What do you mean by wrong? Nothing than happens in nature is wrong it either can happen or can't. nature allows animals to be eating alive and starve ...
How does Robotics deal with this issue? There is The Paradox of Buridan's ass and the halting problem in computer theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
I did that long ago. But I think that maybe partly due to society/socialisation. Society limits us despite the appearance of great choice. I in partic...
I think existentialism and nihilism probably require a response and a solution. In a sense I am just filled with a sense of fearful wonder at the situ...
I am no expert on animal behaviour but it seems to me humans can never exist (spontaneously?)like an animal in the wild without language communities a...
I think quite a lot of things become problematic without a concept of the supernatural or "beyond nature" One issue is morality which used to be consi...
Models of the atom were wrong and imaginary. Science uses the imaginary and posits the implausible. Theories require the imaginary and symbolic before...
People said things like Ghosts travelling through walls are implausible but now we know things including radio waves can pass through walls and commun...
That's the point. Modern technology is amazing and has changed how we communicate and what is possible. It is not reductive like a reductive mechanist...
It seems to me that the supernatural is something that humans have always claimed is behind the scenes of nature giving reality attributes like life, ...
My argument is that the main objection against The Supernatural has been implausibility but that modern technology and modern scientific discoveries m...
I am assuming a shared concept of the supernatural here in popular culture. I don't think that as has been said absence of evidence is evidence of abs...
Here is a dictionary definition of The Supernatural. "(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the la...
How can you avoid altruism. Individuals and usually a society have to ensure children survive to adulthood? I think Dawkins altruism phobia exists bec...
I think he is wrong because things including love and hate exist in a mental realm. You don't observe injustice in the universe you experience it. His...
I think power relations mean that any group of people can become the target for oppression. However sexism seems to have flourished under religion. As...
Well according to Richard Dawkins “The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute t...
I could Who is "I" is it some region in your brain? Is it your whole body? No "I" region or explanation has been located in the brain. I don't know wh...
Are any of the brains activities conscious if so how? You seem to be assuming that conscious is inextricably linked to some brain actives of which no ...
Do you think with your Kidneys? We have numerous cells and organs in our bodies are you suggesting we are just our brains? Is there a specific region ...
What is the killing floor? Is it the point of thought leading to physical action? Lots of people have repetitive thoughts and these are the ones I and...
You should have followed the trial of Travis Reinking like I did. "Due to severe schizophrenia, Reinking was initially found incompetent to stand tria...
Does that take the diagnosis of murder out of the mental realm? My point has roughly been that values seem to only exist in a mental realm and that th...
Murder only appears to have a legal definition as an unlawful killing. If a killing was lawful then calling it a murder would be describing something ...
"When a defendant is charged with a criminal offence, the prosecution must prove that the defendant both committed the act ('actus reus'), and had the...
Looking for intent is speculating about the content of someone's mind (non physical I would/symbolic?) Not analysing the crime scene. I don't think th...
There is an ongoing attempt to cancel J K Rowling by the people she made rich and famous out of her own franchise. This is worrying for new writers an...
What about someone driven to suicide by bullying and harassment or bad parenting? You don't actual have to strike a fatal blow to be accused of causin...
As I said to in my last post to Javi killing someone does not entail murder or intent. Someone could be shot in war, in self defence , in a hunting ac...
Murder is defined as unlawful killing so the law is deciding which acts should be described as murder. In some cases abortion is claimed to be murder....
Cancel culture is emotionally loaded censorship or even emotional terrorism. If you want to immediately validate someone's opinion cancel them. If you...
This is shocking insanity but is apparently the new norm: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gabriel-mac-essay.html "On the day I heard that my p...
I posted evidence of real Trans identified people including one person who committed suicide after a botched attempt to turn a penis into a vagina. It...
Before I examine your study let us point this out. I gave links to several people people who regretted having surgery, or had serious health problems ...
I have being wondering about starting a separate thread on enforced beliefs for months now. But if I do the point is very important philosophically. I...
What feelings of being an outsider? You just randomly introduced that sentiment to me. Being in a minority does not make someone an outsider. Everyone...
This response suggests you are not really interested in real peoples real identities over pandering to an touchy feely (as portrayed) ideology. Just b...
Caitlyn Jenner has spoken out against biological men in women's sports and he has been derided as a transphobe on trans subreddits likewise any other ...
Yes they do. If I want to make people believe I was in the twin towers on 9/11 I want to implant a false belief about me in peoples mind. People get g...
I disagree with this analogy obviously. I don't think most men look good in women's clothes. Women's clothes are designed for the reality of women's b...
Lots of people are unhappy with botched surgeries and people who have cosmetic surgeries are often criticised and the surgeons condemned as unethical....
What extreme examples are you referring to? I have highlighted several cases of people having gender affirmation surgeries that ruined their health. M...
Then refute some of the points being made. This is a philosophy forum for presenting arguments. Being in a minority is not a protected or virtuous sta...
I don't believe anyone can change sex or that anyone should be able to legally be declared the opposite sex because I value truth, facts and reality. ...
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