Mac

Sounds like something someone in a simulation would say.

A cool observation, but I cannot concede that definitions are arbitrary because we don't need them to grasp a thing or concept. When discussing ideas,...

Also, there is more to the economy than businesses. Economists are like weather men. Even the best can only do so much. And they still get crapped on ...

You've done it again, Aristophanes. Saving the world, one idea at a time.

Lmao. My dad is a civil engineer and this is actually crap he has to deal with haha.

No. like I already was clear about: I don't put a quantifier on the value of human life. One or 1000 lives. I think that in itself is immoral, but tha...

There is this huge failure of societal progress when people think the only way to deal with crime properly is to punish criminals.

I appreciate the good faith. I don't think the the OP's author is acting in good faith though. To me this is really a comical assertion and the only r...

I never said to embrace idealism. My point is that the goal and alternatives I explained are reasonably attainable. People act like they are idealisti...

I'm not a hard utilitarian like you are. I think it's wrong to quantify the values of human life. Where there is death, I'd like there to be none, rat...

The paradoxical loop you are accepting is that one can know that something is unanswerable. But wouldn't you need some form of access to an answer to ...

I think this belongs in a different forum, just not philosophy.

No, that would mean something is unanswered rather than unanswerable. It is impossible, based on the system people currently use to describe the unive...

Your idea makes the justice system "less perfect" by suggesting that rather than move toward eliminating the prison industrial complex, we utilize it ...

Yes I would argue it is. Do you think we have a perfect justice system?

Also a word of advice for using this forum; Remember that people here attack ideas, not the person who has the idea. This forum is made for ideas to b...

once again, I just don't think that a prisoner should be considered a slave who's life is only defined by punishment for the atrocities they commited....

I just don't think that a prisoner should be considered a slave who's life is only defined as punishment for the atrocities they commited.

I don't think the issue is anything you mentioned. I think black people like me disagree with the target and specific methods of their efforts. I'm no...

There are a ton of consequences that I don't think have been taken into consideration here.

It's not a belief to be unconvinced. It is to be unconvinced.

Atheism is a lack of belief or not being convinced of a god. I don't understand how you get to a belief in "nothing." show me nothing.

I'm not buyin. Please do not contact me with unsolicited services.

Politics are inherently philosophical. Philosophy arose out of political necessity.

You are exactly right.

Of course it does. I never claimed it didn't. I just said there is no way of knowing how this will affect the world. There is no question that it does...

I think you've totally missed what I am arguing.

Why do you think it needs to show us something we don't know? This misunderstanding you have is why I brought in the biological connection.

well we can argue what x consists of all year but x is still x

well IDK why x is x. But that is how I perceive reality to be. You are probably the closest so far to understanding where I am coming from lol.

Because Mac is my name, not me. I am me. Me is me. Me=me

Not if she's 18

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You know you can leave this website right? I'm sure there's some club you fit in.

I think there is. And you are conforming to the population of people who claim not to conform.

"But what if I believe there are only two genders?" I think this question is on the minds of a lot of Americans and must be taken care of early in thi...

They both have negative effects, and they both have positive ones. There is no way of knowing for sure how having a child will influence the world. Th...

I see your problem now. But once again, I understand this is a philosophy forum, and in that vein it is true that we look too deeply sometimes, especi...

It's just a model, and the best one we have. Give me something better. You can try to poke holes but what I'm saying is solid. If you would seriously ...

Couldn't have said it better. This is why I didn't go to grad school. I'd be a bad prof.

I don't think you're on the same page. The tautology: X=X comes from our biological capacity to grasp identity. It is a representation/model of one wa...

I get it's puzzling but just remember, tautologies are interpretations of phenomena, not the other way around.

Also, to define something is to define its opposite. To make a distinction is to say X is seperate from Q, Y, Z , etc. Thereby, you are separating X f...

I disagree that they are opposites.

oh I thought we were on the same page. So by distinction I assume you mean something is seperate from another. Correct me if I'm wrong.

yep

Distinction works. x=x is just a representation of that fact.

Once again, it is undisputed in biology that humans and other animals evolved a sense of individuality and an ability to differentiate bodies in their...

This is basic biology. Identity is not a universal concept. Mammals (In our case) evolved to understand ourselves and other things as individuals. Bab...

They are very related. And dependent in this case.