Down The Rabbit Hole

What's to stop the super-rich buying up all of the main roads and charging sky-high prices to travel through (putting the price of everything up), or ...

How easy is it to leave a game compared to life?

Good question. I agree that there is a double standard. However, a lot of those that are opposed to immigration would also be opposed to "benefit scro...

And would the answer be different if you didn't need to eat it to survive, you just liked the way dog tastes?

I'm not sure what good it would do in practical terms. People tend to be led by emotion and self-interest, rather than philosophical or any other type...

I think climate change is one thing leftists (although not all climate change activists are on the left) are up in arms about. They are gluing themsel...

I thought you'd disagree with my point about Peterson. One of his latest things to get riled up about is climate change. Saying that the error bars ar...

I would say this complements the argument from divine hiddenness. Why hide and let us make mistakes that harm our fellow beings, and lead us to damnat...

The mainstream media is nothing compared to GB News. Their narrative, day after day, is that there's a war for the heart and soul of the country again...

The asymmetry would say lack of freedom is not a bad thing. But freedom is being prevented? Responsibility is often a bad thing, and the asymmetry wou...

Paternalism refers to restricting the freedom and responsibilities of others for their own good. It is more suitable for anti-natalists, that want to ...

It's not really inconsistency to change one's view on something. And I asked rather than accused. I remembered you gave good reasoning for morality be...

It doesn't follow that if they get that which they do not deserve it cannot be made up for.

Agree. Agree. Disagree. Just as someone only deserves harm if they've done something bad, they only deserve a happy life if they've done something goo...

Objective morality is all I've ever heard theists argue for. Florida State University's Department of Philosophy says: "One of the primary advantages ...

I guess I thought of divine command theory as objective morality rather than a subset of subjective morality. In this context, it appeared like you ha...

How do you get from this (on another thread): To this (on this thread):

I do agree with your point that antinatalism opens a gateway to promortalism. This is arguably an argument against the spreading of antinatalist views...

It seems to me that the strongest argument for AN is consequentialist (would you build a city that is reliant on the unbearable suffering of a small c...

Thanks. I've been meaning to watch some more of Sean Carroll's Mindscape to get a handle on the subject.

Well it wouldn't be destroying the city, it would be not building the city in the first place. Even if you think it's okay to build the city, surely y...

Interesting question. As humans we want for our love to be returned. I imagine that it would completely ruin the relationship.

Is it really that bad for someone to say that they wish the city did not exist in the first place? Some antinatalists are our socialist brothers. @"Ba...

This doesn't feel right to me. What about if a city's constant state of serenity and splendor requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perp...

Are they? How does anyone know anything?

See, I said recent discussion, but I'm well late to the party. Jordan Peterson gets so much respect that I thought I was missing something, and pushed...

Consciousness is something I need to read up on. I am more inclined to the view that consciousness isn't anything special (a la Dennett). Any book rec...

There's as much evidence that all of this is real, as there is that it is an illusion.

Ah so it's not just me! It was like I was reading a book in another language :lol: I've still got to read Hoffman's The Case Against Reality. I think ...

Complicated stuff. Penrose's recent discussion with Jordan Peterson is one of my next things to watch. Have you read Penrose's Cycles of Time? I reall...

I like the idea of no force threatened against peaceful people, but it doesn't feel right in this context. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of deaths...

I agree with you that government is worse than the rich. However, don't you accept that there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of people dying fr...

Bernie Sanders... I'm not American though.

Pre-Corbyn I used to vote Labour unpassionately so that things could be slightly better. Corbyn gave me hope that things could be significantly better...

The trouble is, how do you prove the subject has experiences? I think it likely we will never be able to do a test to tell us what consciousness is.

It is hard to believe, but this theory must be judged in comparison to the other theories of consciousness. What theories of consciousness are more pl...

I am inclined to think that consciousness is a natural result of complexity. If that's the case, an exact emulation may have to be conscious too.

Immigration has got to be the biggest issue for working class Brits. However, even if Labour takes a stand against immigration, losing much of their l...

Hopefully some of your optimism rubs off on me :grimace: Someone was telling me the other day that things would improve, as we have only had the inter...

I've heard the word delegates used. The delegates vote on behalf of the ordinary members of the party?

That they are an option for the country to vote on. I don't know a lot about American politics. Bernie may have been rejected as the candidate by a vo...

I think the government and red-wall Tories would dread a General Election with Mick as leader of the opposition, but with the largely centrist Labour ...

Yes an order of events without a time associated with it. Such as the infinite series of big bangs proposed by Sir Roger Penrose. One bang gives rise ...

You can have a temporal order without having a time associated with it.

Yes, I think god/s in any meaningful sense would have to be sentient. Otherwise we are just talking about the universe. How does atemporal sentience m...

Yes, the poll is just to see how people assign probability. All but a couple of respondents have a solid belief as to the existence/non-existence of g...

Results suggest the opposite? :grimace:

That seems about right to me. When considering philosophical arguments for and against god it may nudge us a further 10% or so, one way or the other?

Almost word for word. What are you picking a fight for?