Your beliefs are increasingly starting to seem like vacuous projections, my friend. Once again, knowing that people die has nothing to do with creatin...
No, it does not. You're obstinately refusing to see things from any POV other than your rather limited one. Tragic, but understandable. Once again, cr...
Indeed. Thankfully, procreation kills nobody. Creating someone whilst knowing that everybody dies due to the possibility of a meaningful life that the...
I am afraid that this belief of yours is is erroneous. They are not morally equivalent in any sensible way. Knowing people die is not the same as kill...
One act will harm someone who has an interest in living, and the other will create them and form the possibility of any life and joy contained within ...
It's still wrong because it would harm existing people who have other interests, but nonexistent beings don't possess such interests. That still has n...
So creating a person is not the same as ending them because they don't exist in the first place. But for your "for all we know" point, perhaps we were...
The valley of life as well, my friend. And no, I don't think that creating a valuable life has anything to do with "manslaughter", which is about cutt...
You have already acknowledged that us preferring something is not the same as us having a reason to do it (in terms of it being the "right" thing). As...
I am not talking about psychology. You yourself had said that reason and desire are different, but then you simultaneous suggest that something most p...
I don't agree with the deprivation account, but I also don't necessarily believe in your view. Many people are averse to death, but this doesn't mean ...
Agreed. We may have reasons for avoiding death (which include aversion to pain and a fear of losing potential good), but life cannot be seen in a myop...
I actually don't believe in the deprivation account; I merely said that we disvalue death because it can cut short potentially good experiences. Perso...
Even if death does not end our consciousness, it does not mean that it would be better for one to not exist. For all we know, it could also be the cas...
We shall indeed have to stop because you seem to be incapable of looking beyond your biased and limited framework. Your "distinctions" are manifestly ...
The universe also doesn't need prevented harms/violations. Once again, I don't think that double standards are justifiable. You can keep asserting tha...
The benefits and the gratefulness people feel for life does matter. The Schopenhauerian view is wrong here. I can also point out that nobody is rejoic...
Thanks for that link! I'll try to share this with some people I know. That's totally understandable :) I hope that your vision will materialise into a...
I endorse much of what you have written. Good people do tend to get angry when they see the immense potency of value being wasted away. I think that y...
Cooperation instead of competition, generally. At least on the micro-level, I do see it a lot where I live. Small business owners coming together to f...
Beauty is usually enigmatic ;) Whatever it would be, I do not think it would stray too far away from the fundamental goodness of cooperation and love ...
I do not disagree with you entirely! I think that your point about many people focusing on their selfish and limited interests undoubtedly deserves at...
I agree. Despite the odds we currently face, I do think that there are many good people out there who do want to make the world a better place. I have...
That's why I don't think it can be a burden/violation either since nobody in the void has an interest in not existing that's somehow not taken into ac...
It is, but you continue to ignore answers that don't fit your rigid framework. If it's "ethical" to prevent harms whose absence doesn't benefit an act...
Yes, we certainly disagree on this, because the bestowal of deeply valuable experiences does matter (even though I don't exactly agree with the idea o...
Yeah, I agree. That's why I said that they can only be put off for "a while". And yes, the satisfaction of those needs can certainly be deeply pleasan...
The ??? are eternal in their formation. But they all never forgo hope and the need to follow a balanced approach. I agree! Let's hope that things do g...
Billionaires might not always be happy, and my experiences with many "rich" people have shown me that the so-called "poor" people have a wealth of joy...
Talks about "falsehoods" can reveal intuitions about reality. Fool's paradise and ignorant's hell: they can be equally illusory. Diamonds are hidden, ...
Music are certainly be too loud, just as it can be pleasant. I think I stayed in room 501 once, but thankfully we didn't have any noisy neighbours the...
I think that they can be both negative (in the sense that they are needs that require to be fulfilled) and positive (since they can lead to satisfacti...
Maybe, maybe not. It's always nice to see new sources of value once one has cherished the old ;) But it's definitely an interesting idea. That new pro...
Could you share your blog's link? The connection between the internet and democracy seems like a really interesting one, and I would love to check out...
Agreed. Also, I don't think that one needs to read countless books in order to value one's life. Meaningful experiences might require rejuvenation (wh...
Your enthusiasm is inspirational and reinvigoriating! Even though we do have to resolve certain issues, I think that active participation and a balanc...
If you don't mind, may I please ask for the name/link of your blog? And yeah, it's definitely encouraging to finally see (after a long time) many peop...
Apologies for barging into your conversation, but I just want to say that I agree with you that we must embrace cooperation in order to ensure that we...
Agreed. I believe that S1 is a truly intelligent and compassionate person who has genuinely good intentions, and even though I disagree with them on a...
I wouldn't wish to step into unreasonable waters ;) There's no "switcharoo" happening. You have unjustifiable double standards when it comes to happin...
There's no "square one", because my case has always been for a logically consistent view that doesn't devalue the positives. I had not accepted any do...
There's no "initial asymmetry" to begin with, so repeatedly mentioning the fact that the absence of the good isn't ethical if the prevention of the ba...
The comparison doesn't appear to be quite accurate because I don't think that the lack of exploitation would somehow make most people irredeemably der...
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