You’re playing with peoples lives, not the AN. The burden of proof is on you and cannot simply be “you think it’s fine” and that it “ain’t that bad” i...
Further, the idea of exploitation of labor from those without industrialized means of production ("indigenous and third world populations), though may...
Just my two cents in how anti-Marixists might respond to all of this: That due to the general trend of the 20th century from the Progressive Era, post...
To be human, is to also fully realize the absurdity of the contingency of our actions and reasons, and the ability to be a thoroughly existential and ...
This kind of trivializing isn't even getting at the actual argument at hand. It's not about views of life, but at what is morally justified in terms o...
Done patting yourselves on the back? I find it funny that some styles of debate here are to be very unpleasant, but then use that to say how pleasant ...
The problem with Stoicism in particular nowadays is that people divorce it of its full metaphysics and epistemology. They try to take its axiological ...
Yeah I think I agree here. The argument was: My response was basically: It is immoral to be aggressively paternalistic- that is to say, to assume a) o...
I just want to present to you the last few posts so we can maybe discuss off that because they all hit on these subjects. Start with this post between...
I’m a philosophical pessimist and antinatalist as you probably know so several responses: whatever great experiences we humans have, ALL the non flow/...
I was just listing off the top of my head states whereby we want to be caught up in something. And yes they may be opposites, but opposites of a same ...
Interesting! Don't get me wrong. I respect the variety of ways animals live in the world, and actually admire them more than our own. It is because of...
We are going to split hairs at this point because in theory, I have no preference for degree or kind. But the degree gets to be exponential once we fa...
Yes agreed. But do other animals have this cognitively general processing unit? This kind is different not in its specialization but in its GENERALIZA...
I do not believe we have been. Rather, you keep asking about our ancestors implying this has an impact on degree vs kind in modern humans. It is preci...
I’ll include our ancestors in it. Obviously that was involved, but even if it happened over 2 million years or in a day, I don’t think that informs de...
I am not sure what you are saying. Yes, I've read the Language Instinct by Pinker. That is one theory. Even if it is, language indeed does seem a diff...
Can you define instinct? I am not being cheeky. This is immensely important yet elusive, even in zoology, biology, and certainly evolutionary psycholo...
That's because you are asking the wrong questions as to antinatalism. It isn't as much utilitarian calculus as it is a violation of deontological prin...
How is one the other and vice versa? That is the problem. They both make the error of one BEING the other versus one CAUSED by the other. Something ma...
Isn't this just restating the problem at hand rather than answering it? The problem: There is mind and there are physical systems that correlate with ...
Not equivalent. I am not sure if it is the inverse/converse, or what not but analogously, just as an idealist is mistaking ontology with causation, so...
Again, going back to first part here, I was commenting that Kantian is seen as idealist (transcendental idealist), and it is an example of idealism th...
Just that Kantian Idealists wouldn't say this and other kinds that acknowledge an external reality that is outside the framework of mind. That is all....
Further, tying it to my previous statement, the idealist might be making the same error: "My experience IS the tree" rather than, "My experience is CA...
Yes, agreed. Some might be doing this, but not all. Certainly, if you don't assent to something like, "All is mind, and can only be mind", then this w...
I was addressing a point you made, and declaring it not accurate. But if we are strictly saying Berekley's version of Idealism = idealism, then that w...
That is conflating various forms of Idealism. Kantian Idealism is not going to conflate that. Perhaps Berkeleyianism. In fact, Kantianism would insist...
Right, and but that is smuggling in value statements as if they were objective fact about what comprises what. Not getting where you are coming from h...
I think my point was that other animals don't even have that in their way of life. They are much more present, immediate, and specific in their intent...
Glad it's not science we are discussing. In Fight Club we don't talk about Fight Club. But I'm not in Fight Club, so I'll talk about it and not limit ...
Interesting. I can think of many others, but existentially speaking, these are good Yep, I called it an error loop. We are thus stuck with giving reas...
I'm sure some evolutionary reasons. Our evolutionary path was that of flexibility over specific modules to handle situations. These in turn, were prob...
This is your whole argument repeated. Philosophy and science are doing two different things. The assumption you’re making is the value statement that ...
Thanks Oldphan! I've seen this around. I'll check it out. You should check out my Profile description. I write a decent amount on antinatalism and pes...
He does have some good points for sure about the human condition and seems to fit nicely with the ideas I was playing around with about the burden of ...
It is frustrating to give an answer and then instead of engaging with it, you simply cry "incredulity". It's not just that it is smug and condescendin...
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