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Please read my reply to StreetlightX
March 21, 2017 at 10:25
Of course there are (evolutionary rejects) - some unfortunate people are genetically prone to disease. Is it wrong to label them as evolutionary rejec...
March 21, 2017 at 10:24
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...
March 21, 2017 at 09:20
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 ...
March 21, 2017 at 08:57
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, ...
March 21, 2017 at 08:37
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...
March 21, 2017 at 07:36
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...
March 21, 2017 at 07:20
Then why?
March 21, 2017 at 07:10
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...
March 21, 2017 at 06:44
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...
March 21, 2017 at 05:36
We need to number pages of philosophical books.
March 20, 2017 at 13:25
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...
March 20, 2017 at 08:08
When you said ''travelling via radio waves'' I thought aliens were encoding their consciousness in electromanetic waves and travelling as radiowaves.:...
March 20, 2017 at 04:56
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...
March 19, 2017 at 14:31
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...
March 19, 2017 at 12:10
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 ...
March 19, 2017 at 09:45
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...
March 19, 2017 at 05:33
Just playing along... Assuming heaven and hell exist, an omnibenevolent god can create hell - for justice. But an omnimalevolent god cannot create hea...
March 18, 2017 at 15:16
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...
March 17, 2017 at 09:26
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 ...
March 17, 2017 at 08:46
I read this on a T-shirt: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is an option. What say?
March 17, 2017 at 08:43
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...
March 17, 2017 at 08:31
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...
March 17, 2017 at 06:12
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...
March 17, 2017 at 04:48
Please read my reply to Chany
March 16, 2017 at 09:33
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...
March 16, 2017 at 09:31
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...
March 15, 2017 at 13:57
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...
March 15, 2017 at 13:42
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...
March 15, 2017 at 10:05
The anthropocentric nature of such a question notwithstanding, I offer another purpose of life - TRUTH (whatever that means). TRUTH may be reworked by...
March 15, 2017 at 09:34
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...
March 15, 2017 at 07:27
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...
March 15, 2017 at 07:04
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...
March 15, 2017 at 04:22
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...
March 14, 2017 at 13:41
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...
March 14, 2017 at 11:54
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...
March 14, 2017 at 10:35
In: Happiness  — view comment
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...
March 14, 2017 at 10:00
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 - ...
March 14, 2017 at 09:05
:D
March 14, 2017 at 08:28
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...
March 14, 2017 at 06:32
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....
March 14, 2017 at 06:10
please read my reply to WhiskeyWhiskers
March 14, 2017 at 04:52
please read my reply to WhiskeyWhiskers
March 14, 2017 at 04:51
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...
March 14, 2017 at 04:46
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...
March 13, 2017 at 14:04
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,...
March 13, 2017 at 12:40
Take Jesus-like miracles to be trangressions of natural laws and not simply unlikely events. The problem of induction which science suffers from logic...
March 13, 2017 at 03:44
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...
March 12, 2017 at 10:30
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...
March 12, 2017 at 08:41
Perhaps the logic doesn't involve causality as is commonly understood. I do believe that preceding trials and subsequent trials are independent of eac...
March 12, 2017 at 06:59