Its not selfish at all. Life wants to keep living. After a time, you start to decay and break down. That's aging. Nothing wrong with not wanting to de...
An ignorant person who is not malicious will be open to hearing they have done wrong, try to learn, and does not attempt to do the wrong thing on purp...
Interesting point. So I taught high school for a few years and would run across students with behavior issues. What shocked me at first is after they ...
Rafaella, this isn't really a philosophy topic, but an opinion on history. Can you go back and try to make this something we could discuss? Otherwise ...
Rafealla, is this really philosophy, or an opinion on politics? Philosophy is about freedom of thought. To take assumptions, and question and critical...
Ok, I thought you had mentioned you weren't interested in debating this, and tried to end this on a friendly note. You are seeing attacks where there ...
No, I'm honestly just pointing out observations of potential flaws in your claim. I am quite prepared to learn something and change my mind. But, I do...
Too long of a topic that should have its own thread so as to not derail the OPs! It is several pages long, and my attempts to post long posts here hav...
You misunderstand. I am not claiming evidence to these statements. They were an example for you to understand what a premise is, and that a premise ne...
These are all statements. But none of these statements are supported by logical evidence. As an example, I can state just the opposite. That moral pre...
If you wish to have a serious discussion on this, that's fine. This, I greatly respect. If so, please state your premise clearly, then state the suppo...
When it is logically shown that it must be the case that it is impossible. Proof by contradiction for example. There is no logical proof that such thi...
No, you are incapable of fixing a starting point. That's on a person's inability to do something. To claim, "I can't do it, and several other people c...
You can be to the right and believe in racism, economic inequality, pc-culture, and white privilige. None of those pre-clude left or right thinking. A...
Certainly there are ideologues and ideologies here. But you seem to imply that this forum is dominated by leftist thinking. I'm not asking you to prov...
I have always viewed these types of arguments as, "Too hard for me to solve, so I guess they can't be objective or real." I've seen the same "I give u...
I disagree with this. If you post an idea here, it will often invite ridicule and trolling, irrelevant of perceived political leanings. I have a feeli...
Sure. In relation to things other than yourself, and those that might have any interest in you, you likely seem absurd. But what about to yourself? Do...
I thought about this when you first mentioned it, but having an identity within a thread is needed beyond ego. Sometimes there are a few conversations...
These are not bad suggestion Hippyhead, but it is a different model from what the forum is intended to be. Perhaps you should start your own philosoph...
This is an assumption, not a proof. In fact, I've argued elsewhere that this is actually impossible. Any time you start with an unproven statement, it...
By "ethics" do you mean a choice in how you will live? If so, how do you handle the self in situations when choice is removed? Our genetic disposition...
Ha ha! You know woman can have bias about people too Hippy? The problem of course with removing names would be the difficulty in tracking the conversa...
The answer to them should be that philosophy is about trying to remove bias. That sounds like he was trying to troll, or an excuse as to why everyone ...
I think this sends the wrong message. We are here to think. We are here to listen to other's points and arguments, and logically think through them. I...
If they are materially identical, then the being would be materially identical as well. The only difference is location. Look at it this way. I have t...
Look at it in terms of probabilities. A good man is trying to do good. While sometimes they may do evil, it is unintentional and therefore less likely...
My apologies if this has already been covered, but have you heard of the Golden Ratio? It is a ratio of the distances between geometric objects that a...
Sorry for the delay on the reply. Saying the purchase of animal products is the cause of animal abuse, is not a logical conclusion. People choose to p...
What a nice compliment! I must return a compliment that often enjoy your posts as they are questions very few people ask. I think you bring a life to ...
If we make the assumption that all possible versions of you are going to play out in the infinite multiverse, there are still a few things to consider...
You might be interested in my post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/8924/a-fun-puzzle-for-the-forums-the-probability-of-god You won't need t...
It is not ethical for the workers to add more suffering to the animals than necessary. But that should be managed by the business. Incidents of partic...
Descartes idea was to then build from that starting point. If he could find a starting point that was irrefutable, then he could use that to build his...
Descartes actually considers this. Its sometimes called "The Evil Demon" argument. Basically he questions whether everything he observers is falsified...
Fantastic. You understand the flaw exactly. Well done! Because we are looking at the case of possibilities, and logically cannot assign any weight to ...
I think you are not including all that is needed for this to make sense. 13. A' = {x, y, N} should be written as A' = {v', w', N} because the negation...
I believe we are talking past each other at this point Tim Wood. You seem to be addressing things that are irrelevant to the puzzle at hand. The first...
Interesting. I would think the more correct claim is, "We cannot currently find an underlying cause, therefore, there may not be any." Which is perfec...
To clarify what I meant, if you do not believe that cause and effect is real, then you believe there can exist things that are uncaused. The only opti...
Hello EricH, thanks for contributing! Quantum fluctuations alone do not presuppose or prove an existence without a prior cause. Would you like to poin...
Ha ha! I can't make anyone agree to anything. But we can discuss and you can come to your own conclusions. Now that we're on the same page, let me add...
Tim wood, I am not a theologist. Have you read the OP? I get the feeling you are coming to this thread with assumptions and letting it color your outl...
No, emotions are not all that matters, or make life worth living. When you are a child, emotions are the only way you assess the world. But as you gro...
Certainly. If you have not read the original OP, it will be necessary at this point. I don't want to re-paste the whole thing. =) It is easiest to re-...
Yes, this is what I explained. But the fact of having relative observers does not negate that fact that you can assess time by one observer. Again, I ...
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