Terrapin Station

I've explained to you in detail why Adler doesn't work. We can do the dance again if you like. Re fleeing, I respond if you respond to me. You simply ...

But whether people believe/accept it or not, foundational moral stances ARE simply ways that they feel. There's no way to justify them on facts, since...

I'd say only the latter, since only people who are born and who have developed mentally a bit have notions of what counts as suffering.

Again, this isn't about antinatalism specifically, but I see it more as "One's attributions of what counts as suffering should not dictate what anyone...

You just have to read stuff for what it says. If I make a comment about my opinion of the sorts of things that people consider to be "suffering," ther...

You may have some personal restriction that everything you say in a thread has to have some relation to the initial post of the thread or the thread t...

I don't get it, because I'm wondering what you're quoting and what your take on it is.

So were you going to pony up and suggest a falsifiable claim to talk about, or?

Still unable to grasp that there's no one to make decisions not only prior to conception, but for a while after birth.

What would it amount to for something to be a "default position" on an ethical issue?

As to how important reading is for doing philosophy--especially how important reading philosophy is for doing philosophy--neither Socrates nor Plato w...

I wasn't talking about that at all when I made the comment about my opinion of what's called "suffering." You can't stop thinking about it, so you int...

I'd gladly live forever as long as I could be relatively healthy and agile. I think it's unlikely that it would be a possibility anytime soon, though.

That's some location. Ignoring that you completely ignored the question I asked, even though you supposedly have an issue with that, you're not saying...

Where would that fact obtain?

Yes, in those cases, too, if those terms are used as assessments.

Insofar as we're talking about it at or inside of the surface of the flashlight I'd agree with that.

Ah, okay. And what would you say is an example of this?

And why would I consider you a qualified judge?

It's not a problem. Morality is just something different than the social enforcement of morality.

But you can't make any sense out of the mores without adding in meaning, value judgments, etc.

"Bad"/"good" are ALWAYS subjective assessments, and there's never a guarantee that any two people will come to the same assessment about the same thin...

Haha, okay. I post here because I don't have much chance in real life any longer to talk about philosophy with anyone who has any knowledge of it from...

And what was that going to do for you?

What did you ever think that talking with me was going to accomplish for you?

I did. You don't agree that I did. So I'm trying to explain that to you. Of course, either you're trolling or you're incredibly dense, so it might be ...

I seriously doubt that anyone was reading most of it except for me and you. And maybe just me for most of it. Your interpretation is not a fact . . . ...

My stance is that mental states are identical to physical brain states. This says nothing about explanations. Whether something can be explained signi...

Funny that you're trolling but characterizing it as me trolling. Well, if "funny" means "typical."

I actually wasn't. I could see how maybe you'd interpret it that way. It's a bit ridiculous for you to tell me how I'm thinking of something though.

"Murder is wrong" is a moral stance. You don't agree with that?

So again, you don't think that people have to decide whether to attack someone or not, or at least that they do or should have the power to stop thems...

Subjective shouldn't have a "merely" first off, as if it's simpler or inferior or whatever. Whether something is a bad idea is also subjective, of cou...

Yes, I was. You asked my moral stance on it. Moral stances are dispositions--preferences or feelings, basically, that individuals have about interpers...

What does this have to do with what we're talking about. Again, I'm not talking about anything pro or con antinatalism in this tangent. I'm talking ab...

"Subjective" refers to something being located in brains, by the way. Re agreement, that's just sounds that people make. The meaning part occurs in br...

That paragraph made nothing clearer. Writing "response-able" as if it would refer to the same thing as "responsible" is comical, too. So, I'd tell Ms....

In other words, how would it come to be as an existent? What's it supposed to be a property of? Where would we find it? How would it arise? etc.

How would an intersubjective value obtain?

Seriously, though, for me, variety is important. The pleasure I take in various things won't lessen as long as I pursue variety. That way you don't ge...

You can just order more from Amazon.

Indirect causes being further back in the causal chain? For example, in a Rube Goldberg contraption, setting a billiard ball in a slot causes a level ...

I'm being serious though. Why should something be prohibited if it's not the cause of what you have a problem with?

Message boards--how do they work? I'm not going to explain my motivation for every post I've made in the thread. That would be way too long. On that l...

Actually you didn't even catch that I confused my conversation with you and my conversation with schopenhauer. With you, you were arguing that I need ...

First off, the topic here is whether, in my opinion, contra someone else's, it's ridiculous or laughable to consider some things suffering. Let's make...

You're claiming that speech causes violence? You don't believe in free will then?

Sure, I feel that it is wrong. That's not a result of reasoning. It's an emotional disposition that I have.

He can't or won't interpret anything you said as anything other than an argument about antinatalism, because that would get him off his campaign/brand...

So basically, it's just your opinion that it's not your job (you seem to be forgetting that I'm talking about opinions on whether some things are ridi...