Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

Software Engineer | Theistic Philosopher | Roman Catholic | Introvert | My opinions are not my employer's https://t.co/N573SkLyTa github.com/kingsley-einst… Lagos, Nigeria Joined October 2017

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

14 hours ago

For the sake that even the powerful need to be reined by reason and incentive, we should not idealize an evanescent morality even though the thought of potentially maximal freedom from laws and a transient justice seems alluring.

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

14 hours ago

It is further necessary that such a critical system is overseen or layered by an impartial and authoritarian will. An eternal set of laws that are either passive or impassive does not alleviate the stewing chaos baked into its absence.

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

14 hours ago

Even if we had no propositional way of knowing that morality is objective, for practical reasons, we should hope that it is. There is a higher motivation to rebel against man-made systems or categorizations that appear synthetic from the outside.

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Leophilius @MartinTweats , or any units of storage representing content are all-around identical across processing mediums (i.e. the brain, the central processing units of cloud-powering hardware, etc.), not just at the surface but in substance. Also, there was a time you were not thinking your tweet.

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Leophilius @MartinTweats The implication of the statement "things do not move between non-existence and existence" is that your tweet always existed. However, you might claim the tweet existed as mental content and only switched locations but you'd still have to demonstrate that bits or bytes 1/

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk given. And as I said, mental contents that translate to value judgements or personal beliefs could be tracking objective facts but our perspectival limitations prevent us from knowing this with absolute certainty, hence your claim would need a demonstration. 2/2

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk Now that we understand the structure of our respective arguments, demonstrate that moral claims are simply claims of preference or value. Most people who make statements like "stealing is wrong" do not typically mean "I personally hate stealing". They take it as an objective 1/

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a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk @Thedukeistheman

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk My apologies. I've just realized we're actually using "opinion" in two different senses. I'm using it in the first sense of "personal belief". I don't mean something with truth value that cannot be evaluated.

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk internal state of mind (fact). It could be that my love for philosophy is momentary or situational and I'm yet to encounter actual philosophical challenges that override it. 2/2

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk False. Opinions are not JUST or ONLY expressions of value or preference. "I love philosophy" is both an expression of value and a fact claim. How? 1. Doing philosophy correlates to my sense of good or what is worth doing (value). 2. I am stating an opinion about my 1/

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk what I perceive as just, or meaningful, or beautiful. 4/4

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk any of those. A statement like "God exists" is both an opinion and a value claim. This is because the content of the opinion is very relevant to my sense of meaning or purpose. I'm not simply making a claim about reality but the truth value of the content determines 3/

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Kingsley Victor @java_warrior

a day ago

@Thedukeistheman @Justineetuk False. Opinions are not just expressions of values or preferences. "I love philosophy" is an expression of value/preference and also a fact because it is true that I love philosophy. "Water is made of wood" is a fact claim but also an opinion in the right circumstance.