Next you will be telling me ‘good’ is ‘bad’ and ‘suffering’ is a form of ‘pleasure’. There are certain parameters under which language functions and i...
Okay … I guess murder and rape are good then because I say so. If you argue against this then you cannot possibly believe what you just claimed. Tortu...
I am not at all convinced that many meat-eaters care to hunt? I think you may have assumed this because it was correctly pointed out that humans have ...
Since the early 90’s I have been of the opinion that if you are repulsed by the idea of killing and butchering an animal, not willing to kill butcher,...
I have no argument with it being compatible with the conservation of energy. As for the mind body dualism I have to reason to believe there is or is n...
@"Bartricks" Can you provide any example of what a non-material causation may look like to us? If not then there is nothing here of note as we are eff...
Given that these threads have been thrown into one thread (mistakenly/stupidly imo) I cannot readily see the propositions laid out. Your definition of...
No, but historically and into the neat future I cannot see this coming to fruition. Perhaps it is best that we have to fight for freedoms rather than ...
I believe it is an error to talk about ‘consent’ for a force of nature. Not consenting to live is like not consenting that gravity keeps my feet on th...
I can only assume you frame ‘evil’ as ‘suffering’. If life exists therefore ‘evil’ must exist. So then, should all life be exterminated so rid the wor...
Who? Same answer. It depends. One-size-fits-all is a myopic approach. Such IF questioning can be useful though. I personally would look to forming sev...
I never once said it was not an ethical idea. Do not bother quoting my words back at me just read them in the context written. An ethical idea can be ...
I am pretty sure I answered well enough? Neither nor, rather than either or. It is a sweeping statement to side with one or the other and lacks any ki...
What I believe is buried in your OP is the questioning of moral/ethical relativism. Anything could be justified, but subjective justification is just ...
The question remains how we are meant to relate to some hypothetical omnipotent, omniscient person when we are neither. You can pretend to know what y...
You will find there is more relation to asking ‘What an Ant aught to do?’ and any answer from such a hypothetical is just as relevant as from an omnip...
@"Bartricks" The ‘confusion’ yiu talk about is likely due to struggling to take on some completely intangible alien position and then stating ‘aught t...
An estimated 90% of population dead due to disease … and you think civilisations just bounce back after that? You do understand that the black death k...
I just checked the wiki page … it appears you chose to read what suited you and ignored the rest. On this subject I am sure I know more than you given...
You think people coming from Europe could some how not breath? Be serious. As soon as a reasonable number of people were infected it led to collapse o...
I was just stating a fact about what happened to the indigenous peoples of the americas. To equate the spread of disease with genocide is silly. It is...
There was mass corruption that led to the regime shift. I am talking about astronomical levels of corruption here btw. Was Lulu innocent or set up by ...
They likely would be being referred to as ‘people’ rather than peoples ;) Most natives of the Americas were actually wiped out by disease rather than ...
I imagine some football supporters are cannibals and rapists too. I do not see the point of bringing this up other than to insinuate that football fan...
Both Japan and South Korea have qualified for the World Cup Finals before becoming host nations (especially South Korea). Qatar have NEVER reached the...
Fair point. It is more or less a culmination of corruption and the recent (as in past couple of decades) CLEAR and undeniable corruption and backhande...
I obviously disagree because of the above. The assumption that some higher being has anything like our sense of morality is nonsense. If that is woven...
Everything would be nothing. There would be no meaning, sense nor care. Basically, it would be as everything is now … the only difference being we of ...
‘Capitalism,’ like ‘democracy,’ is a variated term. I do not see ‘capitalism’ as the root of all social problems myself. It is more or less, in my eye...
I ‘work’ 20 hrs a week currently - cut down from 24 hrs. My ‘job’ is something I enjoy 80% of the time. I do not get sucked into ‘consumption’ for the...
@"schopenhauer1" I would be interested to learn about other schools of ‘pessimism’ if you can give an account of some of them rather than sticking to ...
You completely missed my point then. A is B is an abstract, the mistake is you assuming this maps one-to-one onto reality when you apply Electricity a...
You literally said we cannot challenge the status quo … which we cannot. We live, we suffer and we die. Why is this ‘pessimistic’ though? It is just t...
Putting words in my mouth now? Why? I am failing to see the point pf any of this. You simply state the obvious over and over like it is something we s...
We reach it in death. It is not exactly like every waking hour of our lives is hellish or even close to being so. Human beings are human beings becaus...
I would also like to add that Truth exists in the abstract only. If we apply the idea of Truth to realms where the ruleset is obscured/unknown/open to...
It is true that I am writing on a forum. It is true that I am human. The latter may be ‘true or false’ to you as you may consider that I am AI or some...
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