Andrew4Handel

This seems to be a subjective assessment. In terms of misanthropy, the fact that we need trillions dollars worth of weapons to protect each other from...

I feel that it is hard to be non destructive as a human partly because the competitive nature of life, the need to exploit the planet and current huge...

I don't think anything can outweigh a genocide. These kind of things are the depths of depravity. However I am not sure how you would be making your c...

I think if you dislike something that is harmless that would seem irrational, or merely a preference, but disliking horrible destructive behavior woul...

I meant justification. Everyone does not have to act badly all the time to give a negative assessment of humans or the human condition. I consider Wor...

I am not claiming they are useless. I am claiming the require freewill to be acted upon. You brought up the term qualia which is not something I ascri...

If you think that we are our brain then it is we who are attending qualia. The no freewill position makes consciousness an epiphenomenon helplessly ex...

I do not see the point of any qualia if you cannot act on it. Humans have a vast array of conscious data that they act on including the information th...

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread yet but I would like to present my evidence for free will which is...Pain. What would be the point of human or a...

I am an antinatalist as you may now and when it comes to antinatalism people often instantly respond if life is so terrible why don't you commit suici...

I have been looking at suicide as significant statistic. The article that you linked to claims that 1/3 to 80% of suicides maybe impulsive. Now that i...

I think if this life was truly fulfilling and lacked harm we would not be eager for death. Death is inevitable as well as being a big unknown. I would...

The study into impulsive suicides in America is based around firearms. I think that access to firearms is going to allow more impulsive suicides becau...

I was referring to the Durkheim statistic because it suggests that suicide might have strong social and cultural elements. I grew up in a strict prote...

But they do study the causes of death. These causes might be disease pollution, bad housing, mental health and so on and these can lead to policy chan...

That was a long suicide note. It has been critiqued elsewhere. I just worry that it was a too long and rambling statement and I hope he didn't die in ...

I think suicide refutes some claims made by the living. I will need to root around to find some good specific examples. If someone commits suicide at ...

I feel that suicide is a rejection of life and hence a profound statement.

We can make a comparison with gun violence here. Far more people kill themselves with guns than die in mass shootings but the latter issue gets far fa...

The unknown is not the supernatural. The issue is the importance of the unknown. Not knowing the cure for cancer is not the same as not knowing how ma...

Here is a further elaboration. Imagine there is a person who has a huge fetish about someone having sex with them while they are asleep or unconscious...

Most human beings past, future, and present can give consent. Someone who is unconscious cannot give consent in the present only in the future like th...

An unconscious person is unable to give consent. Only a conscious person can give consent. Why should we respect an unconscious person during the stag...

I don't see a difference between an unconscious person unable to consent and a non existent person able to consent. Unless an unconscious person regai...

I don't know. I gave examples of unknowns such as the precise numbers of grains of sands and stars. These are hypothetically knowable. So I am differe...

I have no idea. I only have access to my own mind and my own experiences. I don't think creating analogies between your own experiences and other peop...

There are different models of consciousness, Dualism argues that the mind and brain interact but are independent. You might use the radio signal analo...

Evidence is not straight forward. Democritus suggested an atomic theory of matter thousands of years ago and the existence of atoms was only considere...

Peoples moral beliefs affect how they behave. Moral certainty or the reverse moral nihilism can impact behaviour negatively but moral agnosticism can ...

I did a degree in Philosophy and Psychology with a module on philosophy of mind. I had to do a lot of reading in this area including about mind-brain ...

I think having a child does not resolve the ethical issue about creating children. In the same way that killing someone does not resolve the ethical i...

If you break your leg on South African soil then South Africa was a causal factor in breaking your leg. South Africa refers to the territory governed ...

You are aware that people commit suicide aren't you?

Not doing something is respecting consent....such as not creating children.

"I have not had a single happy day in my life. I have always worked hard, digging in the garden. I am tired," Istambulova told the Daily Mail. When as...

It does because you can respect consent without an action and without involving anyone else just restraining your own behaviour.

I would never have children so there is never going to be the question of what I might make my children do. The whole premise of antinatalism is that ...

Somethings are internally contradictory or refuted by further evidence.

I meant valid

I disagree with your characterization of consent. If you do not rape someone then you are refraining from an action because you respect someones conse...

The consent issue only arises in humans because of our unique cognitive capacities. I don't know what other animals would think about procreating if t...

Having a child is not letting someone in. It is starting a cycle of inevitable experiences. The parent is not like a taxi driver or doorman but is lit...

I think other peoples reasons can be considered false. I don't think reason is subjective. This is why I differentiate between belief and knowledge. A...

Having a child is acting to impose experiences on someone else.

I think consent is a moral issue. Anyone can ignore consent if they want to. The idea we should respect other peoples consent is a moral claim. But co...

After someone is born and is old enough to understand or express consent then any thing happening to them has not being explicitly consented to unless...

Having no good reason to doubt something.

I don't see how this follows. You can be certain about where you parked you car. You don't know of your car has been stolen but that is statistically ...

There is not just one argument or reason to be opposed to reproduction. If it was just one argument it probably would not be too compelling. So among ...

The problem of consent arises after someone is born because they did not consent to anything. After you have created someone you cannot claim they con...