it's not:

https://www.google.com/search?q=negligence

Same shit in every dictionary. Fundamentally, a lack of care.

Chemical engineering man, I feel bad for those smart alek's.

130 USD subscription from Tesla for energy during the day, inflation + Tesla Bonds + fixed price, and you get something unbelievable. BTW, Tesla bonds are at almost 6% per year, is this really happening???

LEVERAGE THIS SHIT WITH A CREDIT CARD, HOI POLLOI!

Now you're confused and confusing. Not knowing the law is not exculpatory with respect to guilt - ignorance not an excuse! But you have to be guilty of something, first. — tim wood

Yeah; but, as a Kantian yourself, doesn't negligence stand as a form of lack of duty or its detriment? I've always viewed law in the US as neo-Kantian???

I am under the impression that in US law, negligence only comes into play when there already exists a prior positive obligation of care. — tim wood

Not really. Lack of knowledge about the law is a form of negligence in the US!

Negative. Unfucking believable.

I'm voting for him, coming November...

Both!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1972_film)

No. You gotta wake up sometimes. Solaris would turn your psyche into goo. You'd just be some anencephalic atrocity going from one dead fantasy to another. Life needs strife. — neonspectraltoast

But, life would essentially be fundamentally different. It would be a cosmic shift in being itself.

One where you get to live on Solaris.

A wallowsome situation about my credit. Ehh.

But, I'm pretty rich with karma!

Fox is reporting that it was a research project that escaped from a Wuhan lab...

I'm not sure what you're asking, or what about that text shows that 'Kripke is saying that de jure and de facto rigidity sometimes interchange.' — Snakes Alive

I believe this is best explained through the last portion of the text, in that;

"the length of stick S is not ridged at time t",

where,

"one meter" is a ridged.

Hey why not. Glad to see you in happy mode. — Baden

I'm happy because they started selling Cannabis based products at my local Shell station. Now, I get peace of mind for 3.99, which I'm considering switching to instead of the 2.99 USD Starbucks coffee.

Did you start this thread just so you could get away with more pork pics? :brow: — Baden

Well, it's been very quiet in this thread. So, I hope to present some happy pigs in the meantime until someone posts a pic or whatever they identify with...

Relaxing...

If he is reasoning emotionally, then demonstate it. — Coben

Don't take it from me. I'll let Hume have his say in the matter.

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.

Lol, I'm being called a troll over defending my own position. C'est la Vie.

So, you are arguing that those emotions invalidate pessimism. This means that emotions can lead on to rational conclusions, which is the opposite of the OP's position. — Coben

Well, there's this term is cognitive science called 'emotional reasoning' that deserves a mention here in my opinion.

I'm not sure if every emotion leads to the right conclusions, but it seems that getting along in or with life in terms of non-dysphoric attitudes results in what philosophers call a good life. Hope that made sense.

That's great but not quite relevant here. It's all to the man, ad hom. You have a metacritique of his philosophy based on an ad hom. And you have a kind attitude towards people who are depressed, which is also to the man, though here appropriately since it is focused not on arguments. — Coben

Uhh, I think everyone has emotions, so it seems appropriate here as far as I know. The question seems to me to be about the emotions that invalidate pessimism. Such as happiness or joy?

This is some of the most relaxing ambient music I have ever heard.

Am I a closet totalitarian?

However, I will say that there is no consensus about what morality consists in, so any definition we supply must be rather vague and all-encompassing. — Wolfman

I guess, what I'm trying to say is that if morality is so rife with subjectivity, then ethics should be of greater concern than what one might consider as "moral". Returning back to the OP, we often can say that a person behaved immorally or was amoral towards what would have been concerned as ethical.

So, I guess what I am asking is that if nothing can be said about what is moral due to its subjectivity, then I suppose the point is that ethics should be of main concern when discussing about what is moral.

I hope that doesn't sound like gibberish.

This is the last time, otherwise I am not responding to you on this thread. Look at all my answers throughout the thread. Also take a look at Inyenzi's thread, as I mentioned before. — schopenhauer1

Yes, excellent job explaining exactly what is going on here. — schopenhauer1

OK, so I will address what @Coben has said and which you agree with.

Namely, two points:

1. Treating philosophical pessimism as a meta-ethical issue.
2. Regarding treating emotions themselves as a means to ridicule or some pejorative towards the speaker him/herself.

Regarding, point 1, I have to say that this seems unavoidable if philosophical pessimism is based on emotions. And, if it isn't based on emotions, then I must have, either, am misinformed or comitted some logical fallacy.

Regarding, point 2, I believe that there's nothing wrong with addressing emotions as a source of power towards the notion that life is brutish and harsh, which I myself accept. Just recently, I started wondering why can't humans develop tolerance towards depression, which might as well be the first question I will ask God once I die.

I think of it as an aesthetic understanding of the world.
— schopenhauer1

Aesthetics? As in deriving joy in a position that discounts life itself? — Shawn

@schopenhauer1, please address this, as it was foreshadowing my recent questions.

OK, I'll try and address the issue of philosophical pessimism and emotions. I mean, how can you talk about philosophical pessimism without referring to emotions? Is that even possible? How do you address this facet of phil. pessimism?

Well, I'm not aware of a legitimate answer since, and feel free to call me a troll or whatever, you paint the issue with a large brush (gross overgeneralization). And I can legitimately use that term as emotions stand in high regard towards the issue of philosophical pessimism.

@Sam26, when you mention the arrangement of facts in logical space, please mention me.

Regards.

Sup, nice to see you around.

If ethics supercedes morality as the subject matter of inquiry, then why not say that all of morality begets in the domain of ethics? Or even otherwise, how do you explain the differences between the two concepts?

Honestly, I think you know that, Shawn.. It sounds like you are trolling me.. Trying to argue for arguing's sake rather than have much to say about it. You called me out, you wanted me to argue with you.. Here I am.. But why did you single me out on this one? Seems like trollish behavior, not in good faith, but to simply antagonize for antagonizing's sake.. but that's just a hunch at this point.. I'd like to see posts that show otherwise, but I'm afraid it's going to be tit-for-tat one-upsmanship and not a productive conversation.. But please prove me wrong. — schopenhauer1

Let me be brief and simply state what seems apparent about philosophical pessimism. Namely the slippery confirmation bias that a person might hold towards the world and it's structural features in regards to a sad existence.

Inherently, philosophical pessimism only makes sense when your sad IFF it really is based on a mood. Now, get this, does a philosophical pessimist implode when they feel happy. How do you rationalize THOSE happy feelings?

It seems from my Google-fu abilities that ethics supercedes morality.

So, what's with the difference between the two, subjectivity??

Whatever happens make sure he lays on his stomach to ease breathing issues. Google it.

What a cruel sickness. :vomit:

I wish you could build tolerance towards depression.

I'd have an insane tolerance to it...