Recent content by liquid150

Oh good grief. Using colloquialisms in place of statements of truth value makes me skeptical of your motives. You have the privilege of having the option to report me if I troll you. You do not possess a "human right" to do so. The admin does not even need a logical reason to enforce the rules...

That's a post hoc rationalization, and you really should have known better.

What's just not true? What a legal system does or doesn't do is irrelevant to the concept of rights. Rights can either be enforced or not enforced. The concept of rights necessarily invokes a normative alternative to might makes right. That's what your rights are used for, it is logically...

I did not say anything about "is" leading to ought. The concept of rights is, in fact, a normative concept. As a matter of epistemological fact you cannot even discuss what rights you have without invoking a normative. If might does, in fact, make right to you then you are simply expressing...

I should also note that rights enforcement must be a child concept of rights, otherwise rights enforcement cannot be known to be valid. This is what I mean by propositional depenedency. Without know what rights you have, you cannot validly enforce them. What you are describing is "might makes...

"Legitimate" need not necessarily imply "morality." Legitimate does imply a normative but not necessarily an ethical one. However since you choose to assume that rights are propositionally dependent upon enforcement, we won't be able to agree entirely on whether you have a given particular...

You can claim that you have them, and you may be making an persuasive claim in that case that you ought to have them. Legitimate enforcement presupposes the existence of rights, so rights are not propositionally dependent upon enforcement. So you can have a valid claim to have them, independent...

There is a rather large difference between morality and rights, at least if you consider virtue part of morality. Rights are indeed subjective insofar as what people generally believe, but that does not make them logically valid. A rational set of logically valid rights can be described, however.

People gain their rights by granting them to others. People may validly claim the right to anything that does not violate the rights of another.

A little update, just for kicks. I've found the continent where everybody else happens to be, and interestingly enough a third continent with a small barbarian "civ" on it. I am thoroughly crushing all the other civs in points, tech, map controlled, and economy. I'm pretty happy thus far. I...

Thank you very much for the constructive criticism. I will try to think ahead a little better. I am still somewhat new to actually paying attention to what I'm doing and planning strategy in this game, rather than flying by the seat of my pants.

I've played Civ4 for a while, but I'm new to the forum and not as experienced as many of you. Regardless of how I got to where I am now, I have a decision to make. I am putting some of the strategies into practice that I've read about here, and I am looking for a little hint. I was able to...

oops...why can't i delete posts? was trying to make a new thread.

Strangely enough, I was able to get it working myself. Had to access the game through the Games part of my Start Menu, you know, that feature that nobody ever uses. Thanks to anybody that did any research.

I was able to get my old copy of Civ 4 running in Vista with the help of this board, so I'm hoping that I can get this version working. My hopes that it would be seemless since the case says "Vista" on it were dashed rather quickly. Doesn't Firaxis even bother to test this stuff? I had the same...