Thorongil

Because it's self-evident. You might as well ask why lemons need to exist before making lemonade. Yes, torture harms people, people who exist. :-}

That's cool, and probably true, but not the whole truth, as I think there has been considerable fear, uncertainty, and doubt generated by various left...

Thank you. Global and regional climate patterns do change and have changed during the timeframe mentioned. So I have no problem with this part of the ...

A most ambiguous reply. Do you remember what I said about equivocation? You've used the present progressive tense here, which can be used to describe ...

Why can't you give me a definition of climate change? How am I supposed to affirm or deny something, if I don't know what it is? I've not given you an...

It's not parallel, because the child exists in this scenario and in the case of birth, it doesn't. There is a being who might be harmed by not wearing...

:-d Define climate change, and you'll have my answer.

The world, with its ugliness and evil, does not disappear when one goes to heaven.

What?! No, I'm saying your post was ironic. I was trying to show how accusing someone of being a "climate change denier" is unhelpful, due to all the ...

Why would you direct that question to me?

My post was about the different ways one could "deny climate change." The whole idea of my post was to critique this phrase as unhelpful, given all th...

As far as I know, annihilationism isn't condoned by Eastern Orthodoxy, of which he is a member. So it is a challenge.

He has an irrational fear of homosexuals?

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I don't know what you're including under atrocities, but I find many of them attributed to the Church to be overblown. A lot of anti-Catholic myths su...

With respect, I think I've already been doing this. I can only state what I have asserted again. If you want a reboot, then perhaps you could you say ...

Okay. You had seemingly implied the opposite. I don't know what to say. One sentence says you can't be harmed before existing and the other says you c...

Briefly, because, from my present and by no means exhaustive understanding of the history of the Great Schism, it was the East that broke from the Wes...

:-| Again, incoherence. These two statements are flatly contradictory of each other. No. What was it?

And when God intervenes in nature and does something we judge, by the moral law he gave us, to be evil, then what? We're talking about events God caus...

Interesting. I would agree. I don't know how to answer this. It just seemed like it was? Twas only a joke, in any case. I like your username.

So, you didn't read my post?

No, this doesn't follow at all. If you don't need to exist in order to be harmed, then what is being harmed? Your position is utterly incoherent. I wa...

Yes you are! Read the following quote again: Here you make it crystal clear that your desired end result is the cessation of all procreation, owing to...

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Nice dodge, or should I say, "doge."

Except it is. Boiling down Lee and the Confederacy to a single word, "slavery," is unhistorical, unfair, and extremely lazy.

This is enormously misleading and really just a slur. He fought for the state of Virginia based on certain political principles.

I want to know how many people who are calling for Lee's statue to be torn down have read a full length biography of the man. I haven't, but precisely...

This is facile reasoning. You're just assuming that the statue represents the Confederacy, slavery, racism, and other "bad stuff." In fact, it honors ...

Everyone knows that two years after the death of Schopenhauer, the US gained its independence. https://media4.giphy.com/media/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY/giphy.g...

This contains the same logical contradiction found in most other arguments for anti-natalism. The fact is that birth harms no one. To say that it does...

No, I don't. You seem stuck in the land of the hypothetical. "People don't need to be born, so it's possible that humans will refrain from procreating...

Because he gave us the law and, more importantly, expects us to follow it. Imagine if I had a child and told him that it was good to eat vegetables an...

Good work, Cava. You had me fooled for a couple minutes. 6.5/10. (Y)

http://orig13.deviantart.net/f725/f/2013/241/4/c/profile_picture_by_doge_intensifies-d6k8a2r.jpg ???????? You seem to be trolling, then.

>:O Now you're just repeating yourself, having failed to challenge what I said or offer support for your claims. I never thought I'd see you admit def...

Actually, Augustine did say there was animal death before the Fall. But the ancients had different ideas about animals than we do. With the benefit of...

Which is an abstraction designating a bunch of living, breathing human beings. Making them pay for crimes they did not commit is unjust. This would be...

Living up to your user name I see. I agree with you here, so I have nothing to add. I might ask you a question, though: in general, do you think educa...

By whom? People who never had anything to do with past injustices? Guess what, that would itself be unjust. So no, no debt needs to be repaid. Which a...

Wow. That's an even more significant devolution from when I was in school. I'm not that surprised, though. This is true. I took a couple of geography ...

Is that the only thing it will blow?

Making fun of him with a reference to nether regions, which are dark? What a wacist comment.

A mix of apathy on the part of students and poor teaching.

I hate to break it to you, but Kyrie Irving is not a reliable source on such matters. (Neither is he a reliable Cavalier, the bastard.)

That's not how I see it. I'm privileging civilization precisely for its ability to address the individual's suffering better than the alternatives. Bu...

Right, he mentioned your name. I didn't. Truth be told, as soon as he did, I had a feeling you would come here with guns blazing, and it seems I wasn'...

Maybe. I was thinking of Schopenhauer when I made that comment. Happiness, goodness, right: these are negative concepts for him, while suffering, evil...

There's your problem. You don't even know what it is you're inquiring about the existence of. Set that straight first.