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Exactly - if the actual cause of death was proven to be a specific act committed by the doctor, then what was initially thought to be ‘murder’ could b...
December 12, 2019 at 13:52
I’m wondering where you got the idea that I think existence has a goal. I’ve said that I believe existence has an underlying impetus, but that’s not t...
December 12, 2019 at 07:58
I’m aware of that. If someone murders someone else, you can trace it back to a single, conscious act of force against an actual existence, which rende...
December 12, 2019 at 06:48
I agree that our being born should not be declared evidence that ‘procreation is good/necessary’. In order for our being born to matter, our own exist...
December 12, 2019 at 02:54
What exactly do you believe constitutes the ‘force’ of a child coming into existence? Is it labour? Is it the whole pregnancy? Is it conception? You s...
December 12, 2019 at 02:20
If we perceive something ‘wrong’ in our experience of reality, then there is something wrong with our perception of it - not with the experience or wi...
December 12, 2019 at 02:01
There is nothing in this statement that can be absolutely known for certain. The symbol > refers to a logical value relation that is dependent on the ...
December 12, 2019 at 01:14
An individual is as much a concept as existence. That we only talk about humans as having a ‘will’ and then prioritise that will is a symptom of anthr...
December 11, 2019 at 23:39
So are you saying that when an individual subscribes to an ethical system, they bind themselves to that system and are therefore no longer in a positi...
December 11, 2019 at 22:32
Just because I agree that procreation is not a good choice doesn’t mean I would refer to myself as an antinatalist. Antinatalism argues from a moral s...
December 11, 2019 at 00:01
You can argue about the existence of potential or possible persons, but this is what you’re referring to when you talk about a ‘future’ person (or the...
December 10, 2019 at 23:25
Thank you for laying it out for me. My issue is with the ethical perspective, not with antinatalism, as such. So I disagree with with your first premi...
December 10, 2019 at 00:00
It may be possible, but that doesn’t end existence as a whole. And I agree with you that we shouldn’t procreate. What I don’t agree with is that the i...
December 09, 2019 at 23:31
The whole idea of ‘force’ is incongruous with increasing awareness, connection and collaboration. If you are upholding these as principles, then you c...
December 09, 2019 at 23:21
I agree that we can’t absolutely prove anything - but I can be certain about some things. Not because of experiences, thoughts, definitions, etc, but ...
December 09, 2019 at 14:35
I’m not suggesting there is a specific path we, or even you specifically, have to follow - if that’s what you mean by ‘the Way’. If you make a decisio...
December 09, 2019 at 14:25
no, I don’t assume that reality is collaborating at all. In most situations, the rest of the universe is only capable of a very limited collaboration....
December 09, 2019 at 12:16
What I have written here is my expression of what I can be certain of. That’s not to say the words are true. What those words mean for me is true. I c...
December 09, 2019 at 11:47
The way I see it, the first two absolute, fundamental truths are: 1. Something exists; which leads us to also be certain that 2. Something is aware of...
December 09, 2019 at 11:07
Individually, yes - and I’ve already acknowledged that. But existence cannot be nullified in itself. Why do you continue to exist, when you believe th...
December 09, 2019 at 09:14
Refer to my answer to khaled above. How do you think we make choices, and how do we allow others to make choices for us? I’m not referring to an outsi...
December 09, 2019 at 03:57
Existence cannot be nullified by what exists. I agree that we should not procreate. I disagree with the ethical perspective that supports it here. Neg...
December 09, 2019 at 03:10
I’m not denying that rooting ethics in autonomy is the only thing that ensures everyone acts with respect to autonomy. I’m arguing that autonomy is no...
December 09, 2019 at 01:31
‘The game’ is existence, not just procreation. So rendering the game of existence unplayable IS an issue. Determining a different set of rules doesn’t...
December 08, 2019 at 15:16
Then it isn’t trial and error. It’s more like a limiting factor on a particular process.
December 08, 2019 at 13:59
I meant how does it know what result is desired before the process of trial and error begins?
December 08, 2019 at 13:37
Trial and error is a process of problem solving that implies a desired result. What do you think is this ‘result’, and how does ‘natural selection’ kn...
December 08, 2019 at 13:27
No, not through ‘natural selection’ - that’s the point. What do you think that ‘natural selection’ is?
December 08, 2019 at 13:20
No, it didn’t. I don’t need to repeat what @"Metaphysician Undercover" has explained so clearly. A nemesis is an inescapable agent of someone’s or som...
December 08, 2019 at 13:08
My point is that the rules as ‘agreed’ cannot be applied strictly because this renders the game unplayable. If you believe there is a game to played, ...
December 08, 2019 at 12:50
Well, I don’t see life as the evolution of dead matter, considering it wasn’t alive. But I’m not sure how you figure that life is the nemesis of dead ...
December 08, 2019 at 12:06
In my view, it’s not natural selection, but the creative impetus, that displays its brilliance in us. We’ve developed an unprecedented capacity to int...
December 08, 2019 at 11:14
I think that human comprehension relies, more than we’re often willing to admit, on a collaborative relationship with other human as well as non-human...
December 08, 2019 at 10:24
Yeah, I didn’t explain that well. Scratch that. I’ll need to think about it some more.
December 08, 2019 at 10:03
What happens to the autonomy of the person to whom you act aggressively to prevent the harm? Autonomy for all isn’t possible - even if absolutely ever...
December 08, 2019 at 09:59
I don’t see it that way. I may have some false starts at trying to explain how I see this, so bear with me. But in my view, natural selection is not s...
December 07, 2019 at 10:29
‘Survival of the fittest’ is a Darwinian notion of purpose, not impetus. It refers to the effect of natural selection in a way that suggests ‘survive ...
December 07, 2019 at 06:12
Evolution depends on random mutations: on a gene’s potential for change. But natural selection is dependent on the potential for survival in the manif...
December 07, 2019 at 05:15
Humans are tools of creation, but our awareness of the creative impetus enables us to also be conscious participants in creation at various levels. We...
December 07, 2019 at 04:50
So you wouldn’t say that Darwinism assumes a purpose to survive, dominate and procreate?
December 07, 2019 at 03:24
Well, I don’t believe any ethical demands are valid from an objective standpoint. Ethical demands fail to take into account the perspective of the per...
December 07, 2019 at 03:15
That’s not what I’m saying here. If you say that natural selection operates at this level, then why would the rest of the universe that doesn’t suppor...
December 07, 2019 at 02:20
So your ultimate aim is to achieve non-existence? This, I think, is an extremist version of Buddhism - one based on a misunderstanding of Buddha’s tea...
December 07, 2019 at 02:02
The existence of a ‘Prime Mover’ points to the limitations of language structure, not to reality. We cannot have a verb, an action, without something ...
December 07, 2019 at 01:25
How does that change anything you do, though?
December 07, 2019 at 01:08
That’s a common viewpoint. Nagel’s ‘Mind and the Cosmos’ argues, however that Darwin’s natural selection is a flawed perspective. The book has been cr...
December 07, 2019 at 01:03
They’re concepts, and they refer to the different aspects of reality or existence - which are also concepts. The structures of our conceptualisation d...
December 07, 2019 at 00:34
So am I to understand that your aim is to convince others to subscribe to a system of behaviour that is limited by such demands - but not because thos...
December 06, 2019 at 15:42
I’m not sure that we do, though. While I agree that energy and cause and effect constitute a four-dimensional aspect of reality, I would argue that th...
December 06, 2019 at 15:24
Non-living elements of the universe - rocks, planets, water, air, etc.
December 06, 2019 at 11:49