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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

6AA4FD wrote: post #278

jessriedel wrote: post #251

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> it's still unproductive to dismiss someone who disagrees out of hand. My original comment was the opposite of an out-of-hand dismissal. I thought about what he was proposing, carried it to it's logical conclusion, and showed that it was flawed. I then invited him to propose a fix. No fix has been suggested. > I think it's more appropriate to carefully listen to the compassionate concerns of others than to try and d…

It's true that many moral intuitions we have end up seeming immoral when we reflect on them further, but this says as much about our difficulty with reasoning morally as it does about the supposed immorality of our moral intuitions. I think it's naive to assume that philosophical or logical approaches have a monopoly on morality. That being said, I also think it's unproductive to outright dismiss any moral appeal on…

Post by 6AA4FD » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 8:21 AM UTC

jessriedel wrote: post #282

6AA4FD wrote: post #280

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That was absolutely not my intent, do you mind clarifying what part of my post you are referring to?

The arguments I advance aren't just wrong, they're "naive". (There is a useful non-combative useage of the word "naive" regarding ideas, but that's not how you're using it here.) When I disagree with people, I am "dismissing" and "denigrating" them.