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Well, if that came to be, I reckon we'd have a revolution on our hands, and I think (and hope) that it would be to a large extent anti-capitalist and ...

As a checkout operator, I'm particularly concerned with the fact that advancements in technology have made my job almost redundant. Fortunately for me...

That's disgusting! A blue popsicle?! You should wait until you're married before you have sex with her and make her your dinner, otherwise you won't t...

I do not agree with the connection that you seem to be making between celibacy and anti-natalism. I don't often talk about this, but I am also celibat...

I can live without him. It most likely comes down to how emotionally stirring a set of words are in either case: whether we say that it's because of m...

WHAT!? Oh my god. He will live on in legend.

Arguing for certain illegal recreational drugs to have a similar legal status as, say, alcohol, is about a positive right, namely the right to partake...

Chocolate. I've just been to see Star Wars. It's so good! I wanna see it again, and I wanna see the sequels.

Yes, it does seem so, although his comment is ambiguous. It's not clear what he's referring to: whether the full first sentence or just up to the comm...

I don't agree with this. I think that there might be exceptions. Isn't it possible that one could consistently devalue or overvalue their life in that...

He seems to want you to concede that the feeling necessarily coincides with an examination from the mere fact that the feeling can coincide with an ex...

I don't understand how you can think them identical. They are different and distinguishable, they are not logically equivalent, they do not have the s...

Yes, well done, I concede, but that is not what I meant, and is beside the point. Your argument results in contradiction, because if gratuitous suffer...

Well there is of course one condition, the condition which is implicit in the definition, and which Mike is a bachelor in virtue of. This doesn't over...

Well, the converse is invalid, i.e. if something causes preventable suffering, it doesn't following that it's gratuitous suffering, because gratuitous...

That's ironic, but not, I suspect, in the way that you intended it to be.

@"Soylent" P6 remains unchanged, as therefore does my criticism, which you have yet to address. Also, given your stipulative definition, P6, P7, and C...

I'd forgotten that that was the topic of this discussion. Landru's red herring tactic was quite successful.

That's evidently false, in spite of your proclaimed surety. How absurd to claim that a feeling depends on a description of it, meaning that you can't ...

Well, soundness is what I addressed, but presenting a simplified version has predicably backfired, because one of my objections has already been resol...

N.b I am new to this discussion. I have not read the other discussion to which you refer, nor, at this time, have I read any other comments in this di...

That would be a pointless exercise. Like John said, the feeling that my life is worth living doesn't depend on my describing it - even if doing so doe...

Hey, @"Mongrel"'s back. Welcome back. Also, happy birthday, @"TheWillowOfDarkness". (If it is indeed your birthday).

Evidently, not what you think it does. You can assert otherwise until the cows come home, but that won't make it so.

No, I don't think that that is what he is claiming, nor what he has implied. Caring about life is that feeling. And this feeling can exist prior to se...

This is just one of those silly unjustified and false assertions that give philosophy a bad reputation. Like asserting that if something isn't perceiv...

But merely having an opinion about something, and being aware of that fact, is pushing it beyond what's sensible. I assumed that you were referring to...

I agree. That's it in a nutshell.

If that counts as philosophy, then that's a very broad conception of philosophy. You brought it up. That's a straw man. Who do you think has insisted ...

So you say. Yet, upon such examination, myself and others have reached the contrary conclusion. After examining my life, I've come to the realisation ...

Oil oil: so good they named it twice.

To clarify, the question isn't about the knowledge within one's life, in general. It's specifically about the knowledge that (or whether) one's life i...

Good replies so far. I more or less agree with both John and Bitter Crank. I wonder if anyone will unexpectedly defend a 'yes' vote.

I only want to understand calculus so I can understand physics. If I could gain a good understanding of the latter without the former... But it seems ...

Yes, actually. Queen Elizabeth I had pocket beagles.

Yes, I agree with that. My point is that neither feelings nor reason are an infallible means of evaluation.

I question whether even the feeling that life is worth living is necessary for a life to be worth living. Isn't it possible for one to have a life wor...

The 'sign in'/'sign out' button should be clearer, and in a better location. Also, the 'quote' button should be larger. It's a pain in the arse on a m...

Yes, just like that, you whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave! (That's today's one).

Perhaps you misspelt "JUNK".

Oh, I see. Well, that's good, then. :) I assumed that when Tiff wished you a happy birthday two days ago, it was your birthday.

I'll look up what that means later, after work. It does matter. You have implied that whether a life is worth living is dependent on whether one knows...

No, he believes that ants are real.

I still haven't read December's, but I vote for Quine. Parfit would be my second choice.

The 11th of June. I was born in England, where we get dates in the right order.

But I didn't make that claim. It doesn't have to be, but it can be, and in some cases, is. I'm not ruling that out. It's just that there are some such...

I can empathise with such a feeling. I think that it has been ingrained in many of us. But I can also empathise with the feeling that the former shoul...

Well, you're confusing the relationship between them, at least. There is no logical dependency of one on the other. (Unless your argument is an argume...

I don't believe in an objective morality, so whether you should or shouldn't isn't as straightforward for my position, but I think that one could quit...

Nope, you're just confusing two separate things: that life is worth living and knowledge or awareness that life is worth living. You therefore fail to...