Agreed.. I gave the example of SARS, COVID, Ebola, and HIV all starting from wild meat/bush meat practices. Was there a concerted effort to shut this ...
You perhaps felt more acutely that we are just finding ways to occupy time, survive, maintain. Others who are used to routines and getting caught up i...
I didn't really know if there was a wider debate here.. I just saw NOS's last comment and had to agree with at least that part of it. As far as racism...
@"frank" @"StreetlightX" I must agree here. Although China finally did what they needed by isolation measures (new cases are being contained it seems)...
Selected readings from Schopenhauer's Religion: A Dialogue Philalethes. But isn't it every bit as shallow and unjust to demand that there shall be no ...
Rejecting A (Judeo-Christian God) does not entail B (reject certain values). Schopenhauer thought that the kernel of truth or essence of the religions...
That's what I meant, but this is immaterial to the argument I presented. I understand that even when I wrote it but I let it go because I wasn't tryin...
Schopenhauer's prime concern was the suffering enacted upon the individual wills of humans. The quietude was meant to quiescent the Will and eliminate...
Any system (such as any political economic system) requiring survival, maintenance, and entertainment to be sustained and through enculturating more p...
What is the end goal of coming together? The ancient Israelites more-or-less adopted Mosaic Law (probably cobbled together from older oral traditions ...
More ability to spend on goods and services. Health throws a wrench in their equation.. Somehow the American style of employer-based health care (othe...
No, a capitalist would just say that profits bring well-being to all who participate and contribute to its growth. A rising tide lifts all boats and a...
You hit the nail with corporate/business culture. People are often deemed less important than the bottom line. Yet, it is the people who consume and c...
Yes, my point is maybe people will start realizing that there is really not much we are doing except trying to survive, maintain our comfort levels (c...
They'll start going into existential crisis and say "What's the point of anything?". A fish in a bowl swims around, eats, swims a bit more, checks out...
There are real world scenarios where this is playing out. That's what I am talking about here. Employees would have to speak up vocally or possibly be...
So the managers have no responsibilities of health protections during a well-known pandemic to its employees? Yes, but most times, ,people don't even ...
This I disagree with. The employees cannot police each other's own social distancing practices. However, the manager can prevent in one fell swoop eve...
It doesn't necessarily lead to their infection, but the employer knows that there is a higher risk of contracting the infection by being in the physic...
Not all government law is consequentialist. In many countries, there are a list of rights that are to be respected. Presumably that is deontological. ...
Darn, I'm surprised this isn't getting any attention being this is probably one of the most relevant topics, if you are from a country implementing so...
Right, but in this case, one person's ethics might lead to people under them getting sick. I think the big things that stick out here are: 1) The work...
I actually don't see it that way. They may be technically following the guidelines, but they are breaking the spirit of the intent. In other words, th...
In potentialities, it is proper to think in terms of a few things: 1) what you intend to do as a deliberative agent 2) The means to do it . I used the...
The purpose is simply wrapped up in procreation. People want other people to live a certain way-of-life. Go to work, entertain, maintain their environ...
Interesting thesis. I see society using birth itself as harnessing the energy of people- their capacity to work and to reproduce. In a way procreating...
If those are your objections then, yes you would not get the point of the analogy, but then you sort of do in your next sentence, so I won't even addr...
I think I know what you are trying to say... So you are saying the only course of action to prevent overpopulation is eventually to instill government...
With this repetition of your initial objection, you do seem to have difficulty with the analogy. The analogy applies here because the gun being create...
I agree but sometimes the principle itself makes the consequence not worth it. We have a completely different idea of things.. With your model you are...
It's actually proven..look at any statistic, that the more women are educated, the less likely they are to have a lot of children. Look at any birth r...
But here's the thing.. I DON'T think most births today are accidental in modern societies. It can be drastically reduced, but people PREFER/WANT to ha...
Okay, now you are getting a bit better. No, it is not about wording. We were explicitly talking about procreation, not sex. While I agree sex is pleas...
But the man would kill, if the gun was made and he has a very realistic chance of doing that because he has all the parts and know how. So, the potent...
Cool. My point. A person (gun) doesn't have to exist. It isn't completely analogous, the only point was to prove that the actual person in question do...
A guy buys all the parts for a gun, but it's not a gun yet. He intends to use it to kill when he's finished. He puts the gun together and kills someon...
Yes plenty of reason, that go into the principle. I did not say I had someone in mind that I was protecting. You ignored what I said and made your own...
You are questioning that people can make decisions that have future outcomes? And you are questioning that by preventing something now, you can preven...
You didn't even directly answer the charge against ideologies, ego-stroking and all of that. And yes, a potential to have a child is one that could ex...
:rofl: You're not going to find much because it's not true.. But thank you for helping me prove my point. It is a common misconception though if it is...
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