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"Post Hoc, Propter Ergo Hoc" (after this, therefore because of this) Fallacy comes to mind. This is a fallacy where you assume that, just because, X o...
October 29, 2019 at 13:59
Well, you said that education of young women was the best line of attack for these sort of problems-it was not "alongside" global issues. Do i need to...
October 28, 2019 at 18:50
Empowering girls and women is good and all, but you said we should divert our resources to young women's education and not that we should, while deali...
October 28, 2019 at 18:31
Nope. That was not my objection-of course, education of young women should not be neglected and they should be helped. But that's not the issue here. ...
October 28, 2019 at 18:19
I would only accept this statement if it was rephrased as "When resources are focused towards the education of people in general, the outcomes are far...
October 28, 2019 at 18:01
I apologize. I was simply talking about the fact that you focused on women when there was really no need to do so. I want to know why you did that.
October 28, 2019 at 17:36
I generally agree with what you're saying here, but there is one issue: You're taking a general trend -the inverse relationship between education and ...
October 28, 2019 at 17:29
A thing could happen by chance without any random elements-that is the position of an indeterminist. That's what i thought you were referring to when ...
October 28, 2019 at 13:24
Well, let me rephrase it then: "That reason is spesific to low-income families that do not have a good standard of living. What about the other ones?"...
October 28, 2019 at 10:31
Then it's indeterministic (i.e. the causes do not "determine" which option will be choosen) and which option will be choosen is entirely out of the ag...
October 28, 2019 at 10:21
I would say that this only applies to low-income families in poor countries. There are generally no such things like that involved in the majority of ...
October 28, 2019 at 08:05
How would that work then? If it's the same rate and simultaneous, then they would finish at the exact same time. Then, our choice would still be rando...
October 28, 2019 at 06:41
Well, the neurological accuracy aside, this kind of free will is random. The outcome is based on luck, and, more importantly, factors (and luck) that ...
October 28, 2019 at 05:41
Well, it's because we are psychologically predisposed to having children. Howewer, is there really no logical reason to have children? Because having ...
October 28, 2019 at 04:16
"If it accomplishes that already, i.e. making the victim's family feel better, it would at least accomplish something." Yes, it would at least accompl...
October 25, 2019 at 10:46
Well, there is another problem with the Islamic system-: What does it accomplish, exactly, besides making the victim's family -since this is mostly ab...
October 25, 2019 at 07:06
"Voluntary Empathy", at least in the sense you're presenting it, doesn't seem to be the real to me. While psychopaths do make moral judgements -and, l...
October 22, 2019 at 12:00
My objection would be that the consclusion is different from what the premises entail. Premise: Moral actions are voluntary. Premise: Empathy-based-ac...
October 20, 2019 at 05:08