Naivety gets the better of us when we think our interests aren't in agreement with state interest, lest we become an enemy of the state and choose to ...
Your interests change, but the minimal right(s) needed to pursue those interests are fundamental (i.e., the right to pursue interests so long as those...
Yes, rights require a mechanism to uphold said rights, which becomes particularly troublesome for stateless individuals. The mechanism doesn't have to...
I don't think it would go through either, at least not as rigorously as I would like. There will always be the hard-line skeptics that will demand pro...
That is a sensible objection. It is precisely the difficulty of making human rights claims, and furthermore, if there is a common group, what rights c...
If technology is the discovery of a method or apparatus to perform a function in a new or more efficient way (i.e., solve a problem), then you're aski...
The needs are vague and ill-defined so it has remarkable applicability. The hierarchy becomes a bit fuzzy especially when the fulfillment of needs int...
Rights are such that membership to a group permits protection against harm by appeal to a right, so long as there is a mechanism to uphold the right. ...
I understand this distinction to be between positive rights and negative rights, wherein a person in a society claims to have positive rights that ent...
That's where the presupposition comes in from my perspective. As a meta-ethical analysis, where did this idea that morality is about telling others ho...
I asked because your analysis seems biased towards a meta-ethical analysis that presupposes morality as consequentialist. The bolded section seems par...
Is this is a meta-ethical analysis of consequentialists theories in particular or do you think that deontology and virtue ethics are prone to the same...
What about this amendment (and subsequent amendments to premises and conclusions to include this amendment)? It doesn't address the soundness of P6, b...
For clarity, you are addressing the soundness of P6 on the grounds that if other people (or most people) do not also adopt a vegan diet, then the acti...
In a formal assessment, the ambiguity of the subject is not a problem unless explicit reference dispels the possibility of equivocation by the reader....
Do you find it immoral for good reason or by appeal to emotion? Maybe you just need to align your emotions with the moral requirement. For instance, i...
There's room for some flexibility from this argument. A condition of the moral claim is epistemic (i.e., known suffering) and if there is sufficient u...
I might be committed to say yes, the suffering of turning down a girl is gratuitous. I'm not sure if it follows that I ought to accept her proposal, u...
Gratuitous suffering is any suffering that is not justified, whether it is unjustified by quantity (i.e., is of excessive intensity) or quality (i.e.,...
I'm not sure DNA does the job on its own because DNA is pretty flexible in terms of incorporating new molecules without significant changes. In partic...
Yes! I like this proposal. Thank you! I said C3 follows from P6, P7, and P8 because P7 is an elimination of the biconditional. The biconditional adds ...
I would take issue with that premise as well. I've denoted questionable premises with an (*). They're not necessarily bad premises, but require a lot ...
I'm inclined to say x and z are not sufficient or necessary to qualify as being human, but if a being does not have any of {x, y, z}, then that being ...
Is essentialism confined to identifying one characteristic or trait as essential or can it identify a set of traits such that no single trait is neces...
it doesn't rest on the assertion that there is no God, but rather that God offers no insight into subjectivity (i.e., God stands opposed as an Other)....
one comment about the approach you seem to want to take to reach a conclusion about the various "isms", Existentialism in particular, is that the anal...
As I understand Stoicism, the goal is simply to assign responses to the proper faculty (emotion versus reason). It's not that the Stoic is cold and in...
I understand the pressure to produce results can lead researchers to "fudging" results or building biases in to the studies, but the Reproducibility P...
did anyone test the results of the test, to see if the test results hold up? Perhaps the testers didn't understand the methodology of half the studies...
Is posting a farewell on a forum a suicide letter and attempt done for attention that may, on occasion, actually succeed? Why bother saying something ...
My point is that romantic love is played out differently and involves different behaviours, particularly involving sex, but the psychology attachment ...
Perhaps a criticism of internet philosophy is that it is a user-directed search that can land upon an isolated community such that an internet philoso...
This is an interesting exercise because it seems to be asking us to identify our own biases, which might be hindered by the blind spot bias. On the la...
Love is not ineffable but it is innumerably describable (or at least describable in many ways) and that makes it equally difficult to nail down. We ca...
These have the appearance of substantial claims but both fall flat. The first claim falls apart by recognition that it is a likeness by analogy. Human...
This doesn't follow at all. It introduces a term not mentioned previously, in particular I'm not sure where the normative declaration "should" is comi...
A better way to phrase it would be, which is scientifically thought to be the equivalent of all that exists. Which is only to say, the Universe is the...
I don't follow, if there is empirical evidence of an event that resembles what we call the Big Bang, leaving aside the "existence itself has a beginni...
Is the Big Bang nonsense or is the interpretation of the Big Bang you've imported to the scientific understanding of the Big Bang nonsense? As far as ...
I'm not sure I follow why science must look outside its own domain. Science is self-contained for the inquiry about which it is concerned. There are o...
That analogy fails though, because it ignores the possibility of allegiance hating kings that chop off heads for pledging allegiance to them. So we ha...
It's only tenable because it ignores the possibility that God is malicious. I'm not even sure there's a good reason to say any currently worshipped Go...
Theistic deities that are the sorts that the wager are meant to point towards are anthropomorphized beings with personalities. A deity that has no per...
Pascal's wager is disingenuous in the way it favours theistic belief over nonbelief. For instance, it doesn't consider the harm that might come from b...
I haven't yet made my relationship with this forum exclusive. Part of my reluctance to commit to one forum is the lack of content on this forum from o...
I do not believe in God because God has never given me a reason to believe, and absent of reason, there is no wager to be made that suggests belief is...
You always ask just the right questions. Kudos to that. I suppose in practical terms the consequence is nil. Part of the appeal of deontology to me is...
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