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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...
October 28, 2019 at 13:42
This is one of my favourite views from Descartes and one I try to remember often. Thanks for bringing it up!
October 28, 2019 at 13:21
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 ...
October 28, 2019 at 13:00
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...
October 28, 2019 at 12:57
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...
October 28, 2019 at 12:40
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...
October 28, 2019 at 12:28
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, ...
October 28, 2019 at 12:19
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...
October 28, 2019 at 12:03
“Some people are worth paying attention too. Some people are also worth ignoring. If possible just allow those worth ignoring an occasional look in - ...
October 28, 2019 at 11:34
“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...
October 28, 2019 at 11:21
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...
October 28, 2019 at 11:13
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 ...
October 28, 2019 at 01:00
“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...
October 28, 2019 at 00:52
Where am I dismissing anything you arrogant fool?
October 28, 2019 at 00:39
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...
October 28, 2019 at 00:38
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...
October 28, 2019 at 00:35
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...
October 28, 2019 at 00:25
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 ...
October 28, 2019 at 00:19
“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 ...
October 27, 2019 at 22:47
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...
October 27, 2019 at 22:10
Positive thinking in the form of fantasies specifically. However much can be said here about these papers. I agree with the conclusions already, howev...
October 27, 2019 at 16:56
@"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...
October 27, 2019 at 16:10
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...
October 27, 2019 at 14:35
No, biocentrism. I’m an ethicist not an economist.
October 27, 2019 at 14:31
what if your sphere of interest is the boats?
October 27, 2019 at 13:50
Thank you for pointing this out, bit of implied virtue theory. Look for the golden mean between optimism and Pessimism. I like this :)
October 27, 2019 at 13:49
Simply by virtue of believing in and being open to better choices I feel.
October 27, 2019 at 13:46
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...
October 27, 2019 at 13:45
Emotional states are body states as everything psychological is biological, this is psychology 101. Optimism is easy enough to produce in your body at...
October 27, 2019 at 13:42
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...
October 27, 2019 at 13:36
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...
October 27, 2019 at 13:25
@"jellyfish" @"Pantagruel"@"Artemis" @"Terrapin Station" Want to weigh in on this? :)
October 27, 2019 at 02:52
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...
October 27, 2019 at 02:51
Another argument for optimism. The butterfly effect argument: We believe that making even a small change in the past, would drastically alter the pres...
October 27, 2019 at 02:43
For Pragmatism. Which is more likely to increase our chances of weathering climate change? Optimism or Pessimism?
October 27, 2019 at 02:29
What does realism say in your perspective?
October 27, 2019 at 02:27
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...
October 27, 2019 at 02:24
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...
October 26, 2019 at 23:41
Even if you have to cause harm to an adult to stop them killing a child? Or a dog attempting to kill a baby or a kitten?
October 26, 2019 at 06:03
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...
October 26, 2019 at 05:23
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...
October 26, 2019 at 04:36
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...
October 26, 2019 at 03:25
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...
October 26, 2019 at 03:24
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...
October 26, 2019 at 03:17
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...
October 26, 2019 at 02:55
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...
October 25, 2019 at 23:43
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 ...
October 25, 2019 at 23:35
https://time.com/5709100/halt-climate-change-300-billion/ Y’all should read this. To quote a wizard: Hope is kindled!
October 25, 2019 at 21:15
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...
October 25, 2019 at 17:22
Something we both agree on haha
October 25, 2019 at 16:59