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What do you mean by unresolved negative emotion? This is doing the opposite of the other poster who put the burden of the meanness on the observer (ca...

You'd have to clarify that. What do you mean by pejorative in this case? Are you saying a mean person is someone who expresses contempt (aka pejorativ...

Ok, but then what is the basis for being considerate? At what times should one be considerate and at what times should one not? Is it all the time? Is...

Yes, I mean the U.S. definition/version. The U.K. definition would be more uncharitable, scrooge-like, ungenerous, stingy, etc. Interesting, besides t...

Yes, but does the first question pass muster?

Didn't answer the first question :D.

So when Mike Pompeo doesn't comply with a subpoena to testify to Congress, that's ok because democracy is about "right destruction of normality?" Now ...

Oh thank god you've been tranqualized.

Don't answer that stuff. Why would it matter though?

That is a good point..When is the individual duped by social mechanisms that their labor is meant for them, vs. the collective? The invisible hand per...

The trend in this case is to create people.

No.. What is wrong with non-existence? Why does a way of life need to be perpetuated? Does it always go back to how parents/progenitors of the culture...

This is all assuming we need to learn from it. Why? I will essentially keep asking you that so we can bypass any unnecessary posts. This also contradi...

I don't know how avoidance of pain is "patriarchial", that seems like a misuse of that word, and a category error of that concept even. What I will sa...

I think there is something about happiness principle in there, or self-actualization, or civilization progress, or some such. The ultimate loss is mor...

Meaning brute life, like hunger, staying warm, thirst, and the like once one is alive or that life needs to perpetuate itself as an imperative (which ...

Hey its better than the usual sport and hobby above nonexistence notion.

Compassionate X above nonexistence you value.

Fullness of life is an imperative apparently. The alternative is not an emotional state. It is nonexistence. Nonexistence just is being not is. It is ...

I call bs..this sounds good but provides nothing but pretend givens. Why is this necessary or desirable? By this mean why is compassion above nonexist...

So why are you interested in this subject. You comment on here about my supposed depression.. What draws you to this subject? Is there something speci...

Yes but I think we should separate two aspects- the control aspect and the equality aspect. If men and women controlled the economy, and it was oppres...

@"Bitter Crank" I have to say I disagree with you here. Bitter gave a very cogent response to you there. If he was being antagonistic or hostile, he w...

That's a point that might negate the idea that patriarchy itself is bad. Perhaps it is just control itself. Now sharing power is definitely a problem,...

I see a lot of issues that have to be parsed out here: 1) How fundamentally different are women and men in terms of human thought-process and pronenes...

Kind of an immoral way of trying to prove your point. I can see you standing there, waiting for the antinatalist to slit his wrists in front of you.. ...

This is actually why a lot of my posts are not straight-up arguments, but rather thought-pieces that invoke or conveys a certain understanding or feel...

It shouldn't be a surprise when I restate what I have stated before- ethics starts with axioms and sometimes you cannot go further back than that. Suf...

You never asked, is paradise unattainable. And no it isn't. Precisely the problem.

Causing someone to need something when they don't have to is morally problematic, even if the person is gracious or indifferent to the need they are b...

What some posters also don't get is that a paradise is still a paradise, even if it is unobtainable. The question wasn't "Is paradise attainable', but...

Sure life without suffering is preferable but not actually the case, thus antinatalism. I disagree with those who want to promote "growth-through-adve...

What some posters don't see on here is that if it was a paradise, there wouldn't even be the harm of being bored "not suffering" :rofl:.

No. It is a gross generalization to assume that the Standard Model of growth-through-adversity is what is necessary to be experienced by anyone, perio...

Again, as I've stated, Schopenhauer equates need with suffering as in one definition of it. Needing is not completion, and not being complete in this ...

Maybe people don't demand enough when it comes to thinking about putting more people into the world.

I would go one step further.. One can choose to have suffering but then turn it off at a whim. But people think that life is about growing through var...

If it was paradise, then people would not get bored. Actually, if Schopenhauer was right, the fundamental existence of boredom is proof of (this non-p...

In some more abstract versions of a "paradise" everything would be a completeness or a nothingness such that you would not have any needs or wants wha...

You said paradise..

You can assert fundamentalism..but besides being contrary to popular opinion, there is not much force behind what you're labeling it. Also, I did say ...

Ah.. If the world was a guaranteed paradise and paradise meant that you can tune it into as much pain as you wanted at any given time to "grow from it...

I'm not sure what that means. Antinatalism is not about eugenics. It's an equal opportunity no birth movement :lol: .

Well, a "moderate" form might be something like not having children because of overpopulation- it is only contingent on global conditions. Another for...

Well, if I were to say, "God, any child can see how ridiculous and stupid that statement was. You are not even in the realm of sensible understanding....

:lol: Yes that was what I meant. I've seen some productive stuff and not so much.. The jury is out maybe... But as far as my experience, there's a lot...

Sure, I'm fine with that. Nothing wrong with that. My critique is the style mainly. To pretend that there are posters that are not being demeaning and...

So I honestly haven't read any of uncannis previous posts, so I dint know you could be right about a few things but just from what i responded to, it ...

My guess is some mods do see this but dont have time to really teach people healthier discourse styles. My guess is only the egregious ones are simply...

I haven't heard of him but from what you wrote, I can agree. A dialogue has to consider many aspects- how someone uses a concept, anticipation of coun...