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isn't moral truth determined by people making moral judgements?

Sam Harris doesn't like this idea, lol. "morality is wellbeing!", well then what is wellbeing to a bad person? it's all relative

i generally like reuters so i submitted feedback (bottom of reuters website) regarding that article in the hopes that something will come of it. i agree that it does seem very weird to do

i mean that assumes that Republicans are an ethnicity. any Democrat concerned about "race suicide" can just become a Republican. (of course this is actually dumb)

i read that article, and the only concern in legalized abortion was the possibility of forced sterilization programs, and this is an incredibly unlikely event for the U.S. in this current time, as it would assume that certain ethnicities are not free to choose their party.

even if that was eventually the plan, that kind of insanity would call for a pretty obviously needed revolution, even among many Republicans who have non-ethnic principles.

what she said isn't actually a good idea of course.. but the point of the meme is that she is more or less saying the exact same thing as "people who choose to want abortions should be allowed to get abortions!" since being a Democrat or Republican is a choice. this is literally pro-choice in a cloak. lol

i'm Canadian though so i have no fkin idea who Ann Coulter is (i thought this suggestion was a joke actually), but if she's Republican, then this goes against the common Republican pro-life narrative, because she's offering abortion as a choice to anyone at all, then this is effectively the pro-choice position.

i do chaotic neutral cause it's essentially neutral evil but with at least the illusion of a more secure seal

lawful neutral, then chaotic neutral when i lose the thingy

i don't think it matters how expert of an opinon one has when considering confidence on whether someone truly existed or not.

being an expert in history wouldn't help you confidently confirm that anything you read wasn't part of a big popular information conspiracy unfortunately.

their examples of Shakespeare, Socrates, etc. are much more strongly suggestive of being true because of a larger sample size of "historical evidence" from people claiming to exist at the same time as those who wrote about them, and the several events popularly known to be directly caused by them, and not some 50 years removed gospels which may very possibly have been hear-say. (told indirect information, then made a claim based on that)

regardless, it pretty much doesn't matter in philosophy whether someone exists or not since the important thing is the idea associated with the person. the issue is that theology is associated with Jesus, and since theism is a confident belief position, it just doesn't make a ton of sense to live and believe by historical evidence alone. i think complimenting historical evidence with empirical science is a lot more reasonable

to me this would be like if someone had a box, and i really wanted to know what was in it, and they told me it was a carrot and sent me off. now i can believe it was a carrot because they were right there and if they were honest then it should be a carrot in the box, but to personally commit myself to that belief, i would have the see inside the box myself.

jeez you gotta close some tabs, but also "existing historically" literally means that it's essentially hear-say whether Jesus existed or not, which in my opinion is incredibly weak evidence.

historical evidence never claims to be proven evidence, you're incorrectly interpreting it to be that way.

none of the four gospels even make the claim to be eyewitness to Jesus!

what you claim is "all the reason to believe" is literally an indirect assumption(and cope) that, "well the writers must have at least known someone who knew Jesus, because that is the only way they could have obtained that information!". this assumes the information wasn't made up narratively.

i find it weird that you attacked the very idea of asserting that the gospels never witnessed Jesus when there's nothing to directly suggest so even from the gospels themselves...

your logic is literally "4 people wrote about Nosferatu, therefore Nosferatu can be historically assumed to exist."

you can worm your assumtion even deeper by also making the claim that "anything that looks like what people describe to be Nosferatu is, IS Nosferatu", which is a massive logical fallacy.

even something like a direct eyewitness account of what appears to be a real a man transforming into a bat would not prove that man was Nosferatu....

hell, this wouldn't even prove that the man was a vampire as opposed to a zillion other narrative shape shifting ideas which are more accurate in describing what truly happened, or even that the person turned into a bat at all! it could have been an incredibly clever magic trick.

history is ultimately an incredibly unreliable source of true facts. there are some things in history we can be reasonably sure of, such as the evolution of language, in which historical texts themselves would count as a sort of evidence if we can confirm the age of the texts, but otherwise, evidence has to confirm history, not the other way around..

i heard someone put it well, that if you had to fight a court case to prove that Jesus existed, you would lose based on hear-say and a lack of evidence, as well as having a ton of reasonable doubt for anyone claiming John Wick or whoever existed based on words in a book alone.

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the critic reviews have always been complete dogshit. too many movies get 100% or 0% on rotten tomatoes.

if i'm not mistaken IMDB ratings are only user based, and in my opinion, i almost never disagree with IMDB ratings and i think it's because it has a vastly larger voting group to get a more accurate viewer consensus even if a small number of critics give a 0/10 or 10/10