To anticipate some possible replies: my natalist interlocutor needs to establish that creating life is good, not that life is good. I could grant for ...
Right. I wouldn't say the act of giving in itself is compassionate. If the motive to give is compassion, then it is, but if it isn't, then it isn't. I...
No, but I should add here that one could view pleasure as intrinsically good and not be a hedonist. The hedonist views pleasure as the only intrinsic ...
Good-in-itself and good for some other end. Because I think it's purpose is to aid the health of an organism. Well, I didn't say it was bad. I think s...
I don't know what calling life good means, unless you're thinking of the Platonic equivalency between being and goodness. That's an intriguing concept...
I suppose if there is a God and he commanded procreation, then it would be selfless in that case, but I am not in fact religious myself at present, so...
Long time donor to Democrats and liberals, scrapping TPP, trade wars and tariffs, massive infrastructure plan, paid family leave, isolationist foreign...
This is one of the main problems with the left and the MSM. It's what I would call the boy who cried wolf syndrome. Just look at how the word "white s...
Slavery was a legal, long standing, socially approved, culturally familiar, doctor recommended, popular institution. So I guess that makes slavery oka...
That isn't the claim. Vegans, or at least I (as a vegetarian), don't say that it's aberrative. It clearly isn't. We rather affirm that meat eating is ...
This dimension is in large measure the very thing that makes us unique as a species, so I don't know why you would wonder that. If you cannot understa...
It seems to me that you, like T Clark, then fall into BB's trap mentioned earlier. Let's say I tortured and raped little children and you asked me why...
Yeah, fair enough, but do you have any positive reasons for why you continue eating meat, or it is, as I said in my other comment, simply force of hab...
Who said that? There are lots of positive arguments given in favor of veganism. That said, my own view is that eating meat is not intrinsically wrong,...
Baden's very first comment was: "David Horowitz who has a history of misinformation and on top of that is an alleged racist." And then he quoted from ...
No, go to hell. This is becoming farcical. You know very well what the left wing position on BLM is and where one might easily find it. I'm not going ...
You mean to tell me you haven't done so already? You're just a blank slate with respect to BLM? Come now. The left wing view of BLM is not hard to fin...
Yes, in conjunction with right wing sources on the same topics. I'm not doing that until you acknowledge you understand the distinction I made between...
Again, I haven't ever denied this. Again, you're missing the point. I have been talking about the reliability of the information itself. Now you have ...
Yes, I agree. The ontological status of the Ideas is murky in his philosophy. My current inclination is to regard them as truer representatives of the...
When did I say that? Now you're putting words in my mouth. Michael's site did not purport to document things people said or real world events that occ...
Equivocation. Doesn't mean what it says is false or *ahem* untrustworthy. It might mean that, but then you'd have to demonstrate that. Ad hominem. Tha...
I haven't dropped the charge. You still haven't actually shown anything the website reports to be false. You assume what it reports to be false becaus...
Because I agree in not seeing a basis for the legitimacy of the fact checking website, and notwithstanding your longer post, the comment I quote above...
Another way of getting at my point is to say that, for Schopenhauer, there are degrees of reality. There are individual objects of experience, which a...
Yes, but I think you've already answered it yourself: "the compassionate being recognizes he that all persons in the phenomenal world are expressions ...
Illusory only in a metaphorical sense. Schopenhauer regards phenomena as empirically real, but not transcendentally real, a distinction borrowed from ...
This is question begging. The reason you expect not to learn anything new is because of the biased nature of the compilers and sources of the informat...
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