TheMadFool

Cold rationality??. Give me some examples. Suicide is rationalonly to the extent that we choose through a disjunctive syllogism: 1) Either A or suicid...

I don't understand your point. Let me give you another example: 1) All cats are mammals 2) No cats are dogs What is the conclusion? Draw a Venn diagra...

:D I'm not suicidal, unfortunately. I'm not saying we should opt suicide. What is important to to know is the average Joe doesn't commit suicide (choi...

That's the linchpin - want. It goes against fact and truth - that suffering is impossible to avoid - and therein lies its flaw. Is it wise/reasonable ...

The point of coercion is to rob someone of choice. I've been forced to do things and I certainly didn't feel like I had a choice. Either X or suicide ...

The frames you speak of are dynamic and interact with the content you put into it. One may start off with the principle that ''love is good'' and then...

(Y) Thanks

Decisions under duress aren't free. Yes, suicide is a personal decision, but, it's forced upon you. In a sense, it's the perfect murderer's MO (modus ...

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My logic is bad. I've read some up recently and I'm still quite shaky on the subject. Nihil ex nihilo = nothing comes from nothing. Nothing comes from...

(Y) Doesn't (Ax)(Ey)(x came from y) mean ''everything came from something''? Creatio ex nihilo (CEN) would be true IF there exists a thing that came f...

(Y) To add...these frames aren't static and lifeless. They evolve with the content you put into them. Fixing, flexing, metamorphosing...

Suicide is impossible. There's always something that does the killing - giving you the reason to swallow that cyanide capsule. Fear, pain, depression,...

Strange, I can't seem to find an error in the argument. There's something wrong though. P = something exists ~P = nothing exists That's fine. ~P > P.....

I can make sense of that. Any train of thought must have some axioms to start from and their truth is a matter of judgment. Without axioms thinking wo...

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The mind is more than just the brain. The separation between mind and brain is equivalent, if not more, to that between a rock and life - a giant leap...

I should've included morality under intrinsic value category but I couldn't see any clear-cut boundary between it and happiness. In short, I thought w...

To the extent that I know, the relationship mind-body or mind-brain, if you prefer, isn't an equal one. To say the least, the mind is lower than the b...

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An unethical thing to do would be to lie about a robot's capabilities, especially if it concerns human emotional needs (in this case the need for a pe...

The good have nothing to hide. Privacy often provides the space where crimes are committed.

The difference between: 1. Instrumental value And 2. Intrinsic value I think happiness has intrinsic value. Everything else can be reduced to means fo...

An interesting POV. I agree only partially though. Why? Well, in my view, I think the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. So, indeed, the mind...

Thanks for the input. There are so many dimensions to these simple statements. You've pointed out one that I didn't think of: men being insulted becau...

Yes. Imagine there is such a person X - evil and masochistic. How does/can God punish him?

It's pain nonetheless. Divine justice, bottomline, is about dispensing pain to evildoers. However, X, the evil masochist, finds pain pleasurable. It d...

I like the time angle. We change from moment to moment. So, it makes sense - at one moment X is good and at another X is bad. However, there's one asp...

(Y) :) I think I found a solution to the paradox. The problem lies in thinking good and bad are relative concepts. They're not. They're absolute conce...

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:D Does that mean that if Mahatma Gandhi, who preached non-violence (Ahimsa), could've killed just one man and still be considered good? After all he ...

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by immobility. How does that apply to truths? Are you alluding to vagueness? If yes, I agree. The boundary between ...

Perhaps in my question lies the answer to many other inquiries. The class doesn't get insulted. It's not a person, although I have certain doubts abou...

Really? But you haven't been able to deny any of the premises in my argument: 1. All fools are friends 2. All fools are foes 3. No foes are friends If...

Exactly. But then how do you make sense of Lee being good (compared to Hitler) and bad (compared to us)? These type of comparisons are done all the ti...

That's the paradox

I haven't done that. Even if I have, the odd nature of a fool being a friend and foe stands out. It is a paradox. See above.

But Hitler is a bad man compared to Jesus.

A person can't be a friend and a foe to the same person. That's what I mean

Perhaps you misunderstood me. All fools are friends doesn't mean that they actually have to be your friends, as in have to eat, talk, play with you. I...

You have a point but... Can I praise and love Hitler because, well, he's good(!!!) compared to the Devil?

Any fool is a good friend because a fool will not harm you intentionally: All fools are friends Any fool is a ''good'' foe because a fool is easy to d...

Can you deny that Lee is good compared to Hitler? No. So, Lee is good. Can you deny that Lee is bad compared to us? No. So, Lee is bad. So, Lee is goo...

But you can't reject any of the premises. They are all true

Your diagram allows for: 1. Some fools are not friends 2. Some fools are not foes Both 1 and 2 contradict the truths of All fools are friends All fool...

Exactly. How do you solve it? You can't deny that a fool is a ''good'' friend. He'll not harm you intentionally. Which means: All fools are friends. Y...

A) All fools are friends B) All fools are foes C) No friends are foes A, B and C are true We get the conclusions: D) No fools are friends E) No fools ...

Good advice

Thanks for diagramming the content of my argument. Note, it's not drawn in standard form re categorical logic. Anyway: Argument 1 All fools are friend...

A fool is a ''good'' friend and a ''good'' enemy. It's not a ''can'' issue.