Well, this excludes many popular ethical traditions from being counted as ethics in your book. Aristotelian ethics tends to have some focus on control...
Well, I think most people would probably say the absolute best option is to try to fix your relationship or try to avoid entering a bad relationship i...
I think the circumstances surrounding masturbation may often bring up ethical questions. For example, is it ethical to masturbate while you are in a r...
What if someone testifies that they do not feel as though they have free will? Not only does it seem that this person has more reason to believe that ...
I don’t think the suffering that comes with rape is necessarily caused by a removal of choice. For example, suppose there is a guy who has a button th...
Well, I’m not trying to change the historical process in a blink of an eye. My goal is to make progress on that goal as much as I can. Obviously, we c...
I don’t know if I agree with that. For example, there are murder scenes in kid friendly movies like the Lion King and the Hunchback of Notre Dame for ...
I have defined deprivation as an aspect of a harm that removes a benefit from a particular person. I don’t think that rape is primarily harmful becaus...
I’m a pretty big fan of Cosmic Skeptic so I’d have to stick around for that. One thing that makes him so great is his willingness to entertain very co...
Well, some people can be useful for society after a serious injury but I would say most will end taking more resources from society than they will giv...
I have not considered that possibility. That would kind of be a convenient way to get your prison sentence reduced for raping someone in a world where...
So, my understanding of what you are saying is that perhaps human extinction can be a possible consequence of a society that has a less negative attit...
Damn, your writing style reminds me of Thomas Jefferson lol. It was quite elegant and pretty. They should hire you to write presidential speeches. I d...
I would like to ask you some questions about your post. Please do not take these questions as a criticism of position since I don’t feel I understand ...
I don’t think I speak lightly of murder. I just think suffering has a far greater degree of value significance than having a longer life span. I would...
Yes, I think death is to be preferred over any significant form of torture. I will die one day anyways and I don’t understand why it would be much wor...
Fair enough, I suppose you could think of concepts as being a sub-type of objects. Though, I kinda figured that there were 2 sub-categories of ”things...
That’s a pretty good approach since you may find that your opponent holds an inconsistent epistemic criteria when he goes about judging other people’s...
Well, I think we should discuss the usage of the word “free” as it applies to a variety of different things. For example, we might call Canada a free ...
I would like to answer that question with another question if you don’t mind. How did you form your belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun? Did...
I agree with this. I don’t think we choose our beliefs either. I only disagreed with the claim that beliefs that concern choices are only determined o...
Well, the junkie may believe that living a longer life would be better for him. Nonetheless, he may actually be suicidal and desire to die soon becaus...
Yes, I would say that’s a pretty accurate representation of the distinction that I was going for. Well, I would say that preferences are not only nece...
I consider myself to be undecided between compatiblism and incompatiblism but I definitely reject the notion of libertarian free will. But, I wanna pl...
I agree, exposure takes a lot of money usually. I agree, I think people are more attracted to the idea of being a performer who is more admired rather...
Ok, I need to ask you several clarification questions here. So, what exactly is a prescription of reason? Would you mind explaining that concept a bit...
The way I was judging a theory to be simple or complex is based on how long it would take for someone to summarize the viewpoint. It takes me at least...
Well, there would be a lot of additional factors to analyze here. First, we need to figure out how creating each world would impact god’s happiness. T...
Premise 1 is false for my version of hedonism because my theory does not compare the quality of worlds. Since my theory is egoistical to a decent exte...
Yes, but there are many different types of hedonistic theories. Hedonistic Egoism states that only your own happiness matters. Agent Neutral Hedonisti...
Well, I think I need to clarify my opinion on this matter a bit more. First, it might be worse to hit another person if hitting another person also ca...
That’s perfectly fine :smile: Fair enough, I suppose that it depends on your relationship to philosophy and your relationship to cars. Some people hav...
I don’t think that’s true. I had heard that studies in experimental philosophy had revealed that most people in East Asian countries think that the ag...
Fair enough, but are you willing to grant that those deeper intuitions matter as well? If you are willing to grant that all types of intuitions matter...
Well, in that case, you must have very unusual arguments for the existence of god. Most arguments for god’s existence argue that she is needed to expl...
Yes, it’s really just laziness and a lack of desire to hone one’s own explanation skills that causes people to “name drop” sources instead of making t...
Oooo!!! Suicide!!! That’s always a cheerful topic to discuss! :starstruck: I loove talking about suicide :heart: . I think it’s always good to start t...
Well, it may be better to think of morality in term of decision options instead of actions. This is because I think that there’s a difference between ...
Well, by “birth control” they really mean long term contraception. Anything from non-permanent contraception like IUDs all the way to sterilization. T...
I don’t think that the 2 actions are equally bad. I actually think that it’s worse to harm yourself than it is to harm others. This is because there i...
So, I have 2 questions: 1. How do you know that god or gods are benevolent? 2. Did god or gods create the universe which allowed for sentient life? Ye...
Ok, but you seem to think that there is at least one similarity that all right and wrong acts have that suggests that your moral particularism is just...
I think there are other things that all blue things have in common: 1. All blue things are made of atoms 2. All blue things exist in the same universe...
Ok, imagine that John thinks that the torture of Tom is unjustified. The deeper reason he gives for believing this is because he thinks that God would...
I got a question for you regarding whether or not you think I need to provide some kind of an ontological argument for my “duty eliminativism”. Isn’t ...
Here are some important distinctions to understand regarding Hedonism: Axiological Hedonism vs Motivational Hedonism: Axiological Hedonism argues that...
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