ProtagoranSocratist

I think the best argument against suicide, generally speaking, is "if you're talking about, then there must be a part of you that doesn't want to do i...

There really is no way of knowing whether or not you are just a product of my imagination...

Yes to your second interpretation, but "can only be evil if they were able to do otherwise than they did in fact do" is how i perceive the more common...

Okay, thanks for researching that more carefully than i did...

Mostly, but i don't equate evil and "absolute worst" in how i understand the terms. "evil" almost 100% of the time in modern english indicates some ex...

Seems appealing to me, as my personal grudge with moral relativism is how even though it makes moral judgments relative to a situation instead of abst...

close, but what i'm trying to say is not quite as dogmatic. There very well may be evil -- there are certainly things that are horrible or very bad. I...

Un-connecting? Not sure what you mean; they still appear to be related subject matter, but the arguments are different...maybe they are just contrary ...

In my opinion, this is a great deal more absurd than my proposition...who was asking you to break things down grammatically? Is this part of the simul...

Yeah, but what i was getting at was that it's important to investigate where "true evil" begins and ends. I don't think it can possibly come from the ...

Righteously spoken by someone with true knowledge of enlightement! In "Thus Spoke Xarathustra", the great ones and Xarathustra were huddled in a cave,...

Adolf Hitler himself did this; history has it that he practiced his messages and act as an authoritative speaker/politicians for years before he was a...

I'm currently reading The Republic, and this would have to be based on Socratic "justice"...so far he has not been able to grasp any firm definitions ...

"Heim" by logic moon (you can listen to it as well on bandcamp).

jgill, do you even know about socrates? He wasn't a mathematician. So, this is actually expected: you specialized in mathematics, and you didn't read ...

i don't see how you could study at a university for years and walk away thinking that a university always respects honesty, but then again, we don't h...

I was saying the opposite.

but you're taking one example and over-generalizing; to know a round square exists or not, you just need to create it yourself. Not so simple with the...

I'm not opposed to the study, it seems they are saying that nature itself is not algorithmic, which i'm sure is possible to prove to an extent...i'm j...

It doesn't have to: i was just expanding on what i was saying in response to the OP, since you were expanding on what i said...i didn't even read your...

the thing is, there must be some pretty wild "algorithms" that underlie existense that we don't understand and never will, but seems rather silly for ...

I personally take those happiness measurements with a grain of salt...true "national happiness" relies on a balance of a lot of different things, and ...

Government and discipline aren't absolute necessities for freedom though, they're means of structuring freedom which is the very conundrum that this t...

I was only saying that belief in God is similar to the idea that "everything is a simulation", in the sense that 1) it can't be proven or disproven 2)...

This OP you wrote 7 months ago is quite excellent, and something I think about a lot of the time. The way I look at it is that modern liberalism is no...

well of course you can't disprove God without a doubt...you can always say something like "well, the universe is controlled by algorithms we don't und...

i think maybe you haven't a lot of our their threads...but i don't know what you mean, so whatever.

You can't ever expect other people on the internet to agree with you. Sometimes i worry about climate change as well, but here's what I said in that t...

It's my general sense that Jamal can't completely control the flaming on here, and doesn't want to, so you're probably better off not getting involved...

i don't think the emphasis is really "shallow ideas" though from the creator's perspective, but just raw and persistent anxiety over the family financ...

This hasn't been solved because the nature of decision making, control, and cause-and-effect is not straightforward at all, the "yes, there is free wi...

Morality itself is a very consistent issue here. I personally think religion is about control: having a belief system in the supernatural re-inforces ...

No, but the skill that will perhaps curry favor with others is emotional self-control. With thinking, I recommend familiarizing yourself with analysis...

Exactly: universities are famous for only letting you rock the boat in very specific ways, without any danger of actually letting radical proffesors m...

Jamal...so if i'm understanding you correctly, you don't tolerate any type of self-promotion? Could you be more specific about the self-promotion you ...

I think the thread title is a near perfect example of trolling, but trolling in general transcends the true/false dichotomy, it doesn't actually requi...

Of course, professors are given tenure because their work upholds the goals of the institution: a professor will never be given tenure if they play a ...

This is a rather confusing statement, especially when later on you mention socialist federal robots... I don't think you are taking this proposal very...

I think this is a very reasonable and socialist type of ideal for a society, that study itself is work, and people should be payed to payed to work in...

Dude (or dudette, idfk) i appreciate your kindness, but this isn't very true...Bob has revealed that i am not a kind poster. But let me re-iterate why...

I agree with you that overall Bob Ross tries to be respectful, yet writing off homosexuality and transgenderism as mental illness or problematic is de...

Yes. Being a ________ phobe means simply that you are afraid of the category. If you wanted to ban a Nazi costume party, then you would be a naziphobe...

I'm beginning to feel like Sisyphus trying to argue with all these clearly delusional talking points people make on here... This is a clear practice i...

The "moral purification" is referred to as "plot resolution" in cinema terms; it's clearly not promoting any of the destructive acts you describe in t...

But Bob, the issue is that what you were expressing in this thread was in fact transphobic: you expressed interest in banning drag shows. So if what y...

It actually doesn't :) It's very much in line with what you were saying, "So what?" signals a form of emotive apathy.

I kinda want to comment on all these things at once...as i think this site is pretty exceptional in terms of achieving what it's designed for: I under...

That makes perfect sense if you have faith in the police, but otherwise, this excuse is much harder to support.

i think this is mostly true: the logical truths uncovered by primitive philosophers were used by researchers today to improve lab testing and engineer...

Nope, that's because you didn't read the book or look up information about it... The buddha dating book isn't even remotely about buddhism, how to go ...