I would like to publicly apologize for misunderstanding your intentions with our conversation. Now that I know that you were not trying to be rude, I ...
No, they have not. But, the death note bypasses many of the problems that the old fashioned ways of overthrowing a dictator possesses. For one thing, ...
It was a mistake on my part. I misunderstood his intention and that caused me judge him as rude too quickly. We have privately resolved things and I w...
Well, I would like to point out that it doesn't seem like having the parents decide is a particularly precise or objective method for figuring out the...
Fair enough, but I think it would be reasonable to set a minimum and maximum age for adulthood at least. For example, no 14 year kid should be declare...
I think that it's a fair critique you are making. Perhaps there is a real concern here about it leading to worse consequences. But, I also find it har...
well, the part where he(or she) called anyone he(or she) disagreed with "terminally illiterate" was the most impolite part. Also calling people he(or ...
Well, of course there are age based laws in place that protect minors and these laws don't apply once you become an adult. I think that these laws sho...
Ok so it sounds to me like you're choosing to reject P1 then. That is to say that you don't think that the presence of pleasure in humans is an advant...
But what if you have parents that's ok with their 9 year old child drinking or what if you have parents that are not ok with their 30 year old child d...
Fair enough, but can you describe a legal procedure which a young person would have to undergo in order to obtain the freedom to do something? For exa...
I was interested in having a mature and polite conversation with you about this topic. You have demonstrated an unwillingness to engage me on this top...
But, I'm interested to know how you would make it hinge on ability then. I'm aware of that, my suggestion was to give a hard driving test to teenagers...
I think there are ways in which the notebook is better though. One thing to consider is that there would only be one notebook(belonging to you) and th...
Ok, so what you just said seems to imply that you don't accept the following implications of accepting Benetar's argument and rejecting P2 of my X bei...
Ok, so it sounds to me like your objection to using the death note is that we should treat something as deadly as the death note like we would treat a...
So, are you afraid that you would abuse that power yourself or do you think that you should abstain from using it to ensure that no one would find out...
I don't understand how your objection is relevant to my question. One could think it is permissible to kill a malevolent dictator to save and improve ...
It is relevant if you are arguing that "life is always suffering due to the deprivation of desires and wants which are endless." That is because you a...
Well, that would be ideal. But, it's not clear to me how we could make it hinge on ability. How do we figure out whether or not someone is mature enou...
Suppose there is a being that is incapable of experiencing any kind of negative emotion that normally comes with deprivation and dissatisfaction. The ...
It appears as though you are rejecting P2 of my argument by stating that X Beings are deprived of pleasure even though they don't feel as though they ...
I agree with you that the God that you are describing is benevolent. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm certainly not claiming that you're God is evil...
Fair enough, I suppose we can agree to disagree at this point. To me rejecting P1 of my argument is more counterintuitive than rejecting what I will c...
I can offer 3 alternative explanations for that asymmetry: 1. We have no duty to create happy people because it requires too much of a sacrifice to ra...
I agree completely. I sometimes feel Christianity provides an opportunity for easy virtue. It could also give you a sense of moral superiority even if...
I recently thought about a new objection to Benetar's conclusion that the absence of pleasure is not worse than the presence of pleasure if there is n...
You seem to be implying that God creates a possibility for suffering to satisfy his own interest in having genuine rather than fake love from people. ...
Yes, I think we were probably just bogged down on semantics. I disagreed with Benetar on this point because I don't think that the absence of pleasure...
I found the following quote on page 41 of his book: But, I couldn't find any textual evidence that he thinks the absence of pain is only relatively ra...
Here's a link to the ebook: https://www.reddit.com/r/antinatalism/comments/5giu51/david_benatar_better_never_to_have_been_the_full/ Chapter 2 is the o...
I want to point out first that your position seems different to that of David Benetar. Benetar has stated explicitly that his main axiological asymmet...
You're pointing to David Benetar's axiological asymmetry argument here from his book "Better to Have Never Been". In which he states: 1. The presence ...
I have a couple of questions I would like to ask you: 1. If there is an all powerful and all loving God, then why would God not eliminate all the bad ...
I was using the word "knowledge" in that in my last comment as a synonym for "evidence". I'm sorry for not being 100% clear about that in my first com...
I understand that some Christians do believe that the majority of people go to Hell. Though, many Christians find hope in Christianity and feel that i...
I agree that we can't know for sure if any fact is true. There's the black swan problem, of course. But unless we want to be skeptical about every dec...
I used to think in the past that there could not be any comparison made between life and whatever comes after death also. But, now I think that while ...
Well, I don't think there is any empirical evidence for any deities existing. As far as non-empirical evidence goes, at best you could speculate that ...
Here are my top 10 arguments against suicide: 10. Committing suicide will deprive you of the good things in your life. 9. Having a suicidal mindset of...
Well, in the case of killing people without consent, you would be violating the preference of another individual to not be killed in order to fulfill ...
Well, suicide stigma seems to be worse in collectivist societies in my opinion. In collectivist societies, people often have a duty to their families,...
We often tend to think of a rational suicide as committed by a calm mannered person who had realized on the basis of philosophical inquiry that life i...
There are 3 ways this question can be interpreted and answered: 1. What are the marks of an influential intellectual? These are the types of intellect...
I don't think that it makes sense to have anxiety about something that cannot be avoided and inevitably happens. I think anxiety has purpose in our li...
"Also, none of this has anything to do with atheism. If one doesn't believe in a God, why bother with anything He supposedly does" I believe that it i...
It seems that most Christians do not think that bad people go to Hell but rather that non-believers go to Hell. That is because, supposedly, Jesus Chr...
I think rights should perhaps be viewed as preferences that must be respected legally or morally. You can think about the Golden rule, for example. We...
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