An act is an imposition if it violates someone's freedom, which also seems to imply that non-existent beings are in some free state and being brought ...
Actual people do have rights. But that doesn't mean that there is any value in trying to preserve these rights when the person who would have those ri...
It's quite apparent to me that attempting to dimish the potency of the good by employing arbitrary double standards when it comes to the value of crea...
With the presence of the former whose prevention is not required by nothingness. I never said that you are saying that. It's my argument that there is...
Neither is one obliged to preserve a void. The gift would positively affect an actual person. Already responded. Absolute bliss. The pit is indeed bad...
I never did. I do believe that avoiding and reducing unnecessary harms is important. It's you who has wilfully decided to ignore the positives. The gi...
People who bestow good and genuinely try to help others are slightly better than Nazis, I think. There weren't many Nazis sacrificing their lives, sle...
Not procreating does not have a positive effect on the non-existent freedom of inanimate objects. However, clearly some people think that creation can...
Well, one could say that non-existent beings are not missing out on the goods of existence because, unlike the existing person who wishes he could hav...
Ignorance of beneficence hardly erases its worth. There can be negative consequences for those who do exist and care about procreating. Not creating h...
Presuming and choosing for others when they are not capable of getting a good themselves is the ethical thing to do because it provides a benefit that...
:up: When it comes to experiences, quantity has a quality of its own. The existence of harms does not efface the value of all the positives of life. J...
As someone who is sympathetic to vedanta, it would have been difficult for me to have not heard of him! I really enjoyed reading Ethics. Doing the rig...
Do keep the benefits (and the lack of any prior interest in the void) in mind. Anyway, it's been nice to have had the privilege of discoursing with th...
And choosing to not bestow a positive that innocent sentient beings deserve. Some people would say that non-existent beings are not harmed by this cho...
Is it ever okay to not let unmitigated pessimism hinder one's ability to empathetically bestow a great good to another person when they are not in a p...
Personally, I think that divorcing the rules from the effects does not make much sense. However, once again, I did not misconstrue your position. I ac...
I never claimed that you said anything else. My point was that, due to the allegedy harmful nature of creation, the so-called imposition (the choice) ...
The absence of that negative at the cost of their existence simply has no value for the person who does not exist, in my view. Fortunately, most peopl...
If non-existent beings had some prior interest in avoiding existence that was being disregarded by their creation, then perhaps it would indeed be wro...
Indeed. Which is precisely why deciding for them and suggesting that they should not have a good (even though they mostly likely would have asked for ...
It isn't unreasonable to point out similar flaws. There is no need to fix something that is not broken. Taking unnecessary risks and causing harms to ...
Acknowledge the bad but recognise the good too! Some wings are quite large. Doing so might give on the necessary resources to start working for a cure...
If freedom can be restricted even when there was no prior free state from which one was taken away from, then giving a good that one could not have as...
I still do not think that an act that isn't dragging one away from a state they had a prior interest in towards a negative one can be called an imposi...
:clap: Ineffaceable great goods also matter. An excessive aversion to risks at the cost of downplaying the opportunities that many people could (and d...
Forcing a pessimistic worldview onto the inexistent is hardly a reasonable thing to do (I am being facetious and somewhat metaphorical here, just in c...
Indeed. The concept is stretched and contracted in a way that seems a bit capricious. For instance, if one believes that an individual is responsible ...
I agree. Unless one has a very narrow (and ultimately counter-intuitive, in my opinion) definition of "causing" something (which is not the same as be...
:up: As the OP said, "great arguments"! It seems apparent to me that not acting in a particular situation can be one of the causes of a state of affai...
:clap: One can hope that people will not turn a blind eye to the significance of providing benefits and choosing something better over something that ...
The inaction did not cause the person to start drowning; it caused him to keep drowning. Obviously, if one isn't even in the area and is unaware/incap...
If the absence of happiness is not bad because there isn't any deprivation being felt by someone, then neither can the absence of suffering be good, s...
I agree that one is not directly responsible for what happened. Nevertheless, their inaction did cause the person to continue to drown, since if they ...
It can still have consequences. Of course, it involves non-involvement. I am fine with it being a possible choice. In fact, if the risk is greater, it...
If someone is saying that inaction should always be preferred, they seem to be implying that it is good. However, if it is good that inaction prevents...
Unfortunately, some people care too much about impositions and too little about the bestowals of great goods. Nonetheless, I hope that we will, as you...
If people keep taking unnecessary risks (they are unnecessary because existing beings do not need constant interference for adequate happiness) for th...
What matters to me is trying to do the right thing. The rest depends upon the wills of the other sentient beings. I can't control them (nor do I wish ...
Yes, I apologise if my comment seemed to suggest that you had said otherwise. I just thought that far too many people equate happiness with financial ...
Most Buddhists accept rebirth and do not accept universal AN. However, I do believe that life can be mostly positive. What we should do, particularly ...
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