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The genetic defect screening is done before pregnancy and sometimes during pregnancy. In the first case it's simple, contraception. In the second case...

Moral claims are oughts i.e. from a photgrapher's perspective, how the girl should look, not how she looks. Of course moral claims aren't true; we hav...

@"schopenhauer1", right on cue. The OP did mention the other half - those havin' a good time - even if only in passing. They should be given a say sin...

I believe you're conflating epistemology with ontology.

Forgot his background, read it though.

A driveby shooting. :chin:

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You shouldn't go giving some people ideas. :smile:

I talk to thin air, that's how advanced in ethics I am. Plants? I talk to atoms and quarks. :rofl: However, they don't talk back! Jainism is a religio...

Well, for my money, the reason why there doesn't seem to be a common thread uniting the various subject matters that are claimed as metaphysics is bec...

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I don't see any overarching theme to metaphysics except that it claims to study first principles. That's a tad bit too abstract for me brain mon ami.

First off, on emojis - they're supplements, not replacements. :cool: I've heard of Harvard! Isn't it where Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates studi...

Some words are better than others. For example I find "splendid" has more zest in it than "marvelous". Likewise "gloom" dials down your mood more than...

:lol: Pokes Metaphysician Undercover. --- Well, there's DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) if anyond would like to know. One must continually modula...

I thought we all agreed that the former is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Unfortunately, the other option is a pot of clay. Ready to fashi...

:100: Addiction risk, beware! Truth can have you hooked for life. :fear:

Well, I didn't know aesthetics is metaphysics, nor did I know ethics is metaphysics?! :chin: Metaphysics is to philosophy what mathematics is to theor...

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Indeed, ought. We're here to create a/the moral dimension. It doesn't exist, we have to make it exist. It's not true, we have to make it true. In shor...

René Descartes?

Well, you presented a balanced view of life - as many fail as succeed. What do expect us to say? Life sucks!? Life's a ball? Both, neither, depends, w...

I suggest we treat Descartes' as a lesson, to be learned - as we judge him, our children will judge us and our children by their children. Aristotle w...

Higher dimensions are mathematically consistent (I hope) and in philosophy that means possible. I'm afraid that's as far as we can go down this road m...

:up: It's snake oil, counterfeit currency, a dud - something to ease the pain, not cure the illness. Quackery is what it is mon ami. Instead of curing...

Descartes made us philosophers and we're using philosophy against him. :chin: The invention kills the inventor. Frankenstein's monster, to wit us.

:lol: Voltaire has his place, but Descartes is our guy. How would you feel if you get stabbed (in the back) by the very knife you gifted your "friend"...

Religion and spiritualism are simply painkillers some need on a daily basis to live a normal life. Without them, we'd all have lost our minds. Momma N...

Let's face it, René Descartes, the Socrates of modern philosophy, was an a**hole! Nevertheless, it was he who relit the flame of philosophy after near...

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:up: Interesting. So, speaking from experience here, a rare event in me life, the soldier has the brains the general has the courage, the doctor knows...

:up: The radix of all philosophy is the desire need to know reality, in and for itself and/or as a path to success, not as a businessman, not as a kin...

What's teleonomy?

The carrot is an illusion, the stick is not. The daucus carota subsp. sativus is what keeps us going, willing to play (the game of life). @"180 Proof"...

Our education must be complete whole. It became necessary to publicly discuss sex after the STI disaster, the HIV/AIDS pandemic that swept across the ...

:cool: And so we must contend with nature in all her glory - her candour and her cunning both are appealing despite they being frustrating.

The only way to escape our 3D world is using mathematics - we can probe higher dimensions with it and we already have, haven't we? Math is like perisc...

:up: I hope at the end of our personal journeys, we can all sit down around a warm fire and share a laugh over some drinks. "Remember the time you did...

As @"Gnomon" elucidated, getting upset is about personal values, emphasis on personal. We're not really bothered by toe stepping until its our toes th...

:lol: It's possible that the spiritual key was made by nature to keep us motivated to play the game (of life). There's no lock for that key, but we ke...

Why would nature provide us with a key if there's no lock? That's wasteful, not to mention dangerous - this is not in keeping with the principle that ...

@"Wayfarer" To Descartes animals were p-zombies (he refused to accept that outward displays of pain in animals - their writhing, crying - were signs o...

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Screening for genetic defects is, I believe, mandatory in some countries that have the facility.

If we have a spiritual side (the key), there hasta be a spiritual dimension (the lock).

Noted.

Well, one thing's for sure, we fear making mistakes and that discombobulates you and then you actually make a mistake, the one you most didn't want to...

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To me it's like having a key. There's gotta be a lock ... somewhere, oui? :rofl: