It can't be more pleasurable outside the pleasure machine. That violates the thought experiment. The pleasure machine is a machine which gives maximum...
No, it's not a great point at all. It's just an ignorant denial. So, you don't think that a person growing up in a cannibalistic culture, and a person...
So then obviously they would have two very different experiences. Yes, obviously. And their brains would most probably respond in different ways in re...
Ah-hem. More importantly, who gave your permission to use my smirk? And don't you even think of responding with a smirk, or I'll... I'll... Go grab an...
Yes, it does seem kind of dumb, I agree. That's probably most people's initial reaction. It was certainly mine. But then I began to really think about...
It's not plural. And that doesn't answer any of my questions. If you're suggesting that preaching to the choir and straw men are just part of doing ph...
Yes. I have "Amor fati" tattooed on my wrist. It serves as a reminder. On my other wrist, I have "Cheese on toast". (I don't, it actually says "Carpe ...
It's only a dangerous prospect because of the risk of the more radical right gaining power. The more radical left would make changes that would be of ...
:rofl: I don't know how you'd reconcile that with other comments of yours. I think I get where you're coming from, but I disagree. It's sort of like, ...
No, speak for yourself. Others are probably capable enough not to be struggling with the problem in understanding that you're having, and I've explain...
Yeah, you're right. The left has shifted further to the left, and Sanders, Corbyn, Mélenchon, and Haddad are examples of this. They're in a battle aga...
Some people here have real difficulty with that one. We've already had mention of liberty, the sacredness of life, cooperation, and murder. In another...
But you haven't actually done that, you just think you have. There is nothing whatsoever in my explanation which can't account for divergent moral fra...
Myself and others have explained why your straw men are straw men a million times, but for whatever reason, whether a lack of intelligence or a delibe...
Yes, definitely. And it effectively already does exist on more specific issues, like Fathers For Justice. And there are some male focused issues which...
No, that's not an explanation about the source of morality at all, that's just bringing up something which you judge to be good, namely liberty, and m...
Exactly. No, that doesn't follow, unless you add some false premise along the lines of what Terrapin has said or what I suspect would be some other un...
Yes, that's a much better explanation than others. It's not God, or reason, or some abstract principle, or some mysterious extra-mental phenomenon. It...
I didn't have complete trust in her, no. Far from it. But she said all that stuff in public, so anything she would've u-turned on could be used agains...
:lol: No, seriously. I provided quite a bit of info about that here on the forum around the time of the election. You could probably find them by sear...
Hillary actually had some good proposals. Not just better than Trump's: good. They would have been of benefit to the working class. And assessments of...
The American electorate who are opposed to Trump. I am not a member of that group, opposed to Trump as I am, so I don't have a vote that I could waste...
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