I think this is a myth. He often challenges people to demonstrate here that what they would do in a discussion with a hypothetical anti-abortionist and a hypothetical abortionist would resolve all such conflicts between people with conflicting ideas about what is good think about abortion. This is not immediate experience. It is a very abstract though experiment. It even confuses ‘what wil convince people’ with ‘what is the case or true’. (my pointing this out does not mean that I think I know the objective good position on abortion) IOW it is an odd criterion.
If one explains to him that his version of concrete lived experience is a radically abstract thought experiment, one is often told it is ‘serious’ philosophy - which is a pejorative term to him. If one seems not as upset as him at the situation we live in where we cannot produce arguments that convince all rational people of things, then one is told that one has a contraption that one uses (believes in) to hide from the horror of the hole that he finds himself in.
If you DO, in fact, work with the only concrete immediate experience experiences we have here - reading each other’s posts and responding to them - he does not see this as a part of life. His actions, here, can never be looked at, despite these being vastlyl more concrete ‘cases’ to look at behavior in and be rational about and seek to change others view of here.
A read of his posts will show an incredible amount of very abstract often confusing and idiosyncratic use of language. And there is no secret assault on rationality. he repeated contraposes things where we can have objective knowledge - for example the products of scientific research are contrasted with the conclusion of moral argument. He makes this contrast over and over and his position hinges on it. Here we can be objective, here we cannot. Here we can draw rational objective conclusions, here we cannot. (as a side note he confused objective and universal and even popular)
It’s true, perhaps, that he does suggest that compromise, negotiation and I forget the third process are an approach to dealing with the ‘situation’. But these cannot be justified from within his position. he seems to be mentioning these less. Perhaps he has noticed this. You cannot even determine problems objectively, not in the moral realm, from his position. So it is inconsistent to then assert one knows a way to solve them or even a direction one might head in. And we would have no tools to evaluated if moving in that direction was good.
And note: I don’t blame him for not having a solution. I disagree that he is t
He’d better take a good look, then, if this is true, at his own use of ‘dasein’ but most clearly ‘contraptions’, especially where the latter plays a role in his interpersonal psychic claims.
Certainly there are instances where his incredulity is grounded. Other times it is not, and regularly.
If he remained a skeptic, this would be fine. But he does not, he has promoted approaches to solving problems - as you noted above - which do not hold water with the rest of his position. He is quasi-religious. IOW ‘what could be more important than finding out how one ought to live?’ We should, and I emphasize that word ‘should’ be in the hole and focused on getting out? We should experience it as he does or we really haven’t ‘gotten it’ (and have a contraption)? we should be looking for rational arguments that will convince every rational person on earth that X is good? IOW he is, as I said elsewhere in different terms, an existentialist demanding to be talked out of being an existentialist and judging other existentialists or nihilists or non-objectivists as immoral or confused if they do not prioritize his project.
This is a myth too. That if we do not share his hole or positions we are not willing to face the uncomfortable. Biggie, as you call him, has no idea what people have faced philosophically or experientially. Hell, I think there are worse holes than not having the unstoppable rational argument for an objective moral position. I think Ship of Thebes type issues are a much darker hole. And I have been in his hole. I reject the Christ-like role he positions himself as having: I am here, suffering what all of you really should be suffering.
Here you are misrepresenting him. He is always calling for the rational argument. I did for a while think that was him rhetorically showing that there is none. But then, he objects to others who are not interested in trying to find this objective argument no one can resist.
But that was disingenous. Even in a deterministic universe one can learn/change one’s mind. I don’t know how well or not peacegirl presented his case, but iambiguous never seem to get that a meme could be infectious. I am not optimistic in the way peacegirl is, but Iamb could have focused on himself as an individual being convinced or not by the case peacegirl presented, rather then making himself an object that cannot change. IOW he abstracted himself out of the situation and demanded to be loved by the determinist even if he might never agree. That was abstract. He is not everyman. He is one guy.
Sorry, I find that there is a great deal of not reading well, not considering that he might be missing something in specfiic - he’s great at making discalimers (of course I might be wrong), but not once have I even seen him consider that a specific point made about something he did or said might be correct AND WHAT THIS WOULD MEAN, he mind reads, demands things that have been done, lectures and repeats himself as if it is relevent when it is not, takes every point made as an attempt to solve conflicting goods. So you point out that argument X was wrong because of Y, he will respond to what you wrote by saying ‘how does this resolve conflicting goods?’ when it obviously was not an attempt to. You can see a clear example of this pattern when he responds this way above to my response to Faust about him.
The mythical Iambiguous, the one who stays on the skeptic side, needling objectivists to demonstrate the objective nature of their moral claims, that’s a useful character. And I know he has done this well at times. But the actual Iambiguous is a quasi-religious figure on a mission and one he thinks we all should be on, and like many people on missions, everything gets filtered through that mission - which means he is not a good reader and not very aware of himself and what he does interpersonally with others. Why? Because he is saving the world or at least grieving it in the right way, so whatever he does or does not do or mistakes he makes…these are all trifles.