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I'm getting at the notion that you have to throw your hands in the air because different moral sentiments aren't illogical, or irrational or factually...
March 29, 2016 at 03:57
I'm sure that you do liken it to that. I'm Enlightened too. High five! I mainly am a moral emotivist, somewhat of a consequentialist, but consequentia...
March 29, 2016 at 03:37
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Another thing that super awkward, is when you scare people walking around at night. I walk pretty fast, so I usually overtake people, and sometimes lo...
March 29, 2016 at 03:12
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Most of the time when I am talking about others, I'm just talking about myself, and projecting it. I'm just really really honest. Not entirely though,...
March 29, 2016 at 03:08
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Steve Jobs said that people don't know what they want until you show it to them. When it comes to plenty of products, I think that it has a lot to do ...
March 29, 2016 at 02:34
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Good question, my lack of nuance shows my lack of much knowledge or insight into the subject, but that never stopped me from thinking I'm the most rig...
March 29, 2016 at 02:01
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I didn't read it all, just enough to be bored with it, the first couple of pages, lol. Having to assert that you're being fair or balanced is rather j...
March 28, 2016 at 23:00
That's some silly shit. "Unnecessary risk" implies that something could be accomplished without the risk. Otherwise it would be like telling someone a...
March 28, 2016 at 21:53
No, I'm not conflating the two, I think attributing moral obligations to potential people is absurd in the first place. I'm more pointing out that if ...
March 28, 2016 at 06:41
To further go on, what you consider to be "pointless", "meaningless", "empty", and "vain", I very much do as well, and that's precisely why they're so...
March 28, 2016 at 06:36
I don't think you know what "logic" means. You mean something agreeing with your emotional evaluation, not logic, or facts. What information does some...
March 28, 2016 at 06:33
Probably not, since I was talking to a particular person about a particular thing they said.
March 28, 2016 at 06:19
I don't think that you're grasping the context of the particular point I was making. The claim was that it's appropriate to have moral obligations to ...
March 28, 2016 at 05:42
No, no. That's why I said what you said was "honest", I don't think you're saying that antinatalists are wrong, I figured you were one. The imposition...
March 28, 2016 at 04:58
That is entirely my impression, and is an honest reply. It isn't about the description of the wills, or dispositions of others, and a worry for this -...
March 28, 2016 at 04:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c
March 28, 2016 at 03:59
And if you asked the vast majority of living people if they'd rather have never been born, what do you think they'd say? If they said "no", are they w...
March 28, 2016 at 03:54
Special pleading. Why does unsolicited mercy killings not violate liberty and consent of potential people? Why can't you kill actual people based on t...
March 28, 2016 at 00:11
Bleh... I have no interest in giving him attention... his theological anachronistic puritanical teleology strains the eyes. I think that philosophy of...
March 27, 2016 at 23:54
Considering potential agents morally important leads to absurdity, and special pleading. Every time you whack it you kill a billion potential people w...
March 27, 2016 at 23:23
We should just find out where he lives and go beat him up. I heard that words won't hurt him, but sticks and stones will!
March 27, 2016 at 06:05
I'm no villain... do I look like a monster or alien? I can't be reduced to a greasy spot, I'm redeemably human!
March 27, 2016 at 04:58
I don't know where that would be.
March 27, 2016 at 04:43
*Gasp!* How do you know my mother?
March 27, 2016 at 04:37
Oh it occurred, but apparently you didn't like. You hold moral qualms against sexual activity, but just claim that you have compartmentalized them fro...
March 27, 2016 at 04:22
I was under the impression that you were relating "anatalism", and your moral qualms with natalism with abstinence, and celibacy... and others were as...
March 27, 2016 at 03:38
Demonizing and having "serious moral qualms" with something. Those are practically identical, although of course you would object to the former, as th...
March 27, 2016 at 02:54
Oh, I misinterpreted you, yes that's definitely true. I will also note that, at least for me, other people's suffering is many times more difficult to...
March 27, 2016 at 01:34
So poor people have more children because of child benefits allotted to them? Success seems most positively correlated with where one comes from in li...
March 27, 2016 at 00:26
I really doubt that most children throughout human history, and even in modern times, were actually intentionally planned. Since the advent of contrac...
March 26, 2016 at 21:02
I don't think that's a far comparison. Tripping over a stick and scrapping one's knee isn't like being pushed maliciously to the ground by an asshole....
March 26, 2016 at 20:50
Life is hard... often tremendously so. Most of us don't reach adulthood without being driven insane by it. Delusional beliefs are not a product of fau...
March 26, 2016 at 20:10
Yes, the feeling is grounded in chemical processes in the brain, but that doesn't make it arbitrary, or random. Someone can feel genuine terror that a...
March 26, 2016 at 19:21
I don't see a distinction.
March 26, 2016 at 18:42
I was pointing out that Darth's reasoning implies that his position was entirely arbitrary. I don't think it's arbitrary, as much as misanthropic, and...
March 26, 2016 at 18:40
Forced chemical happiness, bliss as the response to every foreseeable circumstance isn't hollow, and somehow promotes personal growth and deep insight...
March 26, 2016 at 05:55
I could be put in worse company! Maybe someday they will come up with such a way to change our chemistry, and we can all lay stoned in a blissful stup...
March 26, 2016 at 05:29
I know that I'm super deep, and it's difficult to grasp my level of monstrous profundity -- but more like "p, but if too much p, then not p". Life isn...
March 26, 2016 at 04:28
I'm cognizant that I walk dangerous and offensive ground myself. I could easily be construed as glorifying the most deeply traumatic of experiences, o...
March 26, 2016 at 01:51
I was charitable enough to answer that question in a different way the second time you asked it, I don't think I'll come up with a third answer. Just ...
March 25, 2016 at 10:09
I like who I am, my experiences are formative of who I've become, so no, I wouldn't change them.
March 25, 2016 at 09:47
Besides, I was chronically sick for 22 years of my life, and only moderately healthy for 9. Though I still experienced much back pain until only a cou...
March 25, 2016 at 09:40
No, because I have more important things to do, nor do I think that life is only, or primarily about pleasure seeking. Enough pleasure, and enough mis...
March 25, 2016 at 09:37
I don't think that there's any denying that it feels better returning to normal health after being sick than just always being normal health. There is...
March 25, 2016 at 09:14
What do you expect, or want from life? What does it owe you? What would it take to live up to your standards?
March 25, 2016 at 08:57
Maybe if I was deficient enough in the misery department I might try that, but my cup runneth over. People that get bored enough stir up lots of shit....
March 25, 2016 at 08:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvU715csycA
March 25, 2016 at 07:21
Yeah... I didn't say that misery was great, I said that it was one of the things that makes life great. Apples aren't pies, but they're one of the thi...
March 25, 2016 at 07:09
What I'd consider a lot of pain, and what you'd consider a lot of pain are like Wittgenstein's beetles -- they're private, and something we can't shar...
March 25, 2016 at 02:09
I personally have never experienced that level of pain. Calk it up to personal thresholds, I guess. It's called being reasonable. If you want to call ...
March 25, 2016 at 00:35