Are you saying that Sam Harris is doing damage by leading millions into sin and darkness? Can you give an example of that? I suspect that you have thi...
Whose arrogance? Jesus' arrogance? It depends on the sin doesn't it? Teaching a child to blaspheme, for example, is not nearly as bad/evil/sinful as t...
At least some people actually do need to eat meat in order to prosper (and some to survive). There's a spectrum of positions that individual humans an...
The contradiction is that you frame what humans do as apart from nature, unnatural, and therefore not absolvable in the same way, say, lions killing g...
Infanticide among lions isn't immoral if their killing of prey isn't immoral. Cold as this reality may be, competition for survival between lions and ...
I'm Canadian, and this must have been, oh, a good 15 years ago. Out of respect, we committed its granulated remains to the nearest food bank, so know ...
I mean, it already is. Even as a male, in grade 8 I took a "home-ec" (home economics) where I learned how to bake pies and wash dishes. In the same ye...
I think it's also worth wondering just how happy wild animals actually are... If a domesticated animal is treated well, I cannot see their wild counte...
Are you talking about our propensity to associate effects with causes (superstitiously (irrationally) or scientifically (empirically)) or our desire t...
The reasons an atheist typically believes in a scientific description of the universe are generally quite different from the reasons a theist believes...
None of the articles you just cited focused on the elimination of meat entirely. Americans eat too much meat and there can be some health benefits sta...
It's not about who deserves what, it's about what is thermodynamically viable and necessary to sustain our existence, and the existence of farmed anim...
I imagine if the results of the Muller investigation disgrace Trump enough the votes will be there (that might be a tall order given his resiliency). ...
I didn't realize that the dems had 24 seats up compared to only 9 republican... What's the plausibility that some republican senators would vote to im...
Is that too big a swing for the fall? I would guess that every single democratic seat would be down for impeachment, and surely a few republican senat...
Black people are people, they aren't farm animals. If left alone, black people can take care of themselves and survive. If left alone, farm animals ca...
As I've pointed out to you seemingly hundreds of times, we cannot afford to let chickens and cows live unless we exploit them; for them it's either li...
I don't acknowledge that at all. Niether cows, nor chickens nor dogs are similar to us in term of sentience. Other great apes, dolphins, elephants, an...
Just because an animal is worthy of love and affection doesn't necessarily stop us from sending it to a slaughterhouse with "ethical" justifications i...
Trump is having a pretty rough couple of weeks, even by his standard. I still think he will be impeached, or more likely resign in lieu of impeachment...
This is just a string of equivocations amounting to nonsense. By your "logic", any devotion toward anything whatsoever constitutes a form of theism. A...
I can't make sense of it either (unless God is a sadist)... :cheer: I don't believe in any notion of god, and for the reasons you've mentioned an omni...
Greetings Wondering-Soul, Vagabond-Spectre here (atheist). Why do you hang on to your God given meaning of life? Answer that you will begin to answer ...
Classically we call such assumptions "circular reasoning" or "begging the question". When the conclusion (the truth of theory B) is assumed or taken f...
It's called a false dichotomy. Regarding attempting to favor one element of the dichotomy over another, other fallacies (in the form of appeals to aut...
This is the case. The crux of this thread's issue results from direct equivocation between terms (is and ought mostly) Depending on how we use the ter...
I read a bit about the CTMU theory, and mostly it's gibberish with words like "cognition" and "reflexive" generously mixed together in a rather sloppy...
Is anyone else bothered by the "simulated reality" hypothesis? I realize there are some convoluted "scientific" reasons that suggest it might be the c...
I've rigorously debunked suicide rates as a metric of societal happiness and its primacy as a metric of success (In recent posts I've gone so far as t...
As I said, because I'm attempting to persuade you to accept longevity as a proxy for physical well-being. This isn't critical to my argument, but inso...
Sacha didn't exactly pretend to be a war vet, it was just Palin's natural assumption... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh7F6N8W0AE0Y3u.jpg The United Par...
Seems like it was hidden there by someone intending to use it as an engagement ring. How dusty was the exterior box? Maybe there's an interesting stor...
Yea I just heard... I'm disappointed that we won't get more but what we've already been given has been amazing. We can only pray that the Palin interv...
FUCK! FUUUUCKKK..... https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1033804403952820224 This isn't fair! WHERE IS MY PALIN INTERVIEW!? HOW CAN IT BE OVER?...
Just some Democrat ex-congressman (Barney Frank). Although, there's a bonus segment at the end where he gives O.J Simpson a pretty hard time ("Stab! S...
It's not appropriate philosophically speaking, but sometimes it can be fun. If an interlocutor takes a discussion in a heated direction, then it can b...
Tonight's episode was painfully hilarious as always, but also noticeably more dark and surreal than the others. No Palin interview yet though. There's...
Lmfao. Sacha genius... I half wondered if Sacha actually hired a professional chef to make the dishes genuinely delicious (to get the best reaction of...
You seem to have just reverted to calling me prejudiced instead of comprehending or addressing the points I make. Not everything I say is a put down o...
I'm not referencing longevity as a happiness producer, but as a happiness indicator. Having a good diet, getting restful sleep every night, not overwo...
I understand in principle that longevity alone doesn't make life worth living, but keep in mind longevity is an indicator of other values (especially ...
There's no rational point in characterizing me as uninformed and I would rather not waste time defending my education. In the context of our discussio...
You don't need a full history of the evidence I've been exposed to engage in this discussion, and the evidence (in the form of anthropological journal...
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