Agent Smith

Nobody's perfect - we'll have to work with what we got. Their position does have merit though as death seems to have that finality to it which is the ...

I think I pointed this out before, eudaimonia (live well) is priority #1, everything else is secondary. It is on this issue that philosophy reveals it...

:rofl: It's that bad, eh? I had my suspicions. Most insightful - I think this way of looking at things is because of right-handed people (the majority...

:smile: What is mathematics? Before we discovered/invented math, we were like folks with poor eyesight - everything was a blur/pixelated and if one st...

Yeah, I know. C'est la vie.

Sorry for the double post - I hope you 're not a tit-for-tat kinda person. It's quite intriguing - the part where you say harm isn't necessarily immor...

Big Bang Theory style? P. S. We've reached the limits of our understanding is what it is. That's all.

Punching a wall is a scaled down version of suicide and indeed it isn't clear whether suicide is moral/immoral acceptable. Interesting. Go on.

So, if I harm a person, that isn't necessarily moral/immoral? How come this latin phrase primum non nocere appears in bioethics?

Most Important Problem Facing Humanity: Humanity We are our own worst enemy! The lion has nothing to fear except ... another lion. :lol:

I recall this youtube video on the making of Top Gun 1. It seems that the Air Force allowed only one missile to be fired from an F-15. So what did the...

Recall what happened to the Jews in Europe - they were blamed for everything bad that happened in the village/city, rounded up, and executed in pogrom...

I'm still not clear about the rationale for monism. If eventually one has to resort to some form of dualism/pluralism, monism feels more like wishful ...

Good argument. I remember asserting that ethics is about 1. Thanatos/Death (vegans feel guilt) 2. Algos/Suffering (veganism is preferable to carnism) ...

The answer, it looks like, is no! I concur, trust is vital to our collective well-being. However, the way things are done suggests betrayal is the nor...

Why not? I thought vacationing had to be within one's means. I'm afraid I'm not qualified enough to commune with the divine.

Kinda like how Einstein couldn't accept action at a distance - it was "spooky" to him. It just didn't make sense to his humongous brain. He wasn't alo...

I never said that "avoid major damage or harm" is flawed. I quite like the negative formulation - instead of do good, we should not do bad - for the s...

Translation please.

Parricide! :scream:

Si comprehendis, non est Deus!

Good question! I think all our problems can be traced back to not listenimg to Aristotle. :snicker:

Furthermore, without quantification, even if only illusory, ethical matters would be adiaphora; we would then get a stroke!

I get it, it's complicated and that's putting it mildly. The trolley problem has been crafted to expose the shortcomings of utilitarianism which is th...

What's the differency between inflation and (currency) devaluation?

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. Analogies extract the pattern from pragmata (issues); the next step is to come up with a specific instance of that...

Tempus fugit.

We no longer hunt (for food) although it still survives as a sport. That should serve as a good starting point to discuss feminism. A lot to unpack th...

Bartricks is in explore mode and he did make the case for an intrinsic value to life but then backtracked for obvious reasons (dukkha). It appears as ...

I'm overjoyed!

I don't think it's that simple but I do agree, as mythology attests, immortality aka cancer :snicker: (+ happiness) have been/are/will probably remain...

You can't be serious. Suicide is predicated on postmortem benefit (the cessation of suffering). How do you square that with your claim of postmortem h...

What is it that we're certain exists/doesn't exist? What are the criteria for existence/nonexistence?, i.e. if I claim x exists/doesn't exist, I must ...

What explains suicide then?

Your theory, I realize, is reminiscent of how Thales thought of water as the arche & how Heraclitus declared fire was the arche. A monistic stance alr...

Si, si señor!

Autonomy (self-determination) is part and parcel of human-level sentience and that could manifest as independent values & goals - not exactly the kind...

So Darwin! Are races/ethnicities proto-species? We were treated as distinct species in the sense that once upon a time, when racism was at its peak, i...

Birds of a feather flock together? But then ... opposites attract! Love that phrase: Basically overchoice, a burden as great as choicelessness. Hence ...

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:blush: How about things at your end? Any "doctrinal support" that asserts the contrary?

Xenophilia?! I should've known. Which is the rule and which is the exception? Beats me!

What then explains SETI? :chin: Peoples (hate) fear each other but then they're oh so eager to contact aliens. Something doesn't add up now does it?

Jack Cummins reasons thus: I begin in hyperbolic doubt, Descartes style; after all we're not sure at all about all this. I, Jack Cummins, 100%, exist ...

Perhaps it would be better to get some help from the experts and for better or worse, I've found them - Buddhists. I haven't the foggiest how these du...

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Read the Wikipedia page on Arthur Schopenhauer. World as Will is not a conclusion. At best it's a hypothesis and at worst it's an opinion.

What does it mean, this Banzai?

If Donald Trump is your typical business magnate, I now know big companies (re large family-run ventures are called empires) are dictatorships!