Egoistic hedonism is the view that one should make themselves feel as good as possible in the long run(at least if we’re talking about prudential egoi...
I think that any form of egoistic hedonism firmly falls into the self-help category. For example, I could write a book that gives people advice on how...
If someone is born an altruist then wouldn’t being altruistic make that person feel good? If that’s so, then wouldn’t this give them a purely selfish ...
I would call that an instance of supererogatory moral reasons that come with choosing to make a particular decision outweighing the self-help reasons ...
I read the anecdote again for the third time and I’m not sure what point you think that I missed about your anecdote. You mentioned that you think you...
Wouldn’t reciprocal altruism be in the realm of self-help philosophy though? After all, I could imagine a self-help philosopher telling people that yo...
I think this is an example of something that wouldn’t actually be moralized in our modern western culture even if it was other regarding. Even if his ...
I wasn’t trying to dispute the existence of moral reasons in my OP. I was actually trying to argue against the existence of moral duties which I think...
Unless I mis-wrote something in my last post, I recall mentioning that the doctor from Africa refuses to help the children who have the condition if t...
No, that’s actually not what I meant in C2. C2 talks about moral duties rather than moral reasons. I don’t think that moral reasons trump over self-he...
I think there can some practical cases where someone could be motivated to choose to live in a particular location to avoid duties. It probably wouldn...
I think that this argument here potentially allows for duty dodging though. I mentioned in the OP about how a privileged person could choose to live i...
Yes, I think moral duties have to exist in order for someone to not be free of them. I would disagree. There are plenty of philosophers that don’t thi...
I’m not sure what portion of my OP you were responding to here. I agree with your post for the most part. The only thing I would add is that technical...
I’d have to disagree with that. Most ads that I view on a daily basis on YouTube seem to be terribly out of touch with my personality. For example, th...
I agree. I think most people have too many redundant and useless gadgets that they don’t need. For example, I always wonder why anyone would own an iP...
Yeah, I forgot to include that argument. Though, I do think there is a decent response that supporters of ads can give to this argument. It could be a...
I’m not sure if your expression of the argument indicates that you actually endorse this argument on any level but I’m a bit confused about the argume...
I agree, it seems that CP only provides incentives for children to behave well when their parents will know about their behavior. In addition, it seem...
I think it’s pretty hard to find reliable studies on this topic. The first thing we have to worry about is who is funding the studies and if they have...
English is probably not the absolute easiest language to learn. I have heard that a language called Esperanto is the easiest but that’s only because t...
I tend to think that you can’t prove any sort of positive or negative claims but you can provide some evidence for just about any sort of claim. For e...
I would say that if someone has a damp affective feel towards all kinds of stimuli indiscriminately then I would speculate that this would have a biol...
I’m kinda skeptical that apathy exists in practice. I think this precisely because what normally seems like stereotypical apathetic behavior to us doe...
That’s a pretty good point. I think I was wrong to call my thread “The Vagueness of The Harm Principle” as this doesn’t actually seem to properly desc...
I got a question. Under this interactionist definition of harm, could we have some kind of coherent and unified way of explaining what all types of ha...
Well, I’m not sure if any action necessarily implies harm towards others. It seems to me that even an action such as theft doesn’t necessarily produce...
Given that those kids played a causal influence in making you upset in this hypothetical case, I find it more plausible to think that those kids did c...
Yes and the employee has taken the drug test which I think does count as X doing something to cause Y to believe that X will not smoke weed. Yes and I...
I think that there are plenty of implied agreements that X not smoke weed. For example, when an employer requires a drug test and using weed would mak...
Ok, in that case, would you also say that if someone is upset at their SO for having sex with someone else that this also doesn’t constitute victimiza...
I would disagree that folks who are upset about weed purely victimize themselves. For example, if someone spits at me then I could just be detached an...
I agree. This is why I think weed should be legalized. But.... It seems to me that offending someone still counts as victimization. I think Victimizat...
I would disagree. If someone spits at me then I could just be detached and not care that they spit on me. But, I think it would be strange to argue th...
Well, I believe that there are many cultures that do believe that if you do something to make your family upset which may include dating someone that ...
I would speculate that Asphyxiation is actually probably more peaceful than the ways that most people die today from natural causes. I would much rath...
I agree with you that it might be best for a fairly high profile NU like yourself to teach your fans and people who might be interested in NU that the...
So, do you think that it should illegal to let a child drown even under circumstances where you don’t have parental duties for that child and you don’...
Wait, so are you like a rule utilitarian then? Also, it seems to me that you can argue that we should uphold the sanctity of life in law without think...
I think there is a perfectly egoistical explanation for why I would rescue that child. If I rescue that child then it’s quite likely that I would get ...
I think there are versions of PU that are compatible with the idea of transhumanism and changing the preferences of sentient beings. For example, some...
Well, I don’t think it makes too much sense to criticize a theory of normative ethics by claiming that it doesn’t work. It seems to me that the point ...
I don’t see how that’s a problem for PU though. I think they could easily respond to this concern by simply stating that we regrettably have to sacrif...
I agree that solipsism is likely to be false and I think it’s more likely than not that you are capable of suffering. I was just bringing up the Epist...
Earlier in our discussion, I believe that you have stated that you think someone has to think that rape is always wrong or rape is always not wrong. T...
It seems to me that you are an agent neutral utilitarian because you seem to believe that there are only instrumental reasons to prioritize the welfar...
I hope I’m not too late to the party but I’ll start by asking a question relating to the debate between what I heard get called "Agent Neutral”and “Ag...
I want to point out that it seems that people would abandon many of their evaluative beliefs if they abandoned the metaphysical beliefs that are groun...
I actually wouldn’t agree with that because it seems that there are plenty of moral philosophers that focus more on consequences or personality traits...
What you do you mean by “morally” in the last sentence of your post? The way that I understand what people mean when they say that something is moral ...
Comments