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Process of elimination. :smirk: What do you mean by "insight"? "enlightenment"?

Not true. In my experience, that word is always offensive, regardless of color, except when used among intimates – old / close friends & (birth) famil...

I've no idea what you're talking about.

No. (You need an editor.) Your replies to my post suggest otherwise.

Empire, born of genocide slavery & apartheid, breeds foreign and domestic terrorism.

:up: The OP's use of "deserves" suggest something a newborn has not earned. "Merit" has nothing to do with it. In this context, for clarity's sake, I ...

:up: "Anything" also includes nobody deserves not to come to harm either. The premise disputed was "deserving". Pay attention, barftrix. Here's some s...

:sweat: Pathetic. Nobody does.

:yawn: ... as Variables are to Values.

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You ought to "take that into consideration" iff that "someone" is an existing person.

"The situation" is existence itself prior to anybody "willingly creating". 'Someone will always be harmed' – because there will always be someone else...

Yeah, it is. And THEN as much as possible, however, do not harm that (any) existing person unnecessarily. As you say, schop1, 'to be born is necessari...

I agree 'harming existing people unnecessarily' is wrong.

Pay attention, @"Bartricks" – :100: :up:

Not in a genuine dialogue where understanding mutually different positions is the goal. I've very little interest in merely exchanging monologues whic...

(1) Without agreeing on (conforming to) the PNC, ?the principle of explosion reduces discursive reason (e.g. your question) to glossolalia – jabberwoc...

I don't "give up on" anything. As I wrote above in the post to which you're referring, Xtrix: and perhaps you didn't read further down this page to th...

I don't use "a bivalent methodology", just a non-oppositional, non-exclusionary alternative to the Aristotlean / Thomistic 'mainstream'. You're readin...

Almost uniquely among major religions (certainly among ancient pagan / mystery cults), Christianity has always been a religion by and for the weak con...

In the apophatic tradition I think this ur-question is answered, rather than merely addressed, by reformulating it 'what necessarily is not' e.g. .

:cool: :up: Some of my thoughts on "gratitude" from old threads:

:roll: This reminds me, schop1, of the classical Academic Skeptics' canard "If we cannot know anything with absolute certainty, then it is wrong to cl...

I'm a Chomsky and Hitchens reader from way back. Žižek is a philosopher-clown who I find is more insightful than ridiculous. Hedges bores me.

I'm not following you. "Positive" and "negative" approaches are just two branches off the same trunk of "metaphysics". E.g. like space and negative sp...

You're confusing philosophy with science and vice versa it seems to me. Whether or not scientists actually use the methods proposed is a completely se...

Ask @"Bartricks".

We deserve the same nothing.

You asked which premise I disagree with. I told you; therefore your "argument" doesn't work for me. And you cannot even argue in support of the premis...

Gotcha. Just gassing again. :mask:

You must feel so effing entitled. :sweat:

Are registered Democratic women the only political affiliation of women who have (need) abortions, or as you say "murder the unborn"? If so, cite some...

So Independents, Libertarians, Republicans and apolitical women do not also "murder the unborn"? For clarity's sake, cite some corroborating evidence ...

That anyone "deserves" anything.

For the same reason the Einsatzgruppen and colonial slavers didn't live in concentration camps and plantation fields with their victims. The movie Ely...

World Wars, (manufactured) famines, (weaponized) pandemics and pro-abortion/sterilization regimens can thin the herds far more cost effectively than "...

See :point: ... And more today from Slavoj (that famously neoliberal / imperial apologist) Žižek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/2...

Aristotle's students / archivists coined the term "tà metà tà physikà biblía" which he never used (in his works). I do agree with his conception of ph...

(A) Neither proposal is an attempt to solve scientific problems; (B) instead, they are methodological criteria (not merely "worldviews") for excluding...

It's an even more "basic biological drive" to remain in one's ecological niche.

A blues for the solstice ... :flower: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd2qbSF85xk "Summertime" (2:56) single, 1936 writers G. Gershwin, I Gershwin & D. ...

Why colonize exoplanets?

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You can't be as stupid as these posts. :sweat:

:100: This thread topic concerns the "clear and present danger" of the Republican Party (with and without the complicity of Dems or Libs). As far as v...

More significantly, which you overlook and therefore misunderstand the statistic you've quoted, 81 million Americans voted against Trump. :mask: Consi...

Liar.

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What?

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