What is the highest principle?

[Skepdick]

don't forget peacock

Nah, I get to self-define.

That's your label, not mine.

[henry quirk]

no, slippery fish, my seat is far too hard for you...stay in the water

You must be trying to catch me if you think I am slippery.

no, small fry aren't interestin' 'cept as they swim in bowels and nibble at food on the surface

they all end up in the same place: swirlin' down

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Nah, I get to self-define.

yep

That's your label, not mine.

yep, which I'll apply as I like

[Skepdick]

yep, which I'll apply as I like

That's the spirit. Don't pretend you care about "reality" or some such bullshit

All arguments are smoke screens for our desires

[henry quirk]

yep, which I'll apply as I like

That's the spirit. Don't pretend you care about "reality" or some such bullshit

All arguments are smoke screens for our desires

I don't care for anti-realism (slipperyfish-ism)

my positions are blocks of granite

'nuff said

[Skepdick]

my positions are blocks of granite

Yes, dogmatic.

We know that

[henry quirk]

my positions are blocks of granite

Yes, dogmatic.

We know that

solid & real & sane

[Skepdick]

my positions are blocks of granite

Yes, dogmatic.

We know that

solid & real & sane

Dogmatic, irrational and self-deluded.

Saw it, recognized it, named

[henry quirk]

Yes, dogmatic.

We know that

solid & real & sane

Dogmatic, irrational and self-deluded.

Saw it, recognized it, named

finally, he gets categorizin'

[Skepdick]

finally, he gets categorizin'

Too bad you don't grok that an infinite number of categorization-schemes are possible!

Infinite labels. All of them correct.

[henry quirk]

finally, he gets categorizin'

Too bad you don't grok that an infinite number of categorization-schemes are possible!

Infinite labels. All of them correct.

Nope.

For example: there aren't 52 or 74 or 103 genders. There's just 2.

You can create 52 or 74 or 103, but, unless you're writin' fiction or craftin' a thought experiment, it's overkill and hooey, cuz there's only 2 to recognize.

[Skepdick]

Nope.

For example: there aren't 52 or 74 or 103 genders. There's just 2.

You can create 52 or 74 or 103, but, unless you're writin' fiction or craftin' a thought experiment, it's overkill and hooey, cuz there's only 2 to recognize.

Henry,

I recognized 8 billion genders.

Your recogniser must be broken.

[henry quirk]

Nope.

For example: there aren't 52 or 74 or 103 genders. There's just 2.

You can create 52 or 74 or 103, but, unless you're writin' fiction or craftin' a thought experiment, it's overkill and hooey, cuz there's only 2 to recognize.

Henry,

I recognized 8 billion genders.

good on you

must not have a lotta free time (or, mebbe, you have too much)

either way:

[Skepdick]

good on you

must not have a lotta free time (or, mebbe, you have too much)

either way:

Sure. I got time.

Need help fixin' your recognizer?

[henry quirk]

good on you

must not have a lotta free time (or, mebbe, you have too much)

either way:

Sure. I got time.

Need help fixin' your recognizer?

nah, I'm good

[Immanuel Can]

A poster, elsewhere, sez: I am pretty sure the highest principle is "no harm". Morality.

What say you?

One thing wrong with that is that it is negative. An ultimate principle would have to be a positive, not what one must refrain from doing, but one must do to be doing right.

The second thing wrong with that is that it makes the ultimate principle, "social." That would mean the ultimate moral principle does not apply to how an individual lives his own life, only how he relates to others.

Both of those are wrong.

Yep.

I second that.