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When people say "Life is a gift" they usually just mean it's pretty good. Not that there is a ghost baby who was gifted by being allowed to live or an...

Is it rightfully Israeli land from an "objective observer" standpoint? If so please explain why. And more importantly what land you think belongs to w...

"Their grandparents massacred us so it's ok for us to massacre them now" Imagine if Israel started making concentration camps for Germans. I wouldn't ...

I think an important question is what the poll would look like had it been phrased “Has this site gotten better?” Confirmation bias and all that.

It's disastrous that you even think it's an argument... "They had too many kids, kill em and their kids". Amazing honestly. And no one disagreed. That...

Neither. Child abuse is rife among poor people, Arab or not. It's not very common in the Emirates for example. Also, is your argument literally "Arabs...

I don't see how any of that responds to what I said. You don't know me either, but I won't randomly start throwing my life events at you as an "argume...

He's going to claim people don't own land now, until someone starts trespassing in his house. He has a habit of using certain concepts (rights, moral ...

Not anymore. No. Having kids you can't provide for is wrong by most traditional moral systems no? Ah ok, so that one was a misphrasing. The other two?...

Huh. Hmm. Are you seriously not noticing any of this? That’s.... impressive. Especially the last one, the two sentences are a paragraph apart!

How did you know it was wrong? That's exactly what I'm asking. What makes you think this is one of those things that are wrong but we simply don't rea...

That is to say there is no objective reasons someone should phrase it as you do. Now I’m confused. Sometimes you say Which sounds subjectivist to me. ...

Not really. Do you think there is an "objective way to phrase it"? And if there is how do you know it is yours?

Rather, it's because ANs think the people don't see the perspective. You have this constant idea that "if only people knew how bad it could get" that ...

False. An argument from authority would be “AN is wrong because most people don’t agree with it” I was only pointing out that you offered no new persp...

No I didn’t? Wtf? “Terrorized in self defense” as in the Israelis are terrorizing them and claiming it’s self defense. Cognitive bias at its finest. H...

I never made an argument from majority. The words "Majority" or "Most" don't appear in my comment at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the way you ph...

All those deaths are “happy little accidents” I guess right? 4000-5000+ deaths due to “collateral damage” in “self defense” against the murderous terr...

It's the same old argument of “It can go wrong so it’s wrong to do”. Surprise parties can also be thought of as messing with people using desire serum...

Insults? No just statements of fact. You think what’s happening there is justified. And I think the main problem is: you couldn’t provide a response. ...

Because they’re currently shooting a place with missiles. Also because that’s what the thread is about. Wouldn’t think that one needs an explanation.....

I can’t understand how you find “Look at all these other countries committing atrocities” an argument for committing atrocities. I thought you’d get t...

That still happens sometimes though rarely. They don’t hate foreigners, but they really expect you to speak Japanese. Because the country is so bureau...

As a foreigner in Japan: I don't think they're comparable anymore. Most you'll get in Japan is a glare by a 90 year old who can barely stand who's gon...

Hitler: What about the soviets? You think they run a fair and equal country? Stalin: What about the nazis? You think they run a fair and equal country...

Evolution doesn't "end". And anything with a brain will be able to cook and eat said algae. Aim? Whose aim? Even if we say "evolution has an aim" what...

When everyone thinks something is true but it is not made true by anything other than that. For example: "Money is valuable". Is it objectively true? ...

That's how you know they don't have critiques. I agree. I would say that whichever answer you choose, aesthetic and personal reasons play a big part. ...

If it's supernatural, and it is a force acting on the world, it just means we don't understand it. We'll call it natural soon enough. That is, if it e...

First off, I didn't suggest that the guiding force has to be supernatural, do you think it is? If it can cause an effect of some sort, then we can tes...

"We don't know" is compatible with both. It could be the case that we don't know and there IS or there ISN'T a guiding force.

Either there is a guiding force to evolution, or there isn't. Those are logically the only 2 options. A or !A. In the Old World, there was no guiding,...

It makes sense to say something arises by chance in absence of anything that could be guiding it. It would be article of faith to say it was guided by...

I don't think anyone wanted general relativity to be this complicated or Quantum Mechanics to be this weird. So no, science has very little to do with...

I did provide experiments. And clearly not I back it up by saying: That's what was above the words "as above". To remind you the claim was: Which you ...

That's why the word "basically" is there. It's definitely a statistical majority. Which is as good as you're going to get. Yes we can because if it di...

I need to see it to know what you consider an acceptable answer. Because to me the question sounds like: "Why is 1+1=2" "Well, when you put 1 and 1 th...

what’s your answer?

I mean.... that is pretty much what happened when it comes to whether or not consciousness is necessary. They basically all drew the conclusion that i...

you asked me why there is a problem of interpretation....

Problems of interpretation come from trying to explain why the electron sometimes appears as a particle and sometimes a wave.

Whether or not it is does doesn’t make the evolutionary explanation wrong. It can be the case that evolutionary explanations are adaptive AND correct....

Point is, these probability distributions are “ontological” for QM. It’s not that there “really is an electron somewhere” we just don’t know where, th...

No I’m not. That’s the anti realist view. I’m critiquing it not agreeing with it. Read the quote in context. Yes I can. What’s the problem with this? ...

I appreciate the long explanation but there is nothing there I didn’t already know. Maybe it’s you who doesn’t understand my point? Ok. Agreed so far....

How would an anti realist explain why the particle acts differently when collapsed vs uncollapsed? In the double slit experiment for example. If all i...

That’s one interpretation. I’m not sure what it’s called but I also don’t think it makes sense. If this was the case, then you’d just expect the doubl...

“Really exist in some physical definite state” = collapse. Correct. And MWI is the idea that this is what happens, for each possible universe. Again, ...

Sort of. But we weren’t talking about MWI. We were talking about collapse and what causes it. There is an inconsistency between “multiple world lines”...

We can both say this. It needs to be shown. I don’t. That’s the point. How is this unknown? Seems pretty known to me. I know what all of those things ...