He kidnapped someone. That's doing something against their consent, where the person is normally capable of granting or withholding consent. You also ...
By the same token, by the way, in my view Hitler didn't kill anyone (at least not per my knowledge/memory). People beneath him (hierarchically) rather...
It's necessary for him to have committed suicide at home, though. It's the same thing as my South Africa example earlier, where you and Janus argued t...
The reason we'd not be able to make sense out of it is that all of that's identical in the two cases with different outcomes. So that makes mincemeat ...
Zoning an area as residential is a cause per your vernacular, where you're using cause to refer to culpability, for someone committing suicide at home...
If you did, I didn't see it. Probably because it was a long post. I can tell people that I'm not doing long posts covering a bunch of different points...
Focusing on that one first, you're claiming that a precondition like zoning an area as residential is classified as wrong where that evolved out of cu...
I can't think of something where I'd say that offhand. The examples where people aren't doing science are things like when someone simply intuits that...
To feel, perceive or experience subjectively requires a mentality that babies may not have. We know that people do not recall much prior to at least t...
I don't agree with Pigliucci in that essay. What he calls the "expansive" definition is the one on track, I'd say. That doesn't make the term meaningl...
The reason it matters to me is, as I said, that my view doesn't ignore other persons' opinions. Most people don't think that only suffering matters, a...
What makes the difference on your view? It seems like you don't really buy the idea of free will. You don't believe that every preceding factor could ...
So if someone decides to commit suicide, say, you're holding not only their parents, but their grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., as well as the ...
You're either being dishonest or you're an idiot or crazy. You don't have another option here, and none are satisfactory. That was AFTER the post in q...
Sure, so there's an uncountable number of causes for every event in your view, and "cause" need not even refer to something with a deterministic conne...
I'll get to the rest later, first: In a similar way, wouldn't you say that being conceived and/or born is not the cause of suffering with respect to b...
It matters to me whether we're having an honest conversation in good faith, and whether we're "with it" enough to be able to do so sensibly, coherentl...
The point remains that to know this, we'd need data about persons' evaluations at the two different time periods in question--the (1) scenario in my p...
"Scientism" usually has a connotation of treating science more or less as a religion. Scientism sees science as uttering dogmatic truths, for example....
I already noted that he thinks I'm an idiot. You might, too. I don't regurgitate much, partially because I can't. My memory doesn't work well in that ...
It's not literal because the group, as a group, can't value something. That's a category error, in that valuing isn't something that a group does as a...
Sure, which is why I brought up the notion of risk. I wasn't thinking that you might be thinking of "natural law." Re natural laws, they simply can't ...
Let's take Day A for Joe. Say that he only has 10 experiences for that day. While they're occurring, he evaluates them re positive/negative as follows...
The "same way" in the nominalistic sense, sure. If everyone in a group feels the same way, sure. (Or if we're discounting the outliers or whatever, an...
Okay, but the only way we can know that is by the person (a) stating that experience F was negative in their evaluation, while experience G was positi...
So first, that's about accuracy of recall. What would it have to do with a claim that you know better than other people (per their reports) whether th...
What's to stop anyone from effectively arbitrarily saying that something is or isn't an explanation in that case? And if that's what we're doing, how ...
Legally, codes are laws. I'm not sure what alternate sense of "code" you might be thinking of--I suppose something like the set of principles that som...
Just an observer. You must think it's possible to observe this stuff, via reports from people, otherwise what in the world would you be addressing? Go...
I don't see how. The value can't be transferred to objects, and there's no such thing as collective thought, collective mental activity. All that's re...
But how do you get that agreement? If I didn't agree to allow others to take action against me just in case I rape someone, what do we do? You're sayi...
A lot of your post isn't clear and/or it's off-base. So starting with this, my view doesn't ignore other persons' opinions. Most people don't think th...
Why don't you just say that you're "against procreation, not because it does something to someone else against their consent, and not because it 'caus...
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