zookeeper

No, I don't think I am.

The problem with that is that we have to simply believe what others say all the time. In our daily lives we constantly have to basically trust what we...

We do? I wouldn't. Now, I'm not saying I'm completely immune to judging actions which, objectively, cause no harm or cause a net benefit. If I do happ...

So, let's sum this up... it's a fact that psychiatrists are greedy, immoral and corrupt to the bone, not to mention at the same time hilariously stupi...

Surely you realize that the phrase "born in the wrong body" (or the idea in general) isn't necessarily to be taken literally and doesn't need to inclu...

Well what's the latest science on that? Do transgender people have actual physiological differences in their brain or is it purely a psychological thi...

Or perhaps you're conflating people thinking there's something bad or wrong about something, and people just not liking that something. I bet a lot of...

From what I've seen of U.S. political arguments in the past 15 years or so... it's always been like that, no? I mean that's exactly the same kind of t...

I find it odd how so often I see people describing how they're disillusioned by their current or former political in-group, as if they suddenly see th...

I do find issues of representation/objectification/etc interesting and worth of attention, just as I do things like structural racism, but I do think ...

That doesn't make the claim wrong. Obviously when someone says that "human suffering and animal suffering are equal" they're not claiming that the for...

Well this thread was about the latter. You seem to persistently be trying to use the former to argue against it. Your continuing objection to darthbar...

Yes, of course. Has anyone actually disagreed with this position in this thread? There's big piles of seemingly dissenting words but they all seem to ...

Where (and why) do you draw the line when it comes to shielding others from psychological pain? If, say, your parents were devastated by their unshaka...

So if you could easily re-program your brain to work however you want (within reasonably human parameters) and alter your own motivations, likes, disl...

I'll skip the usual anti-natalist/efilist schtick and go with a slightly more fundamental problem: to what degree should predictions about actions of ...

I can't tell what half of that is saying. Need an example.

Because that's how your brain happens to be wired. Why are you expecting to find it based on logic in the first place?

Just from dissecting my own mind; I found that reduction of suffering is what all my wants eventually reduce into. Unless it turns out to be a want fo...

I'm an efilist because I concluded negative utilitarianism to be true and minimization of suffering to be the only underlying moral imperative. The ex...

I could say that sure, one can "give subjective value/meaning" to anything whether it's hats, life, carrots or levitation. But as far as I'm concerned...

That phrase is basically semantic garbage and doesn't make any sense to me, so I don't think it's a conclusion I've made.

I wouldn't call myself a nihilist, but I'm guessing that most people would consider efilism to necessarily entail nihilism, so maybe I'll qualify. I'm...

Doesn't sound like there's much to disagree there. However, I'm not familiar with the kind of academic philosophy that he's referring to, so I'd besee...

Of course an artificial intelligence can do anything a human brain can, because an artificial intelligence can be as similar to a human brain as you w...

Since the old forum is apparently not going to recover, I suppose I have to migrate here... As someone who doesn't in principle recognize the notion o...