Artemis

I can rephrase it: murder is by definition a wrongful killing. You can only quibble over which, if any, killings constitute murder.

Murder is defined as an "unjustified killing." Self-defense, etc. don't count as murder, just killings, homicides, or manslaughter. Whether the wrongn...

Since your validity is not determined by what other people think, best not to pay attention to naysayers. Us women have had to deal with people questi...

My question is, if you change so much about yourself down to the chromosomes to another sex, are you really you after all that? Or have you become a d...

Well, "sarah" what kind of name is that, I hate that name. Lol, jk!! But seriously, if anyone is a transphobe, they don't actually hate you, they hate...

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Then grow up, period. :kiss:

Grow up, then get back to me.

Grow up, then get back to me.

What are you? 12? I'm just going to give you some literature of your own to peruse right here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/#misin...

Because you're making false claims about the literature. .... right, that would be then taking into account probability, which is entirely different f...

Having read much of the literature myself, I know that philosophers make a distinction between the concepts of intention and foresight... but if you a...

I often feel the same way. I guess some stubbornness is warranted since you're otherwise just like a flag waving wherever the wind blows you. But comp...

Ah, yes, well, I'm sure the beauty and clarity of some simple truths are lost on those who confuse refinement with the logical equivalent of a poorly ...

Yup, gross. Pass me the peas, please :cool:

I'm going to try to explain it one more time before I move on with my life: Even if you wish that consequence B was not a consequence of action A, if ...

How do you figure?

Who? BK? I don't know what is all in "real" meat... Not that it matters, cause decaying flesh seems all equally gross to me. But the Impossible Burger...

I am focusing on one thing. You're the one trying to weasel it to fit your paradigm. It couldn't actually be more simple. Again, if you foresee that A...

If you pull the trigger on a gun and the person it's pointed at dies and you foresaw that it would happen.... it's not your fault?

*Sigh* if you have the foresight that A->B, then by willfully enacting A, you are willfully causing B.

You can only fall back on this argument if you are totally and 100% ignorant of how capitalism and business work.

Eh, they're just mad that BK is selling a meat-less burger that really tastes good now and are looking for something to complain about.

You're literally paying for cows to be murdered. That is such twisted logic. Just imagine telling that to the court when you buy child pornography or ...

It seems to me you are only taking one part of the sentence to heart, the "too experimental" part. Seems to me that the "non-commercial" part is the m...

First of all, kudos to your charitably thinking people could stick to the guidelines of the OP to engage the thought experiment. As you've already not...

I doubt any conservative and bigotry-inclined Christians or Muslims would like Jesus very much if he were alive. So there's that. Darn brown-skinned, ...

I'm against all nuclear armaments, but I can't say I blame any country with tensions with the US that thinks they should have one of those in their ba...

Not my fault your logic leads to absurd conclusions *shrug*

Your solution is we be blind to people's history and personality and everything they've ever said and everything they've shown us about themselves? Th...

If he's 99.9% scum, how would it make sense to ever give him the benefit of the doubt? Seems like a pretty steep gamble, especially when you have the ...

That makes no sense. He's lied about everything, and he's taken opposite positions on all important issues. His actions directly contradict many of hi...

The only policy I believe he believes in is "Trump first." And currently that means doing whatever he can to stay out of jail.

Assassinating politicians and civilians is not how you conduct peace talks. So clearly he lied about not wanting to continue the wars. And, no, I don'...

Yeah, cause he neeeeeever lies :rofl:

Fellow supporters of the forever wars in favor of a trillion dollar war industry.

Hasn't it all been so far with Trump? Consider that Soleimani was totally replaceable to begin with. They are currently deciding on a new general to t...

I think it has nothing to do with politics of the Middle East and everything to do with Trump wanting impeachment off the front pages. Also, Soleimani...

Now you're just totally confused. Of course x is a symbol, but in this discussion it is not meant to stand for anything specific. It's a placeholder f...

*Sigh* I'm just trying to phrase this in a way that will get through to you by using your own words. I.e., explaining that the very aspect you think i...

It's the redundancy of x=x that tells us something about x explicitly that just x does not. X is self-identical. X doesn't tell us that. Although comm...

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Um....: Okay then.

Cool story bro.

Well, wrong and wrong, but I guess at this point all is left is to agree to disagree. :chin:

Except if you want a foundation for formal logic :)

While x=x is almost always not a satisfactory answer to the question "what is x?" in most circumstances of non-philosophical discussion, it does tell ...

Maybe if you have a bad teacher, but think you just don't fully understand the word "description." One is saying x and the other is saying something a...

They are different statements though. One is the statement of x, the other is describing something about x. It's the difference between saying dog and...

Depends on the context. No dialogue is helped by the suggestion the other person needs to read an entire book before the conversation can continue... ...