Women will lose a little bit of their humanity if we make abortion completely free. Don't you think? To say abortion is a choice that can be exercised...
I think I understand something about why time-travel is difficult or impossible. Consider space-time as a 4D universe (3 dimensions of space and 1 dim...
Which do you think is more important: The right to live (fetus) or the ''freedom'' to have an abortion? I think abortion devalues human life if it's u...
Doesn't a lie/falsehood refer to something too? It refers to fictitious events or objects but the reference is there, isn't it? What about nonsense? N...
Does Meinong's world correspond to ''may'' or ''might''? If it' ''may'' then there's no difference between Meinong's world and what we call logically ...
You're right. It's a combination of the two (self and others). Who was it who said ''you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some...
Well, I read somewhere that we all wear masks. We never show our true selves to others but you can't hide from yourself. So, who's the better judge as...
I don't think that's correct. Newton's theory of gravity isn't incompatible with Einstein's relativity. In fact they explain the same observations, re...
Cognitive dissonance. It happens to us all. Is it relevant to the abortion argument? Giving birth to children who're just going to die a horrible deat...
My understanding: You're claiming that as an explanation, teleology is as good as the mechanistic. Am I correct? If yes, then it must be a choice betw...
I just read the wiki article on the theory. It seems science has a preference for the B theory of time. It says it kinda fits with the other theories ...
Only if we could replace the wants with needs. I believe that the pro-abortion side isn't a group without morals. In fact, one abortion legislation I'...
Well, both mechanistic and teleogical explanations seem derivable from known facts. As I see nature, in current scientific theories, everything seems ...
Harmony can be found in falsehoods too. A collection of lies may fit together perfectly like a jigsaw puzzle, yielding a picture most beautiful to beh...
I don't know. How about when suicide becomes a good option? As you said suffering is part of life! To choose death would mean suffering becomes not ju...
In medicine there's this concept - quality of life. We could rephrase it as quality of being. Is being, just that, the highest attainment of man? Does...
I guess it's a matter of perspective. Some people are of the opinion that the problem of depression is of the mind (internal) and others say its the c...
How about we consider different types or levels of nonexistence. Yes, it is true that according to the laws of conservation, energy and mass can neith...
That makes sense. The ego is a barrier in transcending duality because it requires self-consciousness and once that is achieved the ego immediately se...
Makes sense. My propsal at non-duality is of inferior quality to that of Eastern philosophies. However, isn't mine practical and intelligible than the...
Is it all about money? Are the best educational centers also the richest? What's the causal connection here? Rich, therefore better education Or Bette...
May be someone already said this. Too long thread to read it all. Suicide is an individual decision, implying that we have to tailor an anti-suicide a...
Education is dependent on many factors. Teachers, laboratories, libraries, and quite possibly on weather too. However, the classic structure of educat...
Oh ok. Why do you think existence is infinite? You are right in the sense that matter and energy follow conservation laws (can neither be created nor ...
An amoeba doesn't have left/right nor do octopuses. Intelligence needn't necessarily be human with bilateral symmetry. You draw a distinction between ...
This isn't a logical impossibility. It looks like a biological impossibiliy though. That said, we can remove certain dualities from our lives. A perso...
Yes, it seems impossible. How about a person kept in isolation from birth in a happy place without any form of suffering. Would he ever know the suffe...
Let's begin with the definition of depression as an prolonged state of sadness that interferes with normal social functioning of a person. Suicide is ...
More people have been to Russia than I have Expected form of the sentences; 1. More people have been to Russia than, say, Poland 2. You have been to m...
Why would you think that? Simple answer: because God came first. Secular ethics is a no show and if there are any such moral codes they seem plagiariz...
You reminded me of "be careful what you wish for." Your issues with heaven: 1. Boredom 2. Generality of the term happiness - a case in point being tra...
Thank you very much. It's strange I got it backwards. My feeling was that general rules don't get there before some amount of critical thinking and sp...
Everything may be connected and you see a thread in the tangled web that leads from the Church to rationality. One may ask the question is the transfo...
Well, one could say that duality is an illusion; one sufficient to create the impression of two-ness but actually there's only one. Similar to double ...
How about viewing the prize as recognition instead of reward? Achievements, whether through luck or hard work, need to be put in the limelight so that...
It's strange that people didn't pick the penis as a symbol for masculinity. That's not entirely true because in Hinduism we have the Shiva Lingam - th...
The problem isn't that there are less prisons, the place where the ugly scene of retributory/deterrent punishments plays out, it's that there are less...
Another thing I want to point out is a very relevant discrepancy. It concerns both religion and the secular faction. We don't afford full rights to ch...
I was simply pointing out that future medical technology could eventually make the zygote itself viable ex utero, closing the gap (if personhood is th...
I expected "a moral rule whose general observance would create the most happiness" to be rule utilitarianism as something to be general would require ...
I guess the problem boils down to when a fetus becomes a person, then raising the question of possible murder. That is crucial information we lack to ...
The only truths science can be involved in are empirical truths and that too in a way different from what the OP suggests. We don't find truths with s...
Coming to associations: There are different types of association: 1. Non-pattern association: You're having lunch in at a Baker street restaurant. Sud...
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