But this is not true. The Astra Zenica vaccine had extremely minor risks of blood clots and it was pulled instantly in most nations in order to evalua...
Nothing of this is based on beliefs. It's like if you are in a position where you don't know if the pain in your back is serious or just some aching m...
Common sense without rational thought is irrelevant and does not function well with reality. It's also the common thing people fall back on if they la...
It's the same as driving recklessly, with a blindfold, or intoxicated. How can you not understand this? Or maybe you just don't want to. The rules are...
The choice to "drive a car" is not the same as crashing into someone. Driving a car means you know the risks and follow the rules. To refuse a vaccine...
Probably places like here and the halls of universities. But that doesn't help if there are thousands of people that just want to say their opinions a...
I just did, in that very text. Choosing to drive is not a reckless act, but choosing to refuse a vaccine and then socialize normally during a pandemic...
No, you don't take reckless action. All actions in the world have risks, but taking an active reckless action is not the same as taking an action that...
No, you are not taking them to a logical conclusion. Not getting the vaccine and risking other people is an active choice against the scientific logic...
Yes, everything is solved by going back to the stone age. Include removing horses and all forms of transportation. This kind of argument in relation t...
It's an open forum where everyone can join. There are far more posts made by people who don't know how to form arguments by philosophical standards. T...
For the survival of humanity and for people to be able to expand and move around, they are a necessity. If people stopped driving we would have a hard...
How does that relate to this? You drive a car as a form of transportation, you have children for the continuation of our species. None of these are th...
Haven't we seen them passionately debate that side in this very thread when things were still moving? Just noticing that there are very few of them le...
A better question would be: Do we need faith, gospels, fantasy, belief in God/Gods, prayers, rituals etc. in order to have guidelines to live by? Why ...
If they don't question the authority of the company when asked to do something immoral, they become part of the entity that makes the immoral act. If ...
If the company demands of their employees to do actions that are considered immoral by society, the company is probably breaking laws of that nation s...
Except the minor detail that Covid-19 has put a strain on the hospitals to be able to care for enough patients. You are comparing the treatment of peo...
How so? Stealing in a world where everyone steals and the foundation is built upon it and being good at protecting against it; could be the societal s...
But there you point out the action is immoral before the examination of whether or not it is. If it is universalized in a society where stealing is th...
But an absolute moral theory is impossible with extreme variables. It's a desperate attempt at trivializing psychology, behavior, culture. The only tr...
I care for the future and I think idiots and morons preventing progressive ideas that will be norms and standards of the future is a futile mockery of...
If someone lives by themselves, isolated with limited to no interaction with other people, they can refuse and have freedom of choice to get or not to...
Not sure your analogy changes anything or clarifies anything. The general point he makes is that in a society where everyone follows Kantian ethics, w...
People should try playing these types of games. Many people go around thinking they are morally perfect, but when playing a game where winning means u...
Why am I not surprised? Feels like deja vu all over again. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un/un-rights-chief-bachelet-says-isr...
Apologists of Israeli actions during this current conflict and the decade-old occupation rarely pass the veil of ignorance when forming arguments. The...
My feeling is that the tolerance towards posts and threads that aren't even close to having philosophical quality has increased. Which means the kind ...
I'm surprised at the level of black and white fallacies being posted here. This is a philosophy forum and the biases and fallacies going on in this th...
Didn't Israel use white phosphorus attacks on civillians a few years back? Not only is killing civilians by targeting civilian targets a war crime, bu...
The irony of this is that we have neuron connectors outside of the brain down at the gut level, which means a mind that's dislocated from the gut of t...
I would love for a just and good god to exist, I don't actively want there to be no god, I just interpret reality as good as it can be interpreted. Bu...
The problem is that the many worlds scenario, in scientific rationality, would mean that any event in the entire bubble of reality that we are in, in ...
Philosophy is the foundational questioning that ideas are built upon. Much of moral philosophy and modern politics are based upon philosophical ideas,...
Without context, yes, but a non-repetitive robot, in this case, is about non-repetition in adaptive behavior, meaning, it doesn't randomly repeat diff...
This is why Ex Machina is a good philosophical case study. The whole premise is that a chatbot can accurately be made to fool the Turing test, but the...
But we can make conclusions in third person, through studying the choices of the subject. Ava can't make choices that adapt over time without having a...
Can a P-zombie make choices? If it is acting the same as a normal human, it needs to make choices, as humans make choices all the time even based on r...
1. Reality bound by physics and its rules - With me experiencing it through my limited senses and brain processing it. Everything else is outside of o...
I'm being more general in the matter. Historically, the west have gotten more free of government oppression by religion, but only due to capitalist in...
There are no difference between them other than what people attribute to them by being outside viewers. Not able to separate different types of observ...
But we can't create an empathic morality theory based on the status quo of one country. You also have to keep in mind that laws change all the time, n...
What if there were laws that needed to be broken to expose a broken system? How does one live in a society that, for example, have totalitarian laws a...
You advocate for morality out of empathy. This requires however that the laws and justice is created out of empathic ideals as well, otherwise, empath...
Problem is that it's inaccessible to non-members. But I see your point. The abstract points to an attempt at solving the bridging problem. But I was m...
Maybe I fail to see how they are not connected? Randomness in causality physics only exists when we have a lack of ability to measure all possible par...
In context, I mean that quantum randomness doesn't affect classical physics since classical physics deals with large determined sizes. Quantum randomn...
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