That doesn’t address what I said nor justify your position which you’ve been kind enough to repeat once again. Is there something confusing about what...
Its possible none of the people want to kill the fatman and in that case I see no moral violation, except that of the fatman. A moral person would vol...
If you choose to defend the fatman, which I take to mean preventing others from using the dynamite, then you are asserting your own morals not only ov...
You blow the fat guy up. If he is willing to let so many others die so that he may live then he isn’t the kind of person worth sacrificing so many oth...
Surely you realise how weak an explanation “its just how the universe works” is... How do you know the lessons will save millions? By what metric did ...
It may or not still exist, you would have no way of knowing. The reality you could confirm would be your experience of your own mind which requires no...
Sure but opposites existing isn’t the same as “an equal amount of good and bad in everything”. Even if you want to claim there is some good and some b...
Totalitarianism is always coming, will always be coming. The herald for its arrival is people thinking it’s not just around the corner, lurking. We wi...
I don’t think people are getting more ignorant, I think people seem more ignorant because the breadth of human knowledge is so much greater than an in...
Right, or any number of other examples. Good point. Ok so say in Ireland then. You don’t think the hate was useful? I think it helped motivate, helped...
I always thought that (the war) was more fear based. I agree hatred and fear often show up together or lead to each other...maybe those are two ends o...
Hmmm, not sure. Having an active hatred isn’t the same as recognising evil so maybe not. You could just be a good person (recognising Hitler as evil) ...
I think you’re overthinking it. Whats significant about hate is the reasons for it. Most people have recognise it’s ok or good to hate Hitler. Most pe...
I’m not trying to win, just asking a question and didn’t see where you really answered it. You avoided directly answering. Also, You don’t find discus...
Basic logic and critical thinking, haven’t come across a god concept that passes even that simple test let alone a scientific one. Well the right answ...
Ok, but I’m not asking why someone might use the term “god”. I’m being more specific, I want to know why you, a person who recognises that the term “g...
Science isn’t about patterns it’s about repeatability, at least in the context you’re using. That’s an important distinction to your argument. Once yo...
Lol, no problem. I understand you want to drop the religious mumbo jumbo and think about god in those other terms, but I’ve never understood why some ...
I don’t see how that would end the conflict of whether god exists or not. Using the term “god” when what you really mean is the universe or mystery of...
I’ve reached the limit of my willingness to explain it to you. It’s not remotely a strawman argument I’m making. I suspect you think that because you ...
No, his good reasons for believing in “strong AI” are not thats it’s possible. There is an entire branch of science that give good reasons to think AI...
It’s fallacious as an argument against a position Dennett holds. You started by quoting Dennett, “good reason” being the two key words. You have not p...
Ok, so you don’t seem to really be saying much at all then. You haven’t presented a “good reason” for believing, just acknowledging a possibility. A -...
It doesn’t follow that because consciousness can be created by humans that human consciousness must be created too. I can create ice by putting water ...
Ok, why would we want to call any of those things “god” instead of the names you just used for them? Why not call Logos, “logos”? Also, what you menti...
Well it depends on what you mean by “like” the universe. If you mean god as just another name for universe then maybe not awful but still not good bec...
I think it’s often both. Atheists think that there is no good reasons to think god exists but many also recognise how awful it would be if god actuall...
What do you mean? To me it’s sadder if it’s being done poorly , that means a bunch of people are out there making mistakes and creating confusion. Als...
I think that you’re describing a specific aspect to a problem most people already recognise: the problem of imprecise language. That is something that...
I think it depends on the nature of the head injury. If it’s only memory loss then I would say they are still morally responsible but there is lots of...
Ya. There is a spectrum of takes on it, but seems like racism to me. The colour of her skin was an issue for some who didn’t think it was appropriate ...
How do you know I haven’t listened to the other side? Also, you are making your own assumption about it not being racism based on equally weak foundat...
That’s what I was trying to convey by calling it dynamic. Words are part of the environment that interacts with biology and they change/effect each ot...
I did read it yes, maybe I’ve misunderstood your purpose. Did you intend to describe a fictional universe or the actual one? I thought you were claimi...
No, the opposite. Maybe we are talking about different puddle analogies? There must be some miscommunication here because we literally have opposite i...
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