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Alright let me make one more correction then: You're giving unconscious biological matter subjective experience. sperm/egg -> human
July 25, 2019 at 14:02
In yours too. You have said that genetically modifying babies to make them suffer is a problem
July 25, 2019 at 14:01
Trust me, I'd take those same words and say them back to you exactly
July 25, 2019 at 14:01
Ignore physical body then, subjective experience. You're giving inanimate matter subjective experience eventually. Sperm/egg -> Human
July 25, 2019 at 13:59
Also really late right now so won't be here much
July 25, 2019 at 13:59
I would say that giving an entity an entire PHYSICAL BODY and SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE out of knowhere without being asked is a pretty unusual modificati...
July 25, 2019 at 13:57
I think you truly have a misconception about what suicidal people go through. Suicide is nothing like "Damn life sucks lemme just go jump off a bridge...
July 25, 2019 at 13:49
I think it's fun
July 24, 2019 at 13:58
Let me ask you something. Is it moral to genetically modify a baby to ensure it suffers as much as possible. Say, by giving it 8 limbs all of which ar...
July 24, 2019 at 13:51
Alright. I am saying that subjectively childbirth should be wrong for you because it checks all your criteria for a subjectively wrong action and the ...
July 24, 2019 at 13:47
Ok. Then nothing is wrong because I'm the only mind and you can't prove otherwise. What was all that talk about things being wrong when you're going t...
July 24, 2019 at 13:44
The fact that they have a working brain. Also it's scientific fact. How much pain is debatable though. It seems quite unreasonable to me to argue babi...
July 24, 2019 at 13:38
I have no idea what you mean by that. The child exists during childbirth. The child experiences pain during childbirth. Why is this different from any...
July 24, 2019 at 13:34
You took the time to write all of this when you didn't have to lol
July 24, 2019 at 13:32
How about this one: Childbirth causes severe pain for both the child and the woman. I think we can both agree that the pain of childbirth is causally ...
July 24, 2019 at 13:07
Alright. So if I hire you to work as a sewage cleaner and make it so that in order to leave you have to cut your own wrists after going through extrem...
July 24, 2019 at 13:06
I am aware of this but you asked me PERSONALLY to peg every form of suffering on being born as if that is an argument for why it is unpeggable so I'm ...
July 24, 2019 at 11:58
Exactly. It just seems like a truism to me that all suffering is partially caused by existing in the first place.
July 24, 2019 at 11:55
The point of antinatalism isn't that any act that causes suffering is bad. It is that risking suffering on someone else without their consent is alway...
July 24, 2019 at 11:49
Do you mean force as in actual physical force? Are we talking pure physics here? Electromagnetic, Gravitaitonal, strong and weak nuclear? Then is lyin...
July 24, 2019 at 11:45
Also I have to go now. We can continue this later.
July 23, 2019 at 13:51
What exatly counts as a cause for you then. Because I count birth as a cause of suffering and you don't. That's the only real disagreement. Define wha...
July 23, 2019 at 13:50
Wait wot. What's an example? Wha'ts a cause then?
July 23, 2019 at 13:44
If X is a necessary condition for Y to occur and Y occurs was X the cause of Y?
July 23, 2019 at 13:41
So the bomber is innocent until you personally get a chemsitry degree?
July 23, 2019 at 13:35
No we KNOW he planted the bomb. But you do not know exacly how it works and that makes him innocent? Also I would say we CAN explain the causal chain ...
July 23, 2019 at 13:31
I cannot. Now explain to me chemically how bombs work. Because unless you do that the bomb planter is innocent apparently. Can you do that? If not jus...
July 23, 2019 at 13:27
Just because the causal chain is complicated doesn't change the fact that it ultimately started with birth. Birth caused subjective experiences to be ...
July 23, 2019 at 13:24
I did. Whatever caused the depressive thoughts was ultimately caused by being born. Oh X is not a real life event in that example, it's a neurological...
July 23, 2019 at 13:17
Yes. That causally peggable specific action is giving birth to them. The depressive thought happened because of X, X happened because of Y. Y ultimate...
July 23, 2019 at 13:14
Ok. When you have a child and he experiences pain. How is that different from the bomb situation. Let's compare analogies here. I'm comparing having a...
July 23, 2019 at 13:05
dude you literally ignored the rest of my comment and focused on the first paragraph. Forget the that and actually address my points please. We can ge...
July 22, 2019 at 22:19
No nonono. I was talking about the exruciating pain of humainty as it flies towards extinction be it due to heat death or more likely internal strife....
July 22, 2019 at 15:20
tbh idk what I was thinking when I wrote that. Is taking away a capacity for x painlessly bad? So is paralyzing someone painlessly without their conse...
July 22, 2019 at 14:59
They force them to have the capacity for suffering which I think is just as big a crime as causing the suffering yourself. I don't know why you can't ...
July 22, 2019 at 14:53
That it's immoral. Because in this case you're not just delaying it you're relaying the pain to someone else. Delaying is different. If there was an o...
July 22, 2019 at 14:50
Also just out of curiosity. Can you think of any example where an action that produces COMPARABLE amounts of pain and suffering is FORCED onto someone...
July 22, 2019 at 14:45
Also whether or not people benefit from others is not that important when determining whether to have more people. Just because I'd benefit or society...
July 22, 2019 at 14:32
Yes because having children is only delaying the inevitable. There will be a "final generation" of humans who will have to suffer from not having enou...
July 22, 2019 at 14:29
I agree with all of that but now it is a case of the lesser evil. The traffic control designers manufacturers, etc are aware that someone could get ru...
July 22, 2019 at 14:26
No. Because the light desingers and manufacturers did not intentionally cause this harm. While giving birth to someone is very intentional and done wi...
July 22, 2019 at 14:20
Ok so if a child is run over by a car and loses all functionality in his leg. There are two causes for his loss of functionality. First of all, the ca...
July 22, 2019 at 14:14
So if the bomb goes off non consentually who is at fault? The person that planted it right?
July 22, 2019 at 14:10
Just to be clear here. Are you saying it IS or IS NOT moral to plant bombs in fetuses? You haven't actually given a straight answer
July 22, 2019 at 14:08
Wait I just misread don't mind me
July 22, 2019 at 14:07
When a person walks into a situation that brings them ANY harm they are capable of granting or witholding consent. Therefore birth is immoral because ...
July 22, 2019 at 14:06
What if it was. What if someone set a bomb to exlode BEFORE a certain baby was born and set it to explode AFTER he was born. That's right of course by...
July 22, 2019 at 14:00
This implies a lot. Does it mean all matter is conscious (a notion I actually like personally)? Also what would explain the regularity we see in matte...
July 22, 2019 at 04:03
Alright. Explain this one then. Why did you say planting a bomb to explode later in a public park is wrong? It meets (a), because there is an intentio...
July 22, 2019 at 03:34
It's 10:34 PM here I gotta sleep. See you some other time hopefully
July 21, 2019 at 13:35