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Victoribus Spolia

['Member']Joined: September 20, 2017 at 19:13Last active: September 25, 2017 at 21:462 discussions30 comments

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In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
I did get a chuckle over this, but I am referring to ordinary natural events pertaining to conception. That is, if I blow a load in my wife's vagina w...
September 25, 2017 at 16:10
In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
I think the moral implications of my position can be deduced quite easily without my having to spell them out, perhaps that will "save my skin." If wh...
September 25, 2017 at 16:04
In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
I do not understand the question as worded, could you rephrase? I will address this according to section (of which there are three). 1. The first part...
September 25, 2017 at 15:55
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
I acknowledge that, but we waste almost 50% of our produced food as it currently stands and we produce more food on less land than ever in human histo...
September 25, 2017 at 15:15
In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
Thanks, I appreciate it.
September 24, 2017 at 15:25
In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
I addressed some of your issue (I think) in my response to T Clark....Otherwise, beautiful poetry.
September 24, 2017 at 15:24
In: Is Contraception Murder?  — view comment
1. I have added some "further thoughts" for clarification to my original posting of the thread. In essence, I am arguing that Y is modified/understood...
September 24, 2017 at 14:54
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Well, feel free to cleanse me of my ways.
September 24, 2017 at 01:59
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Fair enough. Perhaps we can have future interaction on this topic on a thread more specific to the question of how to ethically solve the problem of p...
September 24, 2017 at 01:45
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
To All, I have posted a thread in Ethics, Called the Pronatalist Master Argument.....check it out. Especially you: Edit: I changed the title to someth...
September 24, 2017 at 01:31
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
So that our economies will require these starving third world folks to immigrate in order to stimulate our labor sector and thereby bring their fecund...
September 24, 2017 at 01:21
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Yes, intentional and not incidental abstinence during my wife's fertile period would be a form of contraception under my position.
September 24, 2017 at 00:59
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
I am going to respond in two posts, the first (below) will educate you on the religious debate (i don't mean this in a condescending way, but I was in...
September 24, 2017 at 00:40
In: On the transition from non-life to life  — view comment
Should we really be assuming physical causation as a valid assumption at all? Perhaps the issue is more about that which is perceived and that which p...
September 23, 2017 at 01:06
In: Idealism poll  — view comment
I intend to post a defense of Berkeleyan-style Immaterialism and phenomenal Idealism in the near future, using concepts from the philosophy of mind......
September 23, 2017 at 01:02
In: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, and Intellectual Freedom in Philosophy  — view comment
Yes, we cannot make the mistake that those who seek open philosophical dialogue are into chaos and mayhem in threads, in fact, I think the Philosophy ...
September 23, 2017 at 00:55
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Not that its any of your business or that it has anything to do with my arguments as presented (red herring?)......but here is my response as to wheth...
September 23, 2017 at 00:39
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Ah, some very deep moral sentiments you have there, I suppose you have some sort of logical grounds for your moral edicts regarding child raising, or ...
September 23, 2017 at 00:30
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
Only if blowjobs would occur during a time which contraception is ordinarily possible, I do not practice oral sex during a time when my wife would ord...
September 23, 2017 at 00:17
In: What is the philosophy behind bringing a child to this world?  — view comment
I have a wife with five children so far and would be classified as a radical pro-natalist. Check out my profile to get the gist of my character and li...
September 22, 2017 at 20:17
In: Simulating Conciousness  — view comment
How would you define consciousness then? The presumption of awareness in a observed object on the grounds of your personal imputation of such? Based o...
September 21, 2017 at 18:46
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
I don't see how the assertion of the improvable (deductively speaking) can be more convincing, but perhaps my standard of what serves as an appropriat...
September 21, 2017 at 17:51
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
To be honest, I don't really want to derail your thread further from your main topic, I just wanted to voice my objection to you dismissing idealism o...
September 21, 2017 at 17:35
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
"Proof might not be doable in metaphysics, but I take it to be a most reasonable inference." Proof in metaphysics is demonstrated by logical necessity...
September 21, 2017 at 17:22
In: Simulating Conciousness  — view comment
"Presumably consciousness depends on the right material. Pen and paper isn't sufficiently like brain matter to seem a reasonable source of consciousne...
September 21, 2017 at 16:18
In: Simulating Conciousness  — view comment
We already have such a scenario. God has all conscious content (perceptual reality) from which we get all of our individual conscious content (the wor...
September 21, 2017 at 16:15
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
Well that seems like putting the cart before the horse..... Science assumes answers to questions I just asked you, for instance, if no logical grounds...
September 21, 2017 at 16:01
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
Ah, well I can't just let this opportunity at provocation go....so.... On what grounds do you believe that there exists more than consciousness and co...
September 21, 2017 at 15:55
In: Mary's Room & Color Irrealism  — view comment
Why can't you accept #5? That seems like an unsettling declaration that lacks objectivity (no pun intended), or is perhaps based on a misunderstanding...
September 21, 2017 at 15:49
In: Qualia and the Hard Problem of Consciousness as conceived by Bergson and Robbins  — view comment
Why do we have to have a theory of memory at all? The assumption of qualia reducing to memory presupposes certain assumptions about human consciousnes...
September 21, 2017 at 15:41
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