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The state in which I live just legalized assisted suicide. This makes it legal to die if one is terminally ill with six months left to live. If this w...

This entire fucking race has been about voting for the lesser evil.

I cannot believe Trump has made it this far. I thought Clinton had it in the bag. And I thought Trump would have been out of the race over six months ...

This election has given me schizophrenia.

It requires certain assumptions and confidences, but it would be wrong to equivocate this form of belief with religious faith.

Disappointment with a collective group of ignorant plebs.

Dumbass new atheists... Crikey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxYGeTV6fCw

Why indeed? I would argue that life does not give us any reason to continue to live - any reason must come from the individual themselves. This is why...

Well first of all I wouldn't have children to begin with. Second, it is immoral from the perspective of those who have children. But infanticide canno...

I don't think this is the correct way to use subjectivity. If you are upset, then it is an objective fact that you are upset, i.e. anyone theoreticall...

It is only objective and universal for the subjective itself. So it is an objective fact that there are subjective systems spread universally across t...

I lean towards the views of Peter Singer. Infanticide, despite its scary-sounding verbage, is probably not morally problematic because infants aren't ...

Yes, this is what I was getting at. Replication, copies. Objectivity (particular universality) can only be shared via subjectivity (universal particul...

I wonder what consequences this has for personal identity theories. If I die, and then the brain states that my brain was in, in the past, are observe...

This is patently false. Science is not just observation, otherwise it would never have gotten off the ground. Science is a systematic method of obtain...

Yes, I made a blog post on this a while back (shameless self-promotion). Basically, pessimists argue that harmful illusions exist. And you have Stoici...

To be quite honest with you, it is other sentient's suffering that bothers me more than my own, and is the main source for my pessimism. I haven't had...

Like I said before: The feeling you get when you start to doubt if you're even suffering, and you start suffering even more (i.e. Tolstoy). Am I mysel...

What's your goal here, Schop?

Pleasure is only a proxy bad when viewed in a certain way. When seen as a reason to continue, pleasure is a manipulative force. When seen as a somethi...

I would appreciate it if you didn't treat me like a child. What exactly is the mechanical notion of time, and how does your pansemiotic view somehow e...

Had symmetry always existed before it broke?

Is it a brute fact that the third category of vagueness is the land of no brute fact?

But surely if something must be stopped, it must have begun before. Unless it is just a brute fact that something is the case, which sounds suspicious...

Yet Aristotle posited the Prime Mover...

But where did all this material self-organization originally come from? Do you accept the necessity of a first cause?

Unpleasant experiences with varying levels of obnoxiousness, I suspect.

Correct. Pleasure has a twisted way of tricking us into existential continuation.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but how does the existence of God disqualify your system? If anything, God is meant to act as a unifying role, bri...

This is one of the things that tends to bother me about theology and philosophical cosmology: I don't see how we're supposed to be able to know someth...

The feeling you get when you start to doubt if you're even suffering, and you start suffering even more (i.e. Tolstoy). Am I myself suffering, or do I...

I find myself thinking about this all the time, and it has come to my attention that perhaps I hold beliefs not only because I myself agree with the c...

Again I wasn't making an ontological claim, just pointing out the fact that the the reality of causality is not altogether obvious or straightforward.

I am saying that what we experience is all we ever actually know, and that causality may or may not be needed in order to understand the world. I cons...

Indeed, it still works, but it might not be an accurate picture of reality. Hume tried to ground all metaphysics in experience. And Russell thought ca...

Right, again, it was just supposed to be a musing idea. In any case, though, the notion of causality has been attacked, many times. So this muse accor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOBw6XwqRo

Interesting argument, I like it. I'll stick around to see what the others have to say on this. However I suspect it is not solid. It seems to depend o...

Interesting ideas. My own working definition of metaphysics comes from A. W. Moore (who is influenced by Deleuze and Wittgenstein): metaphysics is the...

Show me some data, then.

I think people like to think about living like a Stoic sage (or similar) rather than actually living as a Stoic sage. Thinking is one thing, actually ...

But the reality is that your hyper-individuation is not reflective of reality. You can visualize someone being happy when they are starving, yet this ...

If you want to individuate phenomenal experience that much, then sure, someone "could" be starving but yet still be "happy". At that level of individu...

I think Sartre was focused on how the expectations of others and the need to conform to the group makes acquaintanceship with other people hellish, no...

Hell is other people. - Sartre

I don't understand how this is possible. Surely if you are starving, or dehydrated, or overheating, or lonely, or fearful, you can't honestly consider...

Whose imagination is it of? The "self" is not an illusion as much as the concept of an unchanging, concrete self is. There is clearly something that p...

I keep hearing people use the word "illusion" without explaining what it actually means. What is this "illusion" you speak of? A trick? A phantom? A c...

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