I'm not convinced by your position. I would want to be, but I'm not. This is a peculiar thing about you - you decry materialism, but yet are keenly in...
Yeah me too! To me, it shows merely the thirst for freedom of a few. It's not many who rebel against legalism within societies/places where legalism s...
This is incoherent. If something redeems existence, say Love, then it follows that existence isn't ultimately an evil, because it can be redeemed. But...
YES! Indeed, great spot. This is very close to what I have been saying about Descartes' evil demon hypothesis (and other global skepticism matters) fo...
No, facts are not tautologies, simply because facts represent things which could be otherwise. Nonexistence couldn't possibly be existence, and thus i...
This is a tautology. Tautologies are empty of meaning, they don't say anything about their subject matter, except that they don't say anything. What y...
Perhaps. Although I think that both levels need to be managed in concordance and harmony with each other. In other words it would be possible to have ...
Our disagreement revolves around this. How is it possible for something that doesn't exist to avoid, passively? Do you say non-existent pink elephants...
I mean, what's so bad about suffering that makes all of life not worth having? Would you choose not to attend a great dinner just because you'll have ...
What's so bad about suffering? It's part of life, I fully acknowledge that the child will suffer, that's unavoidable. But life is worth living, at lea...
Oh I see your point. I misunderstood. It's choosing to gamble only if I have any reason to think that a genetic defect is a realistic possibility in t...
If I know the severe genetic defect is certain, then yes I will want to avoid it. But if it's just a possibility with nothing to suggest it's actually...
Also Noble Dust I want to ask you a question as well. How should we deal with decadence as a society? It seems to me that if we get rid of cruelty we ...
The point I'm making is that politics is inherent in the subjects that we are discussing. We cannot discuss them without our discussion having politic...
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But then life wouldn't be like a box of chocolates anymore... ;) No, I would want him/her to be the baby of me and my wife. Part of the joy of having ...
I don't know - most men from what I see are attracted to women who are perceived, by society, to be worth being with. It's not really a rational affai...
Again, see this is what I was telling you in the other thread. Every time you come up with something like this as a way to avoid discussion and explai...
Not only. Eating beef for example raises the chances of colon cancer - that's why for example I never eat it. And there's many other foods that should...
No - as far as I see most people aren't fit and capable to raise the next generation, and yet they still do. That's why we're organised in society and...
I should add Noble Dust, that my favorite Christian alive today is this guy - the most powerful out of all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiEBMhjyZk...
In my experience - not in a marriage - but in a relationship - she chooses some things, I choose others, depending on what each of us is best at. But ...
It's a good book on Buddhism. My favorite resource on Buddhism though is this blog: https://essenceofbuddhism.wordpress.com/ The absolute best out of ...
Okay so if I am opposed what happens? Because I can guarantee that I would be opposed. Furthermore, what happens if I want a child that another woman ...
I read that, the only interesting bit that I found in there was the discussion of the relationship between Freudian theory and the central nervous sys...
You did say it, but it obviously is about politics, so we shouldn't cover that up. We should admit to it. We play politics me and you when we discuss ...
Why then don't I have that choice? Why does she have the choice to say I want a child with these genes, and I don't? And moreover she gets to put her ...
What difference does it make - as Hillary Clinton would ask you - if such is the norm or not? >:O Okay, you go do that with your wife then. I think I ...
>:O You ask some very strange questions my friend. I'd find it very peculiar indeed if your wife said that to you and you had no problem with it. The ...
If she's saying she won't have a child with me because of a character defect I have, then that is insulting. It's one thing that I have a character de...
I remember the joke (which proves this point) of the blind man who goes begging to Jesus to give him his sight back. So Jesus performs the miracle. Th...
Sure but what does that have to do with my response? She certainly isn't telling me that I have a character fault and therefore she won't have a child...
What's stopping you then? :s If you really believe that, you can always start with yourself. I don't understand this position at all. If you really be...
That's unreal. I want my child to be mine, out of my own flesh and blood if possible, not out of another's. To have a wife who says she loves me, and ...
Any totalitarian means or system which treats people as animals with no ability to choose for themselves is wrong. Eugenics is such a system, and thus...
I don't have an answer to that (and I doubt the answers others provided). It's like asking me why I believe there's other minds. It's self-evident to ...
But if anything, all this would mean is that God is obsessed with human well-being - because what you eat, how you dress, your sexual preferences, and...
You're politically independent and yet when the Right wins there is a problem (seemingly) and yet, when the Left was winning, no problem. When Obama w...
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