In short? Yes. There are way too many psychological, moral and belief components to a modern day human being that common understanding doesn’t exist.

For example most people think child predators are terrible right? Then there are entire groups trying to normalize this behavior. Something that should be Universally despised and hated there are individuals and groups (albeit ones that I think need to be shot) that find beauty in it.

This post was edited by MadMan87 on Feb 6 2025 10:28am

I have the flu.

Internet and social media changed everything: it's easier for the malicious people to find each other and found an interest group, it also makes it easier to spot and prosecute them. Kant wasn't living during our time, so he couldn't have imagined the outgrowths of the internet age. He also assumed people weren't inherently selfish and desired the good for all of the populace.

You know why you should never assume? It makes an ass out of u and me.

Well, you need to assume sometimes, so you and me could surf the internet with our fancy gadgets today. You can make whatever you like out of it.

An example of what is allowed to discuss on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hf1j5e/what_do_you_think_about_map_minorattracted_people/

But you can't say Trump shutting down DEI is good, you'll be permabanned

This post was edited by babun1024 on Feb 6 2025 01:12pm

So he was a Pelagian, but missed the memo that it was determined to be heresy

He minimized his contact with the "outside" to prevent his mind from "contamination". I am not kidding, he was a shutin.

We're talking about aesthetics, right? Your example is one of ethics. Subjective universality only applies to aesthetics, and even then only to a very specific type of aesthetic judgement, which Kant called judgement of beauty.

You used the word beauty in your example, which is confusing because there's no way to mistake what you said with a judgement of beauty as described by Kant.

Morality and belief has nothing to do with aesthetic judgements. If you want to discuss Kantian ethics we can do that, but it's an entirely different conversation.

This post was edited by Shadowoffury on Feb 7 2025 11:22am

I'm deported today.

Was it a 24 hour flu or one of those bad cases you get every 7-10 years?