Or there could be black holes birth universes elsewhere. There are a lot of options on the table in current cosmology. They don't know. I don't think ...
Well, his explanation includes this same borrowing from nothing in two directions. I don't see any evidence that the universe had a beginning. (the Bi...
I hope my point with the antimonkey was clear at least to someone. The so called nothingness was able to separate out into opposites. That's a nothing...
Perhaps someone has that position, but it seems like an extreme one. IOW one can be critical of the recent choices made without remotely assuming anyt...
Well, I think the thread is silly but logic doesn't say things, it demands certain relationships between statements, and statements and conclusions. O...
Well, the fact that it is not monkey and -monkey means there is something that is there making it not monkey and -monkey. Also in Classical physics yo...
That's not nothing. That's a lot of laws and patterns. You used the word 'superposition', which means that there were potentials. There was some tende...
There are extreme forms of restrictive religion - for example some forms of Calvinism - that per se dislike enjoyment. Not just enjoyment of sex or so...
If you think everyone is a hedonist, then the answer is no, there is no difference between being good or happy. The person being good is just doing wh...
At least, 'also', since I think governments should have oversight and their oversight is often compromised by revolving door stuff and lobbying, if th...
I voted political corruption, by which I mean not just occasional bribes, but the way the powers that be serve elite interests and not 'the people'. T...
Was he behind hundreds of american deaths in Iraq or was this the bs that Cheney came up with that has since been debunked? Was he planning more attac...
I have countered (in my mind at least :)) this line in other posts of mine in other threads and even in this thread in response to Mad Fool to some de...
Having wants and desires are not the same as hedonism. it depends on what you want.You were sliding away from hedonsism in the first sentence, now you...
There is a faction that likes war, in general. There are all sorts of corporations that benefit from a war. Certain areas of the world are seen as not...
As I said myself... I am not saying that people should fight what they consider to be evil. I am not saying that evil exists. (And then note that this...
Of course. I just don't think we can rule out countries and certainly not groups choosing to put themselves at risk for a higher value. Higher accordi...
People want to create and achieve, for example.Sure, there will always be things one can point at and say 'see that gave you pleasure' but these are o...
Perhaps, perhaps not. Hitler would have been able to focus on the USSR. Perhaps in the end it would have gone for Britain, perhaps not. Hitler conside...
Large portions of fundamentalist protestantism consider Catholicism to be evil. I would guess that most members are fairly decent to individual Cathol...
Fair enough. But we still have a concept of reason - what the idea of reason distinguishes, describes and then we have the faculty. It's a concept and...
I would tend to agree. But we have to also notice that contradictory morals have lasted a long time in different groups and even sometimes inside more...
I am not quite sure what you are saying. He refers to the concept of reason. You say it isn't a concept but rather a process. But these are not mutual...
lol. Well, I can't begrudge you enjoying that part. Such ironies are a part of life. And the truth is one thing that bothers me in general is a certai...
And as they must be. We will never be able to completely guarantee that a child will not suffer. Most antinatalists, certainly here at PF, have a comm...
I didn't quite get this, but I will respond as if I did. Keep in mind I am not quite sure what you meant. No. I am arguing that saying someone has mor...
And how do we evaluate how well something like a moral is working? what's the time frame? and isn't that a moral value in itself, that the good will m...
To me the first part of the sentence outweighs the second. I could deal with some illegal shooting of the entire Nazi command. IOW if the 'revenge' ac...
As far as wikipedia, the main opposition to anti-natalism is not natalism, but the idea that there is nothing per se wrong about having children. One ...
I think if you actually tried to connect your argument to the topic, it would be quite tricky, rather than simply making a reach with an analogy witho...
Exactly. There was a specific and general goal. The assholeness was performed utterly consciously, with a specific objective. It's not simply a person...
I think it's fine to look at the idea of unconditional love as a kind of new, I stress new, more ideal concept (perfect) and see if it is possible. If...
Yes, the new owners faced with a situation that was obviously going to be there from before their privitization purchase, chose to act immorally. They...
That goes for asshole bosses on the wrong end of a judge and jury. Or one in a world where certain kinds of behavior caused by being an asshole lead t...
I think that's possible, though there are many who think that Nagasaki was in excess and was more of a message for the Russians that Hiroshima was no ...
Unconditional love is a social phrase. It's not a claim like some theologians have that God is omniscient. Or a mathematical idea of infinity. It's no...
I think you are moving the idea to nearly mathematical levels. Unconditional in this context means regardless of behavior, regardless of accomplishmen...
rThis, to me hides an important distinction. There is collateral damage and there is intentional targeting of civilian populations, like say in Dresde...
I think the being good to workers period was very small. And the rights and protections of workers have been eroding. Certainly once Reagan got in. Th...
They need the ones they have and those are the ones they are treating poorly. In the current economy workers have less options. Amazon does everything...
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