There is no one best set of particular morals for all environments across all of time. Different factors can render different policies and approaches ...
It's much easier to identify undesirable or "bad actions" (actions which morally we ought not perform) than it is to identify "good actions" (actions ...
So like. The wall, eh? We Canadians don't know much about walls, but we do know about big wide open spaces! The US-Mexico border happens to be a big w...
Do you honestly believe that slavery, child labor, genocide, colonialism, and cruelty to non-human animals were or are "the means of the enlightenment...
In the 1600's there were about half a billion living humans. Today there are over seven billion living humans... Life expectancy in 1600 was about 40 ...
I would very much you to explain how the wave property of quantum particles causes "free" behavior in computers, OR, i would very much like you to exp...
Do they fail or behave randomly because of quantum fluctuations? No, only a quantum computer would be affected by this... Hint: the human brain is not...
How come our computers work so reliably? Why don't quantum fluctuations cause them to exhibit free and random behavior? The evidence for determinism i...
That's a fair enough distinction, although I don't personally see evidence that any (decent) writer is behind it all... But don't you cling to the not...
to say a choice is fated is to say its determined by what precedes it. "predictable" on the other hand is an entirely different sack of eels. We canno...
The main knee jerk reaction to determinism is to somehow feel that because our choices are predetermined they are therefore less valuable or important...
How can you know what choice you will make before you actually make it (hint: you can't). Once you've made a choice, how do you know that some compone...
Is the human condition an objective authority? I reckon it's not, but we ARE humans, and as such a morality which serves and pertains to the human con...
The "laws" I'm interested in are built into reality in the same way that an ideal chess strategy is built into a particular configuration of chess pie...
I never wanted to accept gravity. I always wanted to fly, but reality kept pulling me back down to earth. In the end I accepted gravity because that's...
Alack, alas. How could i ever compete with the ultimate standard of "your everyday experience". If you wish to hold faith in the idea that your brain ...
Forgive me, but is pontificating about faith and experience the best way to conduct this debate? If I have faith in determinism, then you have faith i...
As I stated initially some sort of non-local hidden variable theory might be the case, which can explain the chance element in the spin and position o...
Why? I'm not religious. I believe in the pervasiveness of causality because everything I experience seems to have an imminent cause. We experience cau...
It states that the outcome is not knowable prior to checking it, but also states that the results will tend to resolve based on a particular distribut...
The evidence that refutes determinism must come in the form of evidence which proves some kind randomness necessarily exists, but again, quantum uncer...
In short: determinism might be right to due some kind of hidden non-local variable we have yet to discover. But, quantum uncertainty in the "spin" of ...
The most universal and coherent moral foundations are composed of shared sentiment (i.e: our shared desire to go on living and to live freely) and "hu...
There's a tricky political minefield surrounding this subject (this doc was released in 2015 when the conflict was less pronounced) but I do tend to a...
"As the darkly cloaked druidic figures encircled the arcane obsidian altar, the tallest among them stepped forward and opened the DSM that lay atop it...
I understand what you mean when you say "they haven't changed their sex or gender", but isn't that really only relevant if we're going after a scienti...
How can we reliably say this is true? Perhaps in our modern age so filled with comforts, and since pain and trauma are infrequent, they seem more sign...
Happiness can be a kind of purpose, and in case you haven't noticed, people tend to do what they think/feel will make them happy. When we achieve our ...
We have out-paced mere survival concerns yes (although they trail us very closely), like Tolstoy's life of luxury, it's this fact that affords us the ...
By "deal with such people" I presume you mean "convince them to be happy without ultimate and objective purpose"... Seldom do I bother with an attempt...
Each of us is the main character in our own movie, and sometimes life is nonsensical as we haphazardly traipse into each other's lives. But the epic t...
I'm not implying that pain and pleasure are symmetrical but that they have a relationship between them. Severe trauma ~might~ have longer lasting effe...
This is not true in m experience... I believe that the more suffering someone experiences, the more sensitive they then become to the alleviation of s...
There's no objective "purpose of life" in that we have no apparent designer whose will and intent we can appeal to, nor do we come pre-programmed with...
The particular pieces that I'm into change over time, and I'm generally not interested in them for philosophical reasons, they have purely aesthetic a...
"Race" has no formal definition, so I went ahead and defined it for myself to facilitate the discussion at hand. If you think that standard english de...
How do you know I used it incorrectly though? It seems like anytime i've typed "race" you've just said "Aha! incorrect!" If the way I use "race" is in...
I don't see how we can continue the discussion if every time I use a certain word even if just to reference it, even after clarifying my usage, you re...
It's fascinating how often discussions of late end with "that's not what I said" or "that's not what you said"... If all you required was that I repla...
To actually get into and tease out the superficial and unhelpful elements within or of a particular theory seems to be what this postmodern approach l...
What did he say about it then? Care to offer a correction? As far as I know he said that science doesn't progress toward certainty because each time w...
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