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But what would justify this difference?

No. It's a difference in stances. It is to be expected that people holding different stances cannot be friends or form a harmonious family. IOW, it's ...

The obvious example is from monotheistic religions: moral is that which is in line with God's commandments. Acting in line with God's commandments can...

IOW, Socrates' brother appealed to might makes right, and apparently had the wealth and the power to back up his challenge. No surprise there. Why is ...

And further, how do you make sense of being the loser/victim/underdog in such a situation? Gandhi and the Indians used some passive resistence methods...

Might isn't limited to brute force. Might is everything that other people can use as leverage against you, and that can be anything from brute force t...

My point is that it is possible (and perhaps even preferrable) to hold people morally responsible without having any theory of free will or determinis...

Oh, the irony.

Might makes right is the doctrine of modern Western capitalist countries as well, given that the pursuit of justice costs a lost of money. For many pe...

The one that pretty much everyone I know lives by. And they are doing well!

And this exonerates you when others treat you poorly?

But this doesn't address the "big picture". There are several assumptions in "putting things aside" and "moving on". If these assumptions aren't eluci...

Another popular maxim says that we teach others how to treat us; and that if they treat us poorly, it's because we have taught them to do so.

Not at all. They get pleasure when judging others. This pleasure, the gratification of moral indignation is a motivation for judging others. To withol...

No, it's how ordinary people are: they love to judge others, in matters big and small. It's how they exert power.

Judgement is about exerting power, not about truth.

Because for a psychologically normal person, the Why is supposed to go without saying, be something that the person takes for granted.

Then you wouldn't be "walking in his shoes" to begin with. You wouldn't be empathizing, you'd be projecting, following your own agenda. If you're alre...

That's just nihilistic quietism.

Why on earth would anyone do that??? Would you empathize with Hitler, see things from his perspective, see, how from his perspective, what he did was ...

Could you sketch out the difference, please? Obviously, there are several ways to interpret "critical thinking". In the OP, I was referring to critica...

And to tie this with the OP question: Would you say that philosophers advocate for critical thinking in an effort to seek dignity and decency?

That description by authority becomes the norm the masses are expected to obey. It's what we have in psychology, for example: Psychologists study the ...

Consequent pessimism is paralyzing. You're at most, talking about occasionally having some pessimistic thoughts. I'm talking about real, consequent 24...

But since, if the antinatalist is successful in convincing other people not to procreate, the potential future people will not exist anyway, so no com...

IOW, you haven't consistently practiced pessimism. Getting up in the morning and thinking, "Oh no, not this again", but then getting dressed and going...

But proponents of antinatalism are doing the same thing: they want to see other people stop procreating because they (ie. the antinatalists) have a vi...

You whiner.

Here's the thing: What's in it for the antinatalists?? What do antinatalists get or hope to get if other people stop producing children?

It's just another thing that people can manipulate others with; as such, it's yet another cause of concern, yet another thing to be prepared for. A "p...

See, you don't want people to live up to their full potential! You want to put them into prison for that!

*sigh* *facepalm* I'm not going to defend things you merely imagine I said or stances you merely imagine I hold. The fact that you need to resort to s...

Here's some anecdotal evidence: Back in college, I had a classmate who wanted to have a child despite being single (after finishing college and gettin...

By golly, what are you complaining about then??!

False dilemma. All one needs to do to in order to live in a country where you are free to live up to your potential, is to reconceptualize "free" and ...

Have you ever consistently made an effort to have a pessimistic attitude to life, yet were able to dilligently get up every morning and do your work w...

If at the next elections, Americans will vote for Trump or his children (and chances are, they will), you will be one major step closer to the America...

The Donald.

No. But if the trends toward "euthanasia" and wrongful life and wrongful living lawsuits become stronger, then this could create the conditions in whi...

Blondie's third term! He's your savior! Hallelujah!

Read again. It's hard to live with a pessimistic outlook on life if one actually has to work for a living. In contrast, pessimism is the luxury that t...

Make them.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way, right?

He mimicks the style of philosophers. :p

Jesus. One desire follows another. The selection and order are not universal. After sex, some people want to smoke a cigarette, some want to collect f...

Hence having your own army is part of the billionaire's plan for ultimate safety. Rich people don't just amass money while living in sheds. They strat...

Duh. Read my whole post.

Sure, but this misses the point. The point is that one keeps having desires. Once one desire is satisfied, another one comes up. One satisfies the des...

But was it ever meant to offer guidance?

If you don't envy them, then what do you do? Fear them? The pronatalists are posing a threat to your survival, doubly so: 1. to your person (which is ...