Andrew4Handel

I do accept that humans beings have proven capable of a wide array of almost transcendent things through thought and deed including the worst depravit...

Is that because you are not a women in sheltered accommodation? Is that because your penis or vagina is still intact and you are not poisoning yoursel...

This is ridiculous. It indicates you have barely read any of my posts on this topic. Calling a group a minority does not make them credible or sympath...

Nobody has ever changed sex or inhabited a special gender like non binary. So I do not believe Trans exists just bodily adjustments in males and femal...

Unethical surgeries that are causing increasingly well documented harms. A woman on excess testosterone increases her chances of dementia, stroke and ...

Personally, I am somebody who does not associate my name with my personal identity. It only becomes relevant when people call my name out or if it is ...

Are you claiming everyone is driven by instincts or are their exceptions? I suffer from a lack of drive, motivation and reproductive urges so instinct...

People who believe peoples gender identity claims should also believe peoples religious claims. Like when people say the gods or God has/have spoken t...

I believe that humans could be unique in facing existential dilemmas. We appear to be the only entities with a concept of truth and facts but as Hume ...

It is not a choice. I am an antinatalist and one of the reasons is because life is imposed on us without consent. Also it is because I recognise how s...

I believe that humans should be treated as if we are special. This would entail: a) Not randomly creating humans en masse without putting extreme thou...

Do you class this as a physical or mental attribute? Some humans I believe we recognise as human without them displaying various human cognitive dispo...

This issue makes me think about the concept of properties of reality. I think the big bang concept and the idea of reducing things to few basic laws o...

Religion is a strange human phenomena and the way we treat the dead and consider the afterlife and the wide variety of religious beliefs and mythologi...

annnnnnd only Humans are capable of magical thinking, delusion, believing you can change sex and be born in the wrong body and that you can turn a pen...

Being an eraser would be a weak emergent property. The attributes of humans are the most profound and sophisticated ones of anything on earth. You cou...

The point about the male-female distinction and you can include intersex conditions here is that what makes us human must transcend sex differences. S...

It strikes me that a human is a real definable entity distinct from other things. Some thinkers have already argued for us having unique traits such a...

I think what constitutes and identity is unclear and plays no role in biology/ anatomy text books. Whether you say "transsexual" or "transgender" is c...

What is this gender you are referring to and what is this performance? Women have innate traits based on their biology including characteristics that ...

I had a late diagnosis of autism a few years ago at 42/43. I had a lot of problems before then but from my experience a lot of them were caused by oth...

If you were having heart surgery would you want to be treated by someone who trained as a heart surgeon or someone who identified as a heart surgeon.?...

I don't know if you read my whole post because I pressed enter too early by accident. I was drawing a distinction between accidentally being mistaken ...

The current situation is that men can legally identify as women and enter women only spaces and awards. It is the equivalent to me having plastic surg...

I think that in order to define something as a woman there has to be something concrete being referred to and in this case it is the reality of biolog...

I feel that definitional issues around truth may be misleading. Definitions always seem to be a problem because we are trying to create words to descr...

I think that suffering by definition requires consciousness. So this issue falls underneath the mystery of consciousness. I can imagine nature being m...

I think the idea that religion is an evil is very valid but then you have to defend the notion of evil. Which becomes kind of paradoxical as evil is a...

The problem of evil seems to be that some aspects of reality are so terrible that there can't be a loving God but if you believe this and hence reject...

I believe that the Nazis, The Holocaust and World War Two were evil. Man made evils with malice and intent and not natural accidents. Deliberate destr...

I don't see the benefit to explaining evil by dispensing of God/gods. The religious narrative of mans sinful nature and possibility of redemption is m...

I think that my brain is veering between these two things. There is the concept of truth and a possibly infinite array of truths. There is a concept o...

I think the situation in Ukraine highlights the problem for moral truths and truths that are created solely through language like property rights, pol...

No I mean reality would be strange if reality relied on human statements and equations. I don't think you need to make a statement for something to be...

If we cannot define truth can we defend it? Some people believe that the truth always comes out eventually. But does it? Probably not. (Unsolved murde...

The bible doesn't mention abortion as far I can remember nor does it mention paedophilia. It is morally and in other ways very contradictory. The bibl...

I am saying that it is the belief that is true or false not that they are the same thing. A statement only seems to be true after it has been understo...

I find it hard to believe that people really believe extreme positions. Like saying abortion is murder. As people have pointed out many pregnancies en...

I think that a statement like "Matt is taller than Oliver" is meaningful but becomes true in a context where it refers to a Matt that is taller than O...

I think claims like "abortion is murder" or "The unborn baby is a parasite" are hyperbole and the chances of a reasoned debate is already sabotaged. S...

I am finding it hard to say where truth resides. At the moment I am thinking it must be a mental state and an appraisal of the correctness of that men...

What does this entail? I feel like a lot of thinking does not necessarily resolve an issue. I tend to be agnostic about things that don't have an answ...

I cannot empathise with people who become aligned to one set of doctrines and cannot defend any other position or question their own. Some discourse i...

I feel that we should be anti suicide and do everything to preserve and improve the quality of everyone's life.

"Motivated reasoning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning "Motivated reasoning (motivational reasoning bias) is a cognitive and social r...

Out of interest what drew you to Sartre's work. I find it hard to understand. Was he an atheist? Pro science? Pro religion? Did he have a technical ex...

A stage is not nothing though. The human visual system that allows us to see is highly complex and not nothing like wise all the other perceptual syst...

I believe in free will based on my own experience and as I have pointed out in one of my last posts humans give reasons for having children and have s...

It should be a personal choice not to create a child based on conscience. I don't know which tyrants tried to obliterate suffering. A lot of current w...

I have a lot of anecdotes about my life but they are usually relevant so excuse me if I seem to overshare. I am a frank person. I think philosophy sho...