They're not consciously doing any of that. You can't describe the chemical reactions of a plant, or the physical attributes thereof as a plant "trying...
You're misunderstanding the entire concept. We have to eat. Some things will have to die in order to fulfill that need. Veganism is the choice to redu...
Okay, so eating a human infant is fine then? How about the severely mentally disabled? How about people in comas? Or just anyone who is in deep sleep?...
Obviously. If you have to kill 100 innocent people or 50 innocent people, but you have to kill some, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that killing ...
OR to urge others to try and make the world a better place. If we never judged others or tried to change the status quo, we'd still have slavery, Jim ...
What if you have a college who is late most of the time, and you yourself are only late on rare occasions when you had no other choice or at least a r...
I live in a location with numerous universities... they must be getting more than a pittance to be constructing new buildings just about every 3 1/2 m...
Well... yeah. But you're asking for our opinions, so..... Yes, that makes more sense to me. To a certain extent that will depend on the individual's a...
It's necessary to take the risk of the paintball caused suffering in order to have the fun of the game itself. No human should ever experience any unn...
Your logical justification is that you want to. That's all there is to it. Life offers everything, the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly. Death o...
This is kind of an oddly worded question... No unnecessary amount of suffering is okay. Like, you'll survive me kicking you in the shin, and you won't...
Except that science brings in the big buck investors, grants, and many more students than philosophy. So it makes up for expenditure many times over a...
Depends what you're looking to get out of it. Ivy Leagues and such will allow you to make more big name connections. It'll impress a certain type of p...
I've read research suggesting that men also have hormonal fluctuations: http://mentalfloss.com/article/82275/do-men-have-monthly-hormone-cycle https:/...
Arguing from extreme cases now to justify killing any baby or anyone? But you're just shifting the argument. You wanted an impossible amount of proof....
You're being absolutely ridiculous. Show me all of this data for why I shouldn't just shoot the next baby I see. You can't? Oh well, guess killing any...
Animal agriculture is known to harm animals. Uses more plants. Causes more damage to the environment. Is more harmful to workers. Is more harmful to t...
Soooo, you think causing sadness is okay? Causing suffering is okay? I can kick you in the shins now cause I have some esoteric and paternalistic noti...
For chrissakes yourself. Depression is an irrational state of mind. So no matter how thoughtful the OP is otherwise, his or her actions could be trigg...
Someone has already suggested death as a painkiller. You have no idea what someone is going to do with your listing the pro's and con's of suicide. Th...
fewer plants AND animals die and suffer when you avoid eating the latter. Vegans try. It's the stubborn omnis who want to posit that plants have feeli...
You've got it backwards. Suicide is an irrational thing to do. Your depression is messing with your ability to think clearly, and there's no way to "l...
I know that life forms with brains feel pain. I have no proof whatsoever that life forms without brains feel pain. I have to go with what I know over ...
It's not clear how a tree could feel pain. It's pretty unlikely that it can. It's so unlikely, that it's safe to say it can't. It is clear that a cow ...
Yes, but how much suffering is still something we can control. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater and saying "might as well cause more, even tho...
My point was that we have a choice about which ones we eat. We need to be more careful about what we eat. We're killing the planet and ourselves on to...
You can't do a great idea or theory justice in some short quip. Life is complex. Philosophy and art should mirror that. If you just want to write a po...
I literally loled at this. Yes. Yes, you have to read a whole book. You're starting to sound like some of my students who tell me that they love to wr...
It's not new news, but it's back in the news: We need to stop eating meat to save the planet--yes, that includes plants. https://www.commondreams.org/...
Most people are bored by any philosophical discourse. Or math. Or science. Or history. I don't think the value of most things should be based on what ...
There's no accounting for taste, as they say. But you can educate and refine your tastes. Most people interested in a philosophical novel are going to...
Well, which is it now? Are you trying to make a powerful point or merely entertain? You can do both, but your first paragraph implies you think novels...
That is a contradictory statement. But whatever. You admit to believing in morality, and we should be discussing the actual topic at hand and not your...
If you don't believe in morality, you don't believe in rights either. And, I agree, the universe doesn't give a hoot what we do to each other. But we ...
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