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I dont see the contradiction. Some things are more important to some people than “cultivating optimal agency/well-being via conduct and relationships”...
October 07, 2022 at 19:03
Well you gave me an extreme scenario, so I answered in that context. It seems to me your reason for not eating your dog is based on a revulsion of how...
October 07, 2022 at 13:20
Oh. Well thanks. The flaw with most ethical systems is the assumption that being moral is ones highest priority imo, when really for most people its m...
October 07, 2022 at 12:34
I dont understand what the flame signifies.
October 07, 2022 at 06:08
I do have a pet, and I would eat it to survive. I also have kids so they would get the dog burgers first, followed by dad burgers if it meant them sur...
October 06, 2022 at 22:47
I dont see why either position/lifestyle needs to be justified. If youre asking whether “emoti-intellectual capacity” is a justification for either po...
October 06, 2022 at 21:18
Why would a human need to rationalize consuming meat? Cuz it inflicts pain? So does all kinds of things, so what?
October 06, 2022 at 20:35
Teach common man enough self control and foresight not to empower corporations with their slave-like devotion to materialism. Start with getting peopl...
October 03, 2022 at 19:32
Good point, but the certainty still wouldnt make the choice predetermined. The knowledge of what happens does not effect the outcome of what happens. ...
September 30, 2022 at 15:18
Just because you know what someone will choose doesnt make the choice predetermined. Would you rather have your eyeballs pulled from their sockets wit...
September 30, 2022 at 14:10
This thread is a waste of time. Consult a dictionary Sushi. You leave me no choice but to put you in my Bad Box for 1 month. I will not respond in any...
September 17, 2022 at 14:43
Passive atheists. What do I win?
September 08, 2022 at 00:56
Right, an important distinction for this discussion thank you. My understanding is gender is the way you feel about your sex, and sex being the biolog...
August 19, 2022 at 13:40
Well thats what you are doing when you categorize by sex, as I said all the traits you use would end up being the male ones for many sports. Its a poi...
August 19, 2022 at 13:37
I wouldn't imagine so, no. Of course, no ones talking abouts balls but you. Fast twitch muscle fiber, testosterone during puberty and other such facto...
August 19, 2022 at 04:05
There already are useful ways of measuring innate ability for the purpose of sports, one such way is by sex. Also your way of thinking does nothing to...
August 19, 2022 at 02:17
Your suggested criteria match exactly the advantages males have in most sports. Apparently they are precise enough. Depends on the sport of course, bu...
August 19, 2022 at 01:15
You mean the characteristics that males have over females? Thats precisely the things that separate male and female athletics.
August 19, 2022 at 00:10
He lives an extra 30 days every time someone says “he’s going to jail” and he doesnt go to jail. Currently clocked at 600 more years. But seriously, a...
August 17, 2022 at 00:12
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Jesus. Suicide by mod? I feel like he’s been around a while.
August 11, 2022 at 20:52
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What did they say?
August 11, 2022 at 20:17
Whats pedantic is focusing on the word “absolute” instead of the clear intention of the OP. Again, everyone else understood what the OP meant and only...
August 09, 2022 at 20:22
Everybody else understood this without clarification. You didnt, or refused to, understand this because you are being pedantic.
August 09, 2022 at 19:59
How do you figure other people were able to answer the question and have dialogue about it if its like impossible to answer? Be less pedantic and try ...
August 09, 2022 at 18:20
No you dont, you can check out any time you’d like. I think if you wanted to be dead you would be. You don’t really want to check out though do you? W...
August 07, 2022 at 21:41
Efficiency is ONE of the goals of the market. Again, efficiency is not mutually exclusive with morality (fair exchange of goods.) Its both. Additional...
August 04, 2022 at 16:30
Some of those rules overlap with morality, so I do not agree that playing by the rules is the most you can morally claim. The fact there are rules in ...
August 04, 2022 at 15:55
This is what I was asking about. Why are you denying morality can be a part of it like economics and legality? Im not following how your responses ans...
August 04, 2022 at 15:35
Why cant it be economical, legal AND moral. Those are not mutually exclusive so why cant it be all 3? Why are you excluding the moral aspects? It woul...
August 04, 2022 at 14:49
Idealism is believing that reality needs minds in order to exist, solipsism is believing that only your own mind exists. They differ in the implicatio...
July 31, 2022 at 17:23
:100: Very nicely broken down, a complete waste of time with Bart but very nicely put.
July 29, 2022 at 02:46
Ok. So why remain in the dugout? Are you holding out hope that the political system will change? Also, what forces other than voting would result in t...
July 25, 2022 at 00:13
True voting isnt synonymous with politics, but I would say its a necessary part of the political system in Canada or the US. Aren’t you opting out of ...
July 24, 2022 at 23:52
So…move? It sounds like you want to opt out of the system. Whats the dilemma exactly? Is refusing to vote a viable political position? No. Its a posit...
July 24, 2022 at 23:36
Im not sure they do share common purpose. Creationism is an ad hoc justification for biblical writings, an effort to explain contradictions with what ...
July 21, 2022 at 02:50
There may be specific ways of being treated they may not want (not sharing a taste in music or some S&M shit) but pushing that treatment on them would...
July 08, 2022 at 06:07
I guess it made sense but not in the way I intended. Lol
July 06, 2022 at 20:11
Like a fish needs another set of gills :wink: Edited to make sense.
July 06, 2022 at 19:58
I agree with you, Im just not sure what answer you are looking for with “what if”…we would have to adjust our models in physics I would think, lest we...
July 01, 2022 at 21:57
Or parallel universes to this one, sure. I dont see why not but “what if?”? Ya suppose if there were other universes before this one we would need to ...
July 01, 2022 at 21:43
Why couldn't there be more than one instance of space time? If it starts with a big bang then ends with something else then why couldn't each such spa...
July 01, 2022 at 21:40
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How do you figure?
June 30, 2022 at 21:00
It is an equivocation fallacy, or a Suppressed correlative fallacy.
June 16, 2022 at 17:36
Ok, thanks for the convo.
June 16, 2022 at 17:28
Indeed, and I addressed this already and why its not a valid defence for your position. You said commandments can be overridden…says you? What justifi...
June 16, 2022 at 15:48
According to what authority? Anyway, that doesnt excuse a contradiction so you have still to do.
June 16, 2022 at 01:18
It is your claims about the wisdom of the bible we are discussing is it not? Anyway, the point is that if they are laws from god and god is wise then ...
June 16, 2022 at 00:35
L Ok but then you are talking about a rule/law with no wisdom in it aren’t you? Edited to add: Also, you DID say it was a judgement from god. Isnt god...
June 15, 2022 at 23:14
I understand, I’m just choosing something specific so we have direct context for this discussion. Ok, so if it isnt part of the wisdom then I wonder A...
June 15, 2022 at 22:11
Is the bibles edict to kill people who are gay part of its wisdom? Im not asking about whether the edict can be proved in a religious court, I AM aski...
June 15, 2022 at 22:02