There is no if. Wake the fuck up! They're not trying to kill me, they are trying to kill a million sick and dependent people to save some money becaus...
Do you have any evidence of that? I have some evidence of them not buying ventilators that they were offered, not testing carers and health workers or...
Have an insincere apology with your data. Mix it with the news that care homes can only test 5 people (Most carers move between homes) and only when s...
I think auto-correct is eating your brain. :cry: So an architect imagines a building and draws plans from his imagination. And one day, planners permi...
Have we established at last that it is not pleasure that causes tea-making, but the imagination? If so, then it might be clear that there is a differe...
No we ain't. We're no more living in an age of multiculturalism than we are living in an age of veganism. It might be trending on twitter, but it does...
No one can answer, because the answer is too simple. So I will answer and you will deny. One wants every act to be equally hedonistic because it absol...
That won't work at all because a masochist enjoys being tortured. Obviously you have to torture a masochist by kindly indulging her with the torture s...
Don't be a complete dick! You know the difference between imagining the pleasure of eating an ice cream and the pleasure of eating an ice cream. No, t...
It's a thought It's 'in her head'. It's an image. Of me drinking tea with pleasure. And if she is feeling tired, or grumpy, nothing will come of it. A...
No. you are still confused; unconfuse yourself. Causes come before effects. The question is why does Mrs un make tea? The answer is 'her motivation' w...
No, not that. More that values are relational. Slugs value lettuce, gardeners negatively value slugs and positively value slug killers, crows value ca...
Right. well Mrs un cannot value the tea she makes for me only for the happiness she derives from it because the happiness she derives comes not from t...
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html No, I'm not disregarding it, but I am denying that the satisfaction she gets is the motive she has. In fac...
It doesn't. It is well known that there are known unknowns the truth of which is already fixed, but as yet undiscovered. Being (existence) determines ...
What makes a value hedonistic? My own understanding of hedonism is that it is individualist. I am always and only concerned with my own happiness, so ...
Allow me to turn it around. It is completely normal in nature for a mother to sacrifice for her child. There is a genetic argument as to why this happ...
The cliched scenario is the man who throws himself on top of a hand grenade in the trench to save his fellows. It happens that someone will sacrifice ...
I really think there is no depth of depravity to which the man will not descend. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-blames-hospitals-for-co...
I'm not sure I understand, but perhaps I can bring things down, or up, to earth and see what you think. From my happy position of suffering no more th...
I've been thinking of trying to say something about this. I'm sorry if it annoys you, but it is part of my philosophy that there is more to life than ...
And for your mathematical intuition's education... https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/11/17/the-seduction-of-the-exponential-curve/#7dd1c5ff2...
Did someone say mindless? This is what leaderless looks like. It looks like a mindlessly spreading virus. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/27...
It's not a club with membership rules, subs or obligations. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. You don't have to, clapping your hands do...
A rather indirect observation, if I may say so. But the philosophy of the gaps will not do at all, because it is the philosophy of pragmatism that def...
It is the privilege of life to be responsive. I would not want to be happy at the death of a parent, or indifferent. Loss is the corollary of value. h...
Much confusion can be avoided by looking at what sort of thing a singularity is, followed by what sort of singularity one wishes to talk about. https:...
A Pragmatist Seagull. How effectively are you interacting with the world? Are you sure you're not missing something? If it is all we've got, then we'l...
Speaking of Darwin, the award goes to... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/liberty-university-reopens-despite-coronavirus-closure-calls-...
Yeah everybody dies, what's the fuss? Everybody's intelligence is limited, why go on about leaders? Shout it from the rooftops, I'm an uncaring genius...
I don't normally bother, but really, what a turnip! His fantasies have become completely irrelevant, as the virus ignores him and everyone else respon...
Absolutely. But of course the poorest will be hit hardest and fastest and are the most vulnerable to economic disruption. But this is not a reason to ...
Let's look then. The economy as fully functional and without lockdown results in 9 million deaths from starvation per year. It's a question as to whet...
How would that happen? I can see authorities wanting poor folk to sit home and starve. I can see how us not buying so many pairs of jeans can put poor...
Indeed. As usual, it is advantageous to be in a rich country where folks can afford to find mass graves distasteful. In such places as those, it's goi...
By the by, it seems to me that it would make good sense while the economy is in shut down and the society in lock down, that interest and rent for eve...
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