Well, where I stand is that we have an increasing duty of care with increasing sentience/ability to suffer, but it certainly wouldn't start with insec...
@"Sapientia"'s humor is not appreciated by everyone, but it is (supposed to be) humor. Hope you're feeling more appreciated anyway. You're among frien...
Social media creates the echo chamber that amplifies the cry that might otherwise fall on deaf ears. It doesn't create the basic type, but it creates ...
Do some research on it if you're confused and stop wasting space here as you're dragging the discussion off-topic. You can start with this if you like...
This is the type of perverse interpretation (from my point of view) that constantly undermines your position. Dealing with life is a way to express ou...
:up: I went on one of their sites (https://incels.me/) and took a quick look. Typical threads Main theme: Self-indulgent self-pity/despair concerning ...
Snoop Dogg is a black rapper therefore what? No, they're not. They've appropriated the word and are using it in a different way than it was originally...
@"T Clark" From the article: "The community is generally resentful, misogynistic, and misanthropic, calling for violence against women and sexually su...
"You talk about nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used." Translation: My 'hands...
No, I don't know that, which is why I asked chatterbears the question. He mentioned a central nervous system, which insects have. So, I'd like to know...
I didn't say they were exactly equivalent, but strictly speaking, it's true—if counter intuitive and maybe somewhat pedantic— that they're generally e...
So, for a tiny proportion of animals, far less than 1%, there's a moral issue or some significant difference between them and plants with regard to su...
I'm not really taking a side, but this is an obvious strawman. Mosquitoes are animals, grubs are animals, the corals that make up coral reefs are anim...
In passing and because I was curious: Article: https://m.phys.org/news/2016-12-new-study-shows-plants-can.html "To respond to light, fans and temperat...
"English major" Pfft. I pity the fool who thinks I know anything about English. Sorry, I mean, I empathize with the fool who thinks I know anything ab...
Don't get "environment" confused with "society" as it's used philosophically. Think social forces inclusive of cultural forces, i.e. the sociocultural...
No society>>>No culture. We're socioculturally situated and there's no getting away from that. The human is biologically constructed, the person is so...
They're not clearly delineated; it's a matter of connotation. You can pity someone in a sympathetic way or in a contemptuous way. But it's harder to a...
Meaning is use. Don't blame the messenger. Pretentiousness doesn't come into it. We're only discussing how the word is used. You can't insult a word, ...
One would have to be extremely careful about bringing a new life into the world. Probably a lot of the time it is done without taking into account the...
It's not a straightforward picture, I agree, but I think someone posted a comparison graph earlier in the discussion that showed a strong correlation ...
To make it even clearer: What we agree on: There are structural negatives to life. What we disagree on: The evaluative import of the stuctural negativ...
Of course, like @"Noble Dust", my reward will probably be baked beans for supper for the rest of my life. Or noodles, as most of it is likely to be in...
I permanently left working in Universities (as a teacher) after realizing that climbing up the ladder only brought you closer to the hell that is the ...
I didn't say you "said" it, I said you "affirmed" it. There is where you affirmed it with the word "sure", so don't accuse me of strawmanning you whil...
No-one's arguing the toss that sometimes we're happy and sometimes we're sad. That's neither here nor there. We agree on that. But yes, pessimism posi...
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