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ChrisWWII wrote:We stayed on debate of dolphins for a while, then we switched over to arguing sentience 'cause someone claimed we shouldn't kill dolphins because they're so close to being humans they might as well be humans. THEN we switched again to debating morality,....How I don't know, but it did. I think the morality debate is only like...3 pages long. Dolphins lasted much longer.

Has anyone else noticed it's been a while since Gailbraithe has posted? Usually he's posting refutations and arguments left and right.

Maybe he's tired of trying to enlighten us poor, unwashed, uneducated victims of the corporate brainwashing machine?

Question: What makes Kant so special that we should take his views as gospel? There are notable Philosophers with differing views that are equally viable. Isn't the very act of following Kant's Categorical Imperative a subjective choice?

Monster Rain wrote:

ChrisWWII wrote:We stayed on debate of dolphins for a while, then we switched over to arguing sentience 'cause someone claimed we shouldn't kill dolphins because they're so close to being humans they might as well be humans. THEN we switched again to debating morality,....How I don't know, but it did. I think the morality debate is only like...3 pages long. Dolphins lasted much longer.

Has anyone else noticed it's been a while since Gailbraithe has posted? Usually he's posting refutations and arguments left and right.

Maybe he's tired of trying to enlighten us poor, unwashed, uneducated victims of the corporate brainwashing machine?

Question: What makes Kant so special that we should take his views as gospel? There are notable Philosophers with differing views that are equally viable. Isn't the very act of following Kant's Categorical Imperative a subjective choice?

Maybe...maybe. Who knows? I'm guessing we'll see him back soon...he doesn't seem the type to raqequit a debate.

I don't know why he loves Kant so much....according to him Kant was single handedly responsible for the Enlightenment, as well as building the foundation for Western law and civilization with his own two hands. ...Of course that's HIS interpretation of it. Basically, Kant is important and inspired some other philosophers, and people disagree and edit him till today, though I guess Gail just loves Kant's outlook on life, and chose to embrace it, and since he's embraced it, everything else MUST be wrong, yah?

Monster Rain wrote:
Question: What makes Kant so special that we should take his views as gospel? There are notable Philosophers with differing views that are equally viable. Isn't the very act of following Kant's Categorical Imperative a subjective choice?

Not if you're Kant, but then Kant postulated that his Imperative was the natural consequence of the unique space occupied by humanity within creation. Since this is basically an appeal to God, it isn't surprising that, as you've noticed, the most common criticism of the Categorical Imperative is that its not categorical at all, but egotistical (used in the philosophical sense).

ChrisWWII wrote:Has anyone else noticed it's been a while since Gailbraithe has posted? Usually he's posting refutations and arguments left and right.

I was banned for five days. After I finally responded to a long string of insulting emails from him and told him to "go feth yourself," Dogma told the moderators I had physically threatened his life -- because clearly, telling someone flooding your inbox with inane insults to go feth themselves is a dire threat against their physical safety. Or, you know, dogma is more than a little dishonest.

So apparently this is his tactic for dealing with being ignored. He sends me daily insults for a week, and when I finally have had enough to tell him to go shove it, he reports me for having "threatened him." So basically, when it comes to social interactions and strategies, dogma thinks like an annoyingly bratty little sister. Poking and poking until you swat his hand away, and then crying to mommy that you tried to beat her up.

I'd resume the actual argument, but at this point it seems like beating a dead horse.

Gailbraithe wrote:I'd resume the actual argument, but at this point it seems like beating a dead horse.

Hey now. That horse was a douche. Did you hear what he said about sea biscuit? He deserves a good beating