Benefitting you. If you believe that producing children is evil, and you refrain from producing children, then you have successfully omitted an evil a...
I think the OP meant "benefit the corrupt system" in the sense that the corrupt system benefits by not doing what they have otherwise legally obligate...
According to the official policy, the damage would be for them to pay for and they would have to ensure safety at work. Now they can blame you and was...
Say that you're working in a construction company where the official policy is to report all damaged tools, all accidents and near-accidents. If the c...
What are you saying? That the driver was a poor driver anyway, and smoking weed was only the final straw in their driving ineptitude? People who smoke...
I was refering to this: Sure. What do you think are the moral implications or the implications for a theory of morality for each of the views? It seem...
The being. This is moot, because if one assumes that something doesn't have an identity, then one also assumes that it doesn't/cannot feel pain to beg...
To me, the difference at hand is about actually eating an apple, and describing/analyzing/explaining the eating of an apple. Which is better, more rel...
"It's evil to act on evil intentions" -- this seems to be the basic argument for AN here. "To intend to procreate is to set a trap for another person....
Of course, some blind people use such rudimentary forms of echolocation. But it does raise such concerns. Look at Descartes and the like: Any account ...
He explains his choice: "I assume we all believe that bats have experience. After all, they are mammals, and there is no more doubt that they have exp...
Okay. A taking for granted of another being's identity, ie. that is has an identity, that it is an entity with some permanent characteristics, that th...
Of course, but that's not my point. I'm saying that the relevant point here is how one deals with such exclusion. How does one deal with unknown thing...
In this case, it's about the intention, and it's the intention that is evil. Setting a trap is already evil. The fact that nobody got trapped so far d...
So this is about procreation as entrapment: To procreate (here meant broadly, to conceive and carry a pregnancy to term) is to set up a trap for anoth...
The article is written from a perspective favoring Tibetan Buddhism. This is a relatively small Buddhist school, but probably the most popular one in ...
How about considering that aggressiveness is simply normal for people? If meat eating is supposedly normal for people, then so is aggressiveness. It's...
If only! When the president (an elderly man, at that) of a major country calls the president of another major country a "killer" and that "he has no s...
Be a good person but don’t waste time to prove it. I suspect this is supposed to mean something like 'be a good person, but don't try to change the mi...
Rather, the assumption seems to be that such a distinction doesn't exist or isn't justified. One thing I find peculiar about those that might be calle...
The 'works whether or not you believe in it' criterion of science/technology works only for things, not for persons. That's not much of an achievement...
One of the meanings of "rational" is 'proportional', 'in ratio'. If both of us lack knowledge, say, of advanced mathematics, but nevertheless try to d...
The idea of there being a knowledge that only a few chosen ones can fully understand is mostly not offensive, as can be seen in the way people are gen...
If a tone deaf person criticizes music ... So one gets told that there are things one cannot understand. One is excluded from some group. Some thusly ...
Nothing. "Don't stick your nose into things that are none of your business" should be the motto. This is where the guild theme becomes useful again: I...
I suppose so. The mixing of the high and the profane has been going on for quite some time, actually. I think the people who buy such works do so beca...
If a particular type of knowledge cannot be attained through deliberate effort, then what use is it, and what use is it to pursue it? A knowledge that...
What I find relevant is that people can be enthralled by others' claims of exalted knowledge. Why is that? Does one feel captivated by "sages" out of ...
The most essential hierarchy in Buddhism is that of the three types of buddhas/buddhahood: 1. the samm?sambuddha 2. the arahant 3. paccekabuddha There...
I find such lessons are useless unless one has experienced such a traumatic situation oneself, and then "grew from it." You can see this phenomenon in...
I see a parallel in the way art has been perceived in European culture: over time, there emerged a clear distinction between folk art (or popular art)...
It's very simple: Such people don't engage in dialogue to begin with. They just preach. It's one-way communication. They declare their exalted status ...
It depends on how narrowly you want to define "action". Whether you limit it only to (some) bodily actions, or whether you include the mental and the ...
Well, people love to mess with eachother's minds, that's for sure. The story goes that when the Buddha first became enlightened, he went out and procl...
That this is the domain of the non-academic. Not at all. Now we have democracy, which is forcing us into sameness and simplistically formed camps, for...
Anyone who has spent any time around actual Buddhists will find it absurd to the utmost to think that Buddhism and Communism or Marxism could somehow ...
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