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I have no problem addressing gun controls in a particular American state, as opposed to the U.S. as a whole. My argument, in essence, remains the same...

Suffering, to the extent that it's detrimental, should be avoided and minimised, should it not? If not, why? And if it's not the right question, then ...

Crude, but yes, that's basically it. Your alternative ultimately amounts to... what? 'That problem you have? Do nothing about it'. If you do answer, i...

To avoid is to do something, like when the driver of a car swerves to avoid a pothole.

And you're not going to put your money where your mouth is by putting your supposed resolution to the test. Or are you? Kek to you too!

I read 'Seven Brief Lessons in Physics' by Carlo Rovelli. Only 50 pages. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Interesting stuff. Didn't expect to see...

That's better. :D Thanks again. I'll give it some thought. Both positions seem quite alien to my worldview.

Actually, just "putting up with it" doesn't do justice to the position that I've been arguing in favour of. We can reduce it to make life better, and ...

Thanks for the elaboration, although personally I think it could have done with a little condescension, just to give it a kick. One more important que...

Yeh, we'd be worse off, like I said. I edited my previous comment when I realised that he probably thought that both scenarios were bad, but I think I...

I'm not convinced either, and I'm not going to go and studiously read through all that material just to put it to the test. It'd be more efficient to ...

I don't understand the question. Can it not be put more clearly?

I'm in favour of tighter gun controls in places where I think it'd be of benefit, just as I'm in favour of tighter publication controls in places wher...

Wow. Are you sure you're reading the same quote? Do I have to break it down bit by bit? Ok, let's do that. I.e. if the world didn't have suffering. I....

But I didn't say that that's what he's saying. I said that he's basically saying that life would be worse off without it (thus making us better off in...

This is rather ironic given our previous discussion on page 2, in which I said that unpleasantness is not bad if without it life would be worse off (b...

That wasn't my point at all. Problems affect us for various reasons, but we have at least some control over the extent and duration to which they nega...

If that's the "official" Stoic response, than how about a stoic-like response? A similar position, but not as extreme as the one that you've been crit...

Glad you decided to do so. Hopefully you'll post some more as well. :D

Apparently "he's just stating how things are", but I don't buy it. Seems more like sexist bias to me.

No worries. I didn't take it personally. I just wondered why you hadn't replied. Start wherever you think most appropriate. I don't really mind.

And how many innocent lives are at risk and/or are taken as a result of private citizens being armed? This greatly outweighs the benefit of preventing...

You can't, but you can request deletion by flagging a post or otherwise contacting the site staff. The problem is that they're not "lunatics" (well, s...

This place has great people, some of whom no longer or rarely post at the other place. It looks and functions better. This place is awesome. My member...

I don't see it either: whether on my mobile or on my PS4. I assumed that this was became it says that it's available to normal members, and a moderato...

I completed Soma last night. Great game. Very scary, and great storyline. Also quite philosophical, in that brings up questions of identity throughout...

I guess they fixed it for regular members. It works on my own posts. But, as a moderator, on my phone, I can still only edit the comments of others vi...

On second thought, I don't mind the change, and it might even be an improvement, because I still have a higher number than others, which means I'm bet...

I think that it's at least possible to have a good nation in itself (as opposed to as it relates internationally) with all of those things - if the di...

I wouldn't describe that as "inherently despotic", although I would say that it is, in a sense, misguided. It's misguided in the sense that a state's ...

Given that I'm from the UK, and that David Cameron and his Conservative Party are in government, and have been since 2010, and will be until at least ...

It's a Vodafone Smart Prime 6, it's operating system is Android 5.0 Lollipop, and I'm using Google Chrome.

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It seems that there are some bugs brought about by disabling the likes. The members list filters (name, staff, online) don't work, and tapping a comme...

It's a painful program of self-denial to deny that a state of contentedness is achievable, and that also involves a struggle, but with that program, i...

But what good is it to merely point that out? We're going round in circles here. I already acknowledged that the problem exists. It's just a fact of l...

Sure, the problem exists, but we have some degree of control over how much of a problem we make it. Stoicism advocates a method of reducing this probl...

Do you think that life is bad or not? Because it's not clear to me from your reply. In fact, I don't find your reply very clear at all. What is the pu...

Only aspects of it are. Forums and other forms of dialogue are naturally social, but introspection and unshared thoughts are not. Both can count as do...

Well, since you didn't specify, I was talking about unpleasantness in general. But given your qualification, perhaps you're right that such suffering ...

I agree. Yes, I agree. But even that could be broken down further into whether we just cannot presently find an answer the way that we've been seeking...

Has anyone else seen the most recent edition of Question Time? I'm watching it on the BBC iPlayer, and about 30 minutes in, there's a brief - yet bril...

It's about my view contrary to yours. It might or might not reflect stoicism, but I'm not exactly a stoic, or a rigid adherent to stoicism. Hence, for...

There is an important distinction between good and bad on the one hand, and pleasant and unpleasant on the other. That these problems are unpleasant i...

Some of this seems like overreaction to me. Let's just cut to the chase and get rid of all visible information as it might taint our judgement.

Did you do that to me? Or have I just been an arsehole of my own accord?

How is one to determine whether a philosophical problem cannot be satisfactorily resolved? And even if it cannot be, hasn't it still been paradoxicall...

I vote to keep the likes at all costs, even if that entails keeping the list of cumulative likes, which in turn entails that I cry myself to sleep eve...

Isn't the opportunity to give and receive some form of quick-and-easy, yet not too distracting, positive feedback, a good thing? I say it is, and I sa...

In response to your comment on page 1, which was explicitly directed at myself and two others: I acknowledge and accept some of what you point out, bu...