A) I was politely responding to some points you made first. In this thread. Thus opening the conversation. B) You decided to first make your counterpo...
You clearly haven't been educated by good philosophers at all, or you'd know not to open a conversation where you're going to dismiss a whole leg of t...
Well, "absurd" isn't really a counterargument. I'll be here when you've got some explanation as to what gender "feels" like rather than just a knee-je...
I already gave some examples. Others might be who cooks, cleans, and likes pretty things versus watching sports, working outside of the house, etc. Ge...
:lol: Gender is by definition a social construct. Sex is biology. There may be some behaviors that are related to sex, but by and large everything we ...
It does kind of exist: you can take MIT classes for free online. Youtube has thousands of lecture videos. The library is stuffed with books. If you wa...
My stance ties into your point #3: Billionaires are antithetical to a democracy. In capitalism, money is power, and having a class of people who hold ...
It's further complicated by the fact that the % Czech population in the US is somewhat irrelevant to the likelihood of a Czech winning the lottery. It...
I don't think that's an apt comparison. In one scenario you're being forced to choose between two active actions. In the other, you'd be choosing mass...
Let me know when you've got substantive questions/comments tha show you've bothered reading the text. Or don't. But I will not respond to further comm...
By definition, a priori are things we just know "before." Which is where it gets iffy. Kant, for instance, thinks we're just imbued with this knowledg...
I don't think the foundational elements of logic are tautological as much as they are self-evident to the point that you cannot rationally seriously d...
You can't explain anything to a devout skeptic.... they're annoying that way. They're like small children who continually as "why? why? why?" no matte...
I think some constructivism, or at least fallibalism is warranted with things like perceptions/knowledge of the experiential world. I'm not sure it ma...
Well, the constructivist stance is that there is no objective truth outside the self, and the realist says there is. So as far as that goes, yes you h...
I would do something relatively interesting and that is easy enough to comprehend (at least, they seem so when you don't dig too deep). My first philo...
You're right that these kinds of animal products could no longer be part of our daily, mass consumptive diets. It would become a luxury good from a sm...
Well... the data says you're wrong. But I guess you'd rather argue by your intuition? I think that's a pointless exercise though. Honest intellectuali...
It's not plant-consumption that needs a justification. I also think the passages you quote all confirm my original post: ideally human should avoid ki...
Christianity ideally ties one to vegetarianism, with eggs and milk coming from humanely raised animals who aren't slaughtered after giving up their us...
It is? That's news to me. In my psych classes we learned the opposite: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/family-affair/200809/rewards-are-better...
It's hard to say for sure, but I think they seem selfish at times only because they are reliant on adults' lives revolving around them to some extent....
That is such an oversimplification. They can be incredibly empathetic and even more so than adults. They are people, and as such are complex individua...
Adults committing crimes are not innocent in that we attribute to them the ability to understand consequences. We discipline children to teach them wh...
It's not the same kind of punishment, though. We lock up criminals in hopes that they will no longer be able to harm others. The best kind of discipli...
If by ignoring you mean that the ignoree had sent messages or called with no reply, that's just rude. I do think rudeness falls into a certain ethical...
Neuroscience is untestable? Nope. All the science, all the evidence, all the actual tested research points to the ability to suffer in mammals, reptil...
And here we see your inability to think clearly about the issue. This whole forum is designed to discuss ideas. This thread is discussing ideas relate...
Causing unnecessary suffering is wrong. Killing animals is unnecessary and does cause suffering. Killing plants might cause suffering, but is necessar...
Except that, once again, you can't just say "some suffering is involved in my diet" and conclude that "therefore it doesn't matter how much suffering ...
Generally I agree. It's not helpful to tell people "you're horrible, I'm better than you" and hope they'll listen. (Though the church seems to have do...
I'll explain to you through formal logic where your reasoning falls flat. Your argument is: If you have the potential to reason then you deserve right...
So you're not actually assigning worth on the basis of reason, but on the basis of the arbitrary distinction of species. Human chauvinism is what that...
What's conscious about it? Evolution is a process of trial and error. Mutations happen by accident and some mutations happen to be helpful in procreat...
Not all humans do though. So either you need to assert that there is something besides reason to which we tie worth, or that we are allowed to eat tho...
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