back to the beginning: morality

I think you do give consent to see opinions you disagree with and dislike and it’s part of your motivation to come here. IOW it might hypothetically have been, the first time you read one of his posts, a consent violation, but it wasn’t. So, it’s not a test.

So, you choose to read posts that you disagree with and dislike. And you know what his posts are like or might be from early on and yet repeat.

I think not either. On the other hand, as I think I said elsewhere, he is being a consequentialist, and sees it as a lesser evil, and since he is not raping you, if even violating your consent, it is a small consent violation, even if it is one, with the goal of minimizing the acceptance of consent violation in general. Most moralities allow for lesser evil actions, even up to carrying out justified military conflict.

I get the position you are trying to put him in, but it seems kind of coquettish and not true that he violated your consent. I don’t think you actually experienced it that way. I think you enjoy a good scuffle.

I think you’re having a good time. I see you running back to the bar, where your alleged rapist is and you wanted to test him - that is, in your analogy, have another sexual act with him - again and again, and continued after allegedly being raped.

And you play to the gallery about his rapes of you.

I ain’t buying it as a test. I think you like a little rough trade. Not cause of your outfit, but because, shit, you keep seeing this guy. I see you around the town, having a good time, smiling, holding onto his arm, and running back to that bed with him.

Are you claiming battered women’s syndrome?

You just don’t meet the pschological criteria.

I think that his ‘consent violation’ morality is nonsense. But if he believes that it is correct, then he ought to be able to apply it when someone states that his consent is being violated.

And my consent is being violated given the way that he defines the term. (It’s not the way that I define it.)

I’m using his concepts, not mine.

I ignore him most of the time. I don’t read most of the threads on this site. But he came into this thread and suddenly he is in a cat fight with Iambig. Even if I had him on ‘foe’, I would still see him being quoted by other people.

Okay, if he is in a thread about morality in a philosophy forum and he is proposing an objective philosophy, then let’s see how it works.

Sounds like you are giving him too much credit.

I’ve gone from participating in almost every forum on this site, to reading 4 threads and posting in 2. I’m having less of a “good time”. I won’t go into the reasons but you can guess about some of them.

You’re not the only person in the world phyllo, it’s that simple.

Again, you speak false to power, I speak truth to power.

I have a moral obligation to spread the lesser of two evils.

You say that consent violation is good (false to power) I say that it’s bad (truth to power)

I’d be more evil if I was like you, rather than like me.

I dare say phyllo, your bluster is not fooling anyone, you’re victimhood is histrionic counter intelligence.

We need more intelligence in this world, not counter intelligence.

What about my consent being violated by you?

Didn’t expect that did you?? When you were attempting to undermine my logical consistency ?

So we’re violating each other’s consent, right?

My argument is simple, that existence even allows this to occur in the first place makes it objectively evil.

What should I do KT?

I don’t have him or anyone on ‘foe’ so this thing popped up on my screen. It has my name all over it and a load of false statements.

Yeah, I know that.

I never said that.

I think that ‘existence’ doesn’t violate consent and inanimate objects don’t violate consent. And the majority of times when people can be seen as violating consent, it’s not even a moral issue. (Like when when I want a new car for $10 and the dealer won’t sell it to me for less than $25000.)

Sure, there are moral situations of consent violation, but you don’t even deal with that in this discussion. You’re almost entirely focused on dumb shit.

I’m only a victim within the context of your bizarre morality.

Right. Iambig’s conflicting goods.

But you don’t deal with that at all.

Sigh. Existence isn’t alive. Existence doesn’t ‘know’ or ‘care’ or have the ‘capacity to act’ or ‘allow/not allow’.

Therefore existence can’t be ‘evil’ in any meaningful sense of the word.

What do you want to do?

If you don’t like reading his posts, stop. If you are truly afraid your reputation will be besmirched, report him or argue. Maybe a walk in nature would be the best option. I don’t know you well enough, but I feel oddly unworried about you reading or not reading his posts. I may be missing the gravity of the perpetration.

If I say, I didn’t want that, I’m saying that it violates my consent. AGAIN!! You are insisting on anthropomorphising consent, whereas, I am not; existence doesn’t need to be alive or sentient to “I didn’t want that” to people, also meaning, “existence violated my consent”, “existence is morally wrong”

You have refused to admit that your insistence that I leave ILP is as bad, you think it is good, thus you argued that consent violation is good. I think it’s bad that we BOTH don’t get what we want, you think it’s only bad if YOU don’t get what you want. Read your own posts! Now you’re talking about reporting me? Big time victimhood card here when all I’m doing is using clean, non ad hom logic.

I am doing something about it, I’m naming it, that’s the first step towards accomplishing something. You refuse to name it, you absolutely refuse to admit that existence is morally bad, objectively so. You’re also projecting on me, you’re the one not doing anything about it, same with iambiguous - you both refuse to name it.

I also have very strict codes of behavior to avoid no means yes relationships. I am doing something about it phyllo.

I’m also working on hyperdimensional mirror realities on spiritual planes of existence, which is very feasible.

I know what Ecmandu is on about here, but here is not the place for him/you Ecmandu to resolve that conflict within… it is a personal journey, and a journey for one, that others cannot get a ticket for or even be privy to the route and final destination. There are no spectator tickets for such journeys… they simply do not exist.

It is something that cannot simply be wished away but worked through, but in the meantime, yes… your consent/boundaries will constantly feel like their being violated.

He is not imagining it, though it is borne in imagination, and then becomes a reality that only that person can work through to resolve what is happening.

I’m not anthropomorphising anything.

Yeah, people don’t get everything that they want in life. That’s not immoral.

Did you learn nothing from Iambig’s constant talk about conflicting goods?

Seriously, how do conflicting goods get resolved in your objective ‘consent violation’ morality? (Aside from using hyperdimensional mirror realities)

I didn’t say anything about reporting you. But technically calling me evil, dishonorable and comparing me to a psychopath are grounds for reporting you.

After you are done naming it, people are still not going to get everything that they want.

One needs to learns to accept that fact and live with it. Calling existence ‘evil’ is counterproductive.

He can travel on that personal journey and stop acting like he is better than everyone. And he can stop calling people psychopaths and sociopaths.

I didn’t call you a psychopath, I called uccisore a psychopath, and that I am guessing iambiguous is one as well.

I call them mutually exclusive consents, what iambiguous less accurately calls conflicting goods.

Why are you so offended by being called evil by default of the way existence currently works.

If someone calls me evil (a subset of evil existence) I’m not offended.

Do you have any philosophy to post?

If not, then we can wrap this up.

Hey yo you better wrap that shit up, E.

You’re too afraid to say objective morality exists and that it disproves a good god right now.

You and iambiguous conflict on many levels …

But this is where you two come together …

Burying your heads in the sand.

Every post you make keeps getting refuted …

All you seem to have left is, “this isn’t philosophy”

My posts are the definition of true philosophy.

The light of truth scares you with its brilliance

…a fair exchange.

Ecmandu! does that work for you?

It’s kinda fair. I mean, I’m not offended by being called evil, or so ignorant about certain things that I may be unknowingly psychopathic.

Why should I coddle the reverse fantasy in others?

Is it your place to do otherwise? a healthy respect for others’ boundaries all round, goes a long way.

This is an interesting area.

It makes the species a better place for every person who names truth “existence is currently evil”

Just naming it, if nothing else, gives us more power for good, however slight it may be.

So the question here is “who is holding good boundaries?”

Me or the nay sayers?

I understand trying to please everyone, trust me, I do.

I’d be disrespecting phyllo and iambiguous to not teach this stuff, I’d be infantalizing them.

This is the most diplomatic way I can put it to phyllo and iambiguous…

I’m inviting you to a different dimension than you’re currently in: you refused the invitation

Just don’t pretend that you came to the party when you didn’t.

At first, heightened intelligence is crushingly horrendous… but as time transpires with it, you’ll find that obstacles wither away, and you enter a state of bliss that is rare … maybe it doesn’t more than make up for the struggle, but it is wonderful.

Those are my words to phyllo and iambiguous

All parties can be failing to hold good boundaries.

Are you respecting yourself and your own boundaries when you try to teach this stuff (to them, to various individuals)? Are there not people who should be infantalized? Or better put, since that sounds like you are making them, or the hypothetical people, infantile: are there not people who are infantile, and when one interacts with them as if they are not, you are not holding good boundaries?

And, of course, it need not be infantile persons. It could simply be people who will judge or attack or belittle you or whatever, but who are not, in general, infantile or defensive or in denial or whatever.

When does exposing yourself to the memes and judgments and aggression or engaging with false discussion become a boundary issue for you?

Between us I mean this as something to mull over. Not as an opportunity for you to state that all is well in the republic of your soul and that you got this.

The internet make confident statements and denial so potentially facile.

Oh, I have a very simple answer for this:

Just as existence is currently evil, and thus, we being subsets of existence are also evil, there are means of the lesser of two evils.

The same is true for infantilism.

Yes, in my own right, I’m an infant, I don’t deny this.

There is a vast chasm between people who name and people who sublimate and deny.

I gave the factual answer to the OP.

All iambiguous has done is complain about the factual answer to his question.

How are you going to make the cosmos a better place when everyone is continually having their consent violated
Do you not see that consent violation is a necessary condition for existence which is why it cannot be eliminated

Avoid it by all means but you cannot be rid of it entirely while you are still alive
The only way to eliminate it is through death and ultimately through extinction