Bartricks

If the harms of death are post mortem - and you have yet to explain how the hermit's death could be harmful ante-mortem - and you need to exist in ord...

So, you know already what death does to us, do you? I refer you to what I said in the OP: Stop assuming you already know things you don't know. You do...

So the hermit's death is a great harm to the hermit. It won't harm anyone else. It will harm him. And it will harm him, will it not, even if he has no...

Explain to me how the hermit themselves is harmed by being killed on your view - explain it without contradicting yourself. And then explain how you c...

So killing a 90 year old barely harms them? And a person whose future here promises to be one of mild discomfort is not harmed if they're killed? It i...

Actual things. Crikey. Look, the idea of there being a terrible place is really not hard to grasp. If death takes you to it, then that would make sens...

No. Nothing isn't harmful.

It would take us to a terrible place. If it did that, then we would have reason to stay here for as long as possible, unless our continued existence h...

So, just to be clear, your view is that killing an unknown hermit does not harm whatsoever to the hermit? Isn't that view, you know, obviously false? ...

If death harms a person in virtue of what it deprives a person of, then death would not harm a person whose life is not going particularly well. So, R...

Explained what? I am at a total loss to understand what you're talking about.

Okay then.

How do you know that? Er, what? You think reality gives an F about these matters? Again: what?

Suicide is incredibly stupid under most circumstances. If someone's life is going moderately badly, we - virtually all of us - would not recommend sui...

They arrogantly suppose that they already know what death does to us.

Do try and focus on the OP. No, if you harm a person that is not necessarily immoral. Sheesh. For instance, right now I just punched the wall. I hurt ...

Er, why on earth are you talking about veganism? This isn't about the morality of killing, but about the harmfulness of it. These terms 'harmful' and ...

I did not backtrack on the intrinsic value view. I think it is true. What I argued is that it does not provide a plausible way of accounting for death...

We do not know for sure what death does to us. Any reasonable person will surely agree. So a view that implies we survive it cannot be rejected on tho...

Read the OP

So, to be clear, you think death benefits a person, yes? It's good to die - is that your view? If so, read the OP and look at what I said about the as...

I don't understand your question or its relevance to the OP. Please clarify.

No, I still do not know what you mean. Look, why don't I just solve the problem of what truth is? Truth is a property of propositions. And there is de...

I am an antinatalist and I am not a hedonist. Hedonistic antinatalists are likely to be miserabilists. The important point is that miserabilism and an...

Do people here realize that antinatalism and the 'life sucks' view (known as miserabilism) are not equivalent? Some seem to have difficulty understand...

you do realize I don't read quotes. Own words. Use your own words Frey Bentos. Have you ever had a frey bentos pie? They have a very poor quality fill...

I'll take that to mean 'I'm playing'. I recommend buddhism. The space of reasons. How much space do they need? 10ft sq? What about their colour? I lik...

I'm serious. But again: that's me. Don't you worry about me. And stop trying to give yourself an excuse not to focus on the argument. Worry about the ...

Resist the temptation to focus on me. Focus on the argument I gave you. Normative reasons are directives. You know that now. Wikipedia confirmed it fo...

But physics!

How am I lost? Brandom and you are the lost ones. I have taken you by the hand and shown you what a reason is. It is a directive. And directives have ...

A bunch of mouths is not a mouth.

So now I am the director? How so, given I have reason to reject theories that contain contradictions even if I do not tell myself to?

If the tribe can be mistaken, then their directives do not constitutively determine what they have reason to do.

How can a tribe issue a directive? Tribes are not persons. And what if my tribe dies save me. Are you saying that now that no tribe exists I no longer...

The clay example was designed to show you that it is a mistake to confuse changing something's properties with taking something away from the thing. T...

So, to believe that one has a reason to do something - anything - is to believe that one is directed to do it. And so for any such beliefs to be true,...

So if I believe - as I do - that I ought to reject a theory that contains a contradiction, then i believe i am directed to reject it. But who is the d...

But what is a norm? Is it not a directive? You have used the word ought. But there are normative oughts and bon normative oughts. (The rain ought to a...

By an impression I just mean some kind of a mental state with representative contents. That is, a mental state that we tell ourselves is telling us so...

No you didn't. Identify a premise you believe to be false and then provide actual evidence it is false by constructing a deductively valid argument th...

So on Brandom's view, what is a normative reason? I do not mean what sort of consideration generates one. I mean what is one, in itself? For instance,...

The argument i gave you is a good one. It is deductively valid and appears sound too. You ask why we cannot have an infinity of actual causes. It gene...

I don't understand the terms being employed and those quotes make no sense to me at all. That is, I don't know what Brandom is talking about. A normat...

The question is whether something can cause a change in itself, yes? The answer is 'yes'. We can demonstrate this, in the manner that I just did. I'll...

This sounds correct to me. It was Plato who defined philosophy as using reason to search for truth and he founded the discipline (by founding the firs...

And remember that I answered it. Yes. A thing can cause a change in itself. We are things and we cause changes in ourselves. Note too that if every ch...

You seem to have missed the point. When the cube becomes a pyramid, has it been reduced by a sixth? Has some part of the clay been removed?

No, I still don't follow you. There are minds and there are states of mind. Minds are not made of their states. They 'have' states. They are not made ...

I don't know what you're talking about. Does half a mind make sense? No. Minds are indivisible. They are the example par excellence of an indivisible ...