Of course there are (evolutionary rejects) - some unfortunate people are genetically prone to disease. Is it wrong to label them as evolutionary rejec...
The way I'd put it is to consider what medical science has achieved so far. People carrying genes that are susceptible to disease (cancers, infections...
Is it actually a good thing that children who've crossed the 18 mark have to think for themselves? In giving us free will (to do anything) god offers ...
However, just as it is justified to take life as a one of a kind compared to inanimate matter, both being composed of the same stuff notwithstanding, ...
What you're saying is that causation is a physical thing. So, what of the non-physical? Do you think the qualities of action are exempt from causation...
I understand Karma as thoughts and actions causing circumstances that befit the nature of these thoughts and actions. Isn't this a natural extension o...
Everybody has a past. The good were once bad and the bad were once good. The game is still on for Karma. I find Karma quite sensible. For me it follow...
Perhaps there's method in god's madness. Perhaps we mistake justice for evil. As you can see, defending god means doing some nifty mental gymnastics a...
Well, if the books I read are to be believed, superstition is fallacious thinking specific to causal reasoning. A ''lucky'' shirt, charm, etc. that ca...
When you said ''travelling via radio waves'' I thought aliens were encoding their consciousness in electromanetic waves and travelling as radiowaves.:...
An omnimalevolent being can't create heaven - a place of eternal happiness. I don't see what obligation has to do with this. Are you saying an omnimal...
Well, I'd like to get at your first reply to my post. There you make a distinction between ability (the power to create heaven) and obligation (loosel...
Either the omnimalevolent (let's call it x) being can or cannot create heaven. If x can create heaven x can't be omnimalevolent because there is some ...
I guess you didn't see my post. So, I'm reposting it for you and others who might be interested. I'd really like a comment on what I have to say. An o...
Just playing along... Assuming heaven and hell exist, an omnibenevolent god can create hell - for justice. But an omnimalevolent god cannot create hea...
If Plato thinks only philosophers should be kings then he probably didn't have any idea of democracy. In a democracy, rule by the people, its the enti...
You'd be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. State-run militaries are prone to the same problems as a federal army. I think the problem of the ...
You're right in that the military can become a threat to the very citizens it was created to protect but I don't foresee such a problem in healthy dem...
Yes, the primary role of the military is to protect citizens. From what? Well, external threats. We have the police to tackle domestic problems. These...
Yes, I agree that an argument stands on its own merits. I'm also admitting there's truth in pessimistic beliefs. However, what's interesting is that p...
You're right. As WhiskeyWhiskers would have me do, I'll be charitable and get right to the point. Pessimists claim that life isn't worth the suffering...
I don't think evolution has failed at all. Just survey the natural world. All animals have a pain system. What we don't see are painless organisms - d...
Yes, indeed. The materialistic view could be at best, incomplete and at worst, utterly false. However, the same may be said of non-materialistic philo...
A fair consideration. Religious love and spiritual love seem not to fit into the all-is-for-survival bag. However, these so-called sublime loves are b...
The anthropocentric nature of such a question notwithstanding, I offer another purpose of life - TRUTH (whatever that means). TRUTH may be reworked by...
Is this an exclusive OR is it an inclusive OR. I ask because I think beauty lies in both the observer and the observed. Why? We all have different tas...
Is your god an interventionist? Either he is or he is not. If he is then we should see evidence in the physical world - miracles. If he isn't then why...
Do you mean things like love of animals, trees, music, writing, etc.? If yes, then it would seem that human love is in excess of that required for mer...
So some find life more painful than joyful. Indeed I agree because it is as expected given the apathetic world we live in and our demands re happiness...
Do you mean some people have an avoidance behavior that prevents them from facing the real cause of their suffering? By that do you mean suffering fai...
Reductionism has become, for better or worse, a human habit and going by how science seems to be tyrannizing all spheres of human activity, we seem to...
Why does x choose to live a certain way? Simply, x wants to be happy; living a particular kind of life makes x happy. So, contrary to your POV, happin...
I think if you ask around, this transcendental love you seek is to be found in true or selfless love. I'm quite sure that many people have found it - ...
I think the word 'love'' is only so meaningful as to allow for basic functioning of an organism. Some birds pair for life, animals have maternal insti...
Is it our duty as members of society to confine ourselves to it's standards? It is the duty of the society to confine the individual to its standards....
A rose has its thorns and yet the blossoms are beautiful to behold. Evaluating a rose soley on the basis of its pain-inducing thorns is a morbidly con...
Well, then that makes antinatalism irrational. Necessary things cannot be avoided, as is the case. It then becomes irrational to think it shouldn't ex...
You're right, it is fear; fear of pain, injury, hurt, anguish, death, etc. all of which are about survival - in a relationship, in a group of friends,...
Take Jesus-like miracles to be trangressions of natural laws and not simply unlikely events. The problem of induction which science suffers from logic...
The question so phrased hints you're thinking the two choices are mutually exclusive. But as jkop pointed out it needn't be so. However, when it comes...
Sorry to disappoint you. You seem to understand better than me. Let me make my reasoning explicit (using the coin scenario) If you see a an inordinate...
Perhaps the logic doesn't involve causality as is commonly understood. I do believe that preceding trials and subsequent trials are independent of eac...
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