ToothyMaw

Then maybe I'm an idiot. It sounds like exactly the kind of thing that will float to me, quite frankly. Sweet Jesus, wanting to tax people to provide ...

Make a new thread if you want to keep talking about this, please. It is far from the intended discussion topic. Unless you can relate it to the growin...

I 100% would if I could. But I'm not super rich or a politician. But there are those who could that refuse to do so. So we tax them. Look, NOS, this m...

I think we can find a happy middle-ground between understanding power dynamics and the fact that, ideally, everyone should be considered as an individ...

I understand you now; I was searching for those words when I said "general" individual happiness. I admit I could have said it better. lmao, "if one i...

I think I misunderstood you, you are indeed making a theoretical argument, but I don't find it compelling because the terms you are using are too vagu...

From that I gather that you weren't originally talking about the general individual happiness, you were talking about sacrificing the happiness of a f...

But the happy collective is composed of happy individuals; if the collective is happy in general so are the individuals making it up. If you think tha...

I guess I agree with some of that. But why not model our government after what we know works and results in the most happiness (social democracy)? As ...

I consider myself a libertarian socialist, so I agree that "neo-marxist" or "socialist" shouldn't be treated like swearwords, but actual neo-Marxists ...

This study done by Pew, and this study done by Pew, demonstrate that single payer healthcare has significantly more bipartisan support than, say, the ...

I am not inside far-right culture and never will be, but I suppose I can't expect everyone to be as familiar with this kind of stuff as I am; I watche...

So I'm not fucking crazy; my point is indeed obvious. Thanks.

What are you even trying to contribute other than the very trite kind of attitude so commonly fostered by these types of forums - which is to say cond...

I didn't say anything even remotely like that, and I don't understand why I'm being misrepresented. Same goes for you,

I didn't even say that, you didn't even quote me, you just made that up.

I actually agree with you. I must have really fucked up the delivery of my ideas.

I think I wrote clearly enough, but I'll further explain. I am against the people using the term "neo-marxist" to tar other people in the military, an...

Sorry for that response. Can I help you understand better what I wrote?

You obviously have no reading comprehension skills or elected not to read what I wrote. Nowhere did I say there were neo-marxists in the military. I s...

Even if the mind is indeed deterministic, there is no reason to think that our decisions are solely governed by the pursuit of predicted pleasures, un...

Is the mind deterministic because it moves towards its predictions of pleasure or does it move towards its predictions of pleasure because it is deter...

You can't just lay that on someone. What is your reasoning? Do you believe that the mind is housed in the brain?

Damn dude, did you even think about your response? What do you mean "impossible"? I'm not saying something about merging with some higher supernatural...

I'm not saying you achieve a greater pleasure out the other side of self-reflection, but rather that you gain a heightened insight into existence and,...

I define it vaguely as a sort of heightened insight achieved through rigorous self-reflection. As for knowing when it has been reached: idk, I myself ...

Great responses! Couldn't agree more; I have also heard from one of my coaches that pain is illusory, which is equally funny - because it obviously is...

The existence of unknown reasons or facts does not imply that even if one knows the relevant facts or reasons, the relevant facts or reasons do not de...

I was assuming that god is omnipotent; I'm carrying this argument over from Bartricks' problem of evil thread. Might want to give that a read first if...

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It seems to me you are conflating justice, which I agree is a decidedly human idea, with benevolence. And I think people do believe god is omnibenevol...

Furthermore, there may be no scientific way of proving that god doesn't exist, so if one can find an argument that operates from within people's belie...

I agree. But I'm not really arguing about god's existence or non-existence, but rather about his characteristics given the problem of his potential un...

Oh I understand now, my bad.

I don't understand what you are agreeing with. I thought you were agreeing with @dimosthenis9

Yes, but people believe that an omnibenevolent god exists - most people in fact, or so it would seem. The purpose of the argument contained in the pro...

I get what you are doing, but you are not engaging with the OP. I'm assuming certain premises to make a counterargument against the viable solution to...

It is only a false premise if you can verify that it is not true. I think that you mean that it is unsupported, and it definitely is, and, thus, my ar...

Honestly, it seems to me you have no understanding of what compels people to believe what they believe, or any connection to humanity at all. It's a l...

So not only is god omnibenevolent, he doesn't allow injustices. So you actually think these people deserved what they got. Good on you, Batricks, you ...

I still think that your view is the counterintuitive one. What about the preacher who develops Huntington's and the child-murderer that walks free and...

Who is telling us and how? I mean, psychopaths can come off as charming and relatable - even compassionate - if they are more competent at deception t...

You quite literally said that we can infer god's characteristics from our own. How is that not believing that we are created in god's image?

I would think that it is worse for a harm to befall a child because they are developing and trauma could cause them to become maladjusted. Or so I thi...

You are assuming that god created us in his image, a decidedly Theistic thing to believe. How can we know that? What about evolutionary biology? Does ...

I don't believe justice is necessarily a permutation of omnibenevolence unless god makes justice an objective, moral necessity.

According to what criterion can we determine if God is unjust? What set of rules do we have that give us an idea of whether or not we are each being p...

I would campaign to release all non-violent drug offenders, like any other good person would. And no, I'm not committing your favorite fallacy. I'm sa...

Never said I think people deserve to come to harm; even despicable people need to be loved and rehabilitated. If harm befalls them during this process...

Is god aware of what is going to happen to people or not? If so he is unjust if the harm incurred by different people is disproportionate to their gui...