Acquiring herd immunity by being infected by the actual virus (as opposed to a vaccine) does not save people from dying. I have no idea how you think ...
One problem open political discourse might face is that there is some evidence that humans have some kind of "political bias", which is to say that as...
Everyone is aiming for eventual herd immunity. You just somehow seem to be of the opinion that it is better to have a few million people die to the vi...
A virus is barely a living thing. Without new hosts, it'd die out. But as I said, it's basically impossible to do because someone needs to keep the li...
I think you'll find most people here are perfectly capable to recognise who has the better argument regardless of the tone. For example, you conspicuo...
I literally just explained to you, and you agreed. So I am confused why you're now turning around and telling me that, no, we don't need a comparison ...
If literally everyone stayed in their house for two weeks, the virus would die out. Obviously, this isn't very practical. So we're left with less effe...
I don't know what you're referring to here, can you quote it? I have already explained that I think suffering is only relevant insofar as it affects p...
It was an analogy, to explain the principle. Does the universe do that, in your opinion? What's so hard to understand about the fact that I just don't...
But it is interesting to ask why that is, isn't it? People have extremely varying attitudes to different animals depending on culture, and almost no-o...
The comparison is hard to notice, because it's such a natural thing to do. But when you say "I wish this didn't happen to me", you're not wishing for ...
Yes. And it's predictable, too. But the responsibility for that harm doesn't lie with just anyone who causes it. It only attaches to specific acts, in...
I think the conclusion is somewhat similar, but the OP seems to be arguing from an utilitarian perspective that accepts the idea of objective, measura...
You're not reading it properly. I am not saying nested causation doesn't count. I am saying causation doesn't count, period. It's not enough to be mer...
What I am saying is "harm", in a moral sense, isn't simply you having a negative emotional response to something. If you trip over your own feet and f...
No, it won't. Or, more specifically, there is no capacity to harm people by making them exist. That's not harm. No moral subject is limited in it's ab...
But then, as I said, if the focus is on protecting people's ability to make their own decisions, there is no reason to have a rule that no-one benefit...
Are you living in a parallel reality? Can you give me a list of all states taken over in the 21st century by right-wing and left-wing extremists respe...
The first question that would need answering is just what kind of moral weight does a dog have? It's not self aware in any way we can recognise, so do...
That's actually a good analogy. The problem in the "falling tree" thought experiment is also one of communication, namely that it's unclear what "a so...
In line with what I have already written, I don't see how you could expect a sentence like "don't cause unnecessary suffering" (shortened for emphasis...
I don't really want to rehash all the same arguments again. It's just the disconnect that I find kinda fascinating. I believe you that you're honestly...
Kant is fine to just read directly if you're used to long and compex sentences and if you're fine with getting the gist of the philosophy rather than ...
Do you realize that you make equally, if not more sweeping assumptions about the people you interact with on this forum - their worldview, their hones...
I recognise this is your position, I just wanted to point out that it is, in my estimation, the source of the fundamental disagreement between natalis...
Are we? What is being "traded" exactly? This is at the core of the disagreement here, that one side views life as an option, like a game or some other...
Randall Munroe, the author of the xkcd webcomic did a calculation on how many unique english language tweets there are. According to the calculation t...
Is there a who? It seems unfounded to assume there is a personal intelligence behind the properties of the human mind. It's possible that there is, bu...
Is there a who? It seems unfounded to assume there is a personal intelligence behind the properties of the human mind. It's possible that there is, bu...
And here you have the answer why noone will seriously engage with your ideas: it's because you already think anyone who disagrees with you is either a...
It's kinda weird to assume a bunch of things about my opinions after I just asked you why you think everyone on the left is alike, or why you think th...
And you think the right wants that, and the left does not, because? I consider myself "on the left", and I don't want authoritarian eco-communism. So ...
It'd help if you didn't frame your views in ideological terms. You don't seem so much interested in creating a coalition to further your goal as you a...
Sounds like an application of the representativeness heuristic. We guess probabilities based on how easy we can come up of an example of a case. Remin...
Of course this comes up all the time, not least in court. I someone tells me that they genuinely thought the passport they bought from the guy at the ...
Do you mean temporarily? Otherwise not sure what you mean. How does Dr. Skeptic know that? What methods does he have access to that medical science do...
Fair enough, as far as a metaphysical explanation goes. Though I think it's important to not mix physical and metaphysical perspectives on this. On a ...
Well, it's going to require communication (I suppose you could stalk them, figure out where they live and quietly gather information, but that's rathe...
I think what @"Isaac" is trying to say is that you are very unlikely to change someone's mind in a non-professional conversation (like an internet for...
Oh? Now I am interested. Is there a less primitive tool out there? I am not quite sure what you're saying here. Do you not believe that, say, atoms ar...
Noone knows how common they are with any certainty, which is part of the reason why we should be pessimistic about them. The force of the overall argu...
Says who? Not true either in theory or in practice. The original left-right distinction was precisely between republicans and monarchists. Not accordi...
If only that were the case. Unfortunately it seems more like the response to covid is all about preserving the GDP. What's your definition of "a threa...
A public election fund would help. Doesn't at all eliminate the problem of lobbying and post-political careers, but it at least makes the actual elect...
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