No, just thinking something is right doesn't make it right. Same with feeling something is right, which is what our morals are built upon - there is n...
My argument was only that a difference in spatial location would cause the clone and the original to be different people. The difference in spatial lo...
If they shared the same spatial location it would be the same person. The question is what is it about them not sharing the same spatial location that...
I think what makes you you is your mental patterns and memories. The material that gives rise to this is irrelevant. Would be interesting to find a th...
We do see this in action. We can just look at different news sources and see how the same facts are being framed to fit each news source's agenda. As ...
Your numbers are for firearm deaths. A country where guns are allowed is bound to have a higher firearm death rate than a country where they are not a...
Looking for studies on the Big Lie, there was a 2025 study published in Political Science and Politics where they surveyed 130 Trump voters over three...
I'm sceptical that experience acquired through age is as valuable as intelligence and economic literacy. If we go down that road, shouldn't intelligen...
"When asked which party they would vote for, ITV News' poll showed 33% said they would vote Labour, followed by 20% who said they’d choose Reform, whi...
I was a bit disappointed that this wasn't incorporated into the Oppenheimer film, but the film is supposed to centre around Oppenheimer, and if it was...
Even the test of the the atomic bomb, which Oppenheimer named "Trinity", is estimated to have killed tens of thousands (from radiation exposure). They...
The mental time (subject-object) contains a past, present, and future, due to our experience and memory. The essence of physical time (object-object) ...
Well that's the security services' job, national security, not the taking of other things into consideration. Maybe the small risk of disclosing is ou...
National Security is a solid argument; we don't want the power wielded by our enemies, and the people through their elected representatives want Natio...
You're welcome. I know what you mean about being pressed for time, but I had to share the article. He says: "It is of the utmost importance not to con...
It studied between 2012 and 2019. So before COVID hit. It's not just a correlation either, it was the poorest areas that were disproportionately affec...
Just had a news article pop up "Young people should be encouraged more to stay away from the GP so that the sickest in society can be prioritised, Wes...
In some jurisdictions you can sue for "wrongful life" when your suffering could have been avoided had the medical professionals advised your parents o...
Yes, I think my life is marginally bad now, and expect end of life to be horrific. Interesting that 45% also say they with they never existed. Surely ...
The government would argue it's not going to be will-nilly. They are only going to do it when they have reasonable suspicion of overpayment. Surely yo...
I didn't know what we were arguing about, but looking back I see it now. That's my fault - I misspoke. I meant the conflict of interest is too great t...
Tories are in power for the bulk of the time. Do you believe they are more interested in providing services or cutting public spending? I would argue ...
The conflict of interest is too great to leave it to the state. As @"Jack Cummins" has hinted to, the Department for Work and Pensions are notoriously...
The way things are done now, prior to the bill becoming law, is the government contacts the benefit claimant, demanding return of the overpayment, and...
Yes, putting aside the arguments of government overreach, checks and balances, etc, this does disproportionately affect disabled people. People that e...
Exactly. The Green Party have a policy of a wealth tax, and I'm very tempted by them. I usually vote Labour as the lesser of the two evils, but I'm no...
No, I'm not convinced that the majority of people end up preferring they had been born. On top of the people that already wish they had never been bor...
If you are talking about a poll like the one that showed 64% happy - 36% unhappy, ostensibly, the percentage of people that would rather they had neve...
Your second paragraph suggests you understand what I was getting at. Of those polled only a fraction would have been people experiencing the suffering...
36% chance of creating an unhappy person then. This average happiness is potentially overshadowed by life's inevitable suffering - "Nearly 1 in 2 peop...
I don't think there is a right or wrong answer on how to identify an inanimate object (e.g. The Ship of Theseus), let alone a conscious being. My pref...
Per consequentialism, we could be justified in acting on what is most likely to produce the best outcome. We don't have to KNOW it will produce the be...
I would use justification and excuse synonymously. It depends on your moral foundation - if you are consequentialist you would say the action of selli...
The word defence is what came to my mind. A defence for doing something that would otherwise be wrong, or is alleged to be wrong. The justification wo...
I think we predict such probabilities almost exclusively from national and constituency polling, and projections based upon said national and constitu...
What scenarios doesn't frequentism work for? I had a quick skim through the Stanford entry and believe it said something to the effect that frequentis...
I created a similar discussion 4 years ago: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/9917/is-purchasing-factory-farmed-animal-products-ethical/p1 Jus...
I don't think so. Sex and love bring so much joy and happiness, they are more than mitigating; they hugely contribute to a wonderful life. I suspect t...
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