poplargrove
@poplargrove@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
That would be terrible because they are both some of the best academic publishers in the humanities.
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
Doubt it. People would still post revenge porn, unconsensually filmed stuff or leak e.g nudes that were meant for each other and not the public. Because the motivation there is not money, it would be to humiliate, for example.
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
It seems people missed the “with wives” part. Generally speaking, your wife is not going to be terribly pleased with you ogling or getting off to other women. And violating that is what makes these men count as weird.
- Comment on Old school shitposting 3 months ago:
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 3 months ago:
Could it be me who doesnt know what metaphysics is? No, a whole sub-field of philosophy is actually useless and none of them see it.
Also hilarious seeing “philosophy” referred to like its a single you can use and not a whole field including everything from ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, etc.
- Comment on [Trailer] "The Glassworker" : Pakistan's First-Ever 2D Animated Film 6 months ago:
I’ts honestly hilarious that a Pakistani movie only seems to have white characters.
The description of jinn as being made of smokeless fire along with some being good and others bad, are exactly the Quranic descriptions of them, so its nice seeing some of the creator’s culture make its way to the film.
The disputed territories I imagine are a reference to Jammu and Kashmir. One of the characters called the dispute “idiocy”, interesting.
- Comment on Here is my dog, Oscar. 7 months ago:
Looks just like mine! I find it adorable when he chants the 15 muted praises for the bound ones. His little eyes rolled back, mouth drooling ☺☺☺
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 7 months ago:
What does it even mean to bruteforce creating art? Trying all the possible prompts to some image model?
The approach people take to learning or applying a skill like painting is not bruteforcing, there is actual structure and method to it.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 7 months ago:
Being able to put out lots of works isn’t the same as being able to come up with good, meaningful art?
- Comment on And the most popular man in the whole Fediverse is... 7 months ago:
This
- Comment on Math and Physics Majors 8 months ago:
When it comes to the U.S (it doesn’t seem to mention employment rate) Mathematics was 11th place in the highest paying majors 5 years in according to an NY Federal reserve study last month: cnbc.com/…/highest-paying-college-majors-5-years-…
- Comment on y'all get gamer leg too? 9 months ago:
Would be nice if you could mark this nsfw, it’s pretty disgusting.
- Comment on I would like to see the manager 10 months ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
When Christian fundamentalists dictate weird rules for what women should wear, let’s condemn them.
When Muslim fundies do the same, (going much further in fact) let’s accuse the poster of hate 🙃
- Comment on gatekeeping 11 months ago:
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- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 11 months ago:
Hahaha how original and not playing on something totally made up.
My gender is attack helicopter??!!
- Comment on Show some respect. 11 months ago:
SMH they snuck trans agenda past us
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
This is the definition Ive found people use when they bring up cultural relativism. Whether informally with stuff like “you cant judge them, its just their culture” or when more fleshed out. As far as I can tell, no, ethicists for and against cultural relativism are discussing something quite in touch with reality.
The author who is an important figure in metaethics, its much more likely theres something you missed than him being wrong about a basic definition in a field he is an expert in.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
I’m not really sure what to reply with.
“Skywalker theory” (so far identical to error theory) isnt what the post or the discussion is about. The meme is pretty clear it is about cultural relativism and clear about what it means by cultural relativism.
If you want to bring your own objection to moral realism, sure, but it makes little sense hijacking the definition to mean something entirely different and being unhappy this wasnt what the term others were using meant.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
Cool down.
You are thinking of nihilism (specifically error theory it seems - that there are no moral facts and people are wrong for thinking there are) because relativism (whether relative to subject or culture) doesnt deny that there are moral truths, just that they are only correct for the individual or culture that holds them.
Cultural relativism: The view that an act is morally right just because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and immoral just because it is forbidden by those ideals.
Ethical subjectivism: The view that an act is morally right just because (a) I approve of it, or (b) my commitments allow it. An action is wrong just because (a) I disapprove of it, or (b) my commitments forbid it.
Same book as the other comment of mine you replied to.
So, no, I didnt get it wrong. And the consequences I pointed out do follow from cultural relativism.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
Sure but what Matt is suggesting would mean we can hold something completely wrong or even absurd as a moral framework but just so long as we use it consistently.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
If that consequence is unacceptable, that probably just means you think cultural relativism is bullshit.
I can share a link to get the book, the context is quite short.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
When I asked if slavery was right for them, I wasnt trying to describe their attitudes. I am saying that a consequence of thinking cultural relativism is true is that you must admit that they were correct in the attitudes they held (because their culture agreed it was right).
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
I shared that quote to show that OP’s seems to know what moral relativism is, and their objection is something actual ethicists point out. I dont see what its got to do with how many people in the comments here are relativists.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
Believe what?
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
OP worded it badly, but you should be arguing against what they probably mean, not a strawman. Consensus obviously cant mean every single person agreeing, its about what the widespread view in the culture is.
So, how would you reply? Was slavery correct in the past because thats what the cultural view was? If a society is mysognist are they right?
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
No they understand just fine. Here’s a quote from an ethics book that gets at the same issue:
The extreme sexism at the heart of honor killings is but one of many examples that raise doubts about cultural relativism. After all, societies are sometimes based on principles of slavery, of warlike aggression, of religious bigotry or ethnic oppression. Cultural relativism would turn these core ideals into iron-clad moral duties, making cooperation with slavery, sexism, and racism the moral duty of all citizens of those societies. The iconoclast—the person deeply opposed to conventional wisdom—would, by definition, always be morally mistaken. This has struck many people as seriously implausible.
Russ Shaffer-Landau - The fundamentals of ethics p.293 (“Some Implications of Ethical Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism”)
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
If the standard you use isnt true (or is relative), no matter how well you use it in figuring out what to do, all your moral judgements will be wrong (or just relative)
My point being it has “objective” in there but not in the way that matters.
- Comment on Is there a reason I should donate a kidney to a stranger now, rather than just waiting till I die, at which point both kidneys will probably be donated to strangers anyway? 1 year ago:
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
Even if not entirely accurate, here’s a passage of satirical theology from Terry Prachett’s Small Gods that I absolutely love:
There were all sorts of ways to petition the Great God, but they depended largely on how much you could afford, which was right and proper and exactly how things should be. After all, those who had achieved success in the world clearly had done it with the approval of the Great God, because it was impossible to believe that they had managed it with His disapproval. In the same way, the Quisition could act without possibility of flaw. Suspicion was proof. How could it be anything else? The Great God would not have seen fit to put the suspicion in the minds of His exquisitors unless it was right that it should be there. Life could be very simple, if you believed in the Great God Om. And sometimes quite short, too.
