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You keep stating that I believe "having and raising a child" is an unavoidable instinct, yet I have nowhere stated this to be the case. What I've said...

You've just restated the argument in exactly the terms I put it without addressing the problems. Basically your position boils down to the fact that t...

How do you know it will be your 'next' post?

Sounds great, what would it be for?

How should I know? I don't have IQ results, nor the results from any cognitive bias tests. What's the point of the question? Perhaps you could rephras...

You definitely are wrong. As I've said, rationality is the ability to derive one thought logically from another. Intelligence is the ability to see a ...

I'm baffled as to what the distinction you're trying to make is here. The fact that things have 'natures' is entirely what science, and therefore by e...

Your theory begs the question. Your arguments only work if you've already presumed (unlike Schopenhauer) that we have a choice about what it is we wil...

That's interesting, do you have any names I could look into?

I suggest you go and look up the meaning of the word 'if'.

Because we are compelled to either make a new being or assist in the raising of one relatively related to us, by the very chemicals which run our brai...

If 5 pages of Michael's careful and patient explanation of the materialist position hasn't disabused you of your preconceptions, I'm not about to star...

Your post title is unnecessarily self-denigrating. What people (like you?) have trouble coping with is the world that human beings have created. I'm s...

My god you have a lot of patience. I would have smashed my laptop in frustration by now. I can't add anything you haven't already said, just wanted to...

If the person intended that they should look random then they have "designed" a rock pile to look random. It's quite a normal use of the word. You've ...

What positivists, and those following on from some of their approach, are saying is that metaphysical discussions, where they take place, are for dete...

Who says this? Every scientist I've ever spoken to in my career has been of the opinion that science produces those ideas which represent testable the...

Analogous arguments are not automatically valid, they are measured by the strength of their inference. as I outlined; 1. The relevance of the similari...

You seem to have some meaning of the word purpose, which you are not making clear, which the apparent goal of DNA does not fit, but which the apparent...

As others have already pointed out the many other flaws in this argument - the fact that the 'designers' would fall into the same set as all the thing...

You're repeatedly using terms without agreed meanings and it makes it extremely difficult to understand what you're saying. Rather than try and second...

3 Does not follow from 1 and 2 even inductively. In 1 you have taken a subset of the group 'all things where the parts are so arranged that the comple...

It's wrong to reward people for any achievement, luck or effort. The only reason cited for the lack of justification for rewarding luck is that it wou...

I agree with your separation of the different types of happiness, but I'm still not getting the connection with materialism. You mention raising kids ...

The problem is that you haven't defined 'Rationality' in a way that is consistent. In the first part of your claim you seem to class rationality as th...

The actual quantity is irrelevant, its going to be more than zero which is what it would be if he didn't buy the car, plus £50,000 at least could cert...

Brilliant, I didn't think philosophy was that easy... All those wasted years. All right here goes. I do think Sam's car purchase would have a measurab...

So how does doing what makes you happy because we seem to like being happy miss that criteria? Are you specifically looking for meaning outside of the...

By what standards? Many well respected ethicists and even quite a few economists would disagree with you. You can't have a concept of 'acceptable reso...

I don't understand your logic here. What is the thing you're looking for like? What properties would a 'meaning' have that you're finding absent in ma...

I don't know if you're being deliberately polemic, but I don't understand your argument at all. You seem to be saying that because all our purchasing ...

Are you seriously suggesting there's no moral component to purchasing decisions? Have you even read any modern ethicists? Peter Singer, John McMurty, ...

Oh the poor man, fancy having to deal with the dual burdens of having enough spare money to spend on a sports car and being asked to justify one's act...

This is patent nonsense. The number of self-declared atheists in the world has grown rapidly over the last 200 years. A time when we've seen the aboli...

Your argument doesn't follow at all. For a start you need to review your understanding of the scientific method (or stop misrepresenting it, whichever...

Yes absolutely, be sure to refer back to Wayfarer before deciding what to read, don't for heaven's sake presume to use your own intellect to sort the ...

Yes, I've always found that an odd tenet. Surely one who is truly repentant, without simply being scared of hell, must therefore know their sins are i...

Absolutely, I think these are all good solutions, but in order to enact them there needs to be a culture that sees priests and nuns as just as much of...

Where does 'science' say that? I've scanned through my Encyclopaedia of Science, can't find any pronouncements to that effect. Is it in a paper I've m...

I didn't say that the priesthood or anything about religion caused priests to become child abusers and if that's the impression my comment has left th...

Because two cars take more resources to make than one. I don't know how well you know maths, but two is more than one. Also, having cars for pleasure ...

I wasn't talking about the appropriateness of the subsection, I was referring to your evident surprise that when posting anything on a philosophy foru...

This is a philosophy forum you know. If you just want to talk about cars without any philosophical implication then you might want to consider a sport...

Well yes, I'm not sure how you think using patronising epiphets absolves you of moral responsibility.

As I said, if you're just going to cherry pick the bits that suit your world view and ignore the rest, I will leave you to it.

Here's an idea, how about just sticking to the one car instead of fucking up the planet for the rest of us?

Here's an article by Forbes outlining the main biases in business leaders - https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/09/13/the-impact-of...

Excellent idea, lets just ignore people we disagree with. I don't know why philosophy didn't think of that earlier, it really would have saved a lot o...

What world are you living in! Since when does anyone behave entirely rationally, have you ever even picked up a psychology textbook?

I'm curious as to what moral code you're using where "a guy who is aggressive, and committed to step on someone's neck to achieve the sales target for...