Do you understand why that's a misleading statement? Yes or no? Do you understand why no reasonable conclusion can follow from it? Yes or no? That's e...
That's just your opinion. No, that criticism is invalid. It's invalid because it can't apply to what I'm saying without also applying to what you're s...
You don't seem to be listening. The overall value of life is what primarily matters here, over and above any one particular factor of life taken in is...
You aren't addressing the problem. The problem is that life consists of a lot more than suffering. And given that life consists of a lot more than suf...
Given that we all know what antinatalism entails, why do antinatalists always try to hide the full picture? They say that it's about the prevention of...
Fallacious reasoning can't be reasonable, because it is by definition unreasonable. And you've committed a fallacy by drawing a conclusion based on ju...
Like I just said, a reasonable analysis must take into account all relevant factors. So by asking me only about suffering, you're effectively asking m...
Things are good because of the overall value taking into account all factors, not bad because you deliberately select just a single factor whilst wilf...
And everything else, which you don't mention, which is misleading. It literally can't be about just that, as we all know, because life is so much more...
Obviously that's obvious, because obviously the obvious is obvious, obviously. It's just as obvious now as it was five months ago when I last had the ...
Your answer is like answering the question, "How long is a piece of string?", by answering that it's twice as long as half of its length. It tries to ...
Clearly I disagree with what you said insofar as I disagree with your false accusation that I had put forward a false dilemma. This relates to my own ...
Of course there's reason to use that term here, otherwise I wouldn't have used it here. Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat my language for your sake. An...
No, it's most definitely not a false dilemma simply to state that people think of respect differently, which they do, and to state my disagreement wit...
But it's a false dilemma. You can keep hold of the importance you see in predictive power and usefulness without fighting a losing uphill battle again...
You're mixing up truth with epistemological methods. What is it that you want to talk about? I naturally thought that it was the former, given that th...
Oh dear. You're doing that thing again where you speak all funny and come up with ad hoc justifications. The scientific method has been widely applied...
Although people think of respect differently. The member above seems to think that respect is most importantly about all of the superficial nicey-nice...
None of what you just said has anything to do with truth, so it is missing the point. I was criticising the proposition which you previously mentioned...
Why not? You can't divide 8 volts by 2 ohms because you can't convert volts to ohms since volt and ohm units do not measure the same quantity. You can...
Yes, out of context, it does matter. But by taking what I said out of context, you're no longer addressing my point, which was that it doesn't matter ...
A figure with similar sides and 90° angles is a square, a featherless biped is a man, a door without a knob is a wall, and a tiny toothless cat with n...
No, no, no. Look, let's start off simple, shall we? The statement, "Planet Earth is not flat", is true, yes? It's true because Earth is not flat. That...
I'm talking about a critical method of examining the world, irrespective of whether or not you would class it as metaphysics, and I'm contrasting it w...
The answer I found online is that you can't convert volts to ohms since volt and ohm units do not measure the same quantity. Maybe I don't understand ...
I conclude that the behaviour of atheists and anti-religious posters is not anywhere near as bad as the denialism and apologetics of those in support ...
I'm not so sure how accurate it is to put it down to ignorance. That seems like letting him off the hook. I think that there's an element of deliberat...
It's worth drawing attention to them, so here they are, in all their "glory": Spiders and flies and ants are in essence fish. Point of fact, the North...
I forgot to put on my reading glasses. Or I didn't, and the whole thing was actually a joke. But not just a joke: a joke making reference to an exampl...
Have you seen some of the things he's been coming out with? I'd much rather a bit of the harsh rhetoric that's being complained about here than the ou...
They were Christian, whether you like it or not. There have been many wars of religion over Christianity. Christianity has blood on it's hands. In fac...
No. I wasn't addressing that part, genius. I was addressing your false and absurd claim that the papacy's power crutch has nothing to do with religion...
It isn't. And a few examples here and there which I might agree with won't be enough to make it just right, so don't bother going down that road. Don'...
I disagree. I'm okay with describing myself as anti-religious in some important respects. I do feel strongly about some of the claims which are made. ...
Well obviously nothing is prominent until it becomes so, and clearly it became so. Plato founded an academy which lasted hundreds of years. He is cons...
But evidently it's not treated quite the same now as it was back in its heyday, which was kind of the point. I wasn't implying that no one reads the b...
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