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Because of the first half of the sentence. I pulled a MadFool on ya :joke: Seriously though it's because if you believe in the antinatalist position w...

Is that really unexpected or unreasonable? Not always. Some believe that the abrahamic God does not exist because the concept is self contradictory ac...

A definition can not be nonsense. I can define whatever word however I want. But if the water was poisoned, and the person that led the jackass to wat...

It doesn't, and I never said that it did. But that is irrelevant. We require consent for risky actions when we do them unto others. For example: Going...

What makes you think that? I am an example (and a thankfully common one) of someone taking a gamble with someone else's life by brining them into exis...

Yes they do by my definition. If there was no forest there would be no forest fire. Causes = Is a necessary condition for. Is the definition I'm going...

Because it was the initial cause of every single harm possible.

Pointless, Meaningless, maybe. False? No. If it was "surely" we wouldn't be arguing. Now if you are saying that it's better to make the world a better...

I don't think so. Once humans are born we have an innate drive to keep living. Going against that drive is painful. However before we are born there i...

It doesn't negate it so much as make it a risky action. Have kids: Risk of harm and risk of pleasure (risky), Don't have kids: No risk of either (safe...

I don't see a reason why it would be no. No then it would definitely be worth starting. But the point is, if you agree with the antinatalist position ...

Let me ask you this then: Is it okay to risk putting someone in pain because there is a chance they may get pleasure out of your decision without aski...

That is literally all I was saying.

For me "You" is just a pointer to a specific mind

I don't think this everyone being forced to stay home will do so much as alter the philosophical underpinnings of wester culture (whatever those are)....

Then again, I don't think the primary purpose of those fields (except psychology) is to alleviate suffering. I think they are steps in the attempt to ...

No offence but why can't you just say something directly? If I didn't get what you're saying the first time saying "go back and read" will likely not ...

Saying “do both” in this case does not make me a two timing jerk unless you consider Eastern and Western views people. I’m a practical guy so that’s m...

I would tell the guy that posed the choice wtf he means because it’s not like Chinese people can’t conceive of scientific theories or British people c...

This assumes that there is some way to have an “impersonal view” which is begging the question. You’re assuming your conclusion. Logic is a vehicle of...

In other words: come to your own conclusions. At least that’s what I meant when I said it. I don’t think what you sent is saying “Transcend intellectu...

Neither side negates the other. It’s not a dichotomy it’s an attitude. In the west people try to fix the problem of life by fixing the outside world w...

Not anymore but they used to as far as I know. Especially if you cure too many sick people. And in Islam the punishment is in fact death. And in both ...

Close enough to the first noble truth (life sucks). The point is though that in Western philosophy there have been much fewer explorations about what ...

I think it’s closest to a psychology book that is so successful that people started chanting it. Most Buddhist scriptures are arguments based in exper...

I don’t think that’s accurate. I think a more accurate translation is “suffering is caused by expectation”. I, for example, expect my internet connect...

And what does this mean exactly? And again, how does one know they’re unbiased (same question as at what point do we know we have reached objectivity)...

Since when is objective = what everyone prefers? Then nothing is objective. There is nothing everyone who is, ever was, and ever will be, will agree o...

What is there to debate when the answer has been found? We don't know. And we can't know with our current level of science. Now "Can we ever detect se...

Well you just answered it. We don't know.

Like what?

I don't understand how the former leads to the latter. If you are choosing between A and B you need some sort of mechanism by which to make the choice...

I'm not mourning the non existence of something that can't exist by definition. It's just that when philosophers use the word there is usaully a conce...

Maybe 30 years ago. With how bad mental health has gotten people don't say that anymore I think, as grim as that is. But if it was one or the other I'...

As far as I understand your opposition then I don't understand how a will can ever be "free". If you can choose between food item A or B, you need som...

This isn't even a philosophy forum thing this is an internet conversation thing. It's fine to critique but most people that I find here and on other f...

When did I do that? I didn't utter the word "objective" once before you did. I honestly don't know where you got "So I take it you don't care about ob...

Not necessarily. I don’t know if it exists or not but even if it did there is no point at which we can be sure we have found it so I don’t care if it ...

To be honest religious dogma would only be like 15% of all the random bs people say here (I say some things that I cringe at a week later too) so I do...

I never understood the ideas of objective anything. Take objective morality. To say there is some form of objective morality would be implying multipl...

These two statements contradict no? Incorrect. You never gave an example where we get the same result from the experiment every time following a measu...

Maybe but it is. What else could it be?

there is a difference between an idea being wrong and an idea being worth considering. The idea that an idea has to be proven wrong to be wrong is cor...

I don't appreciate how you make me out to be some sort of religious fanatic being forcefully ignorant of how QM works. I'm not an expert. Every 2 line...

And this measurement is done by us, the conscious observer. If you do a double split experiment and no body looks at the results, the results remain u...

According to the copenhagen interpretation (as i understand it) You can't know that so don't assume it it's unscientific. Had the wavefunction only be...

Without a measurement the electron is a wavefunction, in other words is not a definite particle. In the double slit experiment an electron acts as a w...

I think the main appeal of the idea is that the only thing you can be absolutely sure exists is a mind. Namely your mind. So it makes sense to take yo...

It would be if there wasn't a "Other" option That sounds like option 3 to me to be honest. A classic dualism with mind being produced by matter.

Well materialists tend to have a hard time explaining how qualia exist but aside from that yes.