I've had drinking problems ever since I first started drinking alcohol as a teenager: binge drinking and drink-related anxiety in certain situations, ...
Your argument relies on the mistaken assumption that knowing whether or not one's life is worth living is necessary for a life to be worth living. I a...
But it isn't difficult to think of counterexamples to the claim that the interests of at least two people are fulfilled by one person helping others. ...
Even if I accept those examples, a few examples doesn't come anywhere near the amount of evidence that you'd require to support your claim that puttin...
Happy new year. Today, I got to use one of my Christmas presents: a 2016 calendar filled with Shakespearean insults. Per'aps I'll use 'em on 'ere. I d...
But you haven't actually provided any evidence which supports that assertion, and I can think of possible counterexamples. I think that that claim is ...
If you google "altruism" you'll find that the common definition includes both, but I'll just use a synonym instead. Sure it is. Your view is that it's...
I don't get how you go from those statistics to the supposed cause being immorality, which in turn, you say, is a result of an easy life. What's the s...
First of all, I don't agree that the comment of mine which you quoted assumes ethical subjectivism, although other comments that I've made in this dis...
I agree, especially with that last sentence. That was what I was trying to show in a previous comment. Basically, what it seems invizzy is doing with ...
That is not absolute truth. By definition, absolute truth is absolute, and therefore cannot be relative to a perspective. You cannot be objectively wr...
OK, then we agree. I think you're right that it's a misconception. Rationality, in this context, seems to boil down to whether or not one acts towards...
It's altruistic by definition. Yeh, I got that. But that's not necessarily true, nor true for everyone, all the time, regardless of context. Hence, I ...
Also, your position is self-defeating. With statements like the above, we can ask whether they are relative or absolute. If relative, then the stateme...
You seem to think that that's in some way significant. The key word here, which you've thus far neglected, is dependency. Implicitly, I make claims fr...
You seem, for the most part, to be merely projecting your own subjective value judgements here, as if they're something more than that. You find it an...
Well, first of all, I'll note that you've altered the argument in such a way that my original criticism might no longer apply. So, I'll start from scr...
That's basically what I was getting at by restrained vs. unrestrained egoism. Most of us have restraints, such as guilt and shame, which prevent or im...
I know what an ethical policy towards Syria wouldn't look like. It wouldn't assent to the sort of measures that likely result in significant "collater...
I might not be as focused on The Philosophy Forum, and on philosophy in general, as I have been. Recently, when I'm not at work, I've been spending mo...
No. In one interpretation, the statement could be amoral. Just a description of what is the case, or perhaps implicitly a description of the speaker's...
Blimey. Where to start? To cut to the chase, no, the argument (as stated) is not valid, but could become so if additional premises are included. It's ...
I don't see any category errors in the quote that you replied to. Please point out these supposed category errors. Others have done a pretty good job ...
The quote above is another example of the way in which you've persistently framed these two positions in a misleading way, as if certain features are ...
There was an "if". I asked: if the proposal goes through, then was your point not that gun controls ought to then be relaxed (by having the law revers...
If the proposal goes through, then was your point not that gun controls ought to then be relaxed in order to avoid the problem of reservists not being...
Surely there's a way for Finnish reservists to get sufficient training without relaxing gun controls to the extent that they're as easily obtainable a...
Yes, the point about it actually working is important, because even if Stoics are deluded in some of their Stoic beliefs, it nonetheless achieves what...
And when I brought up the likelihood of those millions of people being deluded in that respect, given evidence to the contrary, he mistakenly took tha...
Ooh, looks like a good read. I delved into Russian literature in recent years, and have read some of the other greats: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev....
You are twisting my words; you aren't considering what I'm saying. Yes, and that reply is itself irrelevant, since my point was about the likelihood o...
Thanks for twisting my words. I don't think that it's preposterous that I could be wrong. Acknowledgment that I could be wrong is implicit in my state...
So, I caved in and bought an adorable little kitten several hours ago. I haven't thought of a name for her yet. Here's a photo that I just took while ...
It has resolved such problems, at least temporarily, and it has helped some people to cope with them when they do arise and become problematic. You'd ...
Yes, but like I've said, this should nevertheless be a price that we should be willing to pay for the greater good. My sympathy only goes so far. Thos...
Indeed, they aren't the same. The former is an answer to the latter. Sure, when you suffer, you suffer. And when you suffer, it is of course too late ...
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