Max

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  1. Max
    That depends on how you define "free will". But whatever your definition may be, Bob's argument is sound and consistent with his framework.
  2. Max
    And that's complaining about government education...
  3. Max
    I don't see the problem. You can very well act according to certain moral rules without believing that you can *derive* those rules from physical laws.
  4. Max
    Neither is there proof that Zeus doesn't exist, so the question of the existence of Zeus is also empirically up in the air. I just keep it simple and say that both don't exist.
  5. Max
    In that sense every nonsensical statement also follows from physical laws, states or properties. That makes your statement rather meaningless. What Bob means is of course that you can't *derive* morality from physical laws, states or properties.
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  7. Max
    I guess I just no longer believe in fairy tales.
  8. Max
    Nope, the correct spelling in German is "Donner" and "Blitz", plural "Blitze". As in Bach's St Matthew passion: Sind Blitze sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden?
  9. Max
    Ah, the libertarian utopia, where people no doubt are also free to masturbate in public. I live in the real world, however, where I have to deal with other people with different opinions, and where compromise is inevitable, especially in cases where standards cannot be proved to be "correct". The viewpoint "therefore no standards at all" won't get you very far, I'm afraid.
  10. Max
    I'm not suggesting Rand's personal tastes should be the universal standard. I only don't see how we could abolish all standards. Necessarily those will be more or less arbitrary, in some places rather liberal, in other places more strict. Nothing wrong with that. We can just laugh about the actions of the more prudish ones, unless a small but aggressive minority will try to force its views against the will of the majority (which for example is becoming a problem with muslim immigrants in Europe).
  11. Max
    I think the picture or statue of a nude woman isn't in itself what is usually called "sexually explicit material", so I don't see a contradiction in Rand's viewpoints here.