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With respect to punishment, one is gratuitous and not proportional to the crime, whereas the other is deserved and proportional.

I have doubts that Christians and Muslims, say, worship the same God, if that's what the comic is trying to claim.

>:O >:O >:O

Ah, well good on him for that.

>:O I wasn't aware that he made them.

Roger Scruton wittily takes down Zizek: https://www.city-journal.org/html/clown-prince-revolution-14632.html

I kinda like that.

Very well said. This was one of my repeated objections in this thread. The rest of your post is excellently stated as well.

Metaphorically, it would seem so. This essay is taken from the PP, so I don't think Schopenhauer is speaking with the precision that your reply here i...

Which is perhaps due to their materialism or naturalism, then, as opposed to their atheism.

Your post, as I predicted, merely repeats the same basic charges and still reeks of optimism. Like Ixion, we seem to be trapped on a burning wheel tha...

I'm aware of the quote. Very aware. And?

Do we? Why is this the "atheist perspective?" The denial that God or the gods exist is not to deny that there is "nothing after death," whatever that ...

Ah yes, the Abelsen essay. I've known about it for years. I don't mean to set myself up to defend the following claim at length here, but I think his ...

Schopenhauer's main ethical principles are: "Harm no one; rather, help everyone as much as you can." That's not far enough or amenable to your positio...

I saw that a lady's foot was about to step in some crap, so I grabbed it.

I held out a lady's hand into which I took a crap.

Projecting what? You continually attribute callous disregard for those who suffer to Schopenhauer et al, which is the reason why you label them "passi...

I can assure you that I take none.

I mean this with all seriousness: I have no idea to what you're referring. The only thing that I can recall is pillows. Is that it? What else have you...

They may think about such things, but they do not complain of them. It's the utopians and optimists who continually whine and moan about how things ar...

You must like being coy, because you have continually refused to give me concrete examples of what they did wrong, what they ought to have done, and w...

No, the pessimist merely acknowledges this, because he also knows that complaining about what cannot be changed is a foolish waste of time.

The pessimist's response is that there is no "dealing with it," in the sense of solving it. Stop immanentizing the eschaton. There will not be, and mo...

I don't see the relevance of that quote.

Seeing as most professors often don't even reply to the emails of their own students, you can be assured that your attempts to contact them in such a ...

Wait a minute, if your solution to the world's suffering is charity, then Schopenhauer's giving his money to charity upon his death is more effective ...

The difference is that I may not be able to do anything to help the person miles away. This ought to be obvious. If one sees a child drowning, then on...

So what are you trying to prove, hmm? That you're "disappointed that they didn't even seem to try given what they obviously understood about life?" Th...

Labeling these figures generically as "pessimists" is somewhat misleading. The validity of this statement hangs on the word "adequate," for Schopenhau...

I have a vague sense of what these terms might refer to, but why don't you tell me what they are positions on?

Mae govannen, Maw. Good to see you here.

Well said, and I agree.

You might flag that as nsfw.

But his reply wasn't.... Unless he comes around to correct us.

I didn't read his reply as being about sex. His issue, which I must profess to have some sympathy with, has to do with the cogency and possibility of ...

Dismissing the herd can never be done too quickly. Although I generally try to ignore it and let it stampede in ignorance.

Well, there are consecrated and celibate virgins who remain in such a state their whole lives (as I more or less plan to do). Virginity in a historica...

This could be a compliment in certain contexts.

Sometimes I admit defeat in my positions and sometimes victory, but regardless, I often change my positions, if only slightly, due to conversing with ...

Or thrive in certain ways, depending (given the OP's links).

Maybe! However, I would tend to think these -isms are more defined than ietsism, which picks out that supremely (and seemingly deliberately) vague, un...

No, because they're not utopians.

Indeed, I find that the main belief of most people is ietsism.

Sarcasm?

Sounds contradictory. Do explain.

I eschew agnosticism, theism, and atheism, so I can't really answer your question. But to try, the greatest philosophers opposite to my view (which is...

Yes. And in any event, it's very naive to think government will be the solution to its negative effects.

Alright, but it wasn't immediately apparent to me.

(N) Just another word for happiness!