TheMadFool

I don't know. Did it fit?

I don't know. Contradictions are logically prohibited but notice that the key premise of morality, which I hope is your concern here, is a contradicti...

I was thinking about that. So kind of you to bring it to my attention. It does seem that every don't can be rephrased as a do e.g. thou shalt not kill...

Since you talk of the so-called I let'a try and comprehend what this I is. Imagine two situations as follows: 1. You're driving a car, weaving through...

I don't know. Can you explain why it's a "cool" contradiction?

If we wind the clock back to before the notion of omnibenevolence but the existence of a god concept, there really is no contradiction is there? Gods ...

To begin with, I want bracket off all moral theories other than religious morality in this discussion. Within the realm of religious morality, it is a...

I'm already quite far from where I want to be. You probably won't make it worse. Why not send the man lost and thirsty in the desert towards a mirage....

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It doesn't matter. Thanks for your input.

SYSTEM FAILURE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rutxTnPSZ0

So, you're perfect. :up:

Hi. Can you elaborate on what you said above?

I think fear has a lot to do with morality: fear of hell for the religious and fear of incarceration or even the death penalty for those who think rel...

How would you describe the world in terms of good and evil? Balanced? More evil? More good? Examine the prize and the punishment on offer. That which ...

What is it exactly about the non-physical that is so attractive that we should think of the physical as nothing?

If there is a god, then god is perfect. However, god's perfection has very little to do with anybody and since nobody is god (at least those I know), ...

I was having similar but not exact thoughts on the matter of extremes which I feel is fully manifested in contradictions - something and not that some...

I am grateful but the free will defense for the problem of evil is wrong.

Yes, an innate tendency for happiness but at the expense of others.

What is happiness? What do we fear? Do we fear to be unhappy, whatever that means? In my book, we seem to fear suffering, itself and its cause, genera...

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How does this relate to the free will defense of the problem of evil? You said ignorance leads to evil. What exactly do you mean?

What is the process by which one overrides our tendencies? How do you which are your tendencies?

What evolutionary theory asserts is that there's nothing more important than transmitting your genes to your offspring. It's not that there are two th...

What would it mean for one, single individual, marooned on an unihabited island to be good? In the way I understand ethics, it's about how we treat ot...

What else could I mean by survival when I'm talking in terms of evolution? Thanks for pointing that out though. Why does survival of the species have ...

Ok. So if evil is in our nature and we have "tendencies" then doesn't that mean, since "tendencies" sounds like we have no or little control in the ma...

Although I keep an open mind, if you listen to most science communicators, evolution is considered a scientific fact. Despite the possibility that som...

:up: What does choosing death over pain have to do with what I said about hedonism?

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Coherence theory of truth?

Do you mean that your aunt wishes to end her life because of resignation? What do you mean by that? Was it the suffering that brought on this state of...

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Do you use logic?

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:up: God, thought of as omnibenevolent, is duty-bound to stop the devil but he wouldn't want to impose himself on us - that would be rude to say the l...

Well, for there to be a relation there has to be things, here mind and its environment, that can be related. In other words, we must know and define m...

But everything is obviously determined, according to you.

Sorry to hear that. I hope it all turns out ok and there's nothing serious. Good Luck.

I was just wondering about suicide, which is generally associated with unhappiness. If suicide is pain-driven then it seems to indicate that survival ...

Whaddaya mean "both"? :chin:

Sorry, seems like I was barking up the wrong tree. Is a counterfactual exclusively a truth value state of the logical material conditional (false ante...

I think counterfactual thinking works in math. If x > 3 then it follows that x > 2 and if x > -5 then it follows that x > -15. There's a necessary log...

How would you define free-will?

Hedonism has this ability to subsume everything. There is no way to refute it because, the most frequently presented "counter-examples" to it can easi...

So, the majority of us just around as backdrops in a theater where the main actors, the good folks who struggle with the option of doing evil because ...

I'm in two minds about whether god exists or not but defending the existence of evil with god's desire to give us free will is untenable.

the idea is not to be immortal and free it is to be finite, mortal and yet see don't try to be the magnificent sun yellowing green truths in the sunli...