This is false. If steak doesn't exist, then I am abstaining from it every single moment by default - it doesn't exist, how could I even eat it and thu...
:s So if steak doesn't exist, I cannot not eat it? That's absurd. I can and do abstain from all things which don't exist by default. I simply cannot n...
So if steak doesn't exist, I cannot not eat steak? :s Once again, am I doing something TO IT? And yes, you are saying something correct. I am using th...
No, my abstinence is the means, not steak... I don't understand how that isn't clear to you. This is a strawman. Read my post again. Am I doing someth...
It certainly doesn't, because again, what you're using to pleasure yourself is a racket and some balls. In judo you're training. Training is different...
Not at all. Your proposition is a tautology once it is unpacked, and for this reason tells us nothing. If not eating steak is being moral, then one do...
Is steak a means of abstaining from steak? What kind of nonsense is this? If you don't eat steak, then you're using steak as a means of being moral (i...
:-} Right, if you don't want them to pleasure you, why aren't you stopping them? And if you do want them to pleasure you, then how are you not using t...
No, not at all. Your opponent is in no way like a tool that you're using to play tennis with... your opponent isn't your racket. Your racket is the me...
In my own honest and fucking humble opinion, there are two kinds of women. Those who are worth attracting, and those who aren't worth attracting. The ...
How am I using another as a means to an end when I play tennis? What is the end, and what is the means? Is the other person even the means through whi...
Hmm - so character is always good? Someone can't have a deficient or evil character? Because if love actualises the character, this implies that the c...
*facepalm* - no he's not confused at all. If it's necessary to kill the animal, that still doesn't make it moral - that's what he's saying. The questi...
Amoral probably. He didn't disagree with me when I replied to him: The question of immorality and of necessity are logically independent in the way he...
Well he is saying that it is immoral in all cases. However in some cases it is necessarily immoral - when I need to kill it to survive. In other cases...
I think you misunderstand. He's using "unnecessarily" in a non-logical sense, which is why I didn't get it at first either. If I'm starving, and I kil...
The Chinese Daoists understood this better than everyone else. Virtue cannot fail to bring about worldly success - in the long run. Sure, you may die ...
What is character? Is character something one comes with at birth and stays unchanged through life, or is character grown and developed? I've been ask...
There's also another thing, that some people know that it is wrong and still do it. That's what Kierkegaard is digging into in the second part of Sick...
Yes, this is treating others as means to an end, instead of end-in-themselves as Kant wrote. Also it's not the same I believe with regards to food. Fo...
It's more about treating others as means to some other end that is the problem - that's what objectification ultimately is. Treating people as tools t...
:-} Where is Rush Limbaugh? https://youtu.be/krudM4kHZt4?t=3m40s I disagree. It has largely been a matter of social class instead of gender. Poor wome...
This is an interesting subject. I don't deny past lives, and I'm quite open to the possibility, just that, one life would have no bearing on the other...
I think I would add Unenlightened, that it's not just fear that is used. The whip is just half of the equation, the other half is the carrot. He who c...
From other people, from animals that may attack our communities, etc. Because they are ignorant, as I have said. But how would their ignorance imply o...
Why do you think this follows? We need a criminal code, police, army etc. for practical reasons of protecting ourselves. I honestly think that if the ...
So yes, the enlightened know something that the hoi polloi don't - they know that there is no emancipation - no emancipation is needed, just understan...
How could they become enlightened if they aren't so already? Do they jump from one reality to another transcendent one? They are ignorant of the fact ...
Yes, but given the Mahayana non-duality of Nirvana and Samsara - one is already enlightened, otherwise they could never "become" enlightened. It's jus...
Have you read John Gray's Straw Dogs? The belief that we have progressed is merely infantilism. We just have better sticks and stones today (technolog...
Hmm - personally I tend to just be open to the future, hopeful, but not expecting. But I would say I'm certainly hopeful in my attitude towards the fu...
Surely, but once again, at least I myself saw no indication that he was ever unfaithful to his mistress (whom he engaged in much sexual relations with...
More importantly, I don't remember anything actually of Augustine being part of a Platonic commune where men and women were not limited to exclusive s...
What's the point of the Nietzsche comic? Seems like nothing to do with what I wrote :P But in my view the ego is healthy. It only becomes unhealthy wh...
?? What do you mean what will be "better" than the suffering you are currently experiencing? I agree about those who "incessantly" do so - that's a de...
If you mean that doing so doesn't diminish your own suffering or make it easier to handle and relate to, then yes I agree. But I only use it as an ana...
But certainly what they're looking for isn't masturbation or merely orgasm. The horny beasts out there are looking to dominate the will of their partn...
Rumour has it that she was loving it more than him >:O Well we're all suffering more or less but "immensely"? You can suffer from time to time immense...
I'm sure that the act itself isn't a desire though. You may mean that a desire leads to the act though. Why would this be necessarily immoral? What do...
Well I took your saying "fuck bitches" as equivalent to simply having sex with women. Augustine didn't actually fuck prostitutes. He fucked bitches th...
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