On Aug 2, 4:38*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 8/2/2012 6:56 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> > On 2 Aug., 15:38, George Plimpton > wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
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> >>>>>>>>>>> So you claim, although you appear to just be asserting it without
> >>>>>>>>>>> argument.
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> >>>>>>>>>> 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.
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> >>>>>>>>> Well, I don't remember any argument,
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> >>>>>>>> Your brain has a number of crippling defects; poor memory is only one such.
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> >>>>>>> I have an extremely good memory.
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> >>>>>> 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.
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> >>>>> I do have an extremely good memory.
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> >>>> No, you don't.
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> >>> Do you think there's any possibility that I might be in a better
> >>> position to know than you?
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> >> No.
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> > People in the grip of delusions often refuse to consider any
> > possibility that they might be wrong.
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> You were the one who exhibited psychosis.
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>> In what way?
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> >>>>>>>>>>>> <chortle>
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> >>>>>>>>>>> It's a shame you don't feel like answering the question
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> >>>>>>>>>> <guffaw>
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> >>>>>>>>> Do you think I have delusions?
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> >>>>>>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! *Yes, many.
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> >>>>> What are some examples?
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> >>>> A delusion of competence, for one. *A delusion of being an ethicist, for
> >>>> another.
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> >>> I do not believe that I am an ethicist
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> >> You fancy yourself one.
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> > You live in a fantasy world.
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> No. *You *do* fancy yourself an ethicist. *You've even boasted of having
> been invited to give "talks" on ethics, as if you're qualified to do so.

No, I don't. However I am qualified to give talks on ethics.

A delusion of competence in what domain?