The motive for atheism, at least this freethinker's motive, is the same motive as that for doing history or science: truth, or currently it's best app...
I don't want any theistic deity to exist (although that's like saying I don't want "the flat earth" or "Cthulhu" to exist :roll: ) because I'm not a s...
You must be feeling particularly pseudo(wut?) today. :smirk: Stupidity is, as my link points out, a congenital species defect which intellience strugg...
:fire: A few days after my birthday, I was a college freshman, a girl took me to this concert in Central Park (my first outdoor show?) since we were b...
:ok: :up: I prefer 'How any universe comes-to-be, continues-to-be, and ceases-to-be?' (sub specie aeternitatis) Also, whether or not biogenesis random...
Wrong again. Read my reply above to Rogue AI and, perhaps, you & @"Bartricks" will learn something. :sweat: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/...
Again, you're confusing the fact of being alive with the occurence of suffering; the latter correlates to, but is not caused by, the former. Also, 'no...
How soon you've forgotten: the incorrigible misuse / abuse of intelligence, knowledge and/or judgment that inadvertently does harm for no gain or prof...
It make no sense to talk about harming or saving from harm nonexistent persons. However, one can presently increase the probability conditions of a ha...
Intent is the only relevant factor in your scenario because, as I pointed already, khaled, you can't harm or save from harm a fiction, or hypothetical...
It's wrong – vicious – only in so far as your intention is to place the mine in order to kill regardless of whether or not "Jeff" (or anyone) ever ste...
"The Truth" has two aspects: (A) map =|= territory & (B) "100% complete" map = territory as a map] wherein "map" is synonymous with "representation" (...
Not "solution" but dissolution ... One substance with two aspects – a Thought-aspect and Extension-aspect (synchronized) in parallel, or complementary...
Spinoza dissolved the MBP in the mid-17th century without resorting to an 'occult conflation – confusion – of ontology with epistemology' (i.e. ideali...
According to Spinoza, natura naturans (i.e. the logical generative-causal structure of reality, or substance) is what we mean – all we can rationally ...
Ok, then NO. Gigacide makes even less sense to me than suicide. However, I'd certainly "play god" though, if I could, in the way the manga Death Note ...
Stay strong, lady! :strong: You and yours keep on surviving & thriving. :flower: Please rephrase this, all I'm getting is whether or not I'd euthanize...
Only in this sense am I an antinatalist (i.e. a "mutant") too. :up: Remember: the problem of (gratuitous) suffering is solved only for the living by r...
Same shit, different flies. Those who would "prevent others" would be trying to escape their own, as well as the species', historical contingency of b...
There's no need to, or as you say, "no escaping your historical contingency". So why are you trying to escape yours? why evangelize that – all the ant...
Hasty generalization fallacy. The only thing that validly follows from your first two propositions, Gus, is 'Therefore, evidence of, or ruling out, Hu...
Yes, of course, ... A mantra for survivors (instead of victims), though I've occasionally succumbed to Otto von Bismarck's barbed maxim: forget, but d...
FTL is only impossible for mass particles not space itself, so no violation of SR occurs in the FTL expansion of the universe (NB: "BB" is outdated by...
"... matter of fact, it's all dark." https://youtu.be/N3zwKgz8hsI "The Great Gig in the Sky" (4:47) The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 performed by Pink ...
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