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I don't find this line of reasoning convincing. The subject of the sentence you're examining here is "the party convicted". So the rest of the sentenc...

What confuses me is having no notion of a "subjective" reality that every individual lives in. After all, any information we process must be in our he...

The answer depends on exactly what you mean when you say "judge". The first question is whether or not we are actually judging people, in their entire...

I have a number of problems with that approach. First of all you don't seem to be making a distinction between people and things, that is subjects and...

We have a couple of good ideas about how life came about, though we cannot decide on a specific one with certainty. We aren't clueless about it. As fo...

That doesn't make any sense to me. But I lean towards a constructivist stance on reality. It would apply to them if they asked themselves the same que...

So long as you recognize it's talking about your subjective reality. As a metaphor, the reasoning for the simulation theory imagines every human that ...

This is a valid objection. What I had in mind was the "pop culture" version of mind reading, where you literally hear someone's thoughts the way they ...

Well you'd be missing the qualia. It's probably impossible to directly read thoughts. Thoughts are bound up in the individual experience of whoever ha...

It only sounds like the work of an intelligent agent if we apply the Copernican principle. If we apply the anthropic principle, the mystery entirely d...

We could reformulate the simulation hypothesis as "your sensory input is modified by some intelligence outside of yourself".

But the story doesn't illustrate that. The feelings the child has are real. So are the memories of the event. I think the world would look very differ...

We could debate the exact debarkation between intentional negligence and deliberate harm here, but for the purposes of theodicy, the distinction is mo...

That's begging the question though. If war contributes greatly to suffering, is it "stopping evil"?

But that still means the grief exists. It's real. We wouldn't talk about "overcoming" a mere fiction. So in the context of this thread, the question i...

Oh, so what are the other steps towards overcoming, say, loosing your family in an earthquake?

That doesn't help the people who are suffering. Stopping a gratuitous evil "emits" a good by definition.

The forum seems to have eaten your answer to me, and your answer to Nosferatu is now actually in front of his post.

Right. I can see why the simulation hypothesis wouldn't make any sense to you from that perspective. But, even if you are your senses, you can still g...

Isn't what we experience always simply in our heads? Our experience is real whether or not we are being simulated. I don't quite understand what you m...

So the first problem here is that "logical" is a property of propositions, not of things. Logic doesn't tell reality how to behave. The second problem...

The simulation hypothesis is a new take on an old question: is what I experience real. You can't ask that question for other people, because you only ...

That's contradictory. If you argue that some things just cannot be done, you have to drop the "omni" in "omnipotent". God doesn't need to change my th...

If God is omnipotent, then it must be possible for God to create a world that has free will, and no evil, no? It's sufficient for the evil to exist in...

The simulation hypothesis is a self-sorting problem. As the name implies, it only applies to yourself. It asks whether or not what you, personally, ex...

That you're all just not reading properly, of course. :razz: If I get the facts wrong, I'll get the wrong results, even if I apply the correct moral r...

I have this weird sense of deja vu. Didn't we have a similar situation a while back, where my stance was confusing to you both? Anyways, to clarify I ...

Well for one I'd say we need to define what we mean by "right". If we mean a moral right the sentence is just redundant. If we mean a legal right it d...

Personally, I wouldn't structure it that way. In my mind, a single action, with a specific intent, can be moral or immoral. Generalizations like "Kill...

Self Defense would be an easy example.

It's not that you could have a right to an immoral behaviour. It's that a right you have might make an otherwise immoral behaviour moral under the cir...

Possibly, though I am not Sure whether there is such a thing as an outlet for behaviour. Repeating a behaviour that you find rewarding will usually re...

The term "right" isn't usually rigorously confined to positivist legal rights. There is a more general notion of "moral rights", as in basic human rig...

Could you rephrase that? I find this sentence confusing.

If it's immoral, then it follows that they weren't right. But it's not inconceivable that states rights might influence a question of morality. For ex...

What's potential, exactly? Some physical notion of cause and effect? A value judgement? So does any given combination of sperm and egg. Can you demons...

This specific incoherence is a result of the incoherence of special and general relativity and Quantum physics. In quantum physics, space and time are...

You're on the right track here, I think. But the fine-tuning argument does not rely on there being a long chain of events that, cumulative, is unlikel...

And I was merely pointing out that making this about "hard working legal immigrants" Vs "illegal immigrants" is misleading, because hard work is not w...

But the time and effort spend going through the process isn't the reason one is allowed to immigrate. And, on the flipside, the reason people enter th...

That's a weird juxtaposition. Legal immigration to the US is not based on the comparative "time and effort" put in.

I think it's close. I would add some notion of self-actualisation, i.e. free will is the ability to set future goals in accordance to a set of self-gi...

In my mind, perfection is a relation between one entity (not necessarily something physical) and an idea. A tool can be "perfect" for the job if what ...

This response was intended less as a definition of free will and more as a baseline for such a definition. The idea I was trying to communicate is tha...

Not really. I mean this example is one of the least weird examples of infinity. What makes it seem wrong to you? Perhaps what might help here is consi...

Perhaps they think compromise and moderation are for pussies. Or they think "progressives" want to destroy men and replace whites. Or they think that ...

Quite apart from whether or not I think your analogy is apt, you're not going to get far in treating addiction with rationality and evidence. Addicts ...

Thanks. Given your explanation, I wholly agree :up:

Is this based on some resarch you're familiar with or are you extrapolating? My main point for asking in this vein is less that I disagree with the id...

That's a very weird distraction you're mounting there. Anyways, I don't think anyone outside the alt-right, with the exception of the people mocking t...