Isaac

How is obvious - a simple causal chain from the sound of the words hitting your eardrum, their firing through various networks of neurons to the ones ...

He already has.

They could possibly be, but to be compelling you'd have to give me more than just your ad hoc opinion that they are. That's why I qualified it with in...

Deriving true conclusions from true premises. Yes, many have concluded that the meaninglessness of life's premises makes it absurd. But absurd is not ...

So these are two examples of where you think the line should be drawn, but you don't provide any justification or reason for your choice. Why would (i...

Where does he say anything like that? Right. Yep. ...so what do you call the solution arrived at via working through this conflict, after we've talked...

Go to 'categories', select your chosen brand of nonsense (Philosophy of Religion, for example), scroll right to the bottom of the list of posts there'...

So you're suggesting that studying something disposes one to biases but a lay approach, what, magically removes bias? So should we no longer listen to...

Thanks!

You do realise I literally study people for a living?

I see, so we're back to the delusion that what seems to you to be the case is actually the case. You personally have a sense of what constitutes encro...

To what extent? How much is it reasonable to expect others to tolerate by way of restriction to their freedoms such that I might experience freedoms m...

If they're 'God' Threads can you also put them into the Philosophy of Religion section. The ability to keep (subjectively) crap off the front page is ...

Logic is just a method to get from true premises to true conclusions. It can't deliver instructions without premises. Your believing it can is the err...

The moral principle itself is in question, not the practice. The moral principle of personal autonomy is in conflict with the moral principle of care ...

My point exactly. Yet at the same time global monitoring programmes were being shut down, hospitals were being run to capacity, community healthcare f...

??? I said... ...and you're saying there's no moral element to that at all, it's just a matter of whatever the law of the country happens to be?

Really? You're saying I could pick any debate and you'd be able to find me an example of responses quote="schopenhauer1;495195"]dripping with hatred? ...

Things being in two different categories is insufficient to justify any two responses to them. You must show how each category justifies each response...

Russian Flu, 1890, killed a million. Spanish Flu, 1919, killed 50 million. Asian Flu, 1957, another million. Hong Kong Flu, 1968, another million. HIV...

So a then?

Obviously lost in the labyrinthine discussion we seem to be having. @"Pfhorrest" posts an OP which identifies groups of dissenters (from one's own vie...

I can't make out what you're trying to say here. My point was that philosophical agreements are either trivial or they have moral connotations (with a...

Really. So you think they considered there to be a zero chance that an increase in the amount of time they took would have yielded anything. What reas...

I was countering your view that "most of the conversations at forums like this are about people, ie. the people directly involved and the way some par...

Bit morbid, but since there's been a pandemic of greater than 1 million fatality about every fifty years since at least early nineteenth century, this...

The point was that something's seeming to you to be the case is not contradictory to that thing's seeming to someone else not to be. And yet the bulk ...

You may read a different range of posts to me. The overwhelming majority of threads I read are of the form... "it seems to me that X is the case". "X ...

Yeah, pig-headedly refusing to address an issue doesn't make the issue go away. We're talking about moral dilemmas. Moral dilemmas are almost exclusiv...

True, although I think a topic like philosophy is perhaps a little unusual in this regard. Unless the subject being discussed is what some philosopher...

Obviously. But it's only possible to say that in hindsight, so it's utterly irrelevant to the question of whether the action was right or not. Had the...

I was talking about the point at which engagement stops, rather than the nature of the action to take. It goes back to what I said right at the beginn...

I'm aware of that. What I'm struggling to see is how you can pretend there's not still massive disagreements about which policies best meet these crit...

Why is speed approving a new drug an "impressive" thing? I could approve anything with tremendous speed by just rubber-stamping it, would you be impre...

So if someone were to come on and politely, patiently explain why Jews were the inferior race and need to be exterminated for the benefit of the maste...

You mean like... ...rather than, for example... ...other than the consequentialist reason that they... So how then do you determine which ideas are ne...

So for all practical purposes you couldn't actually tell the difference, in any given discussion because it's extremely unlikely you're going to know ...

Living is going to happen anyway. It neither requires, nor asks for, a reason. You'll breathe, eat when you're hungry, avoid dangers...all without so ...

1. If Bob is a bachelor, then he is unmarried 2. Bob is a bachelor 3. Therefore: Bob is married There you go. Turns out you can.

It is the same as Benatar's argument.

There's more than one person in a country. You know that, right? Where? Quote me doing that....literally anywhere on this site. Indeed. Nor did I ever...

This is something that's too often skated over in these discussions. 'Man', 'male', 'he', and 'him' are just words, nothing more. The job they do is d...

Right. So if their life was full of 'deserved' please (because they're morally good people), or if their life is full of undeserved pleasure (because ...

Yes, I was talking about within one country, obviously. So what? There's still only one car. How do they decide? To make it clear why I'm picking exam...

You seem to be confusing different opinions about the right course of action with different possibilities over the right course of action. There can, ...

I don't see how that follows. Either the philosopher is deciding at random which ideas to give a fair shake, or he is deciding based on some factor. I...

I don't see how that changes the logic. You're right, of course, when dealing with subjective preferences, but since politics and ethics hardly ever d...

How is that different from them being "willing to give all ideas a fair shake, if and when decides to do so"? 'Never' is just the 'if and when' that t...

Who isn't? Yes, I find that too.

Yeah, easily. consuming all the unnecessary shit they fatten us up on - makes businesses profitable which leads to more jobs and more prosperity, and ...