Karpel Tunnel wrote:A third problem is really not understanding how people think at all, and this can include oneself. So, one thinks one has demonstrated something when one has not. This generally shifts over into blame and labeling quite quickly. I said it perfectly, so you are a moron or are evil.
From my own vantage point, the reason many need to deem me a troll is because I expose the objectivists here among us as neither moronic not evil.
Instead, my argument is that, in regard to moral and political value judgments, there are no brilliant or moronic philosophers/people...there are no good or evil philosophers/people.
Instead, there are only value judgments rooted subjectively/subjunctively in moral and political prejudices. Prejudices themselves rooted in dasein, in the existential life that one lives.
A life examined in my signature threads culminating in this:
If I am always of the opinion that 1] my own values are rooted in dasein and 2] that there are no objective values "I" can reach, then every time I make one particular moral/political leap, I am admitting that I might have gone in the other direction...or that I might just as well have gone in the other direction. Then "I" begins to fracture and fragment to the point there is nothing able to actually keep it all together. At least not with respect to choosing sides morally and politically.
In my own subjective/subjunctive view, the objectivists here are most perturbed by me to the extent that [consciously or otherwise] I confront them with the possibility that this might be applicable to them too.
They have so much invested over the years in their own rendition of the "psychology of objectivism". The "real me" in sync with the "right thing to do" allowing them to make that crucial distinction between "one of us" [the good guys] and "one of them" [the bad guys].
Look, I've been confronting moral and political objectivists now for years. Reactions of this sort from them are old hat stuff for me. Also, I still recall so vividly by own experience with losing that "objectivist feeling".
It's just that with Karpel Tunnel, he is not an objectivist at all. I puzzled over why he would react to me in turn as the objectivists did. Then it dawned on me. And what dawned on me prompted me to create this thread: https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop ... 1&t=196034