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Ok. I'm still not sure how this is relevant. What does our ability to end existence have to do with whether or not it's morally fine to have children ...
December 10, 2019 at 05:25
The original line was: WATCH ME *presses big red button*. Maybe I should've kept it that way. It is entirely possible though highly unlikely for human...
December 09, 2019 at 23:06
What's a "substance"? And what does "Extended" mean? And again what is "Stuff." I think defining these is just as hard as defining time, which is why ...
December 09, 2019 at 06:33
In other words: "There may be a refutation to your argument but I don't know it." I don't think that really amounts to anything. That an argument migh...
December 09, 2019 at 04:03
What's a "stuff" and what's a "dimension." I think attempting to define things so basic to our experience like "time", "space" and my favorite "shape"...
December 09, 2019 at 03:59
Uhhh yes it can? WATCH ME jumps off building A person (a "one") cannot choose not to have existed. The choice has already been made. Another baseless ...
December 09, 2019 at 03:51
Is a completely different thing from colors themselves. The "concept of colors" can be anything, from 4 numbers representing the degree of red, blue a...
December 08, 2019 at 22:44
I never said this And the government gives you a choice to shoot people or not. You'll just go to jail if you do. With this definition everything is a...
December 08, 2019 at 22:40
Can be considered a version of hedonism Yes, he would botch both What if my personal satisfaction requires shooting people?
December 08, 2019 at 22:35
I know what "the game" stands for. This doesn't answer the question at all, it just says "it's an issue" Uh huh. This doesn't mean the game SHOULD be ...
December 08, 2019 at 22:33
Why would rendering the game unplayable be an issue? We already think it is moral to render the game unplayable in some cirucmstances, such as if a co...
December 08, 2019 at 14:30
This doesn't do so either. It says it's a necessity. That's all it does. That's different from "justifying". Example: "People will have children" does...
December 08, 2019 at 14:25
I don't think many patients would report that they eat food because they dread non existence. When you're near starvation... Which is not the situatio...
December 08, 2019 at 14:21
I can't speak for schopenhauer1 but at least for me the situation is more like: A majority of players agreed on a set of rules that would forbit makin...
December 08, 2019 at 10:26
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December 08, 2019 at 09:50
I thought you were the one that said "We are driven by pleasure and pain". Why would you crave food then if you do not find it enjoyable. Are you sayi...
December 08, 2019 at 09:47
How do you explain the motivation to smoke? It has negative outcomes in the short and long term
December 08, 2019 at 07:51
Why would this be true? God says what "unjust" and "unloving" means not us. So if he decides that you deserve eternal damnation for being evil for 70-...
December 08, 2019 at 06:45
None of those people/insitutions created him then DEMANDED he work for them, and you can leave any of them at will.
December 08, 2019 at 06:39
That is incorrect neurlogically speaking. Most people think that we are "motivated" by pleasure and pain but neurlogically that's just not the case. T...
December 08, 2019 at 06:32
Let's pretend I don't. What would you do. Huh but I thought you claimed that people cannot possibly disagree with a first premise, but here you say if...
December 08, 2019 at 06:17
That is the case with each and every moral system That is the same with your system. I understand that you begin from a premise that's true by definit...
December 08, 2019 at 06:05
I didn't say it was unarbitrary. I agree. Yup yup But this "derivation" will be different from person to person and from circumstance to circumstance....
December 05, 2019 at 09:22
"Act such that you ensure you consume the largest amount of cheese possible" is another system that does that. I don't think that would pass as a mora...
December 05, 2019 at 08:13
I'm trying to say that mind isn't a physical object. What you're asking for is akin to asking "Is heat located in a hot iron". I just think it's a cat...
December 05, 2019 at 08:05
Is it just me or does this sound very similar to Sartre's "essence". I find that nihilism, existentialism and everyone from that neighbourhood (jungia...
December 05, 2019 at 06:24
I don't think you "locate" mind. Can you point to it? Extract it? Throw it around? No, then you can't "locate" it can you.
December 05, 2019 at 06:09
Ok so does the use of should in these two sentences sound EXACTLY the same to you? 1- You should not steal 2- In order to cook a steak you should turn...
December 05, 2019 at 04:26
The conclusions don't change but I never agreed with the conclusion in the first place Your argument as I understand it is: 1- People seek change unti...
December 04, 2019 at 22:20
it goes from true to false to true to false to.....
December 04, 2019 at 06:09
Ok I'll go with that. One can argue that the desire to eat is also (while not logical) a necessity. I also showed how "going to stability" isn't a log...
December 04, 2019 at 06:08
I think we should focus on this: If this follows then "If I don't eat I would be doing something immoral" would also have to follow (since you say tha...
December 04, 2019 at 04:42
maybe but I don't think so It is. There is nothing "moral" about eating. Tell me what formal logical law is employed in going from "I have the goal to...
December 04, 2019 at 04:38
I usually like to think of myself as a member of a "counsil" that decides what my body and brain does. I have an "office" which is my mind where I can...
December 04, 2019 at 04:25
Put those together and you get: If it's false it's true which makes it false which makes it true which makes it false........ I think that's what he m...
December 04, 2019 at 04:22
Ok so we're judging stability by "does it try to change" rather than the physical definition. Then it's a non sequitor. Look at it this way: Everyone ...
December 04, 2019 at 04:18
Is literally an oxymoron. Why do you think heat death is more stable than right now? Because that's what this implies I've heard similar arguments bef...
December 04, 2019 at 03:33
Agreed. But that implies that it is not logically necessary to seek stability. That's what we see because we have flowers in our eyes. Ever heard of e...
December 04, 2019 at 02:40
Key words: You think. Not everyone actually does. I don't think you can do that forever. I think there will be premises you can't take back further. E...
December 04, 2019 at 01:29
Not true. Everything is trying to change it's current state =/= everything is trying to achieve stability. Everything could just be wandering from ins...
December 03, 2019 at 22:25
What's logically necessary about it? I wouldn't call it "logically necessary". In the same way that food isn't "logically necessary" neither is seekin...
December 03, 2019 at 10:49
This is the problem. That you desire to reduce your desires will guarantee you fail. Try it. You just end up desiring to keep up the self opression an...
December 03, 2019 at 07:00
It would help if you explained what accountant and account mean instead of (see getteir) or (see smith's belief)
December 03, 2019 at 06:20
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December 03, 2019 at 01:22
"I am driven by my desire to own a prosche" and "I want a Porsche" are synonyms. If you do something because you want a Porsche you are doing what you...
December 03, 2019 at 01:19
"Driven by our desires" and that would be the same in case everyone did what they wanted and eventually "Driven by our fears" would also be the case a...
December 02, 2019 at 22:23
Honestly, I don't think it would be so different. Soon enough people will realize that the most realistic way to do what they want includes doing some...
December 02, 2019 at 12:59
What objection? What argument? Quotes please? Odd because me and TheMadFool agreed to make that distinction yet I fail to see how it impacts antinatal...
December 02, 2019 at 12:41
I think of this one when I'm not in the best moods Life: A sexually transmitted disease
December 02, 2019 at 03:54
I'm highly skeptical of the use of "everyone" there. First off how do you know it's everyone? Have you talked to every person who ever lived is alive ...
December 02, 2019 at 03:50