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Agreed.

That, or just luck.

A lot of pain is not preferable to boredom, I would assume. If you have to actually temper your hopes and expectations for something less than adequat...

It can be difficult to lower one's expectations to the point where they aren't expectations at all and still be pleased by a result. I agree the being...

To a point, living on the edge is fun. Being an Absurd (wo)man can be exciting and rebellious. But sooner or later, and often more than expected, you ...

Although I agree that in some cases the first world natives are too posh and delicate, it would seem that drama and pain, particularly drama, makes li...

Sorry you are feeling down. Pet your cats for me...I love cats, but am severely allergic to them (that's a fun little story involving a trip to the ER...

I've been thinking about this whole antinatalism thing recently. First, I don't know if it is really necessary to be actively opposed to birth (or, re...

Agreed. I am not arguing that the majority's belief is the morality, rather, that the majority's belief allows permanent action based upon these belie...

The Golden Rule may be well-used in some, if not most, scenarios, especially in a post-hoc manner. But what about more extreme situations, such as vig...

I don't think Bernie thought that he would get this far. As far as he is concerned, I think his ultimate goal has already been met: change. Hillary ha...

I'm not sure I agree with what you said. Taking morality into one's hands, being a moral vigilante, is sometimes seen as reprehensible behavior. A far...

Morals can change if the meme is spread thoroughly enough. Slavery used to be seen as morally neutral, now it is seen as immoral through the demonstra...

I expect a surge of new users on this forum, since the old one is broken as of currently.

I agree. The liberty of every individual must be equal (excluding those who are deemed an unacceptable risk to the liberty of others).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUyJyPekJE It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday And the manager gives me a smile cause he knows that its me they'v...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo

You see instead of just asserting that it doesn't follow, it would be kind of nice if you took the time to explain why it doesn't follow. Otherwise yo...

Why would I want to? I fail to understand what you are getting at here. But "truth" in this case is in accordance to whether or not we are coerced int...

By "most", what are you thinking here? Just the drugs that don't do too much harm? How are your views on guns (ban private ownership) compatible with ...

Keep on pushing, Sisyphus. ;)

Also, I don't think breathing is a good example because most of the time it is subconscious and only becomes a controllable function of the body if yo...

Also, I would like to point out that if you reject compatibilism in favor of hard determinism, and then complain that there is no free will and that e...

I hesitate to endorse your idea that humans are like puppets that are thrown around the place by external forces outside of their control (even if con...

Dude, I have literally been saying this for the past couple of pages. The only reason I said it is because I thought you held the position that suicid...

I'm interpreting this as meaning suicide is indeed not a viable choice. From page 4. From page 5. From page 5.

You responded by saying that suicide is not a viable option, which contradicts what you just said in your last response.

Then why were arguing previously that suicide is not a viable option (because of instincts, pain, relationships, etc)?

Pretty sure that means that society/instincts are keeping us from killing ourselves (the "coercive establishment"). Regardless of how you interpret yo...

Your OP is specifically about not only birth but also being seemingly coerced into a continued life.

Well, now you are talking about birth. Before you were specifically mentioning how someone is coerced into continuing their life.

Okay, but the part after the Absurd, where the mind sees true the rationality of suicide while the body resists?

But you replied to my post (that I spent some time writing out might I add) with a simple "no", which presumably means that you have a different defin...

Then please enlighten me to your exclusive definition of what coercion means to you.

From Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus: "In the face of such contradictions and obscurities must we conclude that there is no relationship between the opini...

This is an excellent point. Without adversary, without need, humans would do nothing or perhaps die of boredom. The very existence of an adversary to ...

I would say that the institutions of society as well as the general impulsive fear of death (the self-preservation mechanism) is influential and typic...

I never said I agreed with governmental enforcement of life. Straw man...

People also have the right to intervene if they see something that they feel is morally problematic. Hence why if you were to decide to commit suicide...

Exactly what I've been trying to say this whole time.

Well then today I learned. I doubt all companies do this, though, and let us not forget that helium tanks are not the only way of going out.

In those cases these measures are not taken to prevent intentional death but rather accidental death; preventing intentional death is an addition. And...

Not all places, though. And it's sad that suicide is illegal. In many cases these preventative instincts will stop you from killing yourself. But they...

These are manipulating mechanisms but not inhibitory (coercive) mechanisms. They can manipulate you and make it harder to end your life if you do so p...

Well, if they had all the options of that we enjoy outside of prison, then there really wouldn't be any point of prison now would there?

I'm not telling you to kill yourself, what a straw man! I'm telling you that you are free to kill yourself if you desire! Furthermore, it's kind of od...

Perhaps you don't care about dying? Who said you were coerced into continuing living? Nobody has you strapped up in a gurney preventing you from endin...

But...it does...if you don't mind doing something, than you either have no preference or you actually want to do it. If you do mind doing something, t...

Get used to it, this happens a lot with him.

To force someone to do something that they do not want to do. Yes, we are. Prisons are not concentration camps. You are not coerced into continuing li...