Harry Hindu

What makes a subject special in this regard? Is there a way it is for any object? I'm not asking if a table or rock has a perspective or a mind. I'm a...

The issue with abortion is that it shines a light on when we, as a society or as individuals, acknowledge that some life have the right to life. At wh...

Sure, but then so is using bug spray to terminate bugs and weed spray to terminate weeds. The intent is the same (to kill) but are the consequences th...

Why so snarky? You've repeated yourself many times to many others on this forum, and I'm sure they have repeated themselves to you, and then you ignor...

In making the argument that information is the relationship between cause and effect I am asserting that information is inherent in nature. What do yo...

I don't know how you arrived at that from what I said. One of the ideas that I did propose was that we're here to initiate the next step of evolution....

You need to provide some kind of evidence for this that shows that downloaded apps on your phone changes the mass of your phone or changes the Earth's...

Around and around we go. In saying that something works or is reliable is also saying it is adequate, so what makes something work vs. not work, relia...

I said that weight is the relation between your phone's mass and the force of gravity on surface of the Earth. How does writing scribbles on this scre...

Yep, cause and effect are like A and B. Information is the relation between them, or more specifically a spatial-temporal relation between two events.

This is simple to resolve. Instead of just two categories (man vs. woman or person vs. non-person), there could be three or more. Transitions between ...

But that is what I'm asking, 180. At what point are we merely projecting human qualities onto objects vs. those qualities actually existing independen...

Physical pain isn't the only type of suffering. I would imagine that the adult with congenital insensitivity to pain would still suffer from mental an...

Being pro-life isn't necessarily religious. Maybe it's more of a pro-personhood, in that one can respect the rights of another person. The question is...

Sure, I think suffering is the awareness of your own pain. I think there are animals, like earth worms, that don't possess that awareness. Their behav...

What does it mean to be useful if not that it carries some element of truth (as in what is the case)? All of your statements are about what is the cas...

You tell me. What makes something work vs. not work, or more reliable vs less reliable?

:grin: Yes! Words are like variables in a computer language. They need to be defined to be used in the program. If not, then they can't be used until ...

That's the difference between drawing a picture of an actual event and drawing a picture of a meaningless design. Both are pictures, but only one actu...

Because you said one thing and then negated it with the second statement. Each statement on it's own means something, but both statements together mea...

For one, you wouldn't be able to communicate if not for reason. Using language is an endeavor in reason.

Yes. And there must be a reason for this.

You won't know until you try.

Would it be better if I used the term, "kill"? And you seem to think that Witt is a prophet of some sort whose words are infallible. You don't seem to...

It seems to me that maybe the issue is using the distinction between "person" and "non-person" is the issue. What if we were to point to "capable of s...

Nope. Go back and read my first post in this thread.

So when does abortion become murder if not by the way we define "person"? Then I don't understand why you brought Wittgenstein into this discussion.

Yet you're saying that there is a clear-cut case between what is discernable vs. indiscernible.

Then intelligence is another defining factor? We put people in jail for animal abuse. It's okay to abuse a pig on a farm, but not a dog? Pigs are actu...

Yet, those cases where it seems to be difficult to say one way or another are rare compared to the all the cases where it is easy to say. Depending on...

Okay. Now we're moving the conversation forward! A healthy fetus in the third trimester has lungs. Is there anything else? Does "healthy adult" includ...

You didn't say it was an example until now. Have any other examples? And after you give those examples, provide the traits that they share that qualif...

You defined a person as a "healthy adult". Does this also mean that an adult with cancer is not a person? You're repeating yourself. What are those di...

How is that any different than what I said? If the preemie baby outside the womb still requires care to survive, how is that any different than the ca...

For vegans, yes. They are fine with killing plants for food, but not pigs, chickens and cows because they point to suffering, not necessarily personho...

What do you mean, "live outside the womb"? Newborns cannot live out side the womb for long on their own. They are still very much dependent on their m...

Fine, then let's go back to the question you're trying to avoid: If you can't explain why you are a person then what is wrong with aborting you? I'm n...

Not much of a paradox when you are making a distinction between distinguishable and indistinguishable, nor does it answer any of my questions. What ab...

Then what use is the term, "person" if there is no way to determine what it is? Are you a person? How do you know? Can you point to something that has...

We are talking about your proposition that "X exists" is a relation. What are the components of this relation if not X and the one making the statemen...

There seems to be two types of leftists (and right-wingers) nowadays - the moderates and the extremists. The extremists didn't exist 49 years ago. Tha...

You seem to be implying that you know the purpose of this planet and its plants and animals. Then what does the planet and its plants and animals exis...

Is "fundamental" a property of all substances? Why or why not? What is it about the property, "fundamental", that prevents two substances from interac...

I saw a video of some protestors where two women were wearing "I had an abortion" T-shirts. I can't seem to find it now, but you can find the t-shirts...

This seems to be the point that needs to be discussed. I see conservatives making the argument that Roe v Wade was all about some federal judges in Wa...

I received an an alert that your link was blocked due to a Trojan virus so I didn't go any further in trying to read it. While I agree that there are ...

It seems that some definitions are in order. What is a substance and what is a property? The OP lays out the problem of substance dualism well enough....

Right, so the opposite of a word would be what constrains that word. So, https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/everything Seems like "nothing" and "everyth...

You dont necessarily need to specify a relation if it is implied. It seems to me that "X doesn't exist" would be a relation between X and the one maki...

Not necessarily. Much has changed since Roe v Wade. I think that abortion will still be legal in all states but with varying limitations depending on ...