You may be exaggerating to make a point...but this makes very little sense? So every state in America should seek independence? What about each city w...
That would be a possible reason, but it would be wrong in this case. We can do better than that. How about because I wanted to prove you wrong? But no...
I am not sure I am getting all this...so I am going to go through it, and you can tell me the parts I am missing: Makes sense so far. Still good. I ju...
I know you are exaggerating to make a point...but this is not describing any average person anywhere but Monaco. I live in Southern California and thi...
This MIGHT be true for someone who is unaware of the meaning of what you said above. However, once I am aware of this tendency...I can certainly choos...
So there is not even the appearance of free will? As someone who does not wholly believe in free will, I still find this very weird. Why would I not b...
Don't forget that he is one of the greatest and most important individuals to ever live if you are really sticking to: If "all" sin brings greater goo...
Well, I may have gone too far, haha. It seems safe to say that fixing cars is more practical than philosophy. But thanks for understanding my point th...
No one seems too worried about this bit. But I have NEVER (before) heard of a simulated universe that is the whole the universe. That doesn't even mak...
And I don't think most people are capable of figuring out what Aristarchus and Eratosthenes did. They can be told the answer that those guys discovere...
Sorry for the delayed response... Hard to argue with that. I view it as useful for forming our political opinions...but those only matter at rare mome...
Ok, that makes a lot more sense than some of my guesses :smile: I think you are onto something in that I think most of the world is more interested in...
As someone who is very happy to see this particular president being impeached, I feel like this is a problem. Most of the people who currently support...
Well thanks anyway...interesting stuff. I think it must a specific species of cichlid because google offers surprisingly little help...I am sure it wi...
100% agree. One of my biggest fears is that I will freeze in the one moment I get to truly show moral conviction (I'd even LIKE TO THINK that I would ...
Well that is entirely fair. My brain gets stuck in a certain perspective sometimes, and stops considering obvious things like this :grimace: This is t...
I can go do a bunch of research, but figured you may have a quick answer. How are more of the slender males born? Can the large male's sperm lead to b...
So attitude/intention matters more than action? Their actions are identical. Bob has the baby for money. Mary has the baby for biological drive reason...
I agree. When I said "this type" I meant any system that allowed for those sorts of justifications. I am happy to admit that I will never live up to m...
and thanks to @"ZzzoneiroCosm" as well for trying to straighten me out...gave me one more opportunity to see I was misreading...but I just doubled dow...
Oops! I need to learn to read. I missed the "not" in your previous statement (all scientific statement are NOT a priori). Suddenly it all makes sense....
Fair enough, but I would imagine there are some people out there whose thinking is not much better than an addict's (not much clearer or less tied to ...
Thanks. I was just using definitions before. But for me, that page would suggest that I am right and that many scientific statement are based on obser...
Well in this case it was just a charity that would encourage people to not have kids. Surely their are many organizations in our society (businesses, ...
I am not a fan of this type of moralizing. One could define their behavior to be perfectly moral no matter how one behaves. Murder is wrong. Unless th...
This brings up a question that I think you may have a good quick answer for (it is off-topic, so I understand being ignored): How are scientific state...
perfect...I may not have been quite so polite :grin: I think it is the idea of children "teaching" adults that they found irrational (how many adults ...
I think I am in between, personally, I plan to have NO children. But I do not feel an urge to convince others. And intellectually, I can see merits to...
This may be what @"schopenhauer1" was getting at, but isn't Mary in an ends justifying means situation as well? For Bob, having a child is the means t...
Fantastic. That is always my goal...but I often get so engaged with the argument that I forget I am talking to another human :grimace:. I agree. I oft...
That is certainly fair. I just don't want the "most cryptic philosophers" being taught in an introductory (or anything at the high school level) philo...
Ugh, you are so right here it hurts. I actually have my teaching credentials in history. They haven't driven me from education yet...but I sure have r...
Great stuff. Unfortunately, education trends are going in the exact opposite direction. We (to be fair, I only know the American system well) are aban...
Dang...I have never been believed so readily, thanks :smile: And sorry if all of my writing sounds as snarky as that line you quoted (I am sure much o...
Agreed. But most people who identify as happy are unlikely to say their life is full of struggles. For some people completing a math problem is a stru...
Damn. No (at least not more than a quick mention), but it sounds like I need to check it out. Seems like he is trying to answer my question :smile: Th...
Well I am happy to concede that. I think most of this thread (not just with you), that is the point I have been making (and since that is the point yo...
Yes, I was a bit dismissive in my response. But other than the tone, I stand by it...I will use a line from your previous paragraph as an example: Jee...
Ok, fair point...for the sake of a basic conversation. Sure, humans are more complex than ants. But I would hesitate to say that humans are more compl...
Until a meteor hits the part of the planet full of team-working people :grimace: . I think teamwork should be prioritized as matter of morals (I can't...
Hmmm. I would think it is both...and neither...depending on context. Evolution wise, it would be difficult to measure "superior" species. Wouldn't org...
If a person makes 25k where cost of living is low, and they don't have kids, they can live a pretty comfortable life (rent, food, plus money for inter...
But won't some things offend Goldilocks that do not offend me? For the greater good we might decide that no porridge can be over 100 degrees Fahrenhei...
Can we just analyze capitalism for strengths and weaknesses and try to regulate away the weaknesses? A whole new system would be great, but what do we...
I agree with the sentiment. I worry that we (or many people) will disagree on what exactly is "unnecessarily offending", "too selfish", or "too altrui...
I think the first world has hit saturation on capitalism's contributions to the greater good. Africa can probably still add to its greater good with c...
I could just as easily state that society is just emerging from millennia of harm caused by people believing in objective oughts. Objective oughts cre...
Maybe we just need to introduce more people to the pleasures of nihilism (objective nihilism seems a fact, but subjectively we can choose any purpose ...
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