I'll join.

Mainly because I'm using it to describe two different things.

1. The establishment of a maximum level of competition so that everyone will get more of what they want through this "simpler" level of competition.

2. Ensuring that the society is adaptable and is not overly fragile from too many ...

I'm not saying anything about simplicity being "right" or "good" because those terms are too unspecific. I'm saying that there are certain times when competition helps none of the parties involved (this is a fairly common concept in social contract ethics--it's not as if I'm pulling this out of a ...

You're right about that--I hadn't thought of it in quite that way. Simplicity says very little about how we should act because it assumes that we know what the consequences of our actions are (but if we knew that we would know how to act).

Of course, this is a common complaint lodged against any ...

Sorry if I haven't been clear--these things seem clearer to me than they actually are as I've spent so long devising and refining them and expressing them in ways that make sense to me. What I'm saying is that on national/global/societal scales there are such things as ethical actions--ones that ...

First, suggs, when I say simplicity I am referring to societal simplicity, nothing else. I already gave a fairly simple (no pun intended) definition of simplicity in the opening paragraphs of my first post. That is, societal complexity = arms races, societal simplicity = the social contracts (ala ...

I really like examples; keep coming up with ones and I'll try to come up with responses. Personally, I'm better at thinking abstractly, so I tend to not use examples as much as I should.

You're thinking of simplicity in all the ways it could possibly be used as a term, not the way I use it. I ...

What is love? I claim that love is the urge on the part of one entity to completely merge with another and therefore necessarily puts that entity's interests first. Thus, I do not think that true love can be anything but selfless as it is fundamentally oriented beyond the self. If you lust for ...

Simplicity is on a grander scale than utility--it allows for the intervention of governmental forces into personal lives only when things would escalate out of control otherwise. The individual should make decisions for himself taking into consideration utility (but only after simplicity, motivation ...

The theory itself is my own work. Of course, I make allusions to theories that I'm responding to that I have found to be insufficient descriptions of ethics (it's not as if I'm producing anything completely out of a vacuum here--I had inspiration). I'm very interested to here your views on the above ...

A while ago I tried to set up a pantheism thread and failed pretty miserably--the whole thing never rose above taunting on all sides. I realize now that it is not a good idea to try to deal with matters from the top downwards and so I've started this thread so that we can more rationally discuss the ...

I won game 2198326 as part of the boxing bracket.

I'll sign up for boxing. I have 1861 points right now.

I thank you for the civility present in your last post, Nate. I was getting the impression that everyone was growing fatigued of my idiocy and I questioned the motivations I had behind my continued action. If you, at least, enjoy this, I'll drop in from time to time and inject some new ideas I might ...

I never condoned evil action, Nate, I said you had to be willing to make the selfless, difficult choice when the time came. Yeah it really is a bummer that sometimes evil happens, but you can't simply deny that you'll ever get into a situation where morality conflicts with selfishness.

You say ...

As far as you, Khazalid, the soul has everything to do with the swirling vortexes of time in a reality of constant flux. Where change is constant yet form retained, inertia present in a field of overlapping interaction where such interaction becomes infinitesimally small and then quantized again out ...

You desire to spend time with them, Nate, but doesn't this by definition detract from the time in which you can worship God or to love a person in an impoverished country more deserving of love, perhaps, than some spoiled Americans who could do with a little character-building-suffering? Desire is ...

I suspect now that you are trying to goad me into revealing as much information as possible in a desperate attempt to see what you are rattling on about. If you want to ask me something, ask away. If you want to tell me something, tell away. Concealing the truth serves no purpose. By first statement ...

I'll be the first to admit that I have much to learn, khazalid, and many years before I mature. If you seek to promote the generation of reason in me by defying said reason, I would argue I have enough reason already through my faith and intuition in God. If you seek to be arbitrarily meaningless ...

I don't fear the blade, khazalid, and I don't fear truth. I suspect you're beginning to become silly for the sake of being silly as you are wavering from a path of simplicity, this is all well and good; I don't think anything should be taken all too seriously, especially the self. By networks? Don't ...

Huzzah! New blood! These old arguments were beginning to become stale. Of course I'll be your cyber buddy khazalid as long as such a relationship is one of formal exchange of information and selfless respect.

I see that people have come to a stop with quantum theory. I would say that quantum ...

Okay, so you don't advocate sympathy, you advocate love. I define love as selflessness and selflessness as indistinguishable from absence of desire . If you have a better definition of love I'm eager to hear it as this is a question I've often pondered.

I define intuition as the polar opposite of ...

Well then so be it--it is fixed. I do not claim to have complete knowledge of the English language. Once again, I am sorry everyone for the troubles my forum illiteracy has caused with regards to this poll matter. I am extremely far from being perfect.

To further expand upon my argument, Nate. I ...

You're exactly right, unriggable, in your assumption that sin is subjective if and only if, however, the fundamental order the universe displays does not have purpose and is merely incidental (see first page if you already haven't). I do not believe that homosexuality is any more of a crime than ...

Ah well, there goes that. I attempted to shamelessly make this thread more accessible to the Conquer Club masses by adding a poll. Needless to say my efforts went awry; if a mod could help, please do so. The gist of my intended poll was this:

Is it fair to say that you completely agree with me ...