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=== Calvinball ===
 
=== Calvinball ===
Moral philosophy is Calvinball.  Rules are made up as you go.  Assumptions are added as needed to get the desired results.  Every conclusion can be reversed by the addition of a sufficiently potent assumption.  The fancy name for this is defeasible argument.  The result is that moral philosophy is a post-hoc intellectual excuse for previously chosen positions.  It can also serve as a quick introduction of where selected assumptions can lead, with the caveat that with minor tweaks the entirely opposite results can hold.
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Moral philosophy is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes#Calvinball Calvinball].  Rules are made up as you go.  Assumptions are added as needed to get the desired results.  Every conclusion can be reversed by the addition of a sufficiently potent assumption.  The fancy name for this is defeasible argument.  The result is that moral philosophy is a post-hoc intellectual excuse for previously chosen positions.  It can also serve as a quick introduction of where selected assumptions can lead, with the caveat that with minor tweaks the entirely opposite results can hold.
  
 
=== Reifications ===
 
=== Reifications ===

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