She was wrong about pleasure equaling right course of action and you have failed to refute my criticism of her nor attempted to do so. If pleasure equ...
I have a non moral concern about harm. I don't think you can prove something is right or wrong. If someone gives a moral argument for having children ...
I don't know. I am on medication for persistent anxiety and depression. I think a lot of people with mental illnesses are on medication. Reason might ...
I find it hard to justify making children. The original post was asking why people feel justified in making children. I was hoping someone would try a...
I don't think you can come to a resolution about oneself, but rather can remain in a state of flux constantly reevaluating. Is Russell suggesting reas...
I wonder if he applied this process to himself. I think to much reason may lead to a numbness. Things becoming meaningless abstractions. Endless rumin...
Half his children died in childhood. His own musical contribution was greater than his genetic contribution and he hasn't left behind many descendants...
The government threshold for acceptable parenting is not the same as each individual's is. I don't personally support anyone having children. I don't ...
I was referring to the common claim that marriage is for rearing children made by conservatives opposed to gay marriage. The absurdity being that kill...
That is what I want to know. When people actively decide to have children they must, I suppose, have decided they passed some threshold that made repr...
I said earlier "Huge numbers of children have starved to death and still do and do not have gardens to play in with some kind of Snow white mother fig...
I don't know what you mean. Homosexuality is natural but it has been heavily restricted and forced underground and punished with prison and death. I d...
It seems problematic to me to have a morality that can be overturned by action. Does action decide what is acceptable? If action is not evidence of ac...
I am discussing whether people have a right to have a child and if so why? I am not discussing possible modes of intervention. Even if preventing chil...
It is in you and your children's interest to monitor how other people reproduce. Even if you do everything in your power to give your child a decent q...
This the most common and vague reason now given for having children. Happiness is elusive in terms of what causes it and why it should be perpetuated....
It is ironic that serial killers in America were allowed to marry in prison whilst gay people were not allowed to marry at all. I think this reflects ...
I think someones that has a child is asserting that they have a right to have child. So I am asking why people feel they have a right to have a child ...
We don't need to invoke rights if we say people don't have a right to have children. Saying people have a right to have children is invoking rights. I...
Why should having children be the only area in life not constrained by rights and legislation? I find it worrying that you would think that to preserv...
So the childless are to be forced to take care of other peoples children that they didn't endorse and had no role in the creation of? Why impose the b...
I am discussing whether people are entitled to have children and not whether life has joy and value. You appear to be claiming that these things justi...
You said: You say the default position is "Why not" which entails people do as they please until they feel you have given them a good reason not to do...
It concerns me deeply that you can use sentiment to try and mask the vast amount of historical and current suffering of children and their adults selv...
You would have to work hard to survive even if you did not have children you are just passing on a burden. It is not a sacrifice to take care of child...
Having a child is imposing on someone. How can you justify doing something that fundamentally effects someone else that did not consent to it? What ki...
Society does not function based on mothers playing with their children in the garden, rather on hard work, technology, exploitation,sacrifice and the ...
You seem to have a fantastical view if the past treatment of children based on Disney. Huge numbers of children have starved to death and still do and...
I am a nihilistic about rights. I do not think nature provides us with any rights and they are human inventions. The concept of rights makes people fe...
There is no reason it should be. Humans have made massive interventions into nature. We don't just let primitive nature run our lives but have invente...
The Chinese did this but now they have reversed their policy, but they had massive famines so they resorted to this policy. However I would prefer peo...
I believe humans have always been intelligent enough to examine the consequences of having children. For example I reached my own conclusions from my ...
That is just a bald statement. I gave evidence why she is not true. What is your counter argument or counter evidence. Here is another dubious stateme...
I did an extensive criticism here of her claim that "The physical sensation of pleasure is a signal indicating that the organism is pursuing the right...
Based on what evidence? What was she referring to? How does she know that reversing and rejecting welfare state conceptions would prevent whatever dis...
That was not Ayn Rand's point in her interview with Mike Wallace. He pointed out to her that people voted for progressive socialist ideals and she obj...
I find Ayn Rand makes a lot of false claims in her work or claims she does not support or that are easily questioned. For example in "The Virtue Ethic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooKsv_SX4Y&t=1087s Ayn Rand: The way everybody feels, except more consciously. I feel that it is terrible, that you s...
I find Ayn Rand's views childish and incoherent. She advocates selfishness as a virtue and then ignores and dismisses what most people actually desire...
It seems to me that that values can last for a long time and emotions can be temporary so that a value outlives an emotion making them come a part fro...
I am a nihilist so I find it hard to see value in anything unfortunately. I am also a depressive so that can flatten the emotions. I think if anything...
Well I don't think you have proven your point. What value is behind conflicted emotions? Like I pointed out we can reject our own values even if we ha...
Are you saying emotions and values are identical because to me they seem to be quite different things? If I eat food that I don't like I recognise tha...
I don't see how you validate your values in this scenario. It seems to be saying that if someone feels pleasure abusing people then that is the right ...
I don't think that the productivity or success of an ideology validates it. For example I don't think that Christianity is true because of its success...
I think that the kind of "society" (or non society) Ayn Rand proposes would not work and the America she chose to live in was never like that. For exa...
What is irresponsible is to exhaust environmental resources rather than reduce the worlds population. Yes our lifestyles are wasteful. I try to be as ...
She came across as a psychopath with a very chilling view of politics and economics. The only mitigating circumstance I can think is that was a reacti...
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