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Christianity EtcRe: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by johnydon22(m): 3:48pm On Jun 27, 2019
HappyPagan:
alright, are you on twitter?
Lordreed, anyone?
Yes. @Johnysky22
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 3:46pm On Jun 27, 2019
fieryy:
Offsprings with close relatives increases the risk of genetic and birth defects by significant amount in just one family. That's the reason why it's illegal in most countries.
True

The problem of kids being disabled might bkt be a moral problem, but you having a relationship with someone knowing the risks and implications that come with it, is a moral one.
If the implication is a moral one.

This is how something works for a philosophical problem.

If you posit a claim
You establish the logical train of thought behind it.

But yes not every sexual relationship leads to pregnancy BUT every sexual relationship CAN lead to one.
This is the implication:
Your argument is built around the morality of a Union that is likely to create a defective child

Primary premise: Being in a union that will produce a defective child is immoral

Secondary premise: This Daughter and father have a Union where they have taken measures that make pregnancy impossible - Is it still immoral?

Secondary premise 2: This two unrelated couple are AS genotype, is their sexual relationship therefore immoral?

You see? Your premise didn't really fault the act of incest, it faults the consequence hence when you eliminate this consequence, can you still say it is immoral? When this consequence is observed in a non-incestous relationship, is it still immoral?
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 1:26pm On Jun 27, 2019
Olorunnim:
How please explain is it not a moral problem?
It's a medical problem not a moral one.

I thought that much would be pretty self explanatory.
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 1:17pm On Jun 27, 2019
tartar9:
Lol...but slaughtering them like animals embarassed and using them for peppersoup is consensual right grin

Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 1:16pm On Jun 27, 2019
tartar9:
Lol...but slaughtering them like animals embarassed and using them for peppersoup is consensual right grin
But they are animals. Lol
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 1:15pm On Jun 27, 2019
fieryy:
Oh my gosh, seriously?

Do you want your kids to be disabled?!
The problem of kids being disabled isn't a moral problem

Moreover you are assuming every sexual relationship leads to pregnancy
Christianity EtcRe: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by johnydon22(m): 1:12pm On Jun 27, 2019
LordReed:
Hey johnydon22, what's your take on the death penalty?
I think it shouldn't be a thing
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 1:02am On Jun 27, 2019
jesusjnr:
I think it has to do with numbers and a measure devised to curb or limit sexual immorality.

For instance a man sleeping with his own blood sister is a step closer to a father sleeping with his own daughter.

And there were instances recorded in the Bible where a sister married her brother and it was acceptable, but never a parent sleeping with his own child.

So probably incest being labelled immoral in Mosaic laws is just to reduce the chances of parent-child sex than that between a brother and sister.

For there's a way you'd observe it and see that we're all blood related, so all sex should be incest, but it's not so probably because incest is meant to provide that safe distance between those who are more closely related, so as to reduce the chances of parent-child sex.
So, incest isn't really wrong except Parent - Child incest?
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 11:21pm On Jun 26, 2019
Olorunnim:
Morality is a fluid subject it's a cultural thing what's seen as moral and okay in my culture may not be in yours And the world is becoming smaller cultures intermingle and ideas are exchanged, So I can't be the one to say what's moral or not
You can actually, social ideas are decided by pockets of isolated subjective beliefs...

So, you definitely can say what you find to be moral or not and why.

Moreover this is more of a philosophical exercise - saying what you think and scrutinizing it.

Like I said again to me it's a No No.
It's immoral then to you?
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 9:43pm On Jun 26, 2019
Olorunnim:
Scientifically speaking it's dangerous for the sake of the children such Union begets, But Again it has been in existence since time immemorial Asian middle Eastern And Even some European countries Engage in such acts But for me it's a No No I'm not the judgemental type So I won't condemn or praise Anyone Who engages in such Act,Live and let live.
You didn't really say whether it is right or wrong.

Sounds to me like you were trying to avoid taking a position on the issue.

- Having a moral position isn't same as going against the principle of live lets live - i don't really understand where that statement comes from when moral issues like this is being discussed.
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 9:41pm On Jun 26, 2019
JeromeBlack:
This is a waste of time. A lot of Nigerians cannot put forward a logical argument.
The hope is that they might in the course of tackling such difficult problems, learn to makd logical arguments.

So, do you have a position on the issue raised?
Christianity EtcRe: Moral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 9:40pm On Jun 26, 2019
tartar9:
Well,if you think homosexuality isnt wrong and support gay rights then incest or bestiality shouldn't be wrong either.Live and let live,isnt it undecided
Lol. How is this an argument on your part.

The question was straight forward, bringing homosexuality into it is effectively making a different argument.

So drop that.

Is incest wrong?

If yes, why?

If No, why?
Christianity EtcMoral Problems: Is Incest Wrong? Why? by johnydon22(op): 7:40pm On Jun 26, 2019
So, let's see how this moral question can be effectively treated.

Is incest morally wrong?

If Yes.

Why is it morally wrong?

If, No.

Why?
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 9:06pm On Jun 24, 2019
budaatum:
If Jamiu can perform a miracle to "change everything about Jamiu to match what is typical of women right down to the genetic level", who would argue with her that she's not a woman?

We will perform all valid checks to truly ensure a miracle happened however. No one is pulling a TBJ on this lot!
Thank you.

People don't understand there is a difference between " I want to be this" and "I am this"

"I want to be this" shows you know you really aren't this hence aspires to be.

"I am this" makes a claim that you are something and given the reality on ground, it can be factually wrong or right.
TravelRe: Helicopter Picks Billionaire Stuck In Traffic For 2 Hours On Lagos-Benin Road by johnydon22(m): 9:02am On Jun 24, 2019
Dudeweedlmao:
Johnydon22 why does the helicopter fan look like its slowing down ot even going anti-clockwise when the heli is about to take off?
The blades has jerked up some degrees above its initial position.

Happens to most wheels Even car tires.
Christianity EtcRe: How Did You Conclusively Assert The Existence Of The Immaterial? by johnydon22(op): 3:53pm On Jun 23, 2019
sonmvayina:
ghost exist.....dont ask me how i know....lol
You sure know I will. Lol

So how?


is the earth hanging on something or just floating in space?...
I don't know

there are so many instances that 'wao' our physical reality..that we simply cannot push aside.there are things beyond the physical that seems to affect us, that no amount of medication can get rid of...
Things like?


i think no one can claim any concrete knowledge of the immaterial realm as there are many possibilities as the population of the earth, i think it will be stupid for us to ignore it or fooolish for us to claim the opposite.
Here is the problem; The sheer definition of immaterial makes it intangible, undetectable and unknowable, doesn't this fit the definition of Nothing?

people are already finding it hard to grasp the singularity of the dual concept..not to talk of one billion possibilities..
We will come to that on a different thread
Christianity EtcRe: How Did You Conclusively Assert The Existence Of The Immaterial? by johnydon22(op): 3:50pm On Jun 23, 2019
tartar9:
Those higher dimensions follow from the equations.They seem to be necessary consequences for consistency in nature.
You still making a claim without establishing a logical string that led to this conclusion
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 6:42pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
Okay, so who decides what is true?
Facts (Reality)
Definitions (in terms of ideas)
Logic (Improves likelihood of a truthful approximation)

So, the question should be What or how is truth determined.

Who is begging the question because it already assumes a who determines truth.

Humans don't determine objective truth, they observe it. And in Aristotle's quote "Asserting that, that which is, is, is true. Asserting that, that, which is not, is, is false.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 5:32pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
It may be naïve to you but then you're neither an authority nor the person who makes the rules.
Nope, I'm not. There trinities such as
1. Facts
2. Logic
3. Definitions


This kind of ties into my position. You say you're right. You believe you're right. If I gather 20 people and they all agree that you're wrong, are you wrong or still right?
Nope. Argumentum ad populum doesn't necessarily mean true.

Truth is truth whether the whole world doesn't believe it.
Lie is a lie whether everyone believes it.

So, a man believing he is a dog, is obviously believing a lie hence deluded.

Whether the whole world agrees with him on this or not has no bearing on the objective fact in consideration.

Belief has no bearing on truth in the face of facts.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 4:20pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
That you don't agree with my assertions don't make them infantile or naïve.
True. They just have to be elementarily wrong (something that such a person discussing a subject should know about the subject but doesn't) to be infantile.


You can't be judge, jury AND plaintiff.
You can simply show the person how and why their statement is naive which i did.

I've been civil throughout this discussion but hey, guess I can't expect everyone else to be the same.
Again, no one is impervious to frustration over naive comments on a subject you supposedly are discussing.

naïveté isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 4:17pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
Here's a small analogy. If I wear an outfit and I say it looks good but 10 people say it doesn't, who is right?
10 people.

This still doesn't fit into the analogy you are trying to describe.

Use this instead.

Muhammadu Buhari is the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

You say you are the president.

Are you really?
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 3:27pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
Quick question: which identity is more valid; the identity people have of themselves or the identity other people give them?
Non-arbitrary identities aren't granted by anyone.

This question is completely non sequitur.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 3:26pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
Well you've introduced an element of agression and I'm not about that life.
Frustration over very infantile or naive comments happen from time to time.

I'm not impervious to such feelings on the extreme cases.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 2:16pm On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
It's supposed to be a discussion not an argument. If you choose to make an argument out of it, hey, you're right. We can end it now.
A discussion contemplating two distinct points carried by two or more agent is an argument.

Argument doesn't mean aggression. It means a distinct point or reason
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m):
paraltero:
But when it comes to identity, there is no fact!
Jesus! To be honest, statements as this makes me want to hit my head on the wall, it shows the person I'm discussing with either have not given what he is saying a great deal of thought or he downright don't understand it enough to discuss it.

Let me try one more time to break this to the utmost elementary level.

Identity in fact is and can be factual.

There are two types of identity.

1. Non-arbitrary identity
2. Arbitrary identity

1. Non-arbitrary identities are the type of identities that have inherent qualities grounded in physical reality. E.g; Mammal, lion, cat, human, vertebrae, male, female, Caucasian etc.

You don't decide this for yourself, you simply find it out because this identifies are inherent physical reality.

You are not human because you said you are, you are human because you are a homo sapien - A definite state of being.

You cannot be a lion because you simply aren't a lion, you cannot be a horse, you cannot be a snake - This type of identity isn't interchangeable since it isn't personal in the first place, you simply fall into a distinct physical characterization.

This is factual.

2. Non-arbitrary identity - Types of identity not grounded in objective inherent physical definition or characterization.

Name
Country
Title
Etc.

And even though this is more of a belief and less of an objective, it can also be factual

Here is how; President of the republic of Nigeria is an arbitrary identity.

You are not the president of Nigeria.

If you are say you are - This is factually incorrect

Identity's uniqueness is that it is whatever it is.
Uuuuhm No, it can be self granted in some cases of arbitrary identities but non arbitrary identities aren't self granted.

The perception of identity can be factually incorrect or correct.

There is no default, no template, no standard. All identities differ, no matter how slight the differences might be. So if there is no standard for is, how can you tell something isn't? So if a human believes he is a dog, then by all intents and purposes, he is a dog mentally.
If a human believes he is a dog, he isn't a dog, he is simply a human who believes he is a dog. Belief have no bearing on reality.

Delusion: Belief in something that has been shown to be factually incorrect.

A human who believes he is a dog, is factually human, so his belief is factually incorrect.

At best, he is deluded, at worse, mentally deranged.

If you believe you are the president of Nigeria now, you are factually incorrect, hence subject to delusion.

Your position is the exact same on people use to attack gay people, talking about "oh, most humans are straight so being straight is the standard and homosexuality isn't natural so you guys are wrong and abnormal".
Lol. Humans have 10 fingers, it is ok to have 12 but it doesn't mean it's not an anomaly.

Humans have 1 head, a tiny minority come with an aberration of having 2, it's an abnormality.

Humans have 46 chromosomes total from both parents, some have more (down syndrome) it's ok, but it's an aberration.

Biological abnormalities happen.
Mental abnormalities happen.

Saying something is biologicallly an anomaly isn't same as saying it is not okay.

Jesus! The day truth becomes an attack and needs to be shushed to protect feelings, we become a society ruled by lies.

Which why many people here are atheistic or skeptics.

Stop the strawman, this your argument have no bearing on what we are discussing, neither is it relevant. It is a totally different argument.

Statements of facts aren't moral positions. Nawa o.

Premise oga, stick with the premise

Budaatum, see what you talked about people manufacturing something that isn't your argument in their head and arguing over it?

This even after homosexuality has been shown to exist in nearly every species. That something isn't usual doesn't make it unnatural, but that's a digression.
#Sighs. What is your argument here?

If it's taken that identity is unque and there's no true state for identity, it means all your position falls back to biology.
Pretty sure i have shown you how identity works and how it can be factual or not

Now I asked if your position is still tenable if human biology itself can be changed.
Yes. Because there is a difference between "I want to be this" and "I am this"

If you even understood the argument, this question wouldn't be necessary
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 11:37am On Jun 22, 2019
paraltero:
So what then makes the sex of a person? If you agree that sex is set at the chromosomal level, then it's no longer a delusion if someonce can change that, right?
Delusion is believing you are this when you are not.

However, I'm getting the impression that you feel sex is set at both the chromosomal level and the mental/conscious level too.
Uuuhm, No. Identity is mental.

And identity can either be factually wrong or right.

However, consciousness is sexless and genderless. It can be anything at any time. It's our consciousness that chooses how we percieve ourselves at any time and if our conscious self decides it's a horse, and the subconscious agrees with it, then for all intents and purposes, the person is mentally a horse, no matter what anatomy, physiology and morphology say.
Exactly and when your mental perception of yourself is factually incorrect, it's delusion and mental problem at worse.

If your mentally see yourself as a horse, it doesn't make you a horse but it affirms something is mentally off with you.

So it still boils down to chromosomes and if that can be tweaked, I don't believe there's delusion.
Human sex is biological
Identity is mental.

Identity can either be factually correct or not - A human who knows he's human is factually correct.

A human who believes he is a dog is factually incorrect.

When identity isn't factually correct, it's delusion at best and mental problem at worse.

It's like saying because someone has undergone a kidney transplant, the person is kidney-less because the kidney that's now there is not the one the person came with. Is it the person's original kidney? No. Does the person have a kidney? Of course!
Imagine the false equivalence. Lol.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 10:21pm On Jun 20, 2019
LordReed:
Actually you've shown how you define gender which means you are already diverging and creating your own paradigm, similar to how you are accusing others of doing.



They do, a pupil is any human child in primary school, a cook is any adult human who prepares meals, none of these roles are defined by their sex.



Yes indeed but are you the arbiter of what social convention is or we all collectively deciding where we should go?



Indeed you shouldn't care what someone calls themselves and I doubt anybody is interested in forcing you into a position where you have to pass delusion as truth.
How i define gender? Lol this is the part i stop talking.

Adult - Human - Male

Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 10:19pm On Jun 20, 2019
budaatum:
It seriously does grin grin grin They can assign themselves dog. Pig is already taken. Or futuristically speaking, Venusians, or Martians. They will be assignable specie one day.
There isn't anyone who is reasonable that cannot really see how science can be a huge mass control tool.

It's sad that many people miss the point of science that as long as something comes with "Science said" it becomes true.

Any form of idea that has political or economic implications and is under the control of an authority can be used to further the agenda of this authority when they decide to.

I am a leading voice in science in the world, I invented another type of fabric and i want to sell them, i can simply tell the people that research shows their conventional clothes is harmful to their health. They'd believe it because? Science!
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 10:05pm On Jun 20, 2019
budaatum:
They are categorically affirming that DNA XY or XX do not define who they are.
You don't choose this things anymore than you decide to be either an elephant or a goat.

Isn't this in fact affirming the point? Having a belief that is not factual is delusion.

A human can decide that his genes which makes him human doesn't define him so he'd rather identify as horse.

Is it delusion? Yes.

Is he at liberty to have this delusion? Yes.

When authorities censor scientific individuals and coerce them to affirm that this delusion is in fact not a delusion, is this right? No.

Is this mass control? - Yes.

Does this betray a political agenda? Yes

They are the Ubermensch who will chose the dick the lipstick thr gender or sex they want!
You can choose to have a dick - Has no bearing on sex it's cosmetics.

I can choose to get a dog tail, I don't stop being human. And if i think I am no longer human because i cosmetically got a dog tail then I'm deluded because my belief isn't factual.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 9:58pm On Jun 20, 2019
LordReed:
You said these are social constructs so we are the ones defining these things. If we change them to

Man: Adult human male or female
Woman: Adult human female or male
Boy: Child human male or female
Girl: child human female or male
We have a word to refer to an adult/child human male/female, and thats Human.

I'm sure i have shown how gender is rooted in sex.

just like

Cook: Adult human male or female
Driver: Adult human male or female
Pupil: Child human male or female
Neither of these things define the things you put them next to.

We could also redefine human to 'Adult mammal'

In that way, a human who identifies as dog would feel the legitimacy in their delusion.


which are roles defined not by the sex but by the social function. What will be wrong with that?
I'm pretty sure social roles already are defined.

President
Cook
Soldier.

And again, I don't give a flying f**k what people call themselves. There are humans who believe they are dogs, i don't care.

I only care about not letting politics or personal feelings make me pass delusion as truth.

Saying I am a dog doesn't make me a dog anymore than saying I am a woman makes me one.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 9:51pm On Jun 20, 2019
budaatum:
We covered quite a lot on what we referred to at the time as objective and subjective morality. Some might not have seen the connection but its there humpty dumpty like. Heres actual human beings telling you they are changing gender and the bits that go with it, but to you they are delusional, even though they passed the 'are you delusional test' before their bits were cut off.
I am not talking morality.

Delusion: belief that isn't factually right.

It isn't that difficult.

Personally speaking, I think dem chop belle full and it will come back to bite them, both the deluded persons accessing and the parents and the poor brain-dead child. Let them be in naija and claim they are not the gender their mama and papa gave them and let us see. Its nothing new though. The anthropologist sees the similarity in eunuchs.
Not exactly my argument.

Anyway, here's wiki on transgender et al.
I stopped reading when i saw assigned sex

Holds that sex is biological then still uses "assigned" in reference to it.

Next, someone's assigned specie?

Lol. This even makes the point more.

I don't actually care what people want to be, I'm simply saying that it is a biological knowledge that human sex is chromosomal, so it is no more interchangeable as changing your specie.
Christianity EtcRe: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! by johnydon22(m): 9:27pm On Jun 20, 2019
LordReed:
So could it be that it is those social representations that have become interchangeable?
Nope, it simply is a representation that accounts for age and sex.

Man: Adult human male
Woman: Adult human female
Boy: Child human male
Girl: child human female.

See?

There are two states of being and 1 stage of being gender accounts for.

States of being: Specie and sex
Stage of being: Age

A state of being is unchanging. A stage is changing.

So to be a man, you must be human, male and adult
Woman: must be human, female and adult.

I hope this helps clear things up.

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