All of whom have been born, presumably. Or are you including Jesus - yes, I didn't think of the immaculate conception of the spirit of the son of god....
My wife's a child psychologist, and although she now works with very young children, she did a stint with adolescents, so we had a fair bit of dinner-...
People didn't come up with unified governance for a laugh. They came up with it to resolve conflicting individual solutions, so you're simplistic conc...
I'm afraid I didn't get a chance to properly read your previous response (other than to spot that this one is a slightly edited version), so consider ...
Good for you, well done. I'm not sure what that has to do with what I was arguing about though. Maybe I've not been clear. What I'm talking about is t...
Nonsense. Here's an article from 1988 warning of the risk of pandemic diseases. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/373248 The worl...
First, I'm not sure I completely follow you, so this may not really address what you're saying but... It seems as though you're applying a different w...
I suppose if I were to support the theory, I would say that the process is still underway. From a social-psychological perspective, these things would...
I think Apple are on a mission to find out! Seriously though, it's long been a pet theory of mine (I don't know about the economic viability of the ap...
Yes. But you make a good point nonetheless. I don't think there's nothing good to take away from antinatalist arguments (of the kind you presented any...
Mine starts to kick in at 75, but yes I agree with you here. The euthanasia laws in our country are a disgrace, however, and very difficult to legally...
Indeed. It's only that I see a lot of talk about the former and very little about the latter. Brilliantly done. Fast, hard and accompanied by tracing....
It's not about the risks it's about the reasons to take them. The argument presented is that once living you may have reasons to take those later risk...
This doesn't even make sense on a first read, let alone the second that you should have given it before posting. That a thing could be harmful is comp...
Not that it's much related to the discussion, but just to say this is a really important point that is often overlooked in discussions about this, und...
"Lock down hard and early" is a future principle that I don't think anyone sensible could now deny. But it unfortunately doesn't help us decide the be...
The alternative is to make the remaining population so stupid that they'll keep buying the same shit over and over again with the increased wages they...
Nope, still missing a link I'm afraid. Simplify, yes. Indiviualise...? That's neither the same as simplify, nor does is relate in any way that I can s...
What other pains and pleasures are there other than those in a life of one who has been subjected to life? Why 'implausibly'? You've admitted the bein...
OK. Is a premise. Is a conclusion. They're linked by the word 'therefore' Again. Premise. Conclusion. Linked by the word 'so'. Your premises do not le...
Yet all you've done is describe the difference. Which is exactly the definition of special pleading. Nowhere have you explained why that difference is...
Yes. That's why I leave that sort of thing to experts in those various fields. And you've still provided nothing to back up your assertion that no oth...
The second part is not a fact. You've not shown that energy supply is the only factor involved in assessing our ability to do these things, and on the...
Your philosophical approach is to make up empirical facts without having either the qualifications or the sources to establish whether they're the act...
To be as clear as possible, I'm saying that it is not what I think of as normal (ie, a normative claim) for people of one group to want, and so engine...
To simplify things, for the ethically challenged. "Let me get that heavy box for you," "No, you're already carrying a heavy load, I'm fine with it" "R...
If you read more carefully, you'll see no such assumption has been made, and quite deliberately so. I said... I've bolded the relevant part. It contai...
The argument you were referring to in full... It does not once mention Galileo, nor the oppression of the church. It does mention a lot about geotherm...
No, that's common knowledge. No. That too is common knowledge. None of these fact support your conclusion. What have either got to do with the conclus...
Why would they offer you that courtesy when you've not offered them the courtesy of explaining why you are right? You're totally unqualified to commen...
They think the answer is wrong. It's not rocket science. Did you somehow miss that class in your 'Other people have different opinions to you' lessons...
Unbelievable co-incidence that three brain-damaged people should end up writing on the same thread, because I didn't think your posts made any sense e...
Yes, I agree. We find it a more satisfying argument, for sure. But consider the case of something like "I can fit this car into this matchbox". You ju...
So what? Your system has them as immoral because they are using/imposing on others to benefit an aggregate. Just repeating 'they're political' is not ...
Yes, it seems that's basically true, although the further back in developmental term researchers are able to go the fewer assumptions we seem to have....
We do because suffering is no more prevented by avoiding birth than it is by giving birth, as I've already pointed out. No it isn't. Avoiding birth ca...
Well, it depends on how circumscribed your definition of 'logic' is. Ramsey likens logic to aesthetics, or ethics. A mode of thinking we find to be pr...
Whereas now, without anarchism, we have Covid-19 spreading like wildfire across the globe.... ...or maybe, just maybe, picking two states of affairs w...
I would say that's the case yes, I agree with Ramsey that logic is simply a mode of thought, not an objective fact about the world, and as such is pri...
Where in that article does it say that the 'absurd' definition is 'more loose'? It just seems to reiterate exactly the conclusion I reached from the w...
Then why did you direct me to a Wiki definition in which the first paragraph states reductio ad absurdum to be "the form of argument that attempts to ...
Ah. Are you referring to the discussion in which literally everyone involved was pointing out how you were wrong but you insisted you were right regar...
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