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Frog

['Member']Joined: June 07, 2024 at 19:43Last active: August 03, 2024 at 23:551 discussions10 comments

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An absurd frog

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"Nothing's alright, might aswell make a night of it!"

-Shayfer James

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In: How would you respond to the trolley problem?  — view comment
Thank you! This has given me a lot to think over. I appreciate your words, and will think on this idea of an Objective Morality.
June 09, 2024 at 18:26
In: Fate v. Determinism  — view comment
Could you please elaborate? I didn't quite understand that.
June 08, 2024 at 21:24
In: Imagining a world without the concept of ownership  — view comment
Try it out: insert any governing body you can think of. It will still be true. This is one of the main problems of a society without ownership. I also...
June 08, 2024 at 19:24
In: On Freedom  — view comment
I feel the need to add, since you quoted Sartre: Let me raise in response to your Sartre quote, yet another Sartre quote: "Freedom comes with responsi...
June 08, 2024 at 15:43
In: Imagining a world without the concept of ownership  — view comment
Hmm... Why the pendulum swings? If I had to say something, I think I'd go with suffering. Suffering brings out the best and the worst in people, it al...
June 08, 2024 at 14:23
In: How would you respond to the trolley problem?  — view comment
You make a good point. Thank you for your response! There is only one thing I can disagree with within your response, and it is this: While I see your...
June 08, 2024 at 13:20
In: Imagining a world without the concept of ownership  — view comment
I don't think such a society could develope on it's own. The selfish human desire is both nature and nurture. It is built into us (selfishness means m...
June 08, 2024 at 13:03
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
The Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre. Favourite quote so far: Theologus Autodidactus by Ibn al-Naf?s. Favourite quote so far: (Also, if anyone has a PDF cop...
June 08, 2024 at 07:51
In: How would you respond to the trolley problem?  — view comment
This seems like a slippery slope here, assigning individuals "value." To believe that someone is objectively more valuable than another is A) dangerou...
June 08, 2024 at 07:28
In: What is a living individual and is it naturally universally mobile?  — view comment
My reply to that would be: not consciously. Perhaps, if enough time passed between the end of Earthly civilisation, and the beginning of ECO-2, the st...
June 07, 2024 at 20:54
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