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No, I haven't, where are you getting this from? Honestly can you stop being an ass. That doesn't even follow either. If I really was making those two ...

Right. But they can be born?

You said: Implying that I said lemons do not need to exist before to make lemonade, and then said they do. But this is false because I explicitly said...

Yet the epicurean position is precisely that death cannot harm the person themselves because a person does not exist after they die. It seems ad hoc t...

No, I didn't. Read that again.

So why cannot birth harm a person? ...okay? How is that relevant?

Right but a person doesn't exist after they died so how can it harm them. This whole "argument" is going in circles, punctuated by emoji's and sarcast...

??? I meant specifically the person dying, not those around them. So you're taking the epicurean stance on this. Yeah...no.

No that's not right. The history of a lemon's existence is irrelevant at the time of lemonade-making. It doesn't matter if it existed for a century or...

I agree, it is well-written and very interesting.

Lemons don't need to exist "before" making lemonade. They just need to exist at the time of making lemonade.

It wouldn't be "helped", it would have been "benefited". Helped implies there is something harmful that needs to be removed. I mean, no shit. But why ...

:-| Criminal negligence is a thing. This makes it seem like existence does, in fact, help or harm someone by enabling them to be harmed.

But there is - the person who is being born. They are being born. Birth is happening - to them. If a person cannot be harmed by being born because the...

That's like saying you aren't harming a child by not making them wear a seatbelt, you're just providing the conditions that enable the child to be har...

??? You can't be harmed if you do not exist. Coming into existence implies you now exist. If this existence harms you, then you have been harmed by co...

A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism by Lee Braver.

That coming into existence can be harmful. You're going to need to explain why.

:-} No, obviously you need to exist to be harmed. You just don't need to exist before the harm occurs in order to be harmed. There's nothing incoheren...

Hardly, for we don't need someone to exist before they're born to be harmed. If something is bad to experience, then it is harmful for a person to exp...

As a side note, I am using deontology in a broader sense than Kant's ethics. Common sense ethics is often deontological.

https://i.redd.it/l1t9n9we0g6z.jpg

I'll take a swing at it, although my take is more ethical. Here's the argument I give in the book I'm writing: " Premise 1: If a person has an experie...

I think this is probably what van Inwagen was arguing for. The idea, I think, is that if God had prevented Evil Happening x from happening, then peopl...

I wasn't particularly focused on your brand of antinatalism, but I will say I disagree with it. It's not just aesthetic, it's a definite ethical probl...

I think that could be generalized and applied to basically any marginal ethical/political point of view, regardless of its validity. Radicals like to ...

Yo I'm gonna steal this (Y) 8-) I'll give credit, of course.

No, he puts animal suffering outside, not natural disasters and freak accidents.

What caused you to plan and deliberate to jump in the air?

Right, that's what I thought he meant, as I said in the beginning. That human free will is good, and God's reconciliation plan requires that this free...

An unexpected first reply. But I don't understand how it's relevant. The question is: if God could have prevented a terrible horror from occurring, wh...

The fact that many of the things we find to be of good character or virtue in a person are that which help meliorate against the many things we find t...

Conquest of Abundance by Paul Feyerabend.

Is this post simply a mechanism meant to sustain the continuation of life? What about actions that are clearly detrimental to the continuation of life...

Our common notion of causality requires the passage of time. What does it mean for something to "begin" to exist, or "have a cause" outside of time?

I think there's also an element of disbelief accompanying all this. Like it's actually hard to believe, not because it's far-fetched but simply becaus...

So we have the goal-seeking need for need, as in, we need more needs because needs entail goals and goals are good, and we have the "philosophical" pr...

Right, precisely.

I suppose what I was trying to get at is that, even if we recognize the repetitiveness of existence (existence being not simply that which exists righ...

So I think the problem of instrumentality is that there is no end to the "but why?" questions - how could there be? Why do I exist? Because my parents...

From Will To Power: "At the same time I grasped that my instinct went into the opposite direction from Schopenhauer's: toward a justification of life,...

What about Euthyphro, do the gods love what is just because it is just or is it just because the gods love it? If morality derived its legitimacy from...

I would have thought authority would have derived its legitimacy from morality, not vice versa.

If you haven't read Tolstoy I highly suggest you do. In A Confession, he explains how he thinks there are four general types of people: 1.) Those who ...

By most people I mean to say the vast majority. Not including those incapable of higher-level abstract thought, young children or the occasional and g...

Or a failure, yes. As opposed to not weak-willed? Strong-willed? Idk what you would call it. We lack the guts. ?

I mean sure you can "choose" to live but really what that means is that you choose to procrastinate your suicide. Trying to find a real reason to live...

Not mind reading but by studying human psychology which is close enough. Most people live out of habit or because they fear death. There's really no "...

You can choose to be a carpenter. You can choose to be a painter. You can choose to be a desk-job worker. You can choose to be a scientist. You can ch...

There isn't any.