These morality thought experiments have variations to challenge one's answers to measure how consistent one can be. To me this is the only worthy poin...
I'm not sure if you should be in philosophy if this is how you feel. You have to have a grasp on the value of living before you can do philosophy. I a...
Yes. Many of them go for broke just to keep a business alive. And we don't have to think in terms of corporations. Building a prototype is more than b...
Then men build machines or corporations. Men are problem-solvers. Despite the popularity of money and wealth, men who build things do it for its intri...
@"Gregory of the Beard of Ockham" Perhaps, a better way to explain intentionality is to contrast it with non-intentionality. I am going to use a famou...
Okay, I see that there's quite a work needed to be done here. Intentionality is not what you think it is if we're going to talk philosophically. Inten...
This is a roundabout way of saying "the end justifies the means". If that's your idea, then you are correct, I misunderstood you. So, yes, I don't hol...
This needs further discussion. I don't think the existence of objective morality, warrants the conclusion that existence itself is good. Existence can...
Intelligence has an origin -- it did not exist before RNA and proto-life. I think the disagreement would be over our attitude towards intelligence its...
Not a feeling argument. But there is a moral actor -- me. I am part of the scenario. Why can't I decide? The corollary to it is, what if it was my chi...
Train track revisited. I have answered this dilemma before. So, another look at it is good. I still answer, not to switch the track even if it means s...
In the news were pictures of the perpetrator of a $750 fraud. A 19 year-old decided to take money from customers of a fastfood restaurant without thei...
This is a scientific response. "We do not know". :up: It's okay to question abiogenesis. Other theories say the origin of life came from outerspace an...
I had no idea how traumatized some members here are about physicalism. I searched for threads created in the past, and they were just as harsh as they...
I disagree that the lives saved by the robbers don't count in evaluating morality. Pragmatism accepts that between two undesirable choices, the one th...
I wasn't. And I don't know what "abrupt" when reading posts in forums like this. First, I'm neither of the above. But I didn't think your post, which ...
I'm glad you picked up on what I was trying to tell you about your comment. It's just nonsense. Please provide me with some references to help me bett...
I don't know what else to make of this comment, Corvus, but to simply say if an opinion could be marked "Fail", this is it. No one here, or in any phi...
Clarendon, may I interest you in going back to your original post and provide me the opportunity to dissect it? When you start your OP with First, I t...
This is also an unacceptable admission. Consciousness is not some funky revelation that no one could produce a convincing argument. First, let me say ...
Okay, I get you. The frustration with naturalism is that that their principles are not about intentionality, but causality. As you have already laid d...
But your OP is about that -- how is consciousness related to the physical world, only that you stated it as if intelligibility could be extracted out ...
lol. :sweat: One of the most blatant double-talks I've read. The reason why stereotypes are discouraged in social interaction and in formal analyses o...
In what way it begs the question? Spiritual meditation, while it does have the word spiritual in it, is the purification of mind and body, achieving t...
Jesus. Did you measure the distance in kilometers or feet? I say, this is one of those cases where any difference seals it, and no amount of negotiati...
The ancients did have this. They were called sophós. Other names for other culture existed too. So, in modern times, the nameplate on the door of your...
A friend once said, "Men are dumb and women are selfish". That's a view the sums up her opinion of people. It's a very one-dimensional thought. So, I ...
I answered no. They are not the same thing. With prayers, we take our chances, with humility, to be heard. We acknowledge the power and graciousness o...
Your OP reads as if we are experiencing absolute capitalism. Far from it. There are many aspects of our society, hence aspects of our lives, that are ...
Yes, union membership is now at its lowest. I think the inflexibility of a union is one of the reasons also. Speaking of which, look what is happening...
Yes, that is the risk. In fact, I mentioned before in another thread that there had been two experiments done on UBI in which selected individuals wer...
The public, consisting of the average people, is people's worst enemy. One, the workforce (labor) seems to have given up on fighting for stronger econ...
Just a reminder to everyone to wear a quality headphones when listening to music. You get high fidelity sound and the sound details you wouldn't other...
You missed the part of my post where I said with a combination of government services and universal basic income. There is a way to do it without the ...
It's been suggested that one solution is to provide a combination of government services and universal basic income for those that have been displaced...
That ethics is in the heart of governance. I and, I'm sure, some of the members here would like see some arguments about the national security as it r...
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