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No no no, see, you are using the word coercive outside of its common usage, i.e. manipulating definitions to suit your argument. A need does not have ...

Anything? Are you free to breathe? Are you free to think? Are you free to eat, blink, shit, burp, crack your neck, and sleep? Lots of liberties are re...

(Y) Right-o on the free will part, although I don't particularly agree with your assessment of the pessimism being discussed here.

I don't dislike you but I certainly don't have a high approval of your forum conduct elsewhere. Furthermore, you are not the big boss who gets to deci...

I would like to know where in my post are these zebra snide remarks. I would also like to know why you're not responding to any of my responses. This ...

Nor do I see how your apparent inability to get on with your life has any weight against compatibilism. True, but these "large amounts" are usually sp...

Such as? I gave responses to your points which you are now ignoring.

I'm not upset at all. Come, stop trying to move the goalposts and avoid answering my questions.

Nor do I see how your apparent inability to get on with your life has any weight against compatibilism. True, but these "large amounts" are usually sp...

This is coming from the person who has repeatedly made it clear that he rejects the notion of a "traditional" philosophical method... Of course, but h...

So it's now about you instead of every child? This thread is quite personal it seems. Regardless, there are worse things your parents could have done ...

NO. You are insane if you think that every parent knowingly and willingly wished pain and burdensome worries upon their child. Bullshit. Parents have ...

If you were locked in a cage and tied up by rope, you would be denied your free will in the important sense seen by the compatibilist. If you stand on...

And like I said above, that doesn't mean you're restricted for the remainder of your life. A prisoner escaping from jail is no longer restricted. Once...

If you go over the other forum, you'll see a post I made a while back in the religion section that was about how if god existed, our lives would be a ...

Being brought into the world by means of coercion does not mean that you are a slave once born. No doubt there is suffering. But there's also no doubt...

You're welcome.

whoosh!

I think you are extending definitions too much. At the very least, there is a massive difference in degree between being coerced into slavery, mining ...

This is partially why I don't usually enjoy reading continental philosophy, because it relies too heavily upon specific interpretations and primary so...

Not forced, that would contradict my libertarianism even if I believe that my opinion is better. I'm not entirely persuaded by the argument that you a...

I suppose you could say that. I don't condone childbirth but I don't actively, vehemently oppose it either. Most likely a child born in a first world ...

I love this. Albeit I believe there needs to be some kind of initiative for achievement outside of the collective good (I don't have that kind of fait...

You can read reviews online before purchasing a textbook. Sometimes the textbooks I buy have primary sources in them as well. But honestly what is it ...

Like I said in the other thread, this is my tentative political stance. Generalized label: Left-leaning libertarian Form of government: Democratic ana...

I get most of my initial information from textbooks and then get the primary literature if I feel the need to. In all honesty all this talk of primary...

I am going to tentatively say that I am a left-leaning libertarian. But I don't participate often in political discussion even if I should so it's not...

Nailed it.

This is not an explanation. It's an edgy assertion meant to piss people off.

But when they don't explain why they do, that's trolling.

The more I interact with you the more I'm convinced that you're just trolling this whole place. Stop dragging people down into your pile of shit or ge...

rac·ism ?r??siz?m noun the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distin...

But that's still not racism.

That's not racism, that's just stereotyping.

Who are you referring to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGH_DvtBEM

Otto von Bismarck, eh?

Doing quite fine, thank you. The link provided gives some examples of the future in the face of TMT, such as stronger psychological walls and a more c...

To get a better understanding of Becker and Terror Management Theory (TMT), read this short snippet from a book.

As far as I know, mirror neurons are meant to help an organism fit into a group of other organisms. "When in Rome", so to speak. Yes, exactly. There m...

Exactly. The hero that Becker is referring to is a psychological narrative (a la culture) that society has constructed. Those who cannot conform to th...

One could ask why the world is such a way (culture) that we consider scientists heroes and writers heroes. Perhaps they take away pain and suffering. ...

I am not arguing about the historical background of Jesus: I am presenting the case originally presented by Becker that Jesus is one of many figures (...

I'm not so sure about this analysis. Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet. He had some nice things to say, but after he died his followers needed an image...

I don't know where you are getting this idea that Jesus' story is to show the annihilation of the ego. Clearly, Jesus is portrayed to have risen from ...

I definitely have by doubts about psychoanalysis. There is a broad literature criticizing it. However, much of what Becker has to say rings very true,...

Becker literally did say that humans are "hopelessly narcissistic". These are not my words. Such activity guarantees the sustainability of something a...

You misunderstand the point here. He was, is a legendary hero character who went into the realm of the dead and returned. The ultimate triumph, the de...

Same ;)

The fact that different languages can represent the same thing. The languages are the tokens while the object in question is the type.