TheHedoMinimalist

I don’t think it is necessarily a good bet to consult a library catalog. It is possible for a library catalog to be so disorganized and out of date th...

I think that an atheist could argue for the existence of an Objective morality by attacking the following 2 assumptions: A1: Prescriptive properties o...

My answer to this question is certainly biased towards my own philosophical interests but I would start by trying to find answers to the questions in ...

I would argue that people do not actually have prima facie mental representations or intuitions as you call them about moral cases in applied ethics l...

I understand that you wish to avoid talking about the emotive issues but I’m actually kinda curious about what reason would you have to dismiss the in...

This seems to pose a contradiction to your argument though. This is because the view that something like slavery was permissible in 1800 but not permi...

Right here: You never responded to this part of my comment earlier so I assumed that you had difficulty understanding it. Feel free to ask me question...

Well, I would still bite the bullet here and say that it would justified to torture Tom. It seems to me that thought experiments about applied ethical...

I would like to start by biting the bullets on the thought experiments that you had introduced to me. I actually think that it would be justified to s...

Fair enough, I think the main reason why I got interested in mundane personal decision making is because I always felt that my philosophizing lacked a...

Well, I actually use somewhat unconventional definitions of terms “prudential” and “moral”. Prudentially is the element of decision making that I iden...

That’s interesting, in what cases do you think that procreation is justified? Fair enough, we can say that showing respect for other’s behavior is imp...

I agree that we should not be discouraged from thinking that an action is good just because we can’t find the mental strength to perform the action. F...

To be fair, I felt that you were making false equivalences of my ideas to the Nazis (you did call certain ideas that I kinda supported as “nazi bs” .)...

Well yes, one could define their moral behavior to be perfectly moral no matter how one behaves. But, I don’t see how this an exclusive critique of “L...

Well, it seems that we trust politicians and bureaucrats to make all kinds of policies that potentially harm a marginalized demographic. For example, ...

Fair enough, though “license to sin” utilitarianism could be thought of as a more egoistic version of “agent neutral” utilitarianism but not completel...

Fair enough, I think it’s reasonable to argue that one doesn’t really have a duty to promote what they believe to be good and sometimes it’s better to...

But, why do you think that there’s a greater reason to not cause harm rather than alleviate the harm of others? I’m curious because many people includ...

This is a common criticism that Project Prevention receives. Their counter-argument to this criticism is to point out that if you think that drugs add...

It’s seems that God could of simply removed the capacity for us to suffer without changing possible human behavior and thus preserving free will in a ...

I agree that if you start from a place of initial ignorance then you are likely to recognize the goodness of pleasure and the badness of suffering fir...

Well, how would you distinguish suffering from non-suffering? It seems that in order to even identify an experience as being unpleasant one must make ...

I actually don’t particularly disagree with anything you said there. I agree that we should try to maximize pleasure and minimize pain in the long ter...

But, how would you distinguish between pleasurable experiences and non-pleasurable experiences in your mind? It’s seems like you could identify pleasu...

What do you mean when you say that the mind is not separate from the environment? Well, aren’t all words just labels used temporarily for pragmatic pu...

So, why would having many and good children be valuable for its own sake? What if someone doesn’t want to have children? So, if I was unhappy for the ...

How do you know that there is a standard that demands that people strive for higher intellectual satisfaction and not live as animals?

Well, I would actually like to point out that my method for evaluating lives is relatively unpopular among humans. I think it’s probably more popular ...

Fair enough, I agree that coming up with original theories which are actually good is extremely difficult. This is why I’m often hesitant to criticize...

I agree that life satisfaction isn’t a very good criteria for evaluating lives. I think lives are better evaluated through the measure of pleasant and...

The virtual reality life which I was talking about allows you to experience any experience that you want while being unaware that you are living a vir...

Well, I would like to distinguish Attitudinal Hedonism from Valance Hedonism. Attitudinal Hedonism states that the most important criteria for determi...

I must point out that I don’t actually support Satisfactionism. I’m kinda surprised that everyone assumed that I did from the OP. This was just meant ...

I think you misunderstood the intention of my OP. I did not claim that I supported Satisfactionism. This was merely a theory which I have considered. ...

Cool :cool: , I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being autistic or weird either lol

Nope, I’m just weird lol

Well, I actually got an associates degree in IT but I wasn’t able to find a job in my field within my area. I didn’t want to move away from my family ...

I actually do have an associates but it didn’t turn out to be very useful for me. Luckily, I didn’t pay anything to get it.

I think there might be a good emotional reason. I might feel pretty bad about bringing someone into existence and it might cause me to suffer. But, if...

I agree that it is preferable to have not been born but I don’t think anyone has a duty to avoid having children. This is simply because there doesn’t...

I had just thought about a different concern about the thought experiment. While physics doesn’t recognize absolute time, time is relevant to their st...

Did I say that I believe that self-driving cars can be upset about me running into them? I wouldn’t apologize if I ran into a fish in the water. This ...

I’m not really understanding how this twist is relevant. If the Chinese AI was pre-programmed with knowledge of Chinese then sure I agree it is likely...

If the brain from the thought experiment is supposed to have all the marks of sentience then I would have to disagree with that thought experiment. Pe...

I think that appearance of consciousness is some evidence for consciousness. Insects could be zombies but they could also be conscious. The fact that ...

Well, I suppose that there’s some significant autonomous action from some plants so some plants might indeed have some mental activity. It’s hard for ...

Fair enough, I mostly suspect that insects are conscious because they are capable of moving. They also appear afraid whether I try to squash them.

I would to start by mentioning that bongo furry corrected me in his earlier comment about the definition of eliminative materialism. I would say that ...

You’re right, I misunderstood what eliminativism was. I was surprised to learn that some eliminativist philosophers even deny the existence of pain. T...