:chin: So assuming you know how to play the game according to the rules that you believe it should be played by, it is true? Mathematics is not object...
Mathematics, like language, is a mental game we practice. Saying "2 + 2 = 4" is no different than saying "this is a sentence = this is a sentence". It...
Considering everything you observe has to go through the subjective filter of your mind, it is a given that objective truth ("ultimate reality") is, a...
Maybe? It would take only one of the two persons in our example to stop imposing and there'd be no conflict. Reason sure is a great councillor. My iss...
No. Like I said, there are situations where force is the only option, but even then I'd regard the use of it as immoral and as a personal failure. Ok,...
Yes. Yes. Societies don't impose. Individuals in that society do. In many instances, it is the societal structure that gives those individuals the pow...
That is an imposition. Yes, for it was not a mere persisting. The refusal implies to consciously attempt to deny. Whenever other individuals are made ...
Depending on the situation it sure can be. It is what you are implying, by stating impositions are right in circumstance A, and wrong in circumstance ...
So does the drunk driver. A critical mass of cars would also make the roads unusuable. I would say that depends on the drunk driver. Some drunk driver...
I view the use of force as categorically undesirable and immoral, and if I were ever to feel that the use of force is the only option, I would have to...
That idea could be based on an entirely ignorant idea of reality. So because you desire things, you gain a right to impose? Debatable. I don't drive a...
I was reacting to the idea that I am supposedly connected to paranoid schizophrenics who are a "danger" to me, which is why I supposedly should care a...
The paranoid schizophrenics are out to get me! I post on this forum to test my ideas, not to convince strangers. Whether people like those ideas or fi...
And that's fine. Again, I view philosophy as being a personal thing, between myself and reality, and no one else. Other views can help by scrutinizing...
A schizophrenic or otherwise delusional person is not healthy to begin with and first needs a psychiatrist, not philosophy. I never said it was going ...
There's difference between when one finds their ideas in contradiction to reality, and one finds their ideas in contradiction to other people's opinio...
I'm not sure if that is true, but I think an attachment to views and ideas is unconstructive. Views and ideas should be dismissed the moment they are ...
Something I watched today made me consider the question of the OP, and conclude that it might be the other way around. The internet and the massive ex...
I agree that doubt and scrutinizing one's own ideas is good for the reasons you listed. I'm not sure if anger is that constructive, though. It seems t...
Anger is vulnerability, and when opinions of others make one angry, perhaps it is out of fear they may be right? After all, if an opinion is expressed...
Flawed ideas can conquer the entire world, and generally they do a good part in ruining it in the process. Think fascism, communism, nazism, various r...
In my opinion, it is quintessentially inhuman; animal, degenerate. “We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations fro...
Because military operations, war, are the most inhumane of human activities, concerned mainly with how to kill human beings as efficiently as possible...
In my experience, depression is a symptom of dissonant (that is to say false) views of the self and the world at large. There are many intellectual pa...
That seems like an oxymoron to me. I think someone who is considered an authoritarian liberal is in fact just simply an authoritarian. And democracies...
Indeed. Much like in my example, it is about coercion, bribery and indoctrination. I prefer the term "authoritarianism", for which collectivism is a e...
The collective is like the European colonizers bribing the natives with beads and necklaces. "Here is a shiny car and ten different brands of shampoo....
In my view, morality is not tied to group behavior; acknowledging the absence of ultimate answers, to live a moral life is to strive to live in accord...
I don't see any of these behaviors as essentially moral. I disagree. The faculties I described previously (self-awareness, reflection, reason, capabil...
Let's cut this matter up into two questions: Are animals moral agents? The lack of self-awareness, reflection, reason and capability for deeper than s...
I view that as cherry-picking, though. That animals may seem to show signs of empathy at times, does not change the fact that they kill, rape and domi...
Since animals are not moral agents, I never understood efforts made to explain morality through animal behavior. Further, it makes no sense to view mo...
The alternative is to not impose one's views on others. If one comes to the conclusion that is incompatible with politics, then don't partake in polit...
That's because they're all based on the same flaw: the use of government as a tool to impose subjective views on others. Whether they are views of ult...
That's an interesting supposition. In my view, when an idea of what is Good is established, everything else is a matter of consistency. That's where m...
How many people would have been labeled a "conspiracy theorist" for saying the Gulf of Tonkin incident never took place or was staged by the US? Or wh...
I'm afraid that's you, though. You didn't quote Fauci. You quoted a random person in an article whose opinions you happened to agree with, without tak...
Our increasingly inhumane treatment of animals and indeed virtually every other life on Earth is a direct result of our evergrowing population that ha...
You think by repeating that it will make it true? Who are you trying to save face for? Me? Others? Yourself? It's a bit embarrassing to see you latch ...
That had nothing to do with vaccination or anyone's right to bodily autonomy. That had to do with your seeming love of authority, and I meant every wo...
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