Harry Hindu

That's strange that you interpreted my post in that way, when I never implied that. How would you know that that is the only truth? It seems to me tha...

Isn't this why science has something called experimentation and peer review - to eliminate the subjective skewing of what just one individual claims t...

Which is just another state-of-affairs that we can talk about and would either be true or false based on the relationship of accuracy between the clai...

And the body of other propositions is just another state-of-affairs.

What is that "something else" other that some state-of-affairs that exists, which could be what is going on in your mind right now? In claiming what y...

So would you say that it is objectively true, or subjectively true, that we disagree? If we both agree that we disagree, then are we both acknowledgin...

Cool. So if something were universal, would that make it true?

This is the most common illogical argument made against libertarianism. The fact that you make it tells me that you aren't really informed enough for ...

Then what I said would be neither subjective nor objective. How would you define my post if it doesn't fall into a subjective, or objective category?

Any time someone makes a claim about some state-of-affairs that is the same for everyone - like the claim that there is no objective truth - then that...

What is a god? - an extra-dimensional alien? Why call it a "god"? If I didn't at least define what Donald Trump is, how would you even know what I was...

So your question is, "should we treat people differently because of how they were born"?

That is because a "level playing field" is a pipe dream in todays society. For a level playing field to be obtained would require humans to be genetic...

Corporate power is just as dangerous to individual freedom as government power - especially when the two are entwined and support each other at the co...

What does the article mean by "created alternate realities"? I wasn't aware that humans had achieved the ability to create realities. What makes a rea...

Funny how everyone in this thread is trying to rationally explain why rationality isnt necessary. If one really wanted to claim that rationality isnt ...

Truth is a fact or actuality. True, as the way most people seem to use the term, is the degree of accuracy some representation (like a statement) is t...

This is like saying "We can't ever know the truth." If we can't ever know the truth, then how is it true that we know that? Is that not a truth that w...

The only reason someone would abandon logic and reason is that they don't find the conclusions of logic and reason consoling. In other words, they hav...

So the hospital would only have black doctors available? Sounds like a racist hospital to me.

What if a patient was admitted into your hospital and said that they didn't want any black doctors operating on them? Would it be right to refuse the ...

Are you aware of all the options within the given amount of time? If you were, then how could you ever make the wrong choice? I don't see how that is ...

LOL. Well, I guess I did say "NOT pre-determined", and then asked a question that could be seen as circular. What we are trying to do is determine if ...

Cheese for everyone, or only for those whose bread is "worse"? Some people don't like bread and like only cheese. Some people are lactose intolerant.

This is just more of your unnecessary mental gymnastics. What I asked was if someone could choose something that they aren't aware of, and if not, the...

If it really is the "us" that defines the "me", then how is it that you (part of the "us") got this wrong? How is it that social constructions get any...

Wikipedia: Determinism, in philosophy, theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Your ...

This was the example you gave: In this moment of decision, Joe isn't aware of pumpernickel for some reason or another. Is it possible for Joe to choos...

I don't see how it would be possible for pumpernickel to be chosen if they arent aware of it. At any given moment of decision you have a limited time ...

I'm not sure that you are using "choice" consistently here. Is pumpernickel a kind of choice, or a kind of bread? Don't choices only exist inside of m...

Read what I wrote again. I said that I don't get making it a major part of one's identity, like some have stated in this thread. I never said that it ...

Yes, good example. Their irrationality is caused by a neurological anomaly. When we say that someone is irrational, what we're really saying is that t...

I don't really get the idea of using one's race, sex, or orientation as a major part of one's identity, or being proud of these things. These are thin...

If not pre-determined, then are the only choices that are possible are the ones we are aware of?

Then equality is a pipe-dream for we can only increase our freedom by taking other's away? If that is the case, then it's survival of the fittest. It ...

1.the presence of pain is bad; 2.the presence of pleasure is good; 3.the absence of pain is good, even if that good is not enjoyed by anyone; 4.the ab...

In saying that it is rational, are you not saying that it was deterministic as well? Can you give an example of something that is non-deterministic AN...

Of course we can answer it. The answer is, "You can't - at least not without redefining what "awareness", and "other" mean." As usual with many philos...

I'm saying that they have. They have lost out on pleasure. What makes suffering supersede pleasure in that the existence of suffering means that life ...

It also prevents pleasure as well. Your argument ignores the existence of pleasure and the subjective nature of both. It really comes down to the ques...

Then why use a random number generator if you can do more or less the same thing? A random number generator isn't random at all. It uses a complex alg...

You don't see the contradiction? God/Natural selection would be the cause for why some agent does anything. How would you explain your awareness of ot...

I'm not. While I may be in the minority on this left-leaning forum, I'm certainly not alone here, nor the minority outside of this forum. It's just th...

Out of the three posted in this thread (Case's, Comte's and Galuchat's), I prefer Case's as well for pretty much the same reasons you provided. Howeve...

The way I define sexism is expecting certain behaviors of someone that has nothing to do with their sexual morphology - like females/women wear dresse...

So we are really born to procreate. Labor is good, but laborers die. How do you maintain the supply? Make sex pleasurable. Oh wait, natural selection ...

But if your claim about which shops are in your local area is false, then it isn't a fact at all, but a falsehood. Your "subject of interest" would be...

And I as I pointed out an argument is only valid if it is logically consistent - that it is not a non sequitur. So in order for your argument to be va...

Why not just sticky this thread. Everyone should bear witness to the fact that Baden is "right".

It wasn't a matter of either one of us being right or wrong. We were simply talking past each other. But you can believe whatever makes you sleep bett...