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Agency is not the issue. It's a category error with regard to words, and a category error that no one has made. I'm not sure you understand what that ...

No one here believes that words have agency, so you don't need to keep negating that words have agency. It's as senseless as me saying to you that hum...

Have you taken leave of your senses? My words just influenced you to reply with the above. In fact, you could not have done so if I hadn't said what I...

There's no problem here besides the peculiar one that you've invented. There's no contradiction there: words have an effect on us like you just descri...

Well, there's a silly way to interpret the statement that they changed the world with their words, and there's a sensible way to interpret that statem...

For goodness sake, why can't you answer direct questions? You're actually taking the piss.

There are arguments in favour and arguments against. It's about getting the right balance. I'm more on Russell's side in that case. But one thing's fo...

That's just as insane if not more so. That's not an ideal, that's an inconceivable nothing. A nonsense. No one in their right mind would trade their l...

You mean, out of those people who are attracted to philosophy forums, many of those people believe a lot of weird shit? Don't - perhaps inadvertently ...

Oh yeah, that's also pretty insane. Nietzsche was right on this point and Schopenhauer was wrong. Ironically, a life without everything that Schopenha...

Yeah, that's pretty insane.

It's actually extremely immoral to dismiss what people actually think about the value of life, about how much of an impact things like hunger has on i...

Even if one were to concede that something like hunger is bad, that's a long, long way off from justifying his conclusion. It's by no means bad enough...

Fortunately you're not, because we're more intelligent than that. But your descriptions and claims are nevertheless misleading, and you're in denial a...

So then why did you make that comment to me in the first place? I'm not having an agenda for another person by making the valid point that you try to ...

Especially since he started the attack.

So you at least entertain the possibility, then. Good. I just so happen to think that he does so. I could be wrong, but then so could you. I don't thi...

God knows what I've got, if anything. But I've made a conscious decision not to seek any diagnosis, precisely for that kind of reason. I've seen how i...

I'm better than being so naive as to think that no one ever plays cards, or that this couldn't possibly be an instance of that.

Thank you. Wait, is that an insult? Another red herring.

Yeah, his comments in that post are what set the ball rolling in that direction. He likes to play innocent, but that post clearly wasn't just a "why w...

But whether or not you do hate is an entirely different question to whether or not you should hate. And Swan is completely wrong to think that she's n...

Where? I just see a question. A question you still haven't answered. A question you haven't answered, even though it is highly relevant. It has to do ...

So, ignoring that entire irrelevant personal attack, do you not agree that a little child would understand why these kinds of statement are misleading...

There's a big hole right at the very start, when you begin, "The meaning of life is...".

But it's true that no one here will take you seriously when you say the kind of things that you've been saying. What you're saying isn't philosophy, i...

Well, this isn't a forum for preaching nonsense, so it's probably not for you. I actually disagree with your statement that it is when you are truly p...

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No one needs philosophy in order to teach them to think. People already think. Philosophy is supposed to refine thinking, although it can actually mak...

Our autonomic nervous system is morally problematic, apparently.

Playing the autism card.

Just the place for a Snark!

No, it's 42.

No, it's 42.

No, it's 42.

@"schopenhauer1", do you now understand why it is misleading to say that your opinion leads to no suffering for a future person? (Note that I'm not as...

Oh, come on. Really? I don't believe that for a second.

Here we go. No, it's 42.

It would more likely be gods, not just a single "God". But yes, at that very early stage of humanity, where we would be really dumb compared to now, w...

Even more reason to remove the extra space.

I took the place of the automated illiteracy detector here for a while, and I was frequently triggered, but then I got fired because I was too nice an...

U wot m8?

Icarus.

Philosophy has taught me that philosophy brings out the idiot in a lot of people without them realising it. It's definitely a double-edged sword.

You don't care about arguments, you pick on wording and tone, even though you're guilty of doing the same thing, as you illustrate above. I can't say ...

Self-reliance and facing strong criticism are characteristic of adult behaviour. Feeling a need to rely on an ignore feature, blocking out strong crit...

Yes. You could grow up.

Antichorism is essentially about the prevention of having to do chores. (By burning you alive, so you'll suffer excruciating pain, and then you'll be ...

Okay, given that you said "no" to my question of whether you understand why that's a misleading statement, why don't you understand that the reason wh...

Why didn't you answer my questions? I will ask them again. Do you understand why that's a misleading statement? Yes or no? Do you understand why no re...