"How do you get out of an Impasse?" If it is an impasse, then you cannot get out of it. "When two people fundamentally disagree on an issue and will n...
"for an exercise in clarity and precision, we're not off to a very good start, looking for a metaphorical 'door'. Perhaps to start with you could defi...
Thank you for that Pseudonym. Now that you have enlightened me as to the absence of the cat, are you going to assist me in finding the door? Or are yo...
Bluebanana: It is also my opinion that yellow banana's are more common than blue bananas, and it is also my opinion that reality is not a complete ill...
"Basically, anyone looking to philosophy to provide some kind of 'true' answer is (to paraphrase) like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black ...
"Schopenhauer presented no evidence - only argument. Whereas Darwin's predictions can be tested against the fossil record, in that there is considerab...
"But what does it mean to talk of killing other beings unnecessarily? The killing that we're talking about is necessary to meet the demand for meat pr...
Chatterbears is entirely correct in that eating meat is morally wrong and is intellectually repugnant when it can be avoided. IE when one is not hungr...
"These are not arguments, just angry noises." The best arguments are often angry noises. The relative quietude that divides the philosopher from the r...
" Do not equate snails to carrots. It is objectively true that less harm would be caused from eating a carrot, than eating meat. That's just a fact." ...
"So you think every evil is equivalent and we shouldn't waste our time trying to better our society to reduce pain and suffering? " That is a not a fa...
It does not seem logical that one can have 'soft determinism' or 'philosophical determinism' or any other kind of determinism. Determinism is absolute...
I know I am immoral when I eat meat, but I do not care particularly more about this immorality than the others I am engaged in. If I buy vegetables, t...
I eat animals because meat gives me pleasure and I am a disgusting human being. I also do other gross disgusting thing's. . but I try to make up for t...
Point taken. I am indeed assuming the existence of an objective quantifiable external reality. Yet to assume otherwise renders the initial question (a...
"HexHammer is right, there are a lot of lovers of opinion that masquerade as philosophers" How can one possibly masquerade or pretend to philosophy? T...
"And even if it's all an ultimately meaningless game of Jumanji..." For as long as we exist, or at least think that we exist 'meaningless jumanji" or ...
Animals are neither kind nor unkind they are perhaps more beautiful than humans Normal human beings are gross, disgusting, cruel, stupid, selfish and ...
The 'three' positions appear to be There is a God There is not a God I don't know, there may be something? A particular type of 'having cake and eatin...
It appears that reality (yours and mine) is temporally constrained. If you could exist independent of time you would win the lotto and experience all ...
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