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@"TheHedoMinimalist". That is THE question, O Hedomenos! The “just” you inserted in the above statement signifies that your mom was simply curious whe...

@"god must be atheist". Not all moralists are simply “control-freaks”. The ancient ones whose writings have survived were almost always moralizing—not...

America is a very commercial society, and one becoming ever so much so as time goes on. What, after all, are “jobs and the economy” about, or “it’s th...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I would argue that honesty is not just telling the truth, but acting, in any way, consonant with it. You can do certain things (...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Since you have taken the day off, O Hedomenos, from our discussion, I have decided to post further ruminations of mine concernin...

@"TheHedoMinimalist. I must confess, O Hedomenos, that our discussion about honesty and dishonesty has caused me to spend a lot of time thinking about...

Plato was the tortoise, Thrasymachus the hare: Who won the race? “Thrasymachus!”, do you dare?

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I don’t think, O Hedomenos, you read my last post closely (or dispassionately?) enough: So, when you say, What if we were to sub...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Well, you certainly surprised me there, O Hedomenos; I never suspected you would think that my mom was being honest in that scen...

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When Caesar learned he would never conquer as much of the world as had Alexander, he wept like a child.

@"TheHedoMinimalist". O Hedomenos, you are right: instead of accusing you of being dishonest, I should first have pointed out to you the discrepancy i...

@"TheHedoMinimalist O Hedomenos, it hurts me deeply to discover that you are not being truthful with me. How can we two discover the truth together wh...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". You recently stated, You then say, There are two elements involved here: the harmful capacity of a physical object, like a door ...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". How can you believe in the objective truth about anything if you don’t assume it has a common nature? Does a mathematician think...

@"dazed". A man devoted to physical pleasures will necessarily suffer with age, as the body deteriorates more quickly and more certainly than the mind...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Here are two excerpts from your speech that seem to me to be inherently contradictory. I will quote and compare them: If there i...

@"Valentinus". THAT...is a very wise statement.

@"TheHedoMinimalist". O Hedomenos, when you say, . a couple of things stand out to me: firstly, if we are to judge the intensity of pain objectively, ...

@"dazed". I’m much older than you and have had three hemorrhoids for 15 years. They’ve never gotten any worse, just occasional discomfort and red spot...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". O Hedomenos... The “badness” of pain is VERY “context-dependent”. You say there is no difference b/w a doctor touching your geni...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Well, I never feared death in that last story, O Hedomenos, the one where I impaled my wrist on the woody stalk; but, since you ...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I don’t know, O Hedomenos. You say some surprising things, for example, that you would have preferred 15 seconds of sexual rathe...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". O Hedomenos, I haven’t much time tonight to respond to all that you said, so I will only respond to what seems most remarkable: ...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Let me clear up a couple misunderstandings first: when I said, “, I should have rather said, to remove ambiguity, “...by a gener...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I’m not sure why you fear debilitating pain in your later years so much, unless there’s something I don’t know about your presen...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". O Hedomenos, that was a personal affront to me, that you set the preferred end of your life at an age, 55, younger than my prese...

@"synthesis". You seem to be waffling, Mr. Composition (for that is the meaning of your Greek nickname; but your spirit is contrary to your name: for ...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I didn’t recognize that there were so many, like myself, critics of modernity in this forum. Most of the thinkers and philosophi...

@"synthesis". I’m not sure what you mean by the statement that, in your economic system, everybody would work for themselves. Doesn’t an employee work...

@"synthesis". You mentioned in the OP, that an example of the person who attempts to get more profit than his labor is worth, is he who takes another ...

@"Jack Cummins". What you described in your response to my last post (sorry: I don’t know how to “copy and paste” a quote, if that’s the term. I’m ver...

@"Darkneos". It is not I projecting design, Darkney, but YOU. Remember? You’re the one that said, “Organisms that fit the mold survive and reproduce w...

Is belief in God innate? Most certainly and obviously. Religious fervor is just as strong today, after thousands of years of science, as it was in the...

@"Darkneos". Oh Dark one, I appreciate you saying that the organisms which survive are the ones that fit the mold. Now, from your analogy of promotion...

Why cannot it be true that the purpose of nature works THROUGH evolution? Too much emphasis is placed on the randomness of evolution by ppl who only l...

@"Olivier5". Well, Mr. Olivier, that was an amusing simile to describe me, and if I may suggest, you seem to be like some or other sort of bird too, i...

@"GLEN willows". Looking back over these pages I saw where you posted that you believed neither in God, nor in any transcendent Nature that dictates t...

In pondering the purpose of life, don’t we need to make a distinction b/w MERE life, like that of the other animals who, though they have a simulacrum...

@"Olivier5". Pain is an objective fact? That it is a fact is undeniable; but that it is objective is under suspicion... If pain is objective, then why...

@"Olivier5". Mr. Olivier, I thank you for your willingness to debate with me on this topic, not only because it is highly entertaining to me, but beca...

The idea of freedom of speech derives from the Enlightenment philosophers, who developed it out of the need to protect themselves and their peers from...

@"Olivier5". Well, I am a circumcised American, and have never felt as though I was mutilated... ...but that is immaterial to our discussion. What is ...

Lurking behind this entire discussion is the question “what is the proper relationship b/w the university and the government?”, and that is a question...

@"Olivier5". I must return to one of my questions that I put to you and re-ask it, for you never answered it: would you oppose or disapprove of a phys...

@"Olivier5". Mr. Olivier, let me ask you some questions, if I may. Would you cringe at the surgery on your genitals that would remove a malignant tumo...

@"Valentinus". But a parent CAN hide his or her shame from the children...at least while the parent lives... My aunt had an affair with the barber, an...

I made a mistake in my speech: when I said, “I believe the evidence suggests that sexual desire for the OPPOSITE sex is inborn and perfectly natural.....

@"Olivier5". You said earlier, “You don’t actually have to conform to PC in real life”, but don’t you see all the public men and women who are regular...

The value of a human life differs little or none from that of any other living thing... I place a stick of wood on the fire only to notice that, soon ...