You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

schopenhauer1

Comments

From an antinatalist's perspective, all supporters of procreation support bringing both known, unknown, un-consented amounts of harm to people born in...
October 30, 2023 at 13:57
I’m sure they mean Enlightenment :wink:.
October 29, 2023 at 23:27
Granted, which is why I answered to my best for that limited part of the debate and it was tacitly recognized that we were moving to a new “category?”...
October 29, 2023 at 17:46
Good point. I don’t have much to add to that except one can still try to go back to why bomb at all and I think that’s where my analogy in the last po...
October 29, 2023 at 17:36
I think that these questions are essentially handled in this post so let's move forward from here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/8...
October 29, 2023 at 14:48
So again, I am just going back to the very original framing of butchery up close versus from a bombing. There is an extra de-humanization of doing som...
October 29, 2023 at 14:42
The original question was whether there is an aspect of killing up close that has some ethical dilemma dimension to it, and I added the affirmative an...
October 29, 2023 at 14:09
I mean I think you can tease out the moral standard there. If the bomber WANTS to inflict maximum damage or his superior does it’s just as morally cul...
October 29, 2023 at 13:50
I gave context after but just sticking to the first paragraph, I’m sticking to that response. I don’t think the idea that dropping bombs being more sc...
October 29, 2023 at 13:28
I think in this hypothetical scenario, there actually is something a bit more bad/evil in face-to-face butchering/burning/maiming someone than doing i...
October 28, 2023 at 18:47
I am not using "panpsychism" in such a way. I am using it in its usual sense that "experientialness" is spread across matter in some way (whether thro...
October 27, 2023 at 15:16
I stand by my original response to this. Don’t say “philosophers”, pick out what school of thought you are referencing, quote them or at least charita...
October 27, 2023 at 14:25
Then point them out and don’t just generalize “philosophers” writ large. At least outline the specific schools of thought.
October 27, 2023 at 13:45
When you setup a straw man, you can paint anything in any way you want and use aphorisms to knock it down like you’re the anti-hero messiah :roll:. Th...
October 27, 2023 at 13:34
That's a red herring and strawman. I did not question a Palestinian state (right of return is trickier but in theory some compensation makes sense). R...
October 26, 2023 at 21:17
I'm sorry, whatever ends you're going for, that's evil on the face of it. It's sad you support it. I am bracketing the issue to this. You can justifia...
October 26, 2023 at 20:10
So what do you think is the solution?
October 26, 2023 at 19:35
I think if the Arab nations can muster enough courage and temper their "all-or-nothing" tendencies, MAYBE they can be part of a solution. It would be ...
October 26, 2023 at 19:18
Ideally, that also means that Palestine would be an Arab/Muslim-oriented government that respects the rights of its minority citizens (Christian, Jewi...
October 26, 2023 at 19:11
And which is why I said they should have voted Netanyahu's fascist ass out a long time ago. Perhaps, perhaps. But I do believe sane minds can resolve ...
October 26, 2023 at 19:04
What do I expect from Palestinians? Not supporting terrorist groups that funnel money into violent barbaric means of getting what they want. They trie...
October 26, 2023 at 18:42
And again, my main response to this ludicrous hemming and hawing in this justifying of Hamas is: And I can't see how you can look at that same documen...
October 26, 2023 at 18:27
I just bid you read my last post on that argument. You’re also contradicting yourself about you supposedly not supporting Hamas. Also other posters on...
October 26, 2023 at 18:09
I think that is simplifying the history of the whole conflict. If Israel is not problematic, then every concession Israel made towards its founding wo...
October 26, 2023 at 17:13
A vague reference couched in absolutist terms of Jordan to Mediterranean all of a sudden means Hamas is for two states? Its actions say otherwise. And...
October 26, 2023 at 16:07
You implied and explicitly said on many posts that Hamas has a legitimate form of how it conducts itself. You tried saying how it's charter is cuddly-...
October 26, 2023 at 15:49
I wonder if people's country of origin have a lot to shape the way they view these things, based especially on what their circumstances in WW2. Finlan...
October 26, 2023 at 15:27
How about you do that to your advocating for a homicidal group? Either you’re for peace or you’re not.
October 26, 2023 at 15:15
That’s moral equivocating two unrelated things. You are essentially advocating that if you feel jaded over a historical land dispute, you are justifie...
October 26, 2023 at 15:10
Panpsychism means that there is some sort of experiential-ness to matter/energy at some level (where these "occasions of experience" inhere or at what...
October 25, 2023 at 18:36
So I was asking the serious question: How many behaviors makes a feeling? And no one cared about that, and it's crucial. Notice how the article I refe...
October 25, 2023 at 17:31
Do you know what a homunculus fallacy is?
October 25, 2023 at 01:50
What was it do you think that made Viking and Mongol warriors okay with being "horror-ible"? Was it that the horror inflicted terror? Purported quote ...
October 25, 2023 at 00:52
No one cares about that last post? :D. I really meant it seriously. It seems like some people think that magically behavioral processes at some dividi...
October 25, 2023 at 00:49
Morally speaking it’s wrong to reward the barbarity that Hamas did. Pointing to collateral damage in response or the whole sidelining of the two state...
October 24, 2023 at 21:42
I was responding to this below, not the article: The reason I said that is, I know chimps go to war with other tribes. I would have to see any evidenc...
October 24, 2023 at 19:10
What is a word but an idea? It can be a jumping off point to explore deeper meanings contained in its potential. I can see the use of the distinction ...
October 24, 2023 at 18:01
You seemed to admit that ape hierarchy is an example of this. How it is that the alpha male dominates by intimidation and alliances, whilst forming al...
October 24, 2023 at 16:38
@"Wayfarer"@"kudos"@"Janus"@"Fooloso4". It’s as if you add up enough behaviors you get a feeling. https://youtu.be/5fmj5TWxxog?si=GDCNOhm_69TkwdCf
October 24, 2023 at 14:35
Number one thing is immediate security as a leader. That has to be dealt with first. Then the existential issue when not at hot war.
October 24, 2023 at 13:40
I think being complex beings, we are going to have complex responses. We have the ability for deep compassion and deep rage and horrific acts. Were th...
October 24, 2023 at 02:37
As I stated earlier:
October 24, 2023 at 01:49
What are you using as definition of "consciousness" if not some form of "awareness" or "experience" or "point of view"? For example, the insect's "exp...
October 24, 2023 at 01:44
When was it ever not defined as some "interiority"? You can define whatever word you want it to be, but for the purposes I have been using it, it is s...
October 24, 2023 at 01:22
Hey, great points and examples in history! :clap:
October 23, 2023 at 22:12
Well, rather it was trying to point out that computer programs are so far, an example where adding degree to algorithms, functions, signals, and netwo...
October 23, 2023 at 19:09
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0705555104 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0706166104
October 23, 2023 at 16:05
Here is this article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0705555104#:~:text=Like%20humans%2C%20chimpanzees%20retaliate%20against,and%20are%20theref...
October 23, 2023 at 15:16
:up: I’m going to see if I can pull up some vids..I’m sure someone might beat me to it. Don’t have time now.
October 23, 2023 at 15:01
I don’t like your rants against antinatalism, but this is a good topic. As far as I’ve seen in documentaries, common chimps form alliances that are ve...
October 23, 2023 at 14:51