This is a slight misinterpretation of what I was getting at. It is exactly those maintenance/comfort things that DO indeed take up most of our intenti...
Schop was a grandiose writer. That was the habit of philosophers in the 19th century. They forgot how to write with self-referential wit. That is what...
Everybody complains. Not nearly as much as they should then :joke:. Then we are in two different worlds. You are in reflection hindsight mode (or you ...
My reaction to this is, "Yep, you got it". People tend to try to kick this feeling by distracting with novel experiences, but it just becomes chasing ...
Yes, it has a lot of implications. Politically it means we are not really "for" ourselves as the only choice we can make is moving up or down a spectr...
Yes it's conservatives who have told me this. No, they are not talking outliers; they think that any able-bodied individual can educate their way to a...
As is well known in this forum at least, my political position is that being born is being used by society. In a "free society" people can choose what...
The premises of life are what are generally needed to survive, sustain, maintain, be entertained in a human existence. As I've stated earlier: Dealing...
Going back to game analogy... If you dont want to play the game, but the only option is to try to play the game better, and taking suicide off the tab...
Unnecessary tone.. Anyways, thats the conundrum. The millionare analogy is not apt as in that case someone wants to be a millionaire. The premises of ...
No I mean it. Let's say you have a severe illness that completely ravages your body and internal organs. Let's say you slowly recover. What does one d...
@"Bitter Crank" @"Artemis" @"3017amen" @"180 Proof" @"Isaac" Ironically, you can be a miserable piece of shit in your mood, treat people like shit, bu...
The disposition is not about "change your behavior". That is implying that something should or can be changed. Let us say that really, there are peopl...
The example is exactly someone who would ask the question, "What if you don't like the premises of life?" Nothing more or less. I guess I can explain ...
Well you are assuming this is about fixing something. That might be the wrong approach. The question is "What if you don't like the premises of life?"...
Yeah, I guess the "dealing with" part is how it is. I tend to think everyone has to deal with those dealing withs, and people manage positively someti...
Yes I am aware of these philosophies and am actually against them. You are aware that Nietzsche tried to overturn Schopenhauer's philosophy, correct? ...
You can't distill some premises on your own? Do I need to explicate? If I had to characterize the premises, it is being thrown into the world with an ...
It is just bad situations heaped on each other, over and over again, sometimes the grinding down process is like a drill.. life just throws painful mo...
Yes, I've noticed that acceptance seems to always be the "go to" for any of this. But how is this not trivial? Isn't living every day, default "accept...
I'm not making stuff up. You said earlier that you didn't like it in comparison with other methods/schools earlier. I am saying to make the distinctio...
Yes I've noticed. One thing I disagree with you on is that it can be hermetically sealed as something that does not need to be in distinction with oth...
Perhaps you can elucidate your own views. You seem to not put any positive statements about analytic philosophy, thus shooting others down from the ba...
Perhaps the analytics would say that Schop has to define "Will" more precisely. They would not let him get away with making his own definition. Rather...
Good points. Even though, it's anachronistic (because he lived before the distinction of analytic/continental), Schopenhauer would be a great model fo...
Not quite the same. A state will do what is in its power to stop terrorism or threat to its population. Terrorists who act from remote countries, well...
I was trying to keep it 10 words or less. To elaborate, as far as I know, continental philosophy is based on more of a historical approach/ systems ap...
I don't know what you really meant by counterfactual history. What I meant was that a major part of history is analyzing the decisions that were made ...
Yet, that is exactly how history can be analyzed. Anyways, I don't see anything you said as countering the fact that this is about an issue of the ina...
And how many countries started without respecting human rights in some way and continue to do so? Should they be dismantled as countries? China doesn'...
Good points. With the Christian hatred, as others pointed out, it is the deicide charge in Matthew and John mainly. As a complete atheist and historic...
On a slightly unrelated note, I had a thread a while back describing how humans are uniquely in a situation where they can evaluate very negative aspe...
Yes, I think antinatalism does require a lot of "spilled ink" (er, um, bits and bytes?) because it is such an unusual position to those who have not h...
I don't have time to respond to all your points, but I want to bring up this one. My ongoing thread discusses the idea of what justifies a "positive e...
Benatar's asymmetry can also be considered based on "common sense". For example, if you knew that aliens on a distant planet were being enslaved and t...
You have to at least summarize the arguments. Even then, just looking on the internet for an anti- antinatalist paper is not really participating. Do ...
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