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Greatest I am
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Message 61 of 86 (819399)
09-10-2017 3:37 PM
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09-10-2017 2:07 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
The judgement of fitness is subjective.
The fact that there is a fittest human is objective.
Regards
DL

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ringo
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Message 62 of 86 (819400)
09-10-2017 3:52 PM
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09-10-2017 3:37 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
The fact that there is a fittest human is objective.
Then tell us how you determine that objectively.

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Greatest I am
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Message 63 of 86 (819401)
09-10-2017 3:56 PM
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09-10-2017 3:52 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Via subjective judgement.
How else can one differentiate between contestants?
Regards
DL

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ringo
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Message 64 of 86 (819463)
09-11-2017 11:37 AM
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09-10-2017 3:56 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
Via subjective judgement.
If the method is subjective, the conclusion is subjective.
Greatest I am writes:
How else can one differentiate between contestants?
Objectively you can't, which is what I've been saying all along.

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Greatest I am
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Message 65 of 86 (819466)
09-11-2017 12:26 PM
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09-11-2017 11:37 AM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Seems we agree on your last.
Not on your first in all cases.
The needs or good of the many outweigh the needs or good of the few must be judged subjectively but I think, since the conclusion is always for it. that might just be the only objective moral tenet I can think of.
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DL

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Message 66 of 86 (819467)
09-11-2017 12:28 PM
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09-11-2017 12:26 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
The needs or good of the many outweigh the needs or good of the few must be judged subjectively but I think, since the conclusion is always for it. that might just be the only objective moral tenet I can think of.
There is nothing more subjective than "the needs of the many".

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Message 67 of 86 (819474)
09-11-2017 2:12 PM
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09-11-2017 12:28 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
That is what I just said, yes.
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DL

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Message 68 of 86 (819534)
09-12-2017 11:36 AM
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09-11-2017 2:12 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
That is what I just said, yes.
So your whole premise about "fitness" is dead.

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Message 69 of 86 (819556)
09-12-2017 4:03 PM
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09-12-2017 11:36 AM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Eh, not that I can see.
How did you get to that from where we were?
Show the logic trail. Perhaps I missed something.
Regards
DL

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Message 70 of 86 (819572)
09-12-2017 11:37 PM


The revolting middles class, huh

  
Dogmafood
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Message 71 of 86 (819621)
09-13-2017 2:53 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by Greatest I am
09-10-2017 3:37 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
The judgement of fitness is subjective.
The fact that there is a fittest human is objective.
An individual is either fit or they are not. They either survive long enough to reproduce or they do not. There is nothing subjective about it and there isn't really a gradient to it.
Society is that part of our environment that we create over time and manipulate in order to improve everyone's odds of being fit. The fact that there are members of society who are wealthier than others might show that they have already benefited from what society provides. The mechanism requires that they put back into it and perhaps the real drain on society comes from those that refuse to do so.

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ringo
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Message 72 of 86 (819629)
09-13-2017 3:50 PM
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09-12-2017 4:03 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
Show the logic trail.
You admitted it was all subjective. QED.
Now YOU show the logic that bridges from subjective opinions to objective conclusions. Show us how you get reliable conclusions from unfounded premises.

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Message 73 of 86 (819725)
09-14-2017 9:26 AM
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09-13-2017 2:53 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
ProtoTypical
"An individual is either fit or they are not. They either survive long enough to reproduce or they do not. There is nothing subjective about it and there isn't really a gradient to it."
If alive, all have a level of fitness. I do not think we can say that someone has no level of fitness when they are fit enough to survive.
Reproduction is important to the whole species of course but in our human one, individual reproduction is not paramount or required by our fittest metrics, which is usually determined by other factors such as wealth, which a fittest could pass on to his family so as to increase their fitness and allow them to reproduce if they are fit in that area.
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DL

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Message 74 of 86 (819726)
09-14-2017 9:28 AM
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09-13-2017 3:50 PM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Ringo
What unfounded premise?
Regards
DL

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Message 75 of 86 (819733)
09-14-2017 11:35 AM
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09-14-2017 9:28 AM


Re: Dumbest We Are?
Greatest I am writes:
What unfounded premise?
The premise that you can tell who is "fit" and who is not. You admitted that the judgement was subjective; therefore the premise is unfounded.

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