Terrapin Station

You don't intentionally cause the harm of someone getting run over by a car when you give birth. You can be aware of the fact that that could happen, ...

Why, in your view, isn't part of the reason he was there the fact that the "WALK" sign was on to cross the intersection? So do you hold the traffic co...

Valid per some arbitrary system of logic?

(Well, or actually it might not be the person who planted it. It would depend on the exact scenario, actually, but we can simplify.)

Yes. And it has to be nonconsensually. That means that we need an agent normally capable of consent. Otherwise consent isn't an issue. Something can't...

Planting bombs is not a moral matter. Having them go off nonconsensually is. You could make the whole world out of a bomb. If it doesn't go off, who w...

No. Not "any harm." That's way too vague. It has to be an action with particular physical effects, performed upon or with them in conjunction with oth...

That's irrelevant. The issue is that when the person walks into the location where the bomb goes off, they're an agent normally capable of granting or...

This would be a big tangent, but I'm curious: I don't know if you had any kids, or if you plan on having any, but didn't or wouldn't you educate your ...

Energy sans something to have energy is incoherent. And there are no real "points."

None of that disagrees with anything I've said, though. So in those cases, if we're counting young children as agents that are capable of and need to ...

I couldn't care less about any antinatalist arguments. I am interested in the consent issue, especially since people really don't seem to understand c...

Okay, but what would that have to do with anything I'm talking about?

I hope that's not a response to me asking you to give an example of a specific action you have in mind.

Who? Andrew? khaled? And if they're talking about that--"other people have different considerations and evaluations of life," then they're not talking...

Consent is for specific actions. Give an example of a specific action you have in mind.

There's no way to make what's a "good" reason non-subjective. "Good" is necessarily subjective.

You can't just focus on the relations or interactions, because there needs to be something relating or having interactions.

The person who lets someone into a concert hall isn't responsible for anything other than letting them into the concert hall. They're not responsible ...

Not "anything happening to them." It has to be an action upon them by another agent, or performed by them in conjunction with another agent.

Then why wouldn't you accept that for some people, there's no good reason to doubt the nature of consciousness, whether Gods exist, whether there's an...

The person in the location where the bomb goes off. That would be a person who exists who is normally capable of granting or withholding consent. They...

I didn't say that. You didn't understand that comment. That was an example of a consent issue that's not a direct action upon someone, but rather an i...

I have no idea what that would amount to. It sounds incoherent to me, but maybe you could explain it so that I wouldn't think that.

That has nothing to do with anything I was talking about, but sure, there are no risks for anyone if no one exists. So if you were only concerned with...

If anyone is making or in any way implying the claim you're addressing. Otherwise it's "Hey, here's a chance to do my telemarketing script mantra agai...

That would only be relevant if someone were saying something about depriving nonexistent persons of something.

Yes, and I said nothing even remotely approaching the notion of nonexistent people being deprived of anything. So bringing that up in response to my p...

I don't want to enable your OCD nonsense. Comment on the content of my posts.

As I just added above: If you want to repeat the same garbage over and over don't use my posts to shit-post in response like that. How about commentin...

That has nothing whatsoever to do with anything I'm typing. I'm not saying anything even remotely resembling the notion of nonexistent people being de...

And what the fuck does that have to do with talking about nonexistent kids being deprived of anything?

Knock knock--hello? What did I type that you think has anything to do with this? An intelligent response would quote something I typed that you believ...

Right. And what does that idea have to do with anything I've typed? I'm asking you twice now. I didn't say anything at all resembling potential kids b...

Consent is an issue when: (a) we're talking about a particular action that one is an actor in--either via performing actions on another or having acti...

So what definition of certainty are you using?

Where did I mention anything like that? You're going through a talking points script that doesn't have anything to do with what I was saying.

What does that have to do with whether being conceived or born is a consent issue?

If being is willed by God, then "neither" isn't the answer. The answer would be God willed it so. But then God could have willed being so that it's ot...

Correct. It doesn't exist as "something in itself."

Then we wouldn't be able to make any empirical claim, including things as simple as "I know where I parked my car," "I know the title of Black Sabbast...

Matter isn't comprised of something that's not matter. It's comprised of elementary particles, in particular dynamic relationships with each other. En...

Knowing something doesn't imply that you know it with certainty or that it's provable. Certainty and provability are simply about whether something ne...

So, you wrote: "Also for the concert hall example, you CHOSE to go to the concert hall. If the guy forced you into the concert hall and it blew up it ...

So re those three statements, are they the case because God willed it so, or are they prior to God so that God has no choice in them, either?

Holy moley. Okay, when I get back. I'm late for what i need to do.

Where did I say anything that suggested I'd have a moral problem with "enabling" anything ? Someone capable of granting or withholding consent is requ...

As within 15 minutes you completely forget that someone normally capable of granting or withholding consent is REQUIRED for consent to be an issue.

If you intentionally/knowingly gave them HIV and we can causally show that HIV made you acquire the other disease (which would be very difficult to sh...

Again, If a bomb goes off in a concert hall, the guy who let you in to the concert hall didn't do anything to you.