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Methinks

['Member']Joined: December 24, 2019 at 18:54Last active: January 21, 2020 at 19:05None discussions11 comments

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In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks (along the lines of the paper I linked to, on the assumption more detail might interest you) that Benatar's antinatalism rests on a fallaciou...
January 03, 2020 at 11:51
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks the assumption of asymmetry is simply false. See https://www.academia.edu/38291449/How_to_Reject_Benatars_Asymmetry_Argument
January 03, 2020 at 02:11
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks I smell a rat here: preventing good is only bad if an actual person exists who could be benefited; yet preventing evil is good even in the ab...
January 02, 2020 at 19:39
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks if perfect application of the NHP is purportedly impossible post-birth, then, since ought implies can, NHP is nonsensical. If perfect NHP is ...
January 01, 2020 at 19:39
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks antinatalism is simply a radical, and somewhat silly, variant of nihilism.
December 31, 2019 at 18:58
In: Why x=x ?  — view comment
Methinks you got it!
December 31, 2019 at 18:55
In: Why x=x ?  — view comment
Methinks it is axiomatic that everything is self-identical. No proof is required or possible -- hence all of the so-called proofs above simply assume ...
December 26, 2019 at 19:05
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks you're entitled to the semantics of your choice; but know that philosophical tradition restricts negative/positive characterizations of actio...
December 25, 2019 at 18:26
In: What justifies a positive ethics (as opposed to a negative one)?  — view comment
Methinks you confound positive and negative duties (or freedom) with the inchoate distinction between "positive and negative ethics." After all, the g...
December 25, 2019 at 01:43
In: Davidson - On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme  — view comment
Methinks what we call real and what is real are distinct categories.
December 24, 2019 at 20:29
In: Can anything really ever be identical?  — view comment
"Can anything ever be identical? Beyond the necessary truism that everything is self-identical, methinks the answer is no.
December 24, 2019 at 20:25
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