What could make morality objective?

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Terrapin Station wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:16 pm
Peter Holmes wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:12 pm Can I have a gold metal too? Sic!
The better ironic pun for Skepdick would have been "meddle."
All that glisters is not gold. And that includes sparkly paradoxes and contradictions.

I commend your patience and kindness. Perhaps the dick-troll is the Caliban that must be acknowledged.
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Rather than "communication is multi-dimensional" (Skepdick)I'd prefer 'communication is achieved through many media'.

Thus pointing and other body language is a communication medium as animal lovers well know. actually if some man cannot understand body language then he is socially disabled.
All the arts are communications media.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:16 pm
Peter Holmes wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:12 pm Can I have a gold metal too? Sic!
The better ironic pun for Skepdick would have been "meddle."
Is that because he lives on the dark side of the moon? Or is he merely obscured by clouds?
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Belinda wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:56 am Rather than "communication is multi-dimensional" (Skepdick)I'd prefer 'communication is achieved through many media'.

Thus pointing and other body language is a communication medium as animal lovers well know. actually if some man cannot understand body language then he is socially disabled.
All the arts are communications media.
I've never been a stickler for nomenclature.

Mediums. Spaces. Contexts. Dimensions. Communication channels. I use all of those interchangeably.
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Skepdick wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:37 am
Belinda wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:56 am Rather than "communication is multi-dimensional" (Skepdick)I'd prefer 'communication is achieved through many media'.

Thus pointing and other body language is a communication medium as animal lovers well know. actually if some man cannot understand body language then he is socially disabled.
All the arts are communications media.
I've never been a stickler for nomenclature.

Mediums. Spaces. Contexts. Dimensions. Communication channels. I use all of those interchangeably.
No shit. That's why your posts are so confused :lol:
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Peter Holmes wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:40 am I commend your patience and kindness. Perhaps the dick-troll is the Caliban that must be acknowledged.
Don't acknowledge me, my mommy loves me enough as it is.

Acknowledge the fact that what you call "trolling" is my mirroring your use of language.

I don't know if what I am doing is "trolling", but you seem to recognise yourself in me...
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Sculptor wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:38 am No shit. That's why your posts are so confused :lol:
My posts are confused?

Idiot. That's an anthropomorphism.

Way to demonstrate your own confusion! By projecting it onto my posts. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Skepdick wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:41 am
Sculptor wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:38 am No shit. That's why your posts are so confused :lol:
My posts are confused?

Idiot. That's an anthropomorphism.
QED. :lol:
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Sculptor wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:02 am
Terrapin Station wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:16 pm
Peter Holmes wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:12 pm Can I have a gold metal too? Sic!
The better ironic pun for Skepdick would have been "meddle."
Is that because he lives on the dark side of the moon? Or is he merely obscured by clouds?
Nice one.
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Skepdick wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:37 am
Belinda wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:56 am Rather than "communication is multi-dimensional" (Skepdick)I'd prefer 'communication is achieved through many media'.

Thus pointing and other body language is a communication medium as animal lovers well know. actually if some man cannot understand body language then he is socially disabled.
All the arts are communications media.
I've never been a stickler for nomenclature.

Mediums. Spaces. Contexts. Dimensions. Communication channels. I use all of those interchangeably.
But words have affective connotations!
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Belinda wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:34 pm But words have affective connotations!
Only once they float away outside the context of the two interlocutors.
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Sculptor wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 6:27 pm
Skepdick wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:41 am
Sculptor wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:38 am No shit. That's why your posts are so confused :lol:
My posts are confused?

Idiot. That's an anthropomorphism.
QED. :lol:
I accepted your confusion before you even demonstrated it.

But if you insist.
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We can explain the affective connotations of words, just as we can explain their denotations. These are language games. But explanations come to an end. Anxiety about circularity or infinite regress - that no saying says it all - is cured by the saying.
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Peter Holmes wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:12 pm We can explain the affective connotations of words, just as we can explain their denotations. These are language games. But explanations come to an end. Anxiety about circularity or infinite regress - that no saying says it all - is cured by the saying.
Medice, cura te ipsum.

Explain the effective connotations and denotations of the way that you use the word "explain", rather than going in infinite circles.
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Explanations come to an end.
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