Dude, at least be honest. You quoted me saying, "You'd have to say that it's morally problematic to do things to materials that could turn into living...
That's fine. But you just argued that I said that it's morally problematic to do things to materials that could turn into living things. I did not say...
If I was caused to pick C by the fact that it was an option in the first place, then how could I have picked another option? You're not saying that a ...
It's not irrelevant to saying that something caused something else. If we buy that there is free will and I make a free will decision to do x, how doe...
The problem with that argument is that you can't impose living on someone else. There needs to be a someone else to impose something on them, but ther...
It's a problem that you can't even understand or learn that that's not an argument about antinatalism on my part. If you can't learn that, how would i...
What we'd need to agree on is what the other person is even saying, for example. We don't do that as far as I can tell, unless you are of the opinion ...
No. Concepts aren't potential anything, and they're not just energy. Nothing is just energy. Concepts are particular brain states, in particular indiv...
First, it's important to realize that there are no true normatives. That is, truth is not a property that a normative can have. (This is with respect ...
"Just in case having a child doesn't cause suffering, then there's no justification for antinatalism"--I don't at all agree with that statement. I'd n...
I commented above, "There is only one universe - this is primarily a matter of definition," For example, if we define "universe" as "everything that e...
I don't quite get what you're saying here. What's an "egocentric" model versus an alternate model? But more confusing is "no aspect of being that is t...
I've asked you a ton of times what's harmful about it. What consequences will hurt someone? Specify what you're talking about (not exhaustively--just ...
Depression doesn't necessarily amount to feeling sad or depressed. It would depend on just how apathetic/unmotivated you are (keep in mind that that s...
That can't work for similar reasons. If we have 100 people and they find 100 different things fair, what do we do? You can't have a functioning, inter...
I don't think that's clear at all. For one (related to a discussion we were having in another thread, by the way), no one really thinks of children as...
I voted: There was a big bang - this is the most revisable of the three. But current evidence points to a big bang, whatever might have preceded it. T...
The Gettier problems primarily hinge on the notion that intuitively, people do not want to say that we can know something accidentally. But the Gettie...
Knowing something doesn't imply that it's impossible to be wrong, by the way. And if you thought of knowing that way, then, for example, you'd have to...
Knowledge = jtb Belief = something one is inclined to think is the case, with varying degrees of conviction Truth = a judgment that a proposition has ...
It's not an argument against antinatalism. I don't know how many times I need to say that in order for anyone to understand it. It is, however, a way ...
?? The idea is much simpler than that. We can't have motion, and we can't have forces transferred, etc., without having SOMETHING that is moving, some...
As it's used in physics in general. And again, I wrote, "This isn't to suggest that I'm using the term identically to physics usage, but you should be...
So you were figuring that I was probably an agnostic about realism? You were just checking to confirm this? Still having problems with the use/mention...
If you know that, then why would you write "Particular frames or points of reference exist only (predominately) for humans and perhaps (and if so, muc...
Calm down. How about answering this: " And you understand that physics doesn't use the terms "observer"/"observation" to (necessarily) refer to percip...
Likely he's misunderstanding the way that physics uses the terms "observer" and "observation." There's a tendency to interpret those terms in the coll...
No, it doesn't it doesn't refer to itself. Frames of reference are not concepts, though there is a concept of them., Why don't you look it up if you'r...
:grin: Well, it's ridiculous. Why would I write something in set-of-words x when set-of-words y says what I really want to say? Just say what you real...
What it describes. Frames of reference are something it's describing. Frames of reference do not imply percipients. Yes or no, are you familiar with t...
If someone is making the decision for themselves, that's the case. If they're pressured into it--including by someone like you incessantly, repetitive...
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