So the theist claims that the atheist has no incentive to follow a set morality. Which is hard to argue: if the atheist can act morally only with reference to changeable incentives, then the particulars of morality can change.
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Plato’s Footnotes
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Plato’s Footnotes
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” -A.N. Whitehead
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The real debate, to me, is whether the content of morality actually can change. The atheist does have incentives—social pressure and personal tastes—to act morally. But the theist likely finds this an insufficient morality because social pressure and personal taste are fleeting.
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I think people are talking past each other: Most frame this debate as about incentives. “The atheist lacks incentives outside personal preference to be moral,” the theist says. True. But the same may be said of the theist—his personal fear of divine retribution guides his belief.
wanye@xwanyex
This is the tamest, most obviously true thing I have ever posted
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@platosfootnotes Extensive caselaw from SCOTUS holding NDD doesnt apply to DC or Territories.
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Fun fact to consider for the "federalizing of DC" discourse: Nondelegation does not apply to DC. Congress could, in fact, pass a statute that says, "The executive shall go forth and govern DC." I think that is actually what they should do.
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@TradVat2 Note, I would probably agree that it is not an extensive limitation on legislative power, but I would think that the limitation, even if slight, would extend to all of Congress’s exercise of power. Or am I wrong about that?
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@TradVat2 Why would the NDD not apply to DC? Wouldn’t the NDD simply be a limitation on the extent of legislative power—even legislative power over plenary matters?
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For some people, the money is beside the point. They have an ambition to be great, and material comfort cannot compare (for them) to the thrill of industry.
For others, they have a singular goal that they must accomplish through business.
Still others just like money.
Bob@Bob247874
Surely once you hit like 20 million you can just be retired until you die? Not to be a culturally protestant puritan moralist wowser or whatever but I just can't get what the point is lol
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However, a truly bright student excels at all the subjects.
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Some of this, I think, is that teachers of the humanities do not treat the subjects with the rigor they deserve.
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@JFennellAuthor I still find the OP’s initial response to the situation odd (to simply state, “Well, not everyone’s going to vibe, so that’s that!”). But I was not privy to the OP’s and student’s relationship, so I can’t cast aspersions!
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@JFennellAuthor Helpful response, thank you! I feel that the phrasing is terribly odd, but I see what OP was getting at.
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Genuine question—what is a prof supposed to project if not expertise and authority? I respect letting students have opposing ideas and profs taking a back seat in classroom discussion.
But in a college setting, I expect to have expert guidance to help me grow intellectually?
dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her)@aliciaandrz
a few years ago I had a student that hated me so much it radiated off her. she wanted a prof to perform expertise & authority & that’s just not me. on the last day of class she came up to me & said “I’m scared you’ll give me less than an A because you know that I don’t like you.”
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@Paul_Heron_ I wonder if advertising can ever produce truly good art (regardless of politics). It always seems that beauty will be secondary to the advertiser: if the ugly induces people to buy, then that is good enough for him.
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They went so far in the anti-woke direction it ended up funny.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
American Eagle shares have gained 10% today (adding $200 million of market cap) after unveiling a new ad campaign fronted by Sydney Sweeney. Based ad campaigns are back, and wokery is gasping for breath. Take note Jaguar.
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Perhaps it means giving the student “right answers” that she can mechanically apply. But, even then, the prof should use expertise (in a nice way) to explain why that approach fails.
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Not an attack on the prof above—just not sure what’s wrong with a student wanting guidance? And perhaps that’s not what the prof means by “expertise & authority.” But not sure what else it could mean.
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@PhilipDBunn I once used an AI detector to compare an AI-generated work and a human-written one. The detector found with 98% certainty that the human work was AI-generated, but only 33% likely for the AI-one. Genuinely shocked me.
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I wish more professors would do this with their own work! I hear far too many people who are wildly overconfident in what these "detectors" can prove.
Connor Ewing@ConnorMEwing
Just put a paragraph of a current manuscript into one of those AI detectors. Welp.
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@jimmy_esq (Though I suppose my mention of Morrison is a bit misleading since Arthrex doesn’t really rely on Morrison.)
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@jimmy_esq I could be wrong, but I took Edmond and Arthrex to consider removal by an executive officer other than the President as evidence that the removable officer has a “superior” to oversee the inferior officer. So in that sense, AG removal would indicate the U.S. Att’y is “inferior.”
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@HellenicVibes Do you have any thoughts of why that was? It’s quite interesting that, even in other times of crisis (Civil War, WWII), America never had a political class with quite the same intellect or ambition.
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The founding generation were world-historical political thinkers. It’s almost certain that we’ll never reach that level of human capital in government again.
Rota@pli_cachete
I am reading through The Federalist papers and some of this shit is just insanely prescient. Like the foresight exhibited by these young men is something I never could’ve done in the same environment
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