On 2 Aug., 15:38, George Plimpton > wrote:

>
> >>>>>>>>>> Yeah, yeah, you've tried that shit before. *It has to be better or worse
> >>>>>>>>>> *for* someone or something that has a welfare that can be evaluated.
> >>>>>>>>>> Saying that "it's just better" is nonsense.
>
> >>>>>>>>> So you claim, although you appear to just be asserting it without
> >>>>>>>>> argument.
>
> >>>>>>>> I've given the argument before. *You know I'm right. *"Better or worse"
> >>>>>>>> as you're claiming "some philosophers" use them is an ethical
> >>>>>>>> proposition, and that requires someone with a welfare state to
> >>>>>>>> experience the outcome - someone to be the subject of the ethical outcome.
>
> >>>>>>> Well, I don't remember any argument,
>
> >>>>>> Your brain has a number of crippling defects; poor memory is only one such.
>
> >>>>> I have an extremely good memory.
>
> >>>> No, you don't. *You've forgotten all about how I demolished your
> >>>> contention that "better or worse" can obtain independently of anyone
> >>>> experiencing them.
>
> >>> I do have an extremely good memory.
>
> >> No, you don't.
>
> > Do you think there's any possibility that I might be in a better
> > position to know than you?
>
> No.
>

People in the grip of delusions often refuse to consider any
possibility that they might be wrong.

> >>>>>>>>>>>> You were the one who exhibited psychosis.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>> In what way?
>
> >>>>>>>>>> <chortle>
>
> >>>>>>>>> It's a shame you don't feel like answering the question
>
> >>>>>>>> <guffaw>
>
> >>>>>>> Do you think I have delusions?
>
> >>>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! *Yes, many.
>
> >>> What are some examples?
>
> >> A delusion of competence, for one. *A delusion of being an ethicist, for
> >> another.
>
> > I do not believe that I am an ethicist
>
> You fancy yourself one.

You live in a fantasy world.

A delusion of competence in what domain?