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Very well. QM: If I don't observe my bank balance for years meanwhile spending and earning at largely variable rates each. (ie if I add a huge amount ...
November 20, 2022 at 10:23
Agreed. However I don't ascribe fully to either consequantialism or deontological ethics. I regard both as important and required in balanced consider...
November 20, 2022 at 10:10
So am I. I don't wish to cause suffering. So what exactly are we arguing/discussing?
November 19, 2022 at 18:15
I agree. Not sure if everyone is equally as stupid as one another. I think some people are more clued in, and adaptable thus. Is intelligence not the ...
November 19, 2022 at 18:13
Nah I get it. I'm on board. Based on how my own logic follows ideas I can totally see where you coming from. To me it's sensible and on the right trac...
November 19, 2022 at 18:00
Hey Einstein didn't have a degree in physics when he came up with his ideas. He worked as a clerk in a patent office in Switzerland. All great and inn...
November 19, 2022 at 17:53
Those that truly don't want to be here are in the active process of suicide. A state that doesn't last very long as it is either successful or failed ...
November 19, 2022 at 16:25
And I'm sure you will elucidate an explanation for that in time. I myself am not as well versed on those particular specifics of quantum mechanics. So...
November 19, 2022 at 16:09
Interesting. I wonder why that is.
November 19, 2022 at 16:02
There is such a system. Demonstration. Trial and error and the lasting impacts of that outcome on you (guilt, shame, pride, contentment) whatever the ...
November 19, 2022 at 14:25
That's because a photon travelling at the speed of light is pure potential energy. It is change itself. The ability to do work on its surroundings. It...
November 19, 2022 at 13:15
Like a helix? Like the fundamental code at the basis of our living existence. Lol. I think evolution mimics the form of its underlying rules, as fract...
November 19, 2022 at 13:01
Oh please. Literally every answer begs another question. All of them. How then is that a useful basis for your argument against Why is the sky blue, b...
November 19, 2022 at 12:38
We have those different descriptions. Relativity and quantum physics. They work on premises not the same as materialist/mechanistic physics. (newtonia...
November 19, 2022 at 12:22
What is physical is not just dealt with by physics though is it? What is physical - the reality we live in and its true nature whatever that may be, i...
November 19, 2022 at 12:11
Neither am I. And that's the kernel that vegans hang their argument on. That we treat animals as objects and don't care for the fact that they're livi...
November 19, 2022 at 12:03
You're right it isn't available to the majority. But what if at a butcher you had a holding pen. And had to kill the animal yourself. The butcher woul...
November 19, 2022 at 11:58
Yes I agree. I think it is a battlefront between opposition that occurs on multiple levels (fractals). Both within us down to our most basic instincts...
November 19, 2022 at 11:49
I mentioned both the quality and quantity quite clearly and simply in the statement. The quality is "least harm/or most" good" and the quantity is "gr...
November 19, 2022 at 11:43
Well, suffering in modération can lead to post-traumatic growth. People coin it "character building", improved resilience. Which is a good thing. Espe...
November 19, 2022 at 11:24
No mere intention doesn't make any following act automatically justifiable. Obviously. Intention is about the end goal - an ideal - not how to get the...
November 19, 2022 at 11:11
I understand what you mean in that we know ourselves through our interactions with others. We find our own identity through its relativity to the iden...
November 18, 2022 at 19:39
It may confuse, yes indeed, but I guess that is simply a failure of mine to impart what I mean clearly and concisely. All I can do is reconsider, and ...
November 18, 2022 at 18:56
Well they managed to raise their own daughters and sons. So if a mother thinks she turned out okay some of that is at the very least a credit to their...
November 18, 2022 at 18:46
For me a game is something that doesn't have actual real life consequences. It is a roleplay. In that way harm can be exercised without realising actu...
November 18, 2022 at 18:06
I would call it preservation of one's/a groups welfare when faced with someone insidiously caustic. If a member of my familys only source of pleasure ...
November 18, 2022 at 17:55
Exactly. The experience of suffering is inherently a logical reason not to continue it. Harm is a reason not to harm. If you have empathy that is. If ...
November 18, 2022 at 17:47
There definitely is. Moral claim: "I wish to cause the least harm to the greatest number of people possible". What is wrong with that moral claim? The...
November 18, 2022 at 17:44
How about if we rephrase it as what would you call a household where everybody does what the head figure wants or face being exiled, told to leave and...
November 18, 2022 at 17:34
My issue is that if anarchy is to take down government (the ruler) what does an anarchist suggest replacing it with? The anarchist themselves? Is that...
November 18, 2022 at 17:28
Ah yes the heavy burden of definitions is upon us once again. So easy to assume I'm explaining how I define something comprehensively verses what one ...
November 18, 2022 at 16:53
How is it a false dichotomy and a reification fallacy simultaneously? That's a contradiction. Reification fallacy is the inappropriate concretising of...
November 18, 2022 at 15:38
I agree. Every thought leads to a questions. Every question leads to an answer, or multiple answers (some less plausible perhaps, some more so). But t...
November 18, 2022 at 14:31
I don't think the thinker creates thoughts out of nothing. The thinker doesn't live in a sensory deprivation tank for their entire life unaware of any...
November 18, 2022 at 14:23
Because politicians are under intense scrutiny, public opinion/outcry, get lambasted by the media, by the courts etc if they write down or suggest any...
November 18, 2022 at 13:39
You cant find a satisfactory answer because you've used a circular definition: "Society" is created/the product of mutually agreed laws/order. Society...
November 18, 2022 at 13:26
I think what they mean is that if you don't standardise the passage of time. By that I mean give it an arbitrary discrete measurement - a finite unit ...
November 18, 2022 at 13:07
And yet they exist. Here on this page. And in both our minds. How is that so? They don't have to be valued to exist. If you don't value another's beli...
November 18, 2022 at 12:47
I didn't reference "nothingness" I referenced "absence and potential/possibility to be". Nothing doesn't exist without something - its opposite. So be...
November 18, 2022 at 12:33
Witches similarly are fine provided they don't do any work. However such a belief lead as we know well to a lot of burning women (work done). A belief...
November 18, 2022 at 12:27
Potentiality of this universe. Possibility to be.
November 18, 2022 at 12:23
Yup. "absence of said human/ car". The opposite is the lack thereof in the material world. The only other possibility of its existence then being with...
November 18, 2022 at 12:22
Well I think a grandma has something no book or information source or technology has, and that's personalised/individual knowledge of, and care for, t...
November 18, 2022 at 12:08
Time is not physical in the "material" sense. You can't point to it, pick it up, say what colour it is etc, yet it allows for "stuff to be done". We r...
November 18, 2022 at 11:44
Because they are neccesary/symbiotic/complimentary to one another. Materialism would be meaningless without Immaterialism and vice versa. They context...
November 18, 2022 at 11:30
But do we not kill more animals through the easily justified demand of conveniently buying a pack of burgers say, in the supermarket. We would not eat...
November 18, 2022 at 07:26
I agree I think killing your own food is a sad but intimate and important moment between you and the animal and ideally would not be conveniently igno...
November 18, 2022 at 07:23
I didn't say that. I said they can't be detected simultaneously. It can be detected by science but at the detriment to other certainties, which themes...
November 16, 2022 at 20:56
I think it exists within the universe but obeys the law of uncertainty. Heisenbergs uncertainty principle. Not all information in a system can be know...
November 16, 2022 at 20:51
Just a dualist. Between the material and immaterial. Pan psychism is its own whole rabbit hole. I just think the mimd and the material exist not in op...
November 16, 2022 at 20:44