No one forces you to be born either. It's the involuntary action of oxytocin on the mother's physiology. At those odds yes. You'd previously admitted ...
No one breathes voluntarily either. Is that a problem you feel we need to address? Basic risk assessment. The experience would have to be really good....
What kind of answer is that? You said an individual was being forced into something. Now you're saying you don't even know where they are? Then an ass...
Because we live in a community of generally like-minded people who rely intrinsically on each other for our mutual survival. So... 1) we do not functi...
Where is this individual who's being forced? You're all over the place. This whole argument arose from you claiming that issues over consent were unne...
Why? Since inaction can have no less of a consequence in a dynamic environment, I don't see why you'd favour it over action in the face of uncertainty...
I see we've devolved into irrelevancies. I'll leave you to it since my part in the conversation is having no effect whatsoever on your jeremiad you ma...
Taking into account what will logically come about as a consequence of one's actions is insufficient to carry your case though. Doing that alone one c...
But you used it in a line of argument. If you believe it has no normative value, then I'm afraid I'm at a loss to understand what point you were tryin...
For me that depends on an odd sort of private language (maybe not 'private', but oddly technical). To claim that one's process is addressing 'moral' d...
What I'm referring to is when you say... ...you imply there's a moral duty beyond that which any community merely 'think' is a moral duty. Again, basi...
Right. But it's the technological and medical aspects that I've provided professional cited sources taking issue with. The political argument is wheth...
I haven't disagreed that experience can never be fully described by reporting. In fact I've said exactly that, so I'm unsure as to what point you thin...
Well, not 'absolutely nothing', no. It is a political opinion based on solid cited evidence. Are all political opinions that you don't agree with to b...
Not necessarily. It could be a single process at a given time (though I do think dual process theory has it's place). It's only that there's no single...
Yep. But what we're talking about here is your memories of the experiences which preceded knowledge, not the actual experiences themselves. You no lon...
There have been, but that's not the point. I said that there either needs to be such arguments, or there needs to be an acceptance of the relativistic...
The thread is about antinatalism, which makes a moral claim. So we're talking about morality in some form. Since no moral claims are constant (shared ...
None of that has anything to do with what has primacy in a philosophical investigation of mind. All of those factors apply equally to a purely phenome...
It is when we're talking about morality in general. There, assumptions about the general case are entirely appropriate. But this is all getting very m...
But those doing the reprimanding would consider it your moral duty to participate (gang loyalty, or whatever). Not that I'm saying all social censure ...
Is it? Not what's in your guts, or your heart. Both of which were once thought to be the seat of various conscious phenomenal experience? To even say ...
I meant to ask where you're getting the assumption that they're not interchangeable. Right. Well that's the source if a lot of confusion. I don't thin...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/13/chicago-mercy-hospital-closure-covid-19 But fuck, I don't think Pfizer have quite enough money yet. Pe...
You are arguing that moral obligations to, say, give to charity, are unnecessary. Part of that argument relies on the fact that society would not stop...
As I said, I assumed you'd prefer a world in which there were kind people. If I'm wrong about that, and you just simply don't care whether we're kind ...
No, you've misunderstood what @"Metaphysician Undercover" is saying. He's saying that you lack the confidence to arrive at the the same judgements he'...
Yes, well... I don't really do any fMRI interpretation, questionnaire asking or behaviour reporting any more either, but rather spend a considerable a...
All those quotes imply that you would act kindly toward the victim, and that there is therefore no need for censure in order to reach that point. I'm ...
Calling it an argument doesn't make it into one. Where is the 'Argument Against Paternalism'? All we've read so far is the 'Assertion Against Paternal...
Agreeing with several parts of different theories may not have a label but it's basically as close to scientifically accurate as you can get. Several ...
There are indeed such neural structures and they have an enormous impact on the way we interpret what's 'out there', but...those neural structures are...
Ah yes, I cited that most famous of conspiracy theory publishers, the British Medical Journal. Not to mention that hotbed of zealotry that is The Lanc...
We could say exactly the same about your obsessive liberalism... Somehow this is seen as "justified" by the neo-liberal types that think people should...
You'd both have some evidence to back up these claims I presume? How are we determining that the only corners cut were in early production? How are we...
It's just a colloquial term. We could talk about Quality Adjusted Life Years if we wanted to be more accurate, but generally a 'life saved' in this co...
It may well be 95% effective at what it's been tested for, but that's the generation of a sufficient immune response to limit subsequent infection in ...
You've just dodged the question. The question was "why does it matter whether it's self-imposed?", which goes to the heart of the issue. Why is autono...
There are not laws enforcing all moral duties. Notwithstanding which, the existence of a law does not make it that one 'has to' do something. One coul...
No, our ancestors evolved to respond to wavelengths of light, prior to language. Had they not then they would not all have picked the ripe berries (wh...
Yes it does, that's the point. Naming colour names is part of a response to stimuli modelled at a cultural level. You do not 'experience' redness. But...
No, that's not Moore's argument at all. It had nothing to do with experience and everything to do with the alternative the skeptic had to offer in pla...
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