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There's no reason why gods couldn't exist without religion ... they just couldn't be the gods of religion.

It's generally immoral to lie because lying generally causes harm. Drugs are generally immoral because they cause harm too. Neither drugs nor lying ar...

An argument for the opposite would simply be the fact that children will run into the road and talk to strangers before they are taught not to. Schope...

Pain and pleasure can coincidence together but suffering and pleasure cannot. If you're suffering then your pain outweighs your pleasure. If you're in...

Lying is only bad when it causes harm. Lying usually causes harm but it still causes nowhere near as much harm as murder. Anyway, to deal with the OP'...

As David Benetar would have it: Suffering is bad and pleasure is not bad. One good example he gave is the fact that it's very much a good thing that t...

The OP is only describing one half of subjectivity/objectivity. Namely, the epistemological half. There's also the ontological half.

Causeless effects are not possible because if an effect has no cause it's by definition not an effect.

Conscious experience is the source of morals ... because something is moral/immoral if it causes happiness/unhappiness and happiness/unhappiness only ...

Opinions are only immoral in a consequentialist sense. Namely, if having certain beliefs/opinions have the consequence of causing us to harm others or...

"How do these people deal with this problem, because I never saw them deal with it. They usually just discuss the brain, Libet, neuronal levels etc. a...

"My first question is do you believe that the illusion of free will was a necessary evil for the advancement and survival of the human race?". No, bec...

We're conscious beings because consciousness itself is fundamental to being itself. Mind and matter are one and the same thing.