Yeah, I actually agree. The distinction between the 'objective' and the 'subjective' component is an useful heuristic but, as you note, it can muddle ...
Even if it were true, this would only true 'objectively' (see this post). One still has to take into account the 'subjective' aspect of sin. Even in o...
I'm not sure how the argument here is persuasive. It is said that during life it is always possible to repent. During life, then, the will is not inva...
Hi, I believe here you are neglecting the fact that, in theistic religions, it is assumed that the sinner has a personal relationship with God, who is...
Well, the main motivation remains the same, I think, i.e. retaining the idea that physics is about describing the world 'as it is' also when measureme...
Well, I sort of agree with that: the difference is not so great, but IMO there is. Anyway, I don't think that Italy is 'late' because of some peculari...
Not sure how it is relevant in a discussion about Christianity. And this at least in the case of WW2, it has been a good thing, I would say. Anyway......
'Not being a brute' is hardly the same as 'being a coward'. If 'not being a brute' means to be 'non violent', I hardly see how being 'non violent' is ...
Well that's a good question. I don't have an answer for that (I do however think that regularities in nature can be taken as 'clues' for some kind of ...
Well, as Socrates said ""It is better to suffer injustice than to do wrong" (I don't remember where and if the phrase is exactly this, but I do rememb...
I agree that 'society' doesn't suffer but individuals do. And I also agree that we should avoid to cause unnecessary suffering, especially when there ...
Fair enough. Here I disagree but I understand why you can argue for that. Ok. But what about uniformity/universality of physical laws? Why, say, do el...
Right. Also IMO human beings are, so to speak, essentially social. Ethics, in particular, seems to me based on how an individual relates to other indi...
Thank you very much for sharing and for the advice. I am not american but italian BTW, and here it seems that is generally assumed by the general popu...
Well, yes, there's also that but not only that. And also it is perfectly understandable if christians do not make a philosophical apology for those ar...
But this isn't an argument for antinatalism. Antinatalism is the view that is morally wrong to give birth. You are merely saying that in some circusta...
Ok, I think I can get what you are sayinh. However, to be fair, it seems to me even in this kind of 'bottom-up' model, conservation laws, symmetries s...
Well thanks for the interesting info, actually. Anyway as a personal note, I was strongly suspected to be autistic when I was a young kid but I wasn't...
Well, not sure of your point. If, say, one has no economical problems, would you still think that 'giving birth' is morally wrong? Also, generally ant...
Well, I see what you mean, but AN makes the claim that 'giving birth is intrinsically bad'. This is an ethical evaluation and quite clearly is incompa...
What do you mean by 'defending itself'?? How should religious people defend their religion? IMO the best 'defence' may be to give an 'exemplary' life....
Well assuming that autism is an essential feature of 'who you are', it might be possible that autism is not a cause of suffering in an afterlife, eter...
I have two questions for antinatalists. The strongest argument IMO for antinatalism (AN) seems to be the one from deontological ethics, i.e. that if w...
Ok, I see. Yeah, even if the portrait is faithful, it is still a portrait, after all. But IMO the 'weirdness' of modern theories suggests to me that t...
BTW, to answer the OP's question (still I don't see it as relevant), I believe that if a Christian were to convince himself/herself that Chrsitianity ...
@"apokrisis", @"schopenhauer1" Also, another reason why I am not an antinatalist is that I am open to the possibility of an afterlife. I am not sure h...
Well, I didn't mean to say that you thought otherwise. I see what you mean, but I don't think you are answering to the objection. Even if there is a v...
I sort of agree. If we let go the position that physical theories give us a complete description of the 'universe', things change. IMO, we can say tha...
Also: is there a percentage under which it is 'acceptable' to take the risk? And, in case, what is the justification for this threshold? Edit: Of cour...
Well, I see what you mean. But the decision is not taken by 'humanity' but by individual human beings in their singularity. If I am not certain that m...
While I am not a committed antinatalist, I'm not sure about the relevance of this objections. Let's assume for the sake of the discussion, that 99,99%...
Yeah, I agree. Regarding the 'hard problem', I am not sure. The problem is that it seems that there are no properties present in the insentient matter...
@"Gnomon", I was a bit obscure here. The 'truly' isolated system seems to be the 'whole universe', after all. So, if anything, I believe that the 'who...
Well, I agree with that. 'Neither right or wrong' is a good way to put it. What is common to all geocentric models was the view that the Earth was at ...
Interesting, thanks. Agreed! Well, I wasn't thinking about consciousness, actually, but simply about what physical theories tell us. Consider the case...
To put in another way, in order to function, we are usually 'forced' to live assuming naive realism is true. However, on reflexion, we recognize that ...
Ok! Fair enough. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Well, neither do I. I tried to study phenomenology and I enjoyed some ideas I found. But, unfortunate...
Yup. That's why I think that the view that the 'Creator' is 'simple' is the right one, independently of the particualr idea of the nature of this 'Cre...
I see, thanks for the clarification. I am sorry for your bad experiences. Anyway, I do believe that it is a case of 'abusus non tollit usum', i.e. eve...
I re-read your very informative post and, well, I don't think that I am capable to make a counter-argument about the consistency of stochastic models....
I believe that the confusion is also due to an incorrect interpretation of Einstein's 'mass-energy equivalence', which in fact is due to a misundersta...
Well, the ontological dependence is also true for an organism, even if one accepts an holistic model. If a living human being is more than his parts, ...
Wow, thank you for the informative answer. I need some time to reflect to answer back. TBH, however, I feel that many things are above my 'level'. So,...
Well, different people and different traditions would give you different answers. This will be a long post but of course not exhaustive about what how...
Yeah. Anyway, while I believe that in Buddhist schools the formulation is more clear (after all, in their view it also had a salvific importance), the...
But if G*D is not simple, i.e. if G*D is composite, then it necessarily depends on the parts. If those parts were to 'separate', G*D is no more. BTW, ...
Well, I see your point but maybe it is a 'middle way', so to speak, between the two kinds of analogies. Natura naturans and Natura Naturata IMO are tw...
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