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Marcus de Brun

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"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...
May 16, 2018 at 23:19
"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...
May 16, 2018 at 00:27
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...
May 15, 2018 at 14:58
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...
May 15, 2018 at 10:25
"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 ...
May 15, 2018 at 09:45
"Schopenhauer presented no evidence - only argument. Whereas Darwin's predictions can be tested against the fossil record, in that there is considerab...
May 15, 2018 at 08:29
"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...
May 14, 2018 at 22:21
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...
May 14, 2018 at 11:45
"These are not arguments, just angry noises." The best arguments are often angry noises. The relative quietude that divides the philosopher from the r...
May 14, 2018 at 10:37
" 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." ...
May 14, 2018 at 08:28
"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...
May 13, 2018 at 21:46
It does not seem logical that one can have 'soft determinism' or 'philosophical determinism' or any other kind of determinism. Determinism is absolute...
May 13, 2018 at 20:25
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...
May 13, 2018 at 19:43
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...
May 13, 2018 at 18:34
Point taken. I am indeed assuming the existence of an objective quantifiable external reality. Yet to assume otherwise renders the initial question (a...
May 13, 2018 at 18:14
"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...
May 13, 2018 at 08:22
Resounding YES! As long as he does not start a war before the ceremony.
May 13, 2018 at 00:24
Isn't it obvious.. China likes to pretend it's brutal version of Capitalism, is still wedded to Communist ideals.
May 13, 2018 at 00:20
Possibly a gesture of goodwill, in return for all the Rhino horn that was pinched from Museums, in order to facilitate Chinese horns. M
May 13, 2018 at 00:12
Are you still alive Janus?
May 13, 2018 at 00:08
Absolutely... ! Infinite wisdom only attainable after death... all the big questions answered instantly... without any room for debate!
May 13, 2018 at 00:02
He was smart enough to kill himself!
May 12, 2018 at 23:58
Didn't Socrates inform that wisdom is knowing how stupid we are?
May 12, 2018 at 23:56
"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 ...
May 12, 2018 at 23:12
Animals are neither kind nor unkind they are perhaps more beautiful than humans Normal human beings are gross, disgusting, cruel, stupid, selfish and ...
May 12, 2018 at 23:03
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...
May 12, 2018 at 22:35
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 ...
May 12, 2018 at 22:09