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How is that about truth or falsity? Ok
January 01, 2024 at 01:54
Do you deny he had contempt for slave morality? Can you explain in your own words what you think suppose he meant by master slave morality? Surely we ...
January 01, 2024 at 01:27
What makes it “truth”? It seems a category error to apply “truth” to a process. You haven’t explained how this term is meant to be used in this contex...
January 01, 2024 at 01:23
I'd also like to argue that this simplistic ideology is simply reductive and doesn't account for all the times in history when collectivist government...
December 31, 2023 at 18:29
I mean, Nietzsche seems to be seething with resentment for the "slave morality" which is pretty equivalent to Rand's "collectivists" not letting the e...
December 31, 2023 at 18:14
Ok, so you are trying to pose a hypothetical scenario and treat it like a "meme" that gets phased out. But the problem is the same as the naturalistic...
December 31, 2023 at 18:11
I think they inform each other. Rand is the natural outcome of Nietzschean thinking as applied in a more stringent/focused way.
December 31, 2023 at 17:42
I mean that can take up volumes and volumes about Republican resentment. It arguably started with Barry Godwater's 1964 campaign and before him with t...
December 31, 2023 at 17:41
Not sure, but perhaps you shouldn't read Ayn Rand as she sounds right up your alley!
December 31, 2023 at 17:30
Sound vaguely Nietzschean?
December 31, 2023 at 17:25
Oh god yes.
December 31, 2023 at 17:21
Ok got it, you meant the latter definition I asked about- evolution, the biological mechanism. Well, this to me just stinks of the naturalistic fallac...
December 31, 2023 at 17:18
And yesterday's. It's been their true north for a while.. Although, with the populism that laid out, it's taken on different seasonings. More culture ...
December 31, 2023 at 17:12
I think what you describe here, sir, is a doctrine of the "alt-right" that's been swimming around since about 2015 or so.
December 31, 2023 at 17:10
God, this reminds me so much why I despise Ayn Randian philosophy :lol:
December 31, 2023 at 16:59
Yes what fdrake said, please. Evolutionary as in truth is evolutionary? In what way? how does it fit in that schema of truth? Evolutionary as in the b...
December 31, 2023 at 16:56
Sure, and others can cause suffering. Not sure what this means.
December 31, 2023 at 16:16
Suicide is multifaceted. My point was how it’s not entailed with antinatslism. We can discuss peoples reasons for suicide but the quote was to point t...
December 31, 2023 at 16:14
You simply didn’t answer me so I guess I will carry on since you have no response..shrug.
December 31, 2023 at 15:49
That strengthens Ciorans point in suicide. We are put in an impossible situation. The nostalgia for “unbirth” can never be attained. It doesn’t negate...
December 31, 2023 at 15:37
Can you explain your objection? At the end of the day my point is antinatalism doesn’t entail promortalism, whatever the reasons great or small for su...
December 31, 2023 at 15:34
That is answered from where the premises are being framed. Most AN arguments are about notions of starting or imposing suffering onto others. Not star...
December 31, 2023 at 12:26
So I’ll repeat for the apparently less informed how it got this way once again: No they want Israel’s destruction and to kill as many Israelis as they...
December 31, 2023 at 12:02
So then I can use that argument for why Israel kept voting in right wing parties. That seems naive. Gaza was given to them and the gesture was “fuck y...
December 31, 2023 at 11:47
Well shit, isn’t that part of their strategy? If you are run by a leadership with a death cult mentality that provokes a more powerful neighbor, bette...
December 31, 2023 at 11:28
Haha, I don’t know why but this right there is so oddly obvious, in its characterization of Hamas and its rhetoric, it is oddly out of place. Like cal...
December 31, 2023 at 11:19
If you looked on the thread I’m not endorsing this heavy handed approach either, I’m just not calling it a genocide. It’s a debate about how hard to h...
December 31, 2023 at 09:56
If people are more informed on the history, they couldn't just use the latest headline as their newest political cudgel. That would mean a nuanced und...
December 31, 2023 at 09:42
Ok well, Im saying what is relevant is the causal-historical event whereby if there was any slight change to that event, there could not in any possib...
December 31, 2023 at 02:00
Ok good question. Let me ask another question, if anything changed even a tiny bit prior to conception, would even the possibility of you actually hav...
December 30, 2023 at 22:01
Ok, well, we can just drop this line of argument I think. I was trying to make a point about using semantics to then fit the case into the semantics, ...
December 30, 2023 at 21:44
So this focuses solely on the gametes, and not the causal-historical aspect. That event (not another one, even in another possible world), necessitate...
December 30, 2023 at 21:38
Nice quote. I'm a big Pratchett / Discworld fan myself.
December 30, 2023 at 21:32
Define something however you want to fit your case, man. I'm just giving you the other side regarding that usage in this case. Gaza is an "open air pr...
December 30, 2023 at 21:19
I see you skipped this post, which I believe the strongest against your case: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/866645 Would it be "of...
December 30, 2023 at 21:06
Ok so under this definition: Almost every war in the 20th and 21st century constitutes a genocide.
December 30, 2023 at 20:51
\ Also, I brought up to another poster that in WW2, 2000+ (mostly military) personnel were killed in Pearl Harbor. At the end of the conflict, two ato...
December 30, 2023 at 20:40
When I looked back, my basic argument was already made here, and in more detail, so I just defer to this, as to what I am trying to convey here:
December 30, 2023 at 20:37
It does matter, because now you are making someone "defend a genocide" rather than a war, and being this is a philosophy forum, people are just going ...
December 30, 2023 at 20:21
I would quibble over this, as after the Invasion of Normandy, the Western front became overwhelmingly successful. But yes, the turning point were the ...
December 30, 2023 at 17:57
over 2,000+ people were killed at Pearl Harbor. It ended with the dropping of two atomic bombs, and now a prosperous Japan. What's your point? Am I ju...
December 30, 2023 at 16:58
Ok, can you send me the link the post?
December 30, 2023 at 16:53
I mean dude, these are the terms the people actually fighting often think in, so stop being so dismissive. The far right in Israel think in terms of r...
December 30, 2023 at 16:46
I mean, I think this is all you need for your arguments to have some merit. Generals tend to go right to the hammer, without considering other tools. ...
December 30, 2023 at 16:36
Well, the Labor Party with Ehud Barak was voted in previously, and right after Netanyahu, so there has been a model in the past for such things! Yes. ...
December 30, 2023 at 16:19
Just curious when is there a distinction between genocide and simply the consequences of war itself? Was the carpet bombing of North Vietnam genocide ...
December 30, 2023 at 15:23
Great points. This seems to be exactly what’s implied.
December 30, 2023 at 14:47
I’m not going to go out on a limb here and say that most extreme factions of Palestinians (which are a majority), in absence of an army, use terrorism...
December 30, 2023 at 14:43
:up: Yep, and I think this is all related. To clarify, I think my theory has a causal-theme running through it, that happens to involve substance, and...
December 30, 2023 at 04:00
:up:
December 30, 2023 at 02:55