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Down The Rabbit Hole

['Member']Joined: October 10, 2020 at 14:28Last active: January 12, 2026 at 17:3914 discussions554 comments

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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...
August 31, 2025 at 19:50
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...
August 31, 2025 at 00:41
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...
August 28, 2025 at 22:33
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...
August 28, 2025 at 10:33
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 ...
July 23, 2025 at 22:37
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...
July 23, 2025 at 22:19
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...
July 22, 2025 at 22:44
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...
July 17, 2025 at 14:48
"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...
July 17, 2025 at 13:41
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...
July 14, 2025 at 12:39
Even the test of the the atomic bomb, which Oppenheimer named "Trinity", is estimated to have killed tens of thousands (from radiation exposure). They...
July 13, 2025 at 22:46
The mental time (subject-object) contains a past, present, and future, due to our experience and memory. The essence of physical time (object-object) ...
May 17, 2025 at 22:44
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...
May 16, 2025 at 19:30
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...
May 16, 2025 at 00:31
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...
May 13, 2025 at 13:26
Got Russell on the brain at the moment. I'm starting reading his autobiography again - I think the last time I read it was around 2019.
May 12, 2025 at 10:46
What do you think of Bertrand Russell's views on time: https://archive.org/details/jstor-27900529/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater
May 11, 2025 at 19:47
Bertrand Russell thought the same but changed his mind following Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
May 11, 2025 at 19:46
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...
April 17, 2025 at 09:45
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2022/october/headline_885099_en.html
April 16, 2025 at 10:32
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...
April 08, 2025 at 20:30
In some jurisdictions you can sue for "wrongful life" when your suffering could have been avoided had the medical professionals advised your parents o...
March 21, 2025 at 03:02
The poll in the OP.
March 21, 2025 at 02:16
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 ...
March 21, 2025 at 00:16
Shouldn't this be checked by a judge to make sure government is not abusing its power?
March 19, 2025 at 23:18
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...
March 19, 2025 at 12:06
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...
March 18, 2025 at 13:44
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 ...
March 18, 2025 at 11:58
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...
March 18, 2025 at 10:24
You say "generally". Where do you draw the line?
March 17, 2025 at 22:32
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...
March 17, 2025 at 22:15
Yes, putting aside the arguments of government overreach, checks and balances, etc, this does disproportionately affect disabled people. People that e...
March 16, 2025 at 13:19
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...
March 13, 2025 at 23:27
Yes, you're spot on. Even Reform abstained, and they're no friend of people on benefits.
March 13, 2025 at 17:34
It's for overpayments from error too, which is quite common.
March 13, 2025 at 17:07
No, the Direct Deduction Order is not a court order. It's ordered from the bank by the state.
March 13, 2025 at 17:05
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0167/240167.pdf
March 13, 2025 at 16:15
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...
August 31, 2024 at 22:17
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...
August 30, 2024 at 21:18
Your second paragraph suggests you understand what I was getting at. Of those polled only a fraction would have been people experiencing the suffering...
August 30, 2024 at 17:36
36% chance of creating an unhappy person then. This average happiness is potentially overshadowed by life's inevitable suffering - "Nearly 1 in 2 peop...
August 30, 2024 at 15:42
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...
August 12, 2024 at 22:07
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...
July 16, 2024 at 01:19
I would use justification and excuse synonymously. It depends on your moral foundation - if you are consequentialist you would say the action of selli...
July 15, 2024 at 23:17
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...
July 15, 2024 at 21:44
I can only think of patterns of behaviour being a basis for judging probability. Which I think the definition of frequentism fits.
July 15, 2024 at 13:43
I think we predict such probabilities almost exclusively from national and constituency polling, and projections based upon said national and constitu...
July 15, 2024 at 12:54
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...
July 15, 2024 at 11:40
I created a similar discussion 4 years ago: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/9917/is-purchasing-factory-farmed-animal-products-ethical/p1 Jus...
July 15, 2024 at 00:09
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...
May 10, 2024 at 10:22