Tzeentch

That's it then? The way you rationalize your hatred for views you do not agree with is some vague notion that I didn't care enough? Remorse? Remorse f...

And if you have any trouble figuring out where you should start looking, start here: When you are confronted with a view you do not agree with, you wi...

I guess instead you'd like everyone to make mature comments such as this one. You need a long look in the mirror my friend.

If you have such a hard time dealing with other people's views maybe you're the one who should leave. That's your problem. Not mine.

@"Baden" Oh, is that so? Do you offer similar tirades to people who do not look before they cross the street? The only one you are fooling is yourself...

@"Baden" Does it bother you that people aren't as afraid of this as you are?

Interesting topic. For two reasons I think being taught critical thought should always precede being taught philosophy. The first is that critical tho...

The strain on our medical facilities wasn't caused by covid itself, but by the disproportionate measures that were taken and never reversed. Hospitals...

And if you want to talk about confirmation bias I would suggest a long look in the mirror first.

Single studies don't prove. They make plausible. And what this makes plausible is that the infection fatality rate of covid-19 is only a fraction of t...

A certain amount of people owe a certain amount of other people an apology. https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

What I think requires consideration is the common sense notion that suffering is an objective thing, external to the individual. I think when examined...

Except this would be more akin to a situation in which two persons are drowning and only one can be saved. I'd say the moral thing to do is to save on...

If someone believes they are helping someone, but in fact they are not (the person who is helped does not consent) then the helper was ignorant to the...

I'm trying to understand what you're saying, let me see if I got it right: A is capable of helping both B and C, and because he chooses to help B, you...

Isn't this covered by ignorance, though? And if someone successfully manages to help someone else, isn't consent implied here?

I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not on board with this. I think it should be argued from a neutral situation, being "No one is helped...

The way I view morality is, that only actions performed by moral agents can be said to be either moral or immoral. So an outcome (not being an action)...

So in these cases one's intentions do not match the actual results. In other words, despite one's best intentions one was ignorant of what was require...

Do you?

Another good point. Though I'm not sure it reduces the problem to good intentions, but it does pose a problem. Since a person can never be said to be ...

A good point, though it seems ignorance may yet encompass such errors. Let's assume they are 'unforeseen circumstances', doesn't that classify as igno...

Come to think of it, I wonder if the definitions I have given could be extended to include actions to hurt or help oneself as well.

I think the same applies. However, when in business or sports one is simply trying to win, and does not have the intention of hurting or helping other...

128,000 covid-19 cases, resulting in 6,428 deaths, on a population of 17.28 million. These are the official numbers shared by the National Institute o...

Zullen we een potje anecdotes vertellen spelen? Leuk!

Kijk eens wat verder dan het NOS journaal.

Do yourselves a favor and start being critical of the information you're receiving through media. I'll admit I cannot speak for the US, but covid deat...

Funnily enough, where I live (Netherlands) covid has been put on the same level as the somewhat severe influenza epidemic of last year by the statisti...

Hadn't even noticed this. What I find disgusting is that these words are coming from a moderator of a philosophy forum that has no less than 10,000 po...

Then you know more than I. I don't support Trump any more than I support the infantile behavior with which this thread is filled. Realize that this ty...

I honestly can't tell if you all are joking or actually serious. I'm hoping for the former.

You'd expect that on a philosophy forum people would have some reservations about wishing death upon others.

Upon inspection, isn't a desire to continue living at the root of being hungry or feeling pain?

Interesting discussion for sure, though when I read your post I am a little unsure what part of this problem you'd like to discuss. Maybe you could gi...

Goodness is one prerequisite for happiness, but it is not the only one. Wisdom is another, for example. As for "bad" people, I would say they will alw...

The idea that goodness produces happiness, and badness produces misery.

Here, here!

Anger attempts to hide vulnerability. Whenever one gets angry at the words of another, one should ask themselves why those words are making them feel ...

Sounds more like a way to bully people with unpopular opinions into leaving the forum. Nope. I don't see how this could positively effect a forum like...

I recommend you read some of my conversation with .

Okay then. Show me this person that routinely makes people miserable on purpose and is happy at the same time.

It is true though. People that want others to be miserable are miserable themselves. If that has to be the basic assumption on which my theory is buil...

Hold up. Both my replies to you have been about the nature of true happiness and not yet about morality. The assertion that my theory amounts to "it c...

Understandable. I think the concept is too intricate to describe in a forum post. I'll give you a few terms that I relate to inner peace and I hope yo...

Deriving pleasure from something is not necessarily related to true happiness or inner peace. So one can derive pleasure from something whilst at the ...

I disagree. I think there's a workable theory, however there is no simple 1+1=2 type of proof. But I've no desire to impose this system upon others. I...

More accurately, they would be pursuing true happiness (as do we all), but not achieving it. We seem to be working with a hypothetical person who is b...

Maybe. Like I said, I haven't really gotten the chance to get into details yet. Ultimately it is only the person themselves that can judge whether the...

Then they are not truly happy, no matter what they may tell themselves. Or maybe they are mentally defect, in which case there's an argument to be mad...