:ok: Antinatalism is based off the complete picture: it concedes there is happiness, it's just qualitatively and quantitatively inadequate, especially...
You're on target! I want to pick your brain on something that just popped into my head. Antinatalism is definitely anti-life. Remarkable, isn't it, th...
Yep! However it's tougher for the kids! Hence antinatalism. Doesn't that add to the suffering? Sacrifice :grimace: Like I said, life's a zero-sum game...
Yep, that's the word I was looking for. Having children is to take a risk. Who bears that risk? Not the parents, no, the children! Doesn't that make w...
Antinatalists would say all procreation is mindless procreation. My logic is simple. We can't guarantee the safety & security of children, nor can we ...
Selfish, oui? Zero-sum game! Your stability comes at the cost someone else's instability. Yes, that's the nub of the issue - antinatalism & natalism a...
:up: We fear (in descending order of intensity) 1. Suffering (torture) 2. Dying (the transition phase between life and death) 3. Death (the state of b...
:up: Agreed! Entropy always increases. Entropy is disorder, disorder is chaos, chaos is hell! What do you think @"180 Proof"? It's evil to have childr...
If statistics is important, given that black women are 6% of the population, there should be 0.5 black woman judges among 9 SC justices. Round down an...
First, the good news: There's an afterlife. Now the bad news: The afterlife is in hell! Suicide ceases to make sense then: From the frying pan into th...
Statistically speaking, if the figures in the OP are correct, there should be 1 black woman SC justice for a total of 18 SC justices (6% representatio...
Does it make sense for the payer's calculations to be based on distance while the payee's is based on time? Is space = time? It seems so, monetarily. ...
If you wanna know, murder rates may not give the complete picture because it counts only completed killings i.e. there's a dead person, a body count. ...
Solutions to overpopulation: We can't execute old people, but we can downsize families, the Chinese way (one child policy). The problem (if) being inc...
So, desire precedes will. Then shouldn't we be discussing desire for that reason? Arendt stops making sense on that score, no? Desire comes first, wil...
First off, I fail to see a difference between will and desire. Second, notice how slavery revolves around compliance to commands; it follows, then, do...
It seems that the word "paradox" has a much broader definition than just contradictions. Even so, the taxi fare: is it for distance or is it for time?...
Yep and after that...go back to killing and torturing each other in the most horrific of ways! I hate to break this to you but did you know enough Ame...
I always thought truth was/is/will be useful. In other words, pragmatic knowledge is basically knowledge as is commonly understood (jTb). I had simila...
To reiterate my point on the reliability of IQ scores :point: Academic Integrity a) 64% admitted to cheating on a test. b) 58% admitted to plagiarism....
This I have noticed, but it slipped my mind. However, the meter's calculations are still based on how far the taxi would've travelled at some predefin...
Good point! The cabbie gets paid for the distance. There's no point in slowing down. However, if he speeds up, he can pack more passengers in a given ...
You pay for distance, but the cabbie charges you for (his/her) time. Something paradoxical about this no? Look up paradox in Google. I'm sure the defi...
We had no choice in choosing what we will. To that extent, we're not free. However, we can deny our will. What's the word "no" for? I want to eat choc...
Relative god, not an absolute God. I have made adjustments to the status of a relative god - brought Him down a notch or two - and that, in my humble ...
:up: Have you come across this statement: A theory that explains everything explains nothing! I can't find the person who said it, sorry. Do you have ...
You're absolutely correct. When one becomes conscious of an activity, one starts worrying about how well one can carry it out. A vicious cycle then se...
One interesting point of view is that what defines us is our preferences: I like chocolate (despite my dental caries). These seem to persist over time...
You've reserved your comment for motor skills. However, I'm also interested in automatic/unconscious activities that are cerebral (concepts/ideas) lik...
Nonexistence, re Heraclitus, can only change into existence and vice versa. A loop takes form: Nonexistence \leftrightarrow Existence. Nonexistence is...
:clap: :up: That was well worded and packed with meanging! One of the posters, a while ago, remarked that the "worship of God", if you really think ab...
In other words, qualia is ineffable. Why else can't Mary learn everything about red without seeing red? That sensation of redness couldn't/ can't be p...
@"Down The Rabbit Hole" Extraterrestrials, provided they're relatively good, powerful, and knowledgeable, would need to be treated as relative gods. T...
A good question. Makes us rethink what worship actually is and what purpose it serves? Clearly, since there's a difference between an absolute God and...
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