The gist of the OP seems to be that global warming maybe just what the doctor ordered for the coming ice age. Hot + Cold = Just right (re Goldilocks &...
You fail to see the point then or perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Lemme explain: You, as an antinatalist, want to prevent suffering but this suffering ...
Nonexistence has no rights, I'm with you on that. However, a possible person does have rights even if not to the same degree/level as actual persons. ...
@"schopenhauer1" & @"DA671" Nonexistence is not just nonexistence in re life (the supposedly highest form of existence). Nonexistence has the potentia...
From what I gather, the model of the mind as offered for critique and/or endorsement seems (too) machine-like for my taste. True that our brain probab...
I'm not sure but the days of making big money through exploitation are over i.e. the rich-poor gap is increasing alright but by other, more benign, mo...
Negative numbers, as some members have already realized, are simply extensions of numerical patterns, not forwards like how we're so habituated to doi...
Does the following make sense to you? Imagine a couple who had it all in a manner of speaking. They decide not to have children. A person, a stranger,...
My point is simply this: either way (natalism/antinatalism) we're imposing (on a possible person). Damned if you do, damned if you don't! We gotta cho...
As far as I can tell, idealism is either difficult or impossible to disprove. The same goes for solipsism. These philosophical positions rest on, as I...
So Lagrange points aren't like regions in a stream for example where the flow of water (gravity) "slows down", allowing sediments to settle down/accum...
Idealism & Solipsism are possibilities and ergo all that needs to be proven is that they are...possibilities and that's as easy as ABC. Try it for you...
I get you, but you seem to be ignoring quantity and focusing on quality. Life's full of ups and downs and you have to take both into account; not only...
Idealism and solipsism are derived from the simple fact that a world external to mind or self respectively can't be known to exist. As you can see, th...
What do you have to say to people who exult "Thank god I was born!" To be frank, I've never heard anyone make that remark. It just doesn't seem to mak...
Correct me if I'm wrong but your main point seems to be the unethical nature of thinking for others (the child who's born). True, if possible I would ...
The point to my argument is that the rule all rules have exceptions ultimately contradicts itself, leading us to the conclusion there are rules withou...
Rules, in my humble opinion, are first discovered (descriptive) which then we come to realize are prescriptive. I'm referring to the laws of nature he...
:rofl: One man's food is another man's poison, oui monsieur? Life has a dark history - we need to deep-six this investigative, detective mentality les...
Just the other day, I was imagining angels and to me, they be grotesque, hideous in form, not exactly a sight for sore eyes, but they have beautiful w...
I couldn't have said it better mon ami, I really couldn't have! As you are already aware, philosophers are, how would you say it?, frontline personnel...
1. Every rule has some exceptions. Ergo, 2. The rule 1 itself has exceptions. Ergo, 3. There are rules (1 for example) that have exceptions. 4. Statem...
A weak argument follows: Time is Flowing Backwards Chronologically, Buddhism & Jainism preceded Christianity & Islam (can't comment on Judaism). Logic...
On second thought, the reason philosophers tend to grab at anything within reach, the closest object as it were, when doing philosophy (of mind) is du...
Never say never or always. I'm exploring the intuition expressed therein. In some legal systems (guessing here so cum grano salis) judgment is based o...
1. Every rule has an exception (premise) 1 is a rule, ja? If it is then, necessary that 1 itself has exceptions i.e. \downarrow 2. There are some rule...
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