@Gae Bolga I seem to have misplaced my copy of "The Geometry of Desert" and "La Géométrie", so you'll have to man'splain it to me a little better.
I didn't think I was talking about people getting what they morally deserve. I thought I was epistemologically examining the theory of justification for people's definition of respect and the effects that the respect affords. I don't really want to get into a big morality discussion on this thread Gae, but yes I believe all of those things. Yes those beliefs can change, yes my individual moral calculations can be altered by changing variables. Yes, we use different metrics and methods at different times for different tasks. I just don't see how I'm that far along in the conversation to discussing person deserves respect for x when I'm still trying to figure out what respect means to different people in the group, merely as a definition. I'm certain we'll get there though, you'll have to give me some time to get out my TI-84 and brush off some dust though.
I didn't think I was talking about people getting what they morally deserve. I thought I was epistemologically examining the theory of justification for people's definition of respect and the effects that the respect affords. I don't really want to get into a big morality discussion on this thread Gae, but yes I believe all of those things. Yes those beliefs can change, yes my individual moral calculations can be altered by changing variables. Yes, we use different metrics and methods at different times for different tasks. I just don't see how I'm that far along in the conversation to discussing person deserves respect for x when I'm still trying to figure out what respect means to different people in the group, merely as a definition. I'm certain we'll get there though, you'll have to give me some time to get out my TI-84 and brush off some dust though.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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