Yeah, that makes sense and all sounds pretty reasonable and thought out to me. We should always consider the child we may have before we have it and t...
Okay. So your issue with procreation is that we cannot get the beings permission before we create one, correct? If we say, that it is wrong to create ...
As none of us are perfect, it’s still important to understand that we won’t be 100% logical all the time. We are human after all and we have no contro...
Who gets to decide what is and isn’t a poor quality of life? A financially poor family can find love and happiness together through hardship while a f...
I hadn’t asked you before what the opposite of our modality of ethics definition was but it makes so much sense now that I am reading it. How do you a...
Is this sentence different from this one; From a logical point of view, there is no reason to stay alive. However, the world population keeps living, ...
I feel like that’s what I was doing last night until god must be atheist came along and piggybacked onto someone else’s arguments which they had alrea...
“Some people are worth paying attention too. Some people are also worth ignoring. If possible just allow those worth ignoring an occasional look in - ...
“This is a community and none of us, not a one of us here will be ever be perfect or correct in everything we say” Yes, because saying what is true is...
No that wasn’t my issue with him there. My issue with him was that he was not reading what was being said making claims about what I had and hadn’t sa...
then don’t claim I never made a distinction if you can’t even figure out which comments where the distinction is evident. Can’t exactly accuse anyone ...
“You're pushing your own blunder's onus on the community? Pfuy.” Oh yes because you are 100% perfect and right in everything that you say or do in thi...
I never made an impossible prejudgment, I asked a question of the community? How is it possible to make an impossible prejudgment? That makes no sense...
Okay unlike you I do actually read the comments, yours, others and people who aren’t even replying to me. If you had read the other comments you would...
Unjustified optimism/pessimism vs justified seems to me the best option for now, or just making it clear that we are optimistic about the fact that we...
If it didn’t make sense then how did you understand what I meant? If you’re having a problem with the language used that’s fine but if you understand ...
“Realism says that the situation should be assessed as dispassionately as possible in order to weigh up the options. It also says that we should face ...
Are you familiar with Chaos theory in predicting weather patterns? All humans ever truly do is change, every day. That’s all life does; Obstacle, adap...
Positive thinking in the form of fantasies specifically. However much can be said here about these papers. I agree with the conclusions already, howev...
@"Isaac" You may want to weigh in here also, in regards to potential solutions we never thought possible. I’ll start answering your other questions in...
I agree. So it’s what Optimism makes people do vs what Pessimism makes people do. I think it’s ironic that even though this is man made climate change...
Ahhh, but here is where things get confusing for both of us I feel. I’ve been through these states already (just ask my fiancé I’ve been damn right mi...
Emotional states are body states as everything psychological is biological, this is psychology 101. Optimism is easy enough to produce in your body at...
I feel there is a difference here between unrealistic optimism and optimism coupled with realism. I actually agree with this, however I wasn’t describ...
Yeah it was pretty late when I was writing this and I did get lost in the metaphors a bit! Stepping on the Optimism butterfly in my mind at the time m...
About our chances of making safe our biosphere for us and as much within it as we can within the next 50 years. Should we as individuals be optimistic...
Another argument for optimism. The butterfly effect argument: We believe that making even a small change in the past, would drastically alter the pres...
But which of the two is more pragmatic? Is believing there is a way with optimism better than disbelieving there is a way with Pessimism? I’m a pragma...
You could also say, that people that have the right mettle maybe have a duty to not seek a life of comfort and ease and instead seek a life in service...
I’d very much like to hear your opinions of Humeanism in this regard as it will make an interesting study in discussing new beliefs from the same geog...
It may be conjecture but its point is pretty valid as we do have data on a lot of systems like you describe. This strengthens my point that there is v...
Then you have Shogi from Japan, 9 and 6 men Morris and so much more I forget how many I’ve played now. Shogi is much harder than chess though and I su...
Also to anyone reading my last; if that shark happened to be Bruce the vegetarian Shark from Finding Nemo... then I highly encourage you to push the o...
I’m a chess player too and I really enjoyed reading this! :) Sounds like me a little haha I’m an aggressive player too although I’m probably nowhere n...
Good question; it depends greatly on the shark and the human and whether or not I am capable of saving them without it being a suicide mission for mys...
Not to me. Reverence for life demands Biocentrism. It would be foolish to ignore the value of the non human parts of the biosphere in our own and thei...
I’m so glad you guys brought up Pessimism! I’ll open up a discussion soon on Optimism vs Pessimism using the question “how we should react to climate ...
Couldn’t agree with this more! Almost makes you wonder, if the past decades military budgets for even just the USA let alone the Global military budge...
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