Andrew4Handel

Most of the countries with the highest reports of happiness are wealthy democratic western countries. This wealth is partly or even largely based on e...

Can you give an example? There is a difference between criticizing or discussing individual parents or categories of parents and critiquing the ethics...

I don't know what you are saying here. Are you saying parents don't have freewill or that consciousness can be created regardless of whether people re...

I think the problem with moral arguments is that they can be overruled by action. The benefits of a religious or supernatural morality is that it coul...

What puzzled me is the person I was responding to did not seem to think a parent could cause a child any suffering simply by creating them. If you wer...

This is a post that I made on another forum which I think highlights how I think parents don't consider the suffering they are causing or their link t...

I was referring to the nature of the empirical evidence used in Antinatalism which distinguishes it from a purely theoretical or logical argument. If ...

I think the issue of non-existence in these debates is not problematic like it is made out to be. For example people claim things like that we should ...

I think that words seem to refer to things and in this sense hearing a word or sentence etc will take us from the mere words to a dynamic in the exter...

The problem imo is how experience attaches itself to an arbitrary symbol. It seems to me that experience comes before symbols. But then with language ...

How do you know this? Babies look around a lot before speaking. They also touch things and suck them etc. They are extremely curious. It seems like th...

You would understand yourself. That seems to be to a large extent reality. We communicate with ourselves constantly before communicating with others.

I think that the letters M O O that make a word like moo are not identical with the sound but fit the conventional pronunciation assigned to those let...

I don't know what religious/esoteric people think about pleasure. I grew up in a fundamentalist cult situation and they often referred to a lot of bas...

Informative pain is like the pain of a broken leg which tells you tissue is damaged and forces you to take weight off the injured limb. In a way this ...

Your picture seems to be saying we are being coerced by evolutionary forces. I think the problem with evolutionary explanations is that they are often...

Here are some things Ayn Rand said on this topic: "The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right c...

I think there are facts such as 2 + 2 = 4 that do not rely on our emotional response to them. I agree that pleasure is motivational but it seems not t...

I feel that any positive language like "excellent" equates with pleasure. The whole notion of positivity seems synonymous with pleasure. I think it is...

A lot of species reproduce without the aid of pleasure. Sexual pleasure is most pronounced in humans but not necessary in things like plants and fish....

I don't think it is necessary to have a concept of property. I see no reason why you cannot use resources and have a place of shelter without making t...

It has got to the stage now where a tiny piece of land in London is considered worth millions of pounds and more and more aspects of life are assigned...

The act of creating someone undermines their will. We are here through someone else's desires not by autonomy. I think the manner in which life is cre...

There is a problem with the status of self ownership. Slavery has been prolific throughout history. The are dictatorships and theocracies with few if ...

I think they mean property claims. The law formalises peoples claims about things like rights, obligations and ownership.

I don't think the law justifies property. To me it just seems that the law allows use of force to dominate a thing. And the law can act in the same ma...

I don't think "Property" and "own" are necessarily meaningful. For example can you own something once you are dead? In this sense owning something doe...

I think there is a problem that we have a very complex system of of ownership and financial value which I don't think is justified which I would now c...

I think that it not at all clear how to define consciousness before attributing it to things. How you define it will probably determine how widespread...

Defining a crime is controversial. Inequality, poverty, exploitation, religious indoctrination, excessive wealth, environmental damage and many other ...

Unfortunately it is an issue of power. Europeans have quite a liberal and progressive justice system. There are always people fighting to make a more ...

I think you can refute the idea that existence is harm. For example say someone cures cancer then that existence alleviated a lot of harm. I am an ant...

I feel that punishment comes from peoples fear including a fear of lacking control in an uncertain world. People attempt to make the world seem more j...

It might also come from the just world fallacy and the fundamental attribution error where people subconsciously believe life is fair and people are t...

Punishment seems to spring from anger to me.

I think that an atoms behaviour is not the same as my behaviour when I move my arm. I believe in freewill and so when I decide to move my arm the atom...

I don't see any reason to grant subject to experience status to everything. How would you define a thing in this case? Is every atom in my body having...

You claim that there is no afterlife. How do you know that? Your position can be refuted if any of your various premises are false.

To me meaning is more important than pleasure and I don't value meaningless pain or meaningless pleasure. I think that just mindlessly pursuing pleasu...

The most neglected and fundamental aspect of consciousness is the experiencer/observer/self, the thing being subject to experience. I don't think cons...

Some people would say that good and bad don't refer to anything. Likewise with right and wrong.

That seems to be the only source of explanation.. Thought

You mentioned that it was widely believed that infants operated with dumb association mechanisms. Why did people believe this? These kind of assertion...

I didn't say psychology was easy but rather that we do it all the time to understand and negotiate with other people. Academic Psychology has faced a ...

Psychology seems to have negative and or shallow assumptions about people. When I interact with a child I have no assumptions. I take people as I find...

Personal testimony about mental states is problematic and this also effects correlating self reports with brain states. For example there is lying and...

The most reliable criminal conviction would be one where there's fingerprints, CCTV footage, DNA and so on. I think indirect evidence gets more reliab...

It seems to me that all humans are psychologists and manage to understand other people with varying degrees of success but enough to interact usefully...

I think conversation is very informative and can be analysed for content that expresses private or mental information. There is the external versus in...

I think this attitude of only relying on the scientific method leads to a unrealistic and unproductive and unjustified dismissal or reductive attitude...