You are saying that we ought to stay consistent, and keep the disembodied existences of pigs also horribly crowded? Maybe the vats should be placed ve...
I think ethics could be manipulated with one tool (if you only subscribe to one school's teachings) and with the same one tool you'd manipulate, say, ...
There is contradiction when you consider relevance. If you discount relevance, there is no contradiction. The relevance exists because the two countri...
Ethics is not a tool. It is a branch of philosophy, and many different schools of ethics may exist. Much like aesthetics may have different schools, a...
In my tool box there are only four tools: reason, logic, intuition, and common sense. I don't know who has other tools in their tool boxes. Some have ...
There is one situation. It is both good and not good at the same time, but not at the same respect. Does this constitute a contradiction? I am now not...
I did not know this. Honestly. Sorry. I live in a world where left-handedness is a matter of fact, like red-headedness or having buck teeth or a lisp....
With regard to intolerance: there are convictions that one is not going to give up on. This is called "spine" by the stubborn, and "intolerant" by the...
True about the labour-saving stuff, except of course in the Capitalist production systems where efficiency of production meant better profits. In this...
I indeed said "no uniform treatment" because they told me sometime in school that one has to make the reader work-- one has to make the reader also th...
The joke was not stemmed for me from a disbelief that in Latin "sinister" means left-handed. The joke to me was stemmed in the connection of an ancien...
Pantagruel, I read your last post here, where you try to separate ethics as a non-self-serving good thing. OVERTLY not self-serving. But there are at ...
that's part of the problem, Pattern-Chaser, and a big problem: good as a qualifier is hopelessly relative. Even among humans. The other part of it is ...
Pntagruel, I wish you to consider this point in my thiniking, which I hadn't mentioned until now. People do unselfish, so-called good things for other...
You're right. I had said free will was a Christian invention. Later, and please note my correcting myself, I said I did not know who invented free wil...
Thanks for the answer, Pantagruel. Your answer hinges, it seems to me, what's "good" or "right" and what's "wrong". What's good in and by itself? Love...
What? You are telling me what to say and what not to say? Aren't we (meaning you) a bit presumptious in believing you can be calling the shots? This i...
Koitei means "Fuckers". In Greek. I derived "coitea" from it. So i burn in hell? Or maybe your Greek-English dictionary does not contain all the Greek...
... because theoretical trumps evidential, unless evidential contradicts theoretical. "My thesis" had already been theoretical... i only reiterated it...
1. "These men are called "Arsenokoitei" (I. Cor. 6:9) Generation after generation of translators tried to paraphrase this term for it is one of extrem...
Thanks, Mark! I think fuck would be coitea, not Pornea, but that's good too in my books. Paul in the Greek version of the New Testament condemns the A...
... and the provincial superior court judge from the snow grooming machine at a ski slope. This is not a joke. A friend of mine was handed down a guil...
Well, there you go. (Hehe.) So... how is your species working out? I was asked in several occasions in the past by very serious people which planet I ...
all langauge is symbolic, and all symbols have secondary, tertiary, etc. symbolism. If a language translator translates perfectly, then it just was su...
I think you need to hone your own personal definition of what comprises a proof, and get it more in line with the way the rest of the gang here uses t...
A machine translator was given the task to turn the following sentence to Russian, then back to English. The original English sentence read, "The spir...
Obviously you are some relation to Jesus the Christ. It is statistically highly unlikely that you'd find yourself in a position where you could save l...
Antinatalists are trying to save the world form overpopulation. Antinatalism is the key to prevent the complete destruction of mankind and possibly of...
"Love wisdom" in ancient Greece may have had a more profane or vulgar connotation. They may have meant, "Fuck wisdom." Meaning, to the heck with wisdo...
A resounding YES! People can agree to speak in negative, or negative denying terms (lies) when they want to affirm, confirm, or state things. "I did n...
So it's a new word, antinatalism. There is another new word: pro-suffering. Anti-baby. Pro-death. Anti-life. Pro-green. Anti-john, pro-rape. Anti-sex,...
Theoretically, all humans are free of responsibility but they still get punished if they do some no-no or boo-boo. In fact, it's not god that punishes...
Nobody invented free will. It still is not existent. I don't know who came up with the notion first. All I know is that Christians use it extensively ...
"In what capacity did God exist before religion came about, if at all? How do we know this?" In my humble opinion, before religions' appearance on Ear...
I agree, with the addition that the only difference between religious fundamentalists and atheist fundamentalists is the yoke R.F.'s wear in terms of ...
Among the general population, I am outstanding as a man who can argue his points. On philosophy forums I see myself as just about average, but with th...
Okay, so if Kant said pure shit is something that comes out of everyone's mind who writes it down, then we'd be exchanging shit? So Kant all of a sudd...
free will: unrestricted will. Example: I have no reason to eat spaghetti with red lime sprinkled with arsenic. I am not insane, or an idiot. I like li...
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