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Three-Buddy Problem

['Member']Joined: July 14, 2019 at 19:16Last active: January 07, 2020 at 14:281 discussions29 comments

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This is a misunderstanding that my aim is to destroy morality. No, my aim is exactly the same as all ethical systems, albeit the mindset is fundamenta...
July 15, 2019 at 13:01
Jesus Christ. Even though the argument is over, let me show why it is so: You deliberately misunderstand my point, presumably because you're emotional...
July 15, 2019 at 12:54
That's it, I'm done arguing with you.
July 15, 2019 at 12:44
Which is exactly why I'm proposing the model in the first place, a hypothetical society that's more progressive than the current one!
July 15, 2019 at 12:44
I don't see how I'm not slowing you down already. And I don't need to be Einstein to spot a straw man.
July 15, 2019 at 12:43
Please be patient. I'm subtly showing the progressiveness of my model, how that's the next step of civilization. Think of it like this: Pre-civilizati...
July 15, 2019 at 12:41
Straw man fallacy. All moral transgressors share the mentality of high school goths, but moral transgressors ? high school goths.
July 15, 2019 at 12:39
This is dangerously close to an argumentum ad passiones. After all, the very foundation of society is to NOT be 100% loyal to our emotions! Before civ...
July 15, 2019 at 12:37
All your objections seem to be raw emotional responses to counterintuitive thinking. In my hypothetical society, I'd be surprised if you were to poke ...
July 15, 2019 at 12:33
You're defining morality as a state of emotion, but I thought morality is a label that's applied to what we think each other ought to behave, so that ...
July 15, 2019 at 12:30
This can be considered necessary evil to maintain the not-giving-a-fuck-ness of said society. No society can exist without necessary evil.
July 15, 2019 at 12:18
My model is not remotely as extreme as teaching kids not to feel pain. Instead, my model can work even though everyone still feels emotional pain (and...
July 15, 2019 at 12:16
Actually, you wouldn't give a fuck about forcing anyone to do anything in the first place. Unless you're a sociopath, of course, but I believe a socie...
July 15, 2019 at 12:11
Exactly, works for me too, heck it had been an epiphany for me after spending my teenage years giving a fuck about how people around me should behave ...
July 15, 2019 at 12:03
It's not circular if I've got a plan in mind for making everyone not giving a fuck. Look, we waste a lot of resources teaching kids they don't need to...
July 15, 2019 at 12:01
You're right; though this is also exactly why my model can only work if everyone in the world stops giving a fuck at the same time together. Highly im...
July 15, 2019 at 11:58
I understand. However, the tragedy of the commons happens when people living in a communistic society still give a fuck. In my model, people would not...
July 15, 2019 at 11:55
Good thing is that we can agree to disagree on this. My proposition is that to not give a fuck is a solution to problems that morality can't solve, an...
July 15, 2019 at 11:50
I gotta admit, I wouldn't. But again, my solution only works in everyone stops giving a fuck together at once. According to my understanding of psycho...
July 15, 2019 at 11:36
Well, no, because I'm not asking for John's respect in the first place, and I don't feel proud of owning anything because I know I'd lose them anyway ...
July 15, 2019 at 11:30
I read it as a teenager and it only gets more and more mind-blowing as time goes by. Also, prepared to be awestruck at the third book!
July 15, 2019 at 11:26
You consider the Big Bang to be an actual natural event, but I think it's just a label we apply to ''the beginning of the universe'', and nothing else...
July 15, 2019 at 11:24
You consider the Big Bang to be an actual natural event, but I think it's just a label we apply to ''the beginning of the universe'', and nothing else...
July 15, 2019 at 11:24
This is pretty fallacious...is Zuckerberg a reptilian just because he looks like one? And if something's out of spacetime, then by definition it isn't...
July 15, 2019 at 10:21
I don't see how that's the case, unless you can demonstrate that God himself matters, or that he thinks that we matter.
July 14, 2019 at 20:05
OK, fair enough--but just wonderin' though, on what basis do you argue for the existence of God using PSR? As we've established, if spacetime is withi...
July 14, 2019 at 20:01
Poetic, but actually this is kind of contradictory. First of all, you got the conclusion ''we don't matter'' from a cosmic standpoint, yet the cosmos ...
July 14, 2019 at 19:54
How do you know that God exists and that Cantor talked to him?
July 14, 2019 at 19:43
Thanks for clearing things up. I'll replace time with spacetime. Yes, if spacetime is within the universe instead of something that encompasses the un...
July 14, 2019 at 19:42
Yes, everything in TIME needs a cause, and you may argue that therefore the universe had a creator. But that's assuming that the universe ITSELF is bo...
July 14, 2019 at 19:25