Isaac

I like this notion. But is it not also possible to wesponise the value of truth to no less a degree? Your talk of eagles and snakes is spot on. If I s...

That's a consequence of violence. The question was how states had the monopoly on violence. At the moment all you've shown is that they're better at i...

I understand quite well enough. I agree that... Who are prospective parents burdening unnecessarily with the necessary conditions of existence? The ga...

Their intention to what? I thought we were talking about their intention to force a gamete to become a person. Now you're saying they intend to force ...

No. In my example, John is not the solipsist. John is a person in the possible world the solipsist is entertaining.

But the child they wish to have doesn't exist, so how can they force it to be anything?

What other being?

So 1. I believe that ontological solipsism is true and it is possible that ontological solipsism is not true 2. I believe that ontological solipsism i...

You haven't specified your terms. I can look up the notation, but I can't look up what you mean by Bp or p.

You didn't say 'create a human being' you said 'force a human being'. Two completely different verbs. Creating brings something into existence. Forcin...

So? Amazon constrain what the alternatives are. Or we could just suggest that if you don't like your government, you just seek an alternative country....

A human being is already alive by definition, how can I intend to force one to be?

Nonsense. You writing only two premises doesn't confer some kind of magical power. You've not listed all the premises which are being assumed by the a...

Then why did the vase fall off the table, if not because of some property of the world prior? I don't see how. What you say is true in our world becau...

Without question, yes. Not an insignificant point either, but I'm not sure that the volume of agreements caries any semantic weight...? Do they though...

Yep. I'd agree. Right. But what's immoral about imposing on a gamete? One takes what one can get.

I've given examples, I'm not sure what more I can provide. Amazon's pricing policy means that it's suppliers are kept destitute. It doesn't pay them e...

One is about impositions, the other about consequences. @"schopenhauer1" said his ethics doesn't judge consequences, so we're left with the imposition...

Yes. Their employment practices, pricing policies, procurement policies, supply chain decisions, environmental policies... all contribution to the des...

No the action is imposing on a non-person. You said so here... Procreation imposes burdens on gametes. You admitted as much here... So either you're a...

Because you said your ethics were not consequentialist. So I'm asking what the moral issue is with forcing my will on a mindless gamete , if not the c...

Yep. agree with all that. Conscription forces civilians to be soldiers. Procreation forces gametes to be people. So we're on the same page. Great. Now...

But the former half is the very problem I think Peirce is addressing (my knowledge of Peirce coming via a very roundabout route - Ramsey-> Cheryl Misa...

Does it force something to happen to soldiers? is conscription a force which imposes on soldiers?

They can basically make you destitute. Yes, this is the question. One you're not even addressing, let alone providing any evidence for a conclusion re...

Nope, I explained my reasoning for that conclusion a while back too, but it too went by unremarked on. If all that exists is one's mind, and if this i...

Of course it is. X is such that it causes Y. Some collection of states in the world are such that Z will happen in ten minutes. Those are properties o...

No, I specifically included the properties of what exists. And I've been through all this. You even asked me what it would mean and I replied that I c...

No, but they can make your life extremely difficult if you don't. Just like governments can. Indeed, just like there's no restriction on you setting u...

No. Here's my argument... If you've no interest in it, that's fine, but it's pointless ignoring it and refuting something else.

We're going round in circles. Nowhere in my argument do I claim, imply, or require deriving 2 from 1.

In Thailand it is now impossible to get insurance without your provider being ultimately Black Rock. They own every single insurance provider in Thail...

It's all we've got. What's your alternative? I either guess which course of action/inaction will cause least suffering or I just act randomly. I prefe...

No it isn't. The free market is not voluntary because agents can abuse monopolies and governments are not coercive because agents can either vote or m...

Just saying it over and over is pointless. You're not my teacher. We're equals here, having a discussion (or supposed to be). I've tried to explain wh...

Seeing as I haven't, I'm not sure why you're mentioning this. Here's my argument... It mentions neither of the propositions you used.

For a lot of those it is debatable whether they were achieved by government meddling the free exchange of goods and ideas, or whether their results we...

Guess.

There you go again. No one is imposing on someone. There is no someone. Does conscription make soldiers into soldiers?

I'm arguing, as per my premise about the sources of uncertainty, that... As to... ...it's a property of the entire world. The world is such that it co...

Indeed. It's not a rendering of my argument. 1. render all that is the case as the set {Y,Y,Y,Y....} for all Ys 2. if Y exists then X knows all proper...

If you two want to embarrass yourselves by suggesting that the differences between Nazi Germany and 1940s England were about the same as those between...

Yes, we agree on that. Nope I'm quite in agreement with you about both causing and affecting someone. You cause events in the future which will affect...

Then I puzzled as to why you're so confused as the nature of my enquiry. If you use some science to constrain theories about the mind, and not other s...

Just stating it doesn't help. Look... The square root of two isn't mind-independent even if only my mind exists. Did that help? No, because the episte...

My argument is about the version of us doing the assessment about the feasibility of those possible worlds.

It's not a bare assertion. I followed it with the argument...

Well. I'm sold. Super convincing argument. Well done. Have you considered a career in politics?

That's the point. You deny it because of the science you know and understand. If you're already of the opinion that science fully constrains our theor...

I disagree. In a world where all there is is your mind, there's no uncertainty. You know exactly what the square root of two is, because it's availabl...