Artemis

Well, that's not much of an argument, so I guess you just have nothing else to add.

If the choice is force feeding or death, clearly force-feeding is the better alternative. The rape analogy is a total mischaracterization because rape...

Yes, obviously. They have feeding tubes and IVs that they use for anorexics.

It's hard to imagine she wouldn't. Or that she actually didn't have changing moods and ideas and plans throughout those three years. As I stated befor...

This is exactly why logicians came up with the fallacy of division and the fallacy of composition. Just fyi.

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Yes, I think it's murder. Or at least some form of manslaughter. It's not that they stood idly by while she took her own life. They assisted her with ...

It would logically follow that nothing humans ever do is wrong, since then we couldn't do it. So murder, rape, theft, etc are all a-okay now. Got it. ...

I said: Animals are, to varying degrees, cogent beings, and advanced alien life probably are as well.

Yup

I do my best :blush:

Whew! That's a relief. You are just repeating the same contradictory stuff over and over. You want to claim science is inherently inadequate, but some...

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I don't see the connection. You're conflating our growing understanding of how DNA, RNA, certain viruses in our cells, and possibly even the good bact...

And there you go contradicting yourself again. The size of a pile of trash doesn't magically turn the trash into gold.

Oh, and by the bye, his Wiki page alone suggests that a number of scientists took him seriously as an academic, but ultimately rejected his conclusion...

You're working with a very narrow definition of materialism, trying to ascribe this to scientists generally, all in order to make strawpersons of them...

Well, I'm not sure what definition of materialism you're working with, but if you give it a moment's consideration, you may realize that it's compatib...

Which would be contentious enough, but he literally said:

Wayfarer is not just claiming malpractice though. Wayfarer wants to simultaneously claim malpractice and that rebirth and such things are beyond the p...

You cannot both claim that science rules out the possibility of rebirth and that doing so in unscientific. Either you claim that the scientists who do...

Self-important, maybe. And he's off his rocker, so ya never know :P

And yet you keep on insisting: But still maintain: And: On the one hand you want to reject science and a scientific worldview on the basis that it can...

I don't think you understand how "secular-scientific views" work. Of course we can and do consider possibilities of rebirth and even illogic. There's ...

See, and this is the most irritating thing about Buddhists. All the preaching about being humble and reassessing beliefs, yadayadayada, but then there...

And then there are those who think merely establishing the possibility of X is sufficient to believe in X, when in reality there is a vast gulf betwee...

Tautologies are funny that way--they tend to be inherently truthful. Everything is possible except the impossible. Or, only the possible is possible. ...

On what basis? Cause it seems like a large number? Apparently 1.1% of the world's population is estimated to have schizophrenia. Over half are thought...

At least that's theoretically possible, except for the part about the baby-daddy being a deity.

I don't think that addiction necessarily explains or excuses ALL of an addicts bead behaviors, but certainly some of them. It may be hard to distingui...

I'm not quite sure either, but I do know it's sucked all the interest out of this thread for now.

Well, in that case, anyone's belief about the afterlife is not evidence for the afterlife.

Nope. If I say "leprechaun" and you interpret "person afflicted with dwarfism," or I say "ghost" and you interpret "semblance or trace" then you're ju...

In which case it would, and always would have, extended beyond just your belief. Ideas exist. The idea of an afterlife or previous lives exist. So doe...

So that's just a purposeful fallacy of equivocation. And frankly, committing fallacies on purpose is is just as immoral and a waste of everyone's time...

I agree. It's not only dishonest to us (and a waste of our time), but to themselves. They think they're getting away with something, but in reality th...

You do realize that if rebirth doesn't extend beyond my personal belief in it, then it's not real? Sure, things are relative. We should all spend more...

Although the specfics of how it is described are still being debated, psychologists recognize addiction as a mental illness in its own right. Though, ...

There's a different set of evidentiary expectations for ordinary events and extraordinary ones. If someone says, I was thinking about making a sandwic...

I see now. Still, it's not even close to sufficient evidence. At most, in such extraordinary cases, it may be a reason to investigate further, but eve...

It's your fault my posts got deleted, btw. Your banter is just too funny to ignore.

This. Addiction and mental illness are typically identified (in part) by how much they infringe on your quality of life/ability to function. Some addi...

Personal testimony is NOT certain evidence. That's why there's currently a lot of debate about how much eye witness testimony should count in courts.

Harry called and said, no thanks, he's not interested in catching any Baden-cooties.

Ahem, I would like to dedicate my 1k comment to my mother, my husband, and everyone who's supported me in this long journey. I hope that my story can ...

Wait a sec--did my above scenario just apply here? :gasp:

You're right; you did make that distinction. So let me rephrase:

It's unlikely that political idea is immoral per se absent any action thereupon. But a belief or opinion may be immoral if you have a relationship tha...

Seems to me that if we just choose things on unreasoned whims, then we would constantly be doing unpredictable things. But take someone really close t...

Yes, it is. I worked with students in isolation rooms before, and it was a horrible situation. We couldn't mainstream them, because they posed a dange...