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"Is a member of the Homo genus". Or: "Is not a cow/pig/chicken". Or: "Is a member of the great apes". So if a Neanderthal appeared tomorrow you think ...

human =/= homosapien. Point is: There is countless ways to specify certain traits that don't lead to absurdities.

"Human" doesn't necessarily mean homosapien. We had other cousins like neanderthals, who we would also call "human". It's a certain level of intellige...

Why can’t the trait that humans have and animals don’t that makes killing animals for food morally justifiable simply be “Is not human”? Or simply “Is...

I think most if not all of the ideological fools are ideological fools because they're actually egomaniacs. But in their case it's more a "Loyal and n...

Well I’d answer no. And I’m sure everyone else would as well. Because our happiness isn’t caused by suffering Yemeni children. But I’m curious. How ca...

This sounds something like “Why is pi equal to 3.14”? It just is. I don’t see how it’s amenable to explanation. I’m in the camp that quantum randomnes...

I don’t think it makes it all the way to moral nihilism. Sounds more like humanism. The source of morality is humans and their preferences, not some “...

So what is it? I don’t think anything’s wrong with a happy slave in the first place. Neither does @"Down The Rabbit Hole" either from the sound of it....

So let me get this straight: An evil, despicable, villain is kidnapping people and giving them lives that all of them like? I thought you said somethi...

Isn’t this literally what I asked you? I’m interested in how this pans out. What are your answers to all of this? You can’t be asking for a definition...

If you are intent on ignoring the latter half of every comment I write there is no point. I hope you figure it out.

Yup: And I get people like you too. People with too much time on their hands who want to have the identity of the "unbiased stoic truth seeker". He wh...

Ah yes. The infamous "You disagree with me therefore you are deluded" defense. One that is known for promoting truth seeking and unbiased investigatio...

And when I do that I’m Isaac. Those were my questions to you. But it made me a debate class bot. I couldn’t care less about how you behave on the foru...

The guy was saying "let's agree to disagree". Then you proceeded to try to push him back into an argument. When I did that you called me a debate club...

If you think the amount of suffering is the only thing that matters when it comes to evaluating ethics, and you also think that life is mostly the for...

Agreed. Ok. So what matters is that they think they are non-trivially harmed. And if you knew that, that makes it wrong to impose. Agreed. What do you...

110% agreed in all situations ever. Now. By what standard shall we determine what a non-trivial unnecessary imposition is? Then no. This would make li...

And you know my response to that. There are countless situations in real life where amelioration doesn't come into play either. Surprise parties and a...

Yes. What "former"? You mean this argument? It doesn't work for the same reason that "non trivial harm exists in sending people to school" =/= "sendin...

What is "it" that is valid?

We can agree that imposing subjective, non trivial harm on people is wrong. It does not follow from this that having children is wrong. It will only b...

I will pretend to think that summative reports and experiences don't count. That's exactly why I asked you to find a criteria that doesn't rely on the...

Which reminds me, did you come up with some criteria to distinguish the two? So far you've just given examples. If someone were to say that life is a ...

I think you forgot the most important characteristic. It appears to the afflicted that they're perfectly healthy. Which is why the way to deal with st...

So what is a rock, in your view? Does it exist independently from my thoughts about rocks? And how does it do so? I think there is merit in investigat...

To be honest I don’t see much wrong with that idea. Most Eastern countries are just Western countries with Eastern accessories now. I live in Japan fo...

I don’t think the rock in Newton’s experiment got embarrassed so started falling faster. The only area where I can get what you’re saying is quantum p...

Just like last time, you assume dualism in your questions. What makes you think that there exists a subjective experience, a “mental stuff” of being a...

I say you do. It’s just really difficult. So just go to a society that will educate you in the model you want. Easy peasy. I can’t tell if you mean th...

Yes. This configuration can be brought about by cocaine for example.

So what do do? How do we pick which model to use? I heard the folk in the East have a nice model which supposedly eliminates all suffering and places ...

Do you think that a model that works for everyone is possible? Is it like the elephant story situation, where everyone touches a part of the elephant ...

Doesn't seem very clear to me. It seems there are concepts that you just understand without explanation. Such as "shape". Haven't run into someone who...

But our minds aren't so malleable that you can just believe anything are they? You can't be a masochist by choice for instance.

Is it like that because you think it's like that? Or is it actually like that?

Yes. Nor are they even consistent. According to the 5 factor model, there isn't much you can do to be more productive. According to others, there's pl...

I doubt the majority believes your mind is your body although it's commonly depicted that way. What the majority on this site seem to me to believe is...

If they played a role, we’d accurately model them. Example: Electromagnetic waves. That doesn’t mean we “detect” them, rather, we see their effects an...

So you want a percentage chance? Assume we can somehow do that. At what percentage change of having a good life does having kids become ok? 51%? 75%? ...

Ok. So enslavement is a case of a non trivial imposition. Why? What features of enslavement make it non trivial? What features in general make an impo...

For Christ sake, yes. Stop wasting space spamming the same stuff.

Even though I clearly already did.... For the 3rd time. Yes. Will you or will you not answer the question?

So, I assume you won't answer? I would think that how you determine "non trivial" is very crucial considering literally everyone on planet earth would...

Look, if you don't want to answer just say so. This whole debate class bot bs is tiring. Which was done here: I literally explained that this was a ta...

Well aside from the fact that I don't think it leads to AN, yes I agree with your general premise No I'm picking up something I asked on the other thr...

Which I agreed with forever ago. But that's not what I asked you in any way shape or form. I asked: You said: So then I asked: And you said you'll ans...

How so?

I already answered yes though.