Greetings! I noticed that y'all noticed that we noticed you! lol

I can't find the search function on this forum. Is my brain on the fritz? Surely there must be a search function somewhere?!

Anyway, apologies if this has already been covered. I suppose I could do a Google site search, but this is more fun.

Question: Has Molyneux's book Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics already been systematically critiqued? I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I'd love it if someone can point me to an example.

If it hasn't been thoroughly, er, commented upon, I figure I'll take up the task myself. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Theres a couple threads on it. In the index there is an entire FDR place the thread in it called the molynuex? project was the most systematic but never finished. It references the main site where a member bloged his entries. He grew tired of the project. Especially after being kicked off FDR for debating UPB.

I think there is a way to search this site but I don't know how. I just read whats current.

Its here:
http://liberatingminds.forumotion.com/freedomainradio-f26/the-molyneux-project-t456.htm

Thanks a bunch.

Ah, so presumptuous of me! So sorry! lol

You guys, what the hell? Is the enemy of our enemy our friend? Pay attention, this guy's an asshole.

So tell me skidoo, since someone threatening to leave a conversation also counts as "coercion" and therefore our lives are fraught with coercion, how about I jumpkick you in the balls if I don't appreciate the conversation? Afterall, it's just a difference in amount but not in kind, right? You can't say that the jumpkick to the balls sanctions any kind of defensive action if threatening to leave the conversation does not.

So let me get this straight: between a threat to leave a conversation and a jumpkick to the balls there's only a gradation (and not a line), and at some point it's acceptable to defend yourself with physical force. Ok, who chooses what is that point? The person being "coerced" by the threat of being ignored? Or the person making the threat of leaving? Someone else?

Someone else? Does that include me?

I must say that the above conversation makes NO SENSE whatsoever to me. I guess I'm missing a lot somewhere and so I should just keep my mouth shut. But rather than do anything as rational as that, let me instead ask you two to speak in English for a change and quit spashing piss all over my desktop - my fingers are starting to slip off the keys and it's getting smelly in here.

- NonE

Is my english bad? Please correct me if so. And hey, gimme a break, I haven't lived in the US for 17 years.

Well, pardon me if you took that as an insult. It was not intended as such. It was simply my stating that the metaphors you are using are not connecting with any pictures in my head and thus all of your perfectly good English words are totally failing to communicate any coherent ideas to my brain. It could be simply that I have dropped in on the middle of a conversation and I need context for it to make sense. It could also be that you are trying so hard to be "cute" that you don't care if what you are saying communicates anything to anyone outside of your tiny circle. I don't know. All I know is whatever the hell it is that you are trying to say is not worth my time to get past all of your testosterone to try and decypher.

- NonE