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Glad to know Marxism has overcome the tendency towards Stalinist and Maoist style "reeducation" and mass murder policies... It is intractable. The Mar...

But not moral.

Yep.

Read the Schopenhauer quote again by what I mean by existential boredom.

Your answer here contradicts your main point. The “need to create” is also just repackaged wording of the same thing. If you have a need that is behin...

I never said that my ethics is preference fulfillment. I did have a previous thread that discussed the idea that if this was agreed as moral then this...

Yet antinatalists LITERALLY don't do anything to ANYONE. Pushing a view versus pushing a whole life onto someone else. Let's see which one profoundly ...

Well, I'd say the suffering has to be qualified.. As you said: Can it be consented? (No) Is it trivial suffering (No) Can it be escaped (no) Then it i...

Life is wrong to start irrespective of circumstances. Procreation itself violates the dignity of the person born into a game of comply (must learn to ...

Morality out of bad faith. The animal can’t help but do. Humans have the burden of choice, reflection, analysis.

I was simply stating philosophy often questions what is often taken for granted as just true because it is long held belief. Argument from tradition o...

Yeah I don’t need to go into every argument I’ve ever made.

Philosophy isn't for an answer but to critically analyze assumptions and givens. Critically analyzing givens often take the form of "What is commonly ...

I don't think that is suffering as much as traditional cultures. Value is gotten from playing the role of parent. Women think they are being a true wo...

I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm saying that simply correlating X neural activity with Y subjective experience isn't the hard problem anymore. That is p...

These are easy questions of consciousness. Not the hard question. So you are not asking the right question(s). You can point all day to brain sizes, n...

Don't know what you are getting at. Just being born doesn't conform you needing to do anything. It is your choice to do whatever you do and to have a ...

I am advocating that.

I don't mean justification on a grand scale but on any task we do that we otherwise might not do if we didn't have to survive. Animals don't need this...

Why does an organism with a brain have consciousness and not a single cell or a plant or a blade of grass. The kind of substance and the form of mater...

Yep..talk talk talk.. justify justify justify.. This almost doesn't even matter to me. The boring making of widgets and repeat matters. That's the rea...

I've explained in my other threads.. We are the only species that can do this: "I have to keep justifying to myself why I have to keep doing a task I ...

Consciousness came about through evolution. That doesn't explain why consciousness is the same thing as neural/biological activities.

I can only see where you are coming from if the subjectivity is inherent to all information and not just neural activity. If it is only confined to ne...

Indeed, I think I'm right.. Our own needs/wants and thus the economic way-of-life of supply and demand are First Principles above and beyond anything ...

That's good.. you don't want it to be this kind of Donner kebab :eyes:. Yep. Try to reduce suffering. Vegetarianism is hard. Our ancestors learned the...

This isn't answering the question: More precise how it can BE a feeling. Equivalent not just causation. How are sensations the same as their substrate...

Something like this could be construed as a sort of homuncular fallacy. There is a sort of "magic" point (usually involving some kind of "integration"...

The thing that I find basically materialism is always in danger of doing is committing the homunculus fallacy.

And what if he was wrong about that? Do you mean "species-essence" idea?

But I am talking about economics as a lived thing.. more of the Phenomenology of Work.

Well-stated. But even more, the inefficiency in survival this created.. We all know evolution is a clunky blind designer. Imagine if we did what we co...

Then you are focusing on the wrong thing then, and indeed are drifting to pedantic land and thus missing the bigger theme. Not quite. You are focusing...

Indeed, this is good Economics 101, but not quite how I am using "economics".. I mean more "economic activities" hence why I put in parenthesis (produ...

You can read the whole article, but our ability for self-reflection is basically how I'd sum it up. As it applies to the subject of production, it is ...

Do you really think he meant literally that the whole of human self-reflection is one mutation, or is being metaphorical to what the outcome is like? ...

Yes, I believe both Zapffe and Sartre had similar takes to this phenomenon of "the masses". Zapffe: In "The Last Messiah", Zapffe described four princ...

Dress it up with breading and buffalo sauce and you might change your mind :wink:.

Empathy works by putting yourself in the others place. Since it’s near impossible to put oneself as how a chicken might feel, we can only use vague im...

Then "truths" don't have to conform to what I was saying with "preference-satisfaction". I did not say heaven was "truth" but simply a sort of world w...

But then here we have your preference for what is good winning out perhaps...thus starting the cycle. So I think we have to parse out the structure of...

Think I got it. Cool. And it doesn't even need to go that far.. hence in the OP:

Just curious, is that how you are interpreting Cabrera though? I am not saying it's wrong, just wondering if that is your interpretation.

So what do you make of Cabrera's view that I just quoted twice?

I added to the previous post with a quote that might help you see where I'm coming from. "SOME" here means that even in a Hegelian model, SOME people'...

We still run into the same problems though. It's just a "dynamic" SOME rather than a static. I quoted Cabrera to another poster, but his critique perh...

Here's one from Julio Cabrera, Brazilian philosopher:

False.. The stipulation was that (from OP and even last post): Everything else you wrote basically is refuted by understanding what I just bolded (WIT...

That's not quite what I'm talking about. Rather, let's say you like playing a game. We will call it the "game of life". Let's say I don't like the pre...

No to get at the immorality you have to phrase it this: In order for me to be happy you have to be unrestricted. The things that make me happy, means ...