Captain Homicide

This may not strictly relate to the OP but I think there are things that aren’t immoral but you still shouldn’t want to be the kind of person that doe...

I think it’s absurd to believe that people should live miserable, spartan lives and wear hairshirts because other people in the world have bad lives u...

No. It’s only fair and just if we make it so and even then there’s only so much we can do as humans. A theoretical benevolent afterlife on the other h...

It depends on your definition. You have free will in the practical sense that you make conscious decisions without coercion but you don’t have free wi...

Adult human female.

People enjoy pleasure and society is worsening so people use substances to escape in one form or another. The same goes for other vices.

I think it would be objectively good if sentient beings existed but that’s only because I think sentience is intrinsically valuable and good.

No.

I don’t know how much your mind has been changed over the course of these threads but The Matrix aside what kind of plausible answer would you find co...

It seems like Truth Seeker keeps making the same thread about objective truth over and over even when he gets numerous thorough answers. A single ongo...

I don’t think denial is ever truly helpful or something you should do even if not denying something makes you feel worse. Ugly truth is always better ...

In a deterministic universe you can still be responsible in a practical/attributive sense. You don’t have to be ultimately guilty in the eyes of God a...

I think and hope it’s a benevolent paradise of bliss, wonder, love etc where you can do basically anything you want with few restrictions.

I’m suggesting something like the trolley problem except you’re the person that has to die for a larger number to live.

I should have clarified. The people in this situation aren’t attacking you but you are still forced to choose between killing them or sacrificing your...

Examples of what I mean by things that aren’t immoral but you shouldn’t want to be the kind of person that does them include living your life in a dru...

Why not?

I’d cite the abundance of veridical near death experiences as evidence of the soul and an afterlife.

Using this argument we can never have a reason to believe in the world becuase we can’t ever escape our senses short of omnipotence and even then you ...

You summed it up perfectly.

True but the ought/is debate is about objective morality and whether or not certain moral claims are objectively true regardless of human opinion.

Others have responded to your question much better than I can but I would like to know what answer would you find satisfactory? Since we can’t escape ...

I still eat meat though this is out of practicality regarding my individual circumstance rather than me approving of animal exploitation. If I had the...

In reference to the last question I’d say no because I think animal exploitation is wrong and we can still have pleasure, convenience and entertainmen...

If I understand your point correctly I’d say we have far more reason to believe in the objective existence of the world than not. The onus is on the p...

The Devil That Never Dies by Daniel Goldhagen is a comprehensive summary of this very topic.

It’s not the guns. There are more guns in the US today than ever before yet crime and murder are the lowest they’ve been since their peak in the 1990s...

Exactly. It’s the stakes, not the odds. Given that in the US there are over a million violent crimes every year is it really hard to understand why so...

This would be weird but not immoral considering they solely exist inside his head and aren’t actual people capable of being harmed. As long as he didn...

No which is why I said “highly doubt.” You can’t be perfectly sure of what goes on in anyone’s mind but that doesn’t mean you can’t draw plausible con...

There’s a major difference between thinking of dark things for the sake of a story like a writer does and thinking of dark things for its own sake bec...

True but in this scenario we explicitly know what the afterlife is like.

I meant they can’t be omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient etc.

Yes. No. If you aren’t omnipotent, omniscient etc then you aren’t God. It’s possible to be extremely powerful but not omnipotent.

I’d make the universe a fantastical Culture style utopia and give myself the means to remain the most powerful even after my time as God is over.

This sums up my issue perfectly. I’m no free will expert but at first glance it seems bizarre to say that people have compatibilist free will and are ...