Wow @"Mongrel" thanks for posting that clip. I saw the movie about 5 years ago and enjoyed it but I can't remember this scene and it really hits home....
Mm, I'm assuming he was on top of it, there were cheaper tix which have already sold out. For anyone else interested around Brisbane, Melb or Sydney. ...
Sam Harris is coming to Melbourne. Pretty happy that the tickets are $120. If they were cheaper I'd probably go to see him, even though the idea of li...
Exactly, but then Russel's theory of description fails because 'Walter Scott' can not be replaced by 'the man who wrote Waverly'. Edit: For clarity, i...
So just looking at names: Sir Walter Scott is not. The author of Waverly is not. Either each thing failed to write Waverly or two or more things wrote...
Honestly @"Postmodern Beatnik" I'm just exhausted by the conversation. Everything is such a fight with it. I wouldn't mind if the fights were about th...
Well I was speaking to Soylent who asked me to explain what I meant by too strong, so it makes sense to give a weak example. Of coarse I didn't expect...
Um, no it's not. It's a rhetorical device whereby the example given is very weak to show that the conditions for the claim being false are easily sati...
Damn just read this and the math books are not free anymore. For the record I think that learning the maths is very possible. I didn't attend classes ...
@"Postmodern Beatnik" Just for extra clarity, if you look back on the thread after this quote: Read the responses to this as if I had interpreted it t...
Hey @"Michael" yeh pretty much all your posts were along the same lines as what I was arguing. Maybe things would be hurried along somewhat if we can ...
So there are numerous ways to read P6 (again, because it was created in such a vague way). You here are presenting a reading that all of the personal ...
This is pretty weird, trying to separate your contribution from the farming practices. So I am buying my meat from a local farm that uses factory farm...
I am speaking about food production. The vast majority of gratuitous suffering during food production is a result of farming practices before the anim...
Well could you think of another possible way that some gratuitous suffering could be prevented? I could name many that would even have a closer relati...
Hey Soylent, much of the posts in the other thread are taken up with the point that P6 must be speaking about the result of individual action rather t...
OK, maybe you don't realize that its unpleasant when someone implies that your posts rely on uncharitable interpretations and that it comes across con...
Interesting that you frame the discussion like this considering my first and second posts state that there is an ambiguity, assume that interpretation...
I'm pretty sure that this is all because of a ambiguity in P6 as I mentioned above. There are 2 interpretations. 1) Gratuitous suffering caused by foo...
I agree that some follows from all generally. Essentially this is what I see as happening here. Let's take a situation where Brian has 21 friends and ...
There is some ambiguity in the terms. Maybe you could rewrite P6 in a way that incorporated your 'by anyone who is in a position to'. 'Gratuitous suff...
Hey Soylent I think you are getting me wrong here. I am not invested in the argument and have myself been vegan for some years of my life. I like the ...
Not quite, I'm saying that if P6 refers strictly to an individual then I think it is unsound. This is because each individual does not necessarily pla...
Which is my point, it depends on the subject. I disagree that this follows from the premises. I think it very much does matter what whether or not oth...
The problem is that P6 is not necessarily true depending on the subject. As far as I can tell it comes closest to being true when everyone adopts a ve...
Hey @"Soylent", I think the changes recommended by @"Postmodern Beatnik" are an improvement to P7 & P8 but there is still something wrong with them, t...
I find new books more attractive than something that I'm part way through reading, so I often don't finish books. I'm not thorough enough to go into t...
Driving home from work and the inevitability of my own death strikes me, time doesn't stop, I will die and disappear forever. Suddenly I'm screaming A...
Yeh I had an error 522 from cloudflare. I thought plushforums was down because I got the same error when trying to visit their website. Could have bee...
I don't find the radically contingent world to be dreary. Dreariness, isolation, suffering and other unpleasantness are part of the world (among other...
Thanks for the advice, it's unfortunate that I'm attracted to books which can be difficult. I don't really want to spend 3 months bashing my head agai...
Damn I was hoping it would only be a hard book. I haven't started yet, for now I'm looking for ways to approach it. I'm part way through Nietzsche and...
Decided to give Difference and Repetition a go as a summer project. Not sure how long I'll stick with it. Any tips or advice would be greatly apprecia...
Just finished exams on Thursday so looking forward to getting involved in this conversation now that I have more time. I read Foot's paper a month ago...
These people seem over the top. In general (I think) they are taking aim at the liberties afforded to religions which the general population do not ha...
Nah you were part of the control group.Didn't notice :) Hey , these issues largely come down to taste so I didn't intend to present an argument just s...
I heard a story recently. Foucault was in an interview and made the suggestion that for one year the books in France should be published without autho...
As an aside, I used to work in production and one of the tasks was soldering. If you're doing through-hole soldering then you can do it on autopilot t...
@"Soylent" There is some difficulty for me when answering your questions. We have very different conceptions of morality being that many of the things...
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