Emptyheady

Swinburne and Thomas Aquinas. The rest is no contest really, as I do not consider Spinoza religious.

If animals do have rights, when can we start locking up animals in prison for killing other animals or making other animals suffer? Zoo? Oh the irony ...

The essence of art that it is utterly useless, meaningless and serves no other purpose beyond aesthetics.

Okay, this is the last time I respond to you if you do not engage properly in a discussion, which includes reading my entire post and at least attempt...

Antithetical to human flourishing. It is human languish. I separate terminal depression with temporal depression, with the criteria regarding its caus...

Discussing philosophy How do you still have friends mate?

While we are doing test anyway. How many five-year-olds children can you take on? http://www.nerdtests.com/mq/uttake.php?id=109440 My results were 28 ...

Yeah, but like I said, he started the ball rolling for me.

You might as well not vote at all.

This is a good question. I am not sure how I exactly ended up here. I think the same way I became an atheist (from Christian theism); a Christian conv...

I agree with the remarks here regarding that first test -- the questions are indeed loaded and a bit off. So I did another one :D http://i.imgur.com/a...

Exercise. Go fight some gravity and increase your heart rate.

-- Pinker (2006) Well, I am one of the few, but I have got to say that I have become more sympathetic towards religion (especially Christianity). http...

A dot in purple.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/

I believe that humans are social beings with (often conflicting) interests and that we can all be better off if we 'get along' so-to-say. I believe th...

I subscribe to Virtue Ethics with a personal tweak inspired by Zimbardo. As a conservative, I do not believe in a universal principle or maxim that we...

Let me elaborate a bit why I have some issues with utilitarianism or most forms of consequentialism. Ask you yourself the following moral question: "w...

I do not see how this is relevant. But anyway, most people are mostly pro-life, going by what you cited. "suffering" is extremely ambiguous, and I hav...

This criticism is fair, but ultimately quite weak -- or better stated, all alternatives are more counter-intuitive, vague, ambiguous ("rubbery term")....

http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/40176

¯\_(?)_/¯ Al right, let's take a step back for a moment. It seems that I have hit a nerve with some animal lovers and that has led to some irrational,...

I already addressed this. I hope you respond to that.

Okay this is the last time you play this trick before I call it quits. Yes, it is circular reasoning the way you phrased/reasoned it initially. Now yo...

And they have that right because they can be abused, and they can be abused because they have that right, otherwise it would not be abuse, so they mus...

Yes. e.g. God or gods (or angels). I am not religious but let's say I am wrong and theism is right, it gives you an idea.

A species is a race on a larger scale though. Lol. Species have a very specific biological and taxonomical definition, which is rooted in reproduction...

Come now... such a rash and lazy reasoning. The fact that you can abuse animals does not entail that animals have rights. You can also abuse buildings...

Capable of being moral agents. I have moral agency. Ok Moral agency is not limited within a race nor gender. We might have to discuss some metaethics ...

Easy. Animals have no rights and can therefore be used as property/utility by moral agents (i.e. humans).

Hanover can answer this one, he is a lazy green lizard.

My video gaming habit abruptly stopped when I entered college at the age of 17. I didn't have much of a choice, it just naturally happened as my workl...

Feminism is a moral and political movement. Analogous to socialists seeking to abolish private property/ownership, feminists seek to abolish the patri...

If more than one wife is optimal to human flourishing, then so be it.

Al right, I am sick of this secular nihilism. Here is some purpose to life for everybody to follow, an objective biological telos regarding human flou...

With exception to Question and Darthbarracuda, all your music tastes stink.

Quite ironic.

The interesting question is: "why do we need the reassurance of our place in the world?" We may have to enter the field of psychology here. I haven't ...

So I have read all the comments so far, but my question is not really answered. Is this source of meaning objective (i.e. mind independent)? I think n...

I am starting the wonder what the value is of formal education.

I sometimes play Minecraft to help me concentrating to listen to hours-long lectures, audio books or podcasts. I got this idea from a dialogue between...

http://i.imgur.com/JcGckOv.jpg

Claiming God's existence and solipsism is such a strange combination. Casting that aside, any discussion regarding God's existence without coherently ...

Click on the links, there are more and larger points. Women 'more at peace with themselves'. lol. The rest of your post is mostly accurate, I think. I...

Here we go again. Progressives and their old friend eugenics. Why don't you lay out a plan for eugenics. Its issues should be quite easily apparent.

The latter one, without nit-picking your phrasing. I want to put some emphasis on what I said here: I quoted your question: "So when doctors perform s...

Nice comment Hanover, I just fully read it. (I do this by memory for the moment) Yes chicks with dicks is a fetish. Most fetishes are often directed t...

This is an otiose point, but I do feel the need to respond to it. *sighs* No, this is the last time I say it: do not straw man. Your reading, reasonin...

http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/36301

I literally said regarding important decisions and exampled clothing as a not important decision... Can you read? By treating a particular mental diso...