Andrew4Handel

I think the way you have phrased this is obscurantist. Altruism is only moral if you accept the premise that altruism is moral. Caring for one person ...

Nihilism about everything might be self refuting but nihilism about morality isn't. However I do not think the meaning of words and other symbols is t...

I pointed out the issue of moral hypocrisy. People who claim to want to reduce suffering and pin their colours on that mast but are not helping. I don...

But some people are not and are still suffering from failed moral ideals. My issue is that failed moral ideologies are propping up a deeply problemati...

I am not claiming this. I am claiming that our moral systems have failed. And that this failure is being ignored because people are still relying on q...

Like everyone else in the world. You are criticizing my position based on an elusive stance that a handful of people in the world hold. Most people I ...

I think utilitarian ideas do face real and serious problems. If like I mentioned earlier a Doctor about to cure cancer and save thousands of lives nee...

I think the problem for moral progress is that moral attitudes have come and gone and reappeared. There were always societies without slavery, societi...

Here is an example of moral absurdity. Someone rescues baby Hitler from drowning an is deemed a local hero and admirable person. She inadvertently sen...

This would be a huge topic in itself. The meaning of words is different than meaningfulness. I can say a sentence like "The purple giraffe lived on th...

Guides for what?

You denied that morality was about goodness but now you are using the words benign and beneficial. Morality cannot justify assuming that any behaviour...

The first problems I can see with Pragmatic ethics and Moral ecology is that they make unprovable assertions such as that moral behaviour exists and i...

I am criticising specific moral positions. Kant was challenged about whether it was always wrong to lie and people have raised the absurdity of this p...

I am talking about the moral values of lay people But also the most prominent positions in moral philosophy. Scientists can do science without worryin...

Synonyms for moral are "virtuous" "good" "righteous" "upright" "upstanding" My criticisms in the initial post was of several moral positions that are ...

No I am the one saying morality is impossible not just problematic. When I said problematic that probably wasn't a strong enough word because I certai...

According to the dictionary Morality noun principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.

I have wondered whether not making moral claims would benefit society. No one group could claim to be morally superior over another or more or less wo...

I thought it was accepted that morality was about goodness? So if you want to be good or do good you have to perform certain actions or refrain from c...

I like that.

I think the problem is of defining society, whose society and how it is being benefited and what flourishing is. What constitutes a thriving flourishi...

I don't think you can be a real nihilist and talk about benefits to society. I am an antinatalist nihilist I do not see the point of continuing to pro...

My nihilism is the default until someone can provide me with moral facts. I think if you took any of the current moral stances seriously they would un...

This is exactly why morality is untenable. It is absurd to only expect a tiny proportion of society to be morally enlightened. If people want to be mo...

I do not think that this is true. There are numerous challenges that we overcome. This is a semantic problem anyway. There is a difference between som...

I feel that morality is the main thing preventing nihilism. The idea of value and moral order. I think that the failure a moral system leads to nihili...

I think that the bad is easier to define than the good. If you associate the bad with suffering. It is easy to imagine why someone would not like bein...

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I think that if someone is convinced life has a meaning and finds life meaningful they might consider life a gift. When I was a child and teenager I j...

In my case I am Gay (that was a sexuality condemned roundly by the church). I am not sure what evolutionary model applies to gay sexuality because the...

I'm 43. It is interesting because we can effectively change a lot of our beliefs just by new evidence. For example I if I thought New York was the cap...

I am not referring to that kind of country or society. An example comes from Cambodia where a man became depressed because he had problems with his fe...

I agree. Personally I don't want to be stuck in years and years of therapy reliving my past. Some countries or societies approach mental health as a p...

No and that is why this is strange. I am not frightened of the dark or terrorists or bangs in the night. I did have one other superstition but that en...

I believe in freewill to some degree but I am not confident about my ability to change in any fundamental way. The suggestion I like best at the momen...

I don't mind people suggesting that. It makes sense and I have had some therapy.I am a very open person so sharing this is not problematic for me. Wha...

I don't think I can clear my mind. I am an over thinker. I was also recently diagnosed as autistic which doesn't help. Obviously sex has been a very p...

I have had some general cognitive behavioral therapy not specifically related to this. But I have mentioned it though. The first counselor I had sugge...

I have always wondered if this is the solution. I think I would feel less guilty having sexual experiences mutually and in a loving relationship. I ha...

The only way we can know something, is through consciousness. If something is truly unconscious we can't know it. For example do you know my middle na...

I am making the distinction between perceptions that makes us believe there is an external world and perceptions of mental content such as concepts in...

I cannot be sure my body exists. To be sure anything exists I have to be sure that my consciousness exists and does not deceive me.

I accept Descartes's cogito ergo sum. By having an experience I know for certain that I exist in some form but I can doubt my the content of my experi...

I am not sure I agree with this definition. I think subjective means personal or perspectival. You can judge someones is in pain without them telling ...

I don't think pain is simply an opinion. People writhe in agony from pain. It would be bizarre if peoples values were not at correlated with any objec...

The binding problem has been explaining why information occurring in different perception becomes a unified perception. This might be solved by tracin...

I suppose so. The perception of internal representations leaves us trapped in our mind. But I think the homunculus problem is more vivid when you cann...

Facts can lead to value assessments. Some facts are about preferences only, such as my brain enjoys the taste of ice cream and this leads me to value ...

I don't think that the amount of people that die in a famine or war is subjective. And that is the context of your people opening the door for each ot...