Devans99

I think you will find that all intelligent creatures value the same things.

Killing is wrong but putting something out of its misery is right. So compassionate killing is right. And incompassionate killing is wrong.

Killing is wrong. Eating human flesh (without killing) (if there is nothing else to eat) is right.

Eating the dead is different from cannibalism and justifiable if there is nothing else to eat. So in the situation of the aircraft crash you outlined,...

Cannibalism makes the group unpopular with other groups causing the group and individual to suffer persecution.

Cannibalism is wrong for the individual and the group.

Murder might seem right for the group if there is no other possible action; but we should not reach that situation - people are fundamentally the same...

Person A is wrong; Robbing/raping is detrimental to the group. Person B is wrong; murder is an extreme form of punishment; much better to keep them al...

Thats a separate discussion: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4395/defining-good-and-evil

Good is what's demonstrably good for the individual (and therefore the group): - Helping others - Sharing ideas - Exercise - Consensual sex Evil is wh...

You can train your neural network to be more positive. Try to think glass half full rather than glass half empty. Over time, positive thinking should ...

But you can define good/evil for the individual and then the sum of that for society. If people are making the right decisions then this should be rig...

If society is functioning properly, you can define good and evil in terms of what's good/evil for society and the individual. An individual is part of...

But natural selection is mis-functional in the information world; it does not select for a big brain. You are a rude and ignorant person. Please do no...

But the definition of survival of the fittest has chained in the information age; it's smarts that lead to success Our breeding strategy should relict...

Got a bad wrap in WW2 to say the least. Because of modern society and social support structures like the welfare state, evolution / survival of the fi...

There are a few, I call them right-squared. For things that are both wrong in the short and long term, they are wrong-squared. Murder is wrong or wron...

All that counts is pleasure Vs pain: - If you do something right, you get long term pleasure, short term pain - If you do something wrong, you get sho...

If you are a sadist it might appeal but you would regret it later. I am not one personally.

It's a model with much pedigree. You can think of it like this: - In the beginning there was God and some stuff and God made the world from stuff Or -...

Because he's not Omnipotent, the God I have in mind is powerful but does not do magic. Creation is a giant game of Conway's Game of Life, we are gener...

Sad events decrease with time as society becomes more advanced. Possibly God foresaw that 'all should end well' and went ahead with creation anyway.

He was trying to correct you. As was LD Saunders and myself.

And (as the Beetles sung) things are getting better all the time...

There should be a finite number of ranks (actual infinity is impossible) and the GCB belongs to the top rank.

The GCB would be at rank 1 by definition of the GCB surely?

But the GCB would be the GCB from the top rank so you can't do G = B + 1 because there is no B + 1.

This universe is remarkable in its life sustaining abilities. Nearly all hypothetical universes one can construct in the mind consist just of particle...

Your statistics is faulty; if 100% of sampled universes are life supporting, you would come to the conclusion that 99.999% of universes are not life s...

I would have one overarching God creating the multiverse. The multiverse and universes would all be fine tuned for life. Atheists use the Strong Anthr...

Numbers are concepts in our minds, they are not real so they cannot be created. The fact that God can't create something that cannot be created takes ...

The universe always existed outside of time. If the universe is eternal (inside time), it has no temporal start point, so it can’t exist. Also if the ...

Proof Eternalism is Correct First prove that time has a start: - The universe follows rules that our described by mathematics. Negative infinity does ...

Numbers only exist in our head as a potential infinity; they don't exist in reality as an actual infinity.

Yes, I should of called the article 'everything real has a start'. There are concepts that do not have a start for example, like 'love'. Its impossibl...

I was thinking about eternal beings: - Imagine an eternal being - Impossible to exist; he would have no start in time so could not exist - 'Being' is ...

I'm claiming things can't exist without a temporal start. If the big band did not happen, would the universe be here? If you were not born, would you ...

That leads to an actual infinity of time which is not allowed. Or put another way, if the universe has no temporal start, then it has no temporal midd...

Presentism posits the existence of only now. If its false then more than only now exists so some form of Eternalism then. Time governs every particle ...

Prove that Presentism is wrong: 1. Presentism posits that only now exists 2. Therefore only now always existed 3. Therefore time did not have a start ...

Nicely put. God himself has his own God. His unknown creator from the reality level above him. God has to watch his step like us else he won't go to h...

If you take away the start of time (like Monday) then the rest of time does not exist (like the rest of the week). So time has a start. A time interva...

I don't think time existed initially: that implies time did not have a start; would the rest of the week exist if you take Monday (the start) away? So...

Times were hard back then...

A demiurge I view as a distinct possibility. Its helpful to refer to the top level of reality as base reality and the top level God as base reality Go...

These are compatible with a benevolent Creator God who is powerful but not omnipotent. There is more good than evil in the world and this ratio improv...

There is nothing beyond; no space, no time, just nothing... Logically the universe must be finite: - Its expanding from a point (the Big Bang) so it m...

Our universe seems to have a absolute beginning of space-time, so that means causality must extend beyond time. Thats possible, photons are timeless y...

But all such worlds bar one suffer from the same problem; they are logically inconsistent because there is, unaccountably, stuff in the world. There i...

Its a common sense principle that has been around for a long while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_comes_from_nothing Ideas about the pre-Big B...