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September 05, 2019 at 09:52
It's not implied anywhere - is it?
September 05, 2019 at 09:50
Will you or won't you propose a reasonable benefit of hate speech?
September 05, 2019 at 09:48
Propose a reasonable benefit of hate speech.
September 05, 2019 at 09:28
The abolition of gender would involve the abolition of psyche. Do you think these neophiles could pull it off?
September 05, 2019 at 08:05
And what's going to differentiate that sound ground from a belief?
September 05, 2019 at 06:13
Do please elaborate.
September 04, 2019 at 19:15
Have you tried like this? https://image.freepik.com/free-photo/woman-with-banana-smile_23-2147799031.jpg
September 04, 2019 at 19:09
Here's two ways to look at it. It's not an event in your life, as you're not living - life ends where death begins. It is an event in your life, but a...
September 04, 2019 at 19:00
This stupidity has been prevalent throughout history - it only appears to manifest more often now, for two reasons: One, your own involvement with the...
September 04, 2019 at 18:51
A stupid man and a lying man can be a great source of learning; both lucrative and bitter.
September 04, 2019 at 18:37
Then it would follow, as I've thought it through, that a door or gate or anything of the sort - is a passage. That said, language is known to mutate -...
September 04, 2019 at 18:32
Now you're going to spark another ethics thread, about cross-fertilization and cannibalism.
September 03, 2019 at 18:50
When you say 'open the door' - are you opening up the barricade and inspecting its insides or are you moving the barricade and opening up a passage?
September 03, 2019 at 18:06
A door is a passage. The thing with the knob is a movable wall.
September 03, 2019 at 17:27
If one is able to reproduce, one has the right to have children - but whether one is right in having children, is discerned by other qualities - not m...
September 03, 2019 at 15:53
Take a deep breath and realise that Hindu culture precedes Persia.
September 03, 2019 at 14:56
Neither am I; though it doesn't matter. That said, one goes hand in hand with the other - whether it's ancient Theology contrived as Mystical Teaching...
September 03, 2019 at 14:41
The message of Genesis isn't actually that humans screwed up listening to the Devil - and neither is the Devil implied within the Genesis story. The D...
September 03, 2019 at 13:44
Funnily enough I wasn't asking about Aristotle, I was asking you - and without fail, you produce a tangent and no answer. Now here's a little lesson f...
September 03, 2019 at 13:04
It's not an impossible answer, it's an omission on your part. Similar to the popularly phrased question: Would you rather be rich or happy? - it's mis...
September 03, 2019 at 12:09
A machine is a predetermined compound of abilities - so would you equate man with machine? In addition, explain having laws - as they would have no sw...
September 03, 2019 at 07:33
If I may add, maybe those people are starving as punishment for some crime. A wise man once said: Before you pull someone out of the well, consider wh...
September 03, 2019 at 07:14
They are not so certain - they are a paranoid assumption based in a hopeless state of mind. This very assumption is what leads to feral children - it ...
September 03, 2019 at 07:05
What about the option where neither happens? Even if it is an improbability, it's not an impossibility, is it?
September 02, 2019 at 18:40
The whole post is oozing hypocrisy. Okay, boy - if and when you get to the tender old age when there is no one left to visit or care for you and you b...
September 02, 2019 at 17:00
First off, the choice is only 100% of suffering if you're an utter wimp who can't defend himself and is scared of dying; to add to which - your assump...
September 02, 2019 at 15:40
So your rights outweigh the rights of the child you were so vehemently defending moments ago. Point in fact, you're just a narcissist who doesn't care...
September 02, 2019 at 08:30
Then I'm not imposing natalism - I'm simply a conduit for the child; which in due time after garnering enough experience, can decide whether life is w...
September 02, 2019 at 07:35
Make up your mind already. Can I or can't I impose existence on the nonexistent?
September 02, 2019 at 07:09
They don't exist and you forced them not to exist. Then I can't impose either natalism or antinatalism. Keep running this hamster wheel over and over,...
September 02, 2019 at 07:02
Then I'm not imposing and natalism isn't wrong; and we go full circle.
September 02, 2019 at 06:56
If it's wrong, then don't impose antinatalism - as you have neither your unborn nor your newborn offering consent.
September 02, 2019 at 06:48
No children - no future; thus the children are the future and its hope rests with the them. Look around you. How malicious human history has been and ...
September 02, 2019 at 06:46
It's laden with hypocrisy and cowardice. Someone refuses to end their life prematurely but insists on denying a newborn life on behalf of an unborn. B...
September 02, 2019 at 06:07
You can supply me with all the whiny rhetoric you wish, but it would be like arguing sharks don't exist just because you've never seen any. You're usi...
September 01, 2019 at 12:13
History shows plenty of examples otherwise. Rotten meat being bad for ingestion is a clear cut one. It is contentious; let's not fool ourselves.
September 01, 2019 at 12:05
That's an incorrect bias, as it firstly doesn't have to be invented, secondly it would be proposed, not invented, and lastly an innate understanding i...
September 01, 2019 at 11:57
I haven't. I told you, and you can quote me, it's an innate understanding with basis in observations that should be plainly obvious. To use the ship e...
September 01, 2019 at 11:31
It's not a funny feeling but a logical observation. Like how ships traveling behind the horizon and back would imply the world is rounded.
September 01, 2019 at 10:50
A fully determined world is fully mechanical; it doesn't support will.
September 01, 2019 at 10:26
Only having children can be either ethical or unethical; the opposite is void. The ethics of childbirth likewise do not fall down to conception, but d...
September 01, 2019 at 10:17
Simulations of Consciousness - otherwise known as NPCs.
August 31, 2019 at 19:40
That's fine.
August 31, 2019 at 18:59
It's not that the puppet would possess free will, it's that the puppet is an extension of the puppeteer who possesses free will, and thus that free wi...
August 31, 2019 at 18:55
Whether free will is a misnomer, I'm not sure; but at least I personally believe it isn't, as it is a compound of Freedom and Will, which should be fa...
August 31, 2019 at 18:26
Quite the opposite. I'm saying that guesswork does have a basis in logic, as it is reasoning about something. Illogical guesswork would be more akin t...
August 31, 2019 at 16:24
:ok:
August 31, 2019 at 15:47
https://i.imgur.com/LtlMFKi.png
August 31, 2019 at 15:14
It was partly non-determined due to a lack of necessity. Until it happened, it was in the state prescribed to Schrödinger's cat - in that it equally c...
August 31, 2019 at 14:26