Ceran Mathis

Agent-Indexed Virtue Ethicist | Humean Is-Ought Enjoyer | Subjective Moral Realist | Oikonationalist | Pedantic Fuck

[Ceran Mathis @CeranMathis]

@827js As important as it is to get facts right, whoever made this community note seems to think the primary objection here is the administrative technicalities of his release.
The issue is that this man continues to draw breath, such that he could be released at all.

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@CptAncapistan @TaxIsTheft0816 Rather unlibertarian of you. /s

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@Johnnyhand @DelusionPosting T-intersections without yield signs are usually implied stops, but those with yield signs actually do not require you to.
Granted, in practice, T-intersections have visual obstructions, so stopping is still recommended.

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@BasicHeresy @darwintojesus You have to demonstrate a proof by negation (not the same as demonstrating empirical non-existence, so you can’t shift the burden of proof anymore).

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@BasicHeresy @darwintojesus Now you can’t retreat to the motte of “simply not seeing evidence of God.”
You have made an affirmative case that either
A) God is logically contradictory
B) The specific theistic claims of God are logically contradictory.

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@ShadowTheAnCap @LibertytwtC When I list reality, I am specifically referring to first-order observations or invariant truths that are contingent, but contingent on things that will never cease being the case.

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@ShadowTheAnCap @LibertytwtC It may be true that if everyone would just, then your chosen system would work, but if everyone will not just, then your reasoned argument is irrelevant.
I’m not saying to dismiss any of the 3, but to harmonize them into one cohesive argument.

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@ShadowTheAnCap @LibertytwtC If you respond to reality with reason, you may dismiss truth in favor of systemic cleanliness and simplicity.
If you respond to rhetoric with reality, you may dismiss what could or should be because it isn’t yet.

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@ShadowTheAnCap @LibertytwtC Reason, rhetoric, and reality are 3 separate means of argument, and ideally, they should never cross because they don’t properly address one another.
If you respond to reason with rhetoric, you may end up arguing emotionally rather than logically.

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@QuasiDexter @LibertytwtC No, but he popularized the Categorical Imperative, which, at its core, is the principle that things ought to be treated according to their type, rather than as individual instances.
The issue is that it is not true that every instance of X is equal to every other instance of X.

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@FakeYellowSnake The particularly astute among you could identify my previous career choice from this map.

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@OhioMan8 @allisgood007 Christ was not a pacifist when it came to expelling people.

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@JD_Eblin @stargazeruk7 I want to abolish prisons.

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@Number10cat “We want X. We do not want the necessary conditions that will lead to X.”
Entire communities do not belong among one another, and it is their current proximity that produces these issues.

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@AlisDekay @Ungovernab1e Entering into Heaven isn’t a checklist that you satisfy, then you have a right to enter; it’s a conditional invitation, and nothing you ever do “earns it” in the transactive sense. The invitation is made, unmerrited, in the same way an invitation to your home works.

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@AlisDekay @Ungovernab1e To translate this into the libertarian frame so you can understand how this sounds to Christians, you’re making a similar argument to people who claim that housing is a human right.
Because God has the power to bring you into Heaven (His home), He is evil for not doing so.

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@AlisDekay @Ungovernab1e According to Privationism, being an unrepentant sinner permanently deprives you of the grace of God, and the deprivation of the highest good causes what we experience as the worst imaginable despair and torment

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@AlisDekay @Ungovernab1e The “stop existing” view, known as Annihilationalism, is common among Reformists and Adventists but is at odds with traditional scriptural interpretations.