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It's so wonderful that the abortion dicsussion is done mostly by men. And that most women who participate in it protect the interests of men. Yay, the...

Again, too narrow a scope. The issue is the intention for engaging in sex in the first place. In discussions of abortion, this is rarely or never addr...

This is the wrong direction of approaching the issue. It's a direction that makes sure that the matter never gets resolved. If, on the other hand, we ...

And back to the rule of the dick. The surest way to keep the discussion of this topic superficial and never moving from the spot.

What is the institution that has the jurisdiction over this issue, so that one can file a complaint to it properly?

There are different pleasures. Some more sophisticated than others, some with more harmful side-effects or consequences than others. Understanding thi...

There is enormous societal pressure to engage in sex, regardless whether one wants to have children or not. Regularly engaging in sex is even consider...

As long as, in practice, our idea of democracy amounts to https://c.tenor.com/Vs8tNTxT8KEAAAAC/youre-entitled-to-your-wrong-opinion-thats-fine.gif wha...

I don't know how "leftist" those people were, but I have seen several cases of women or fictional female characters being proud or otherwise thinking ...

Letting Go of Hedonism One cannot let go of something unless one has something better to hold on to.

That would be pure art. (Leaving off at this one sentence precisely because to say anything more would negate pure art.)

Leaving aside that a sample of one is not representative -- Eating meat clearly is more healthy, for one's ego, if one believes that humans live to co...

Oh dear. But you do? "Human nature" is an ideological concept, not an empirical one, therefore, any discussion of "human nature" is necessarily going ...

Even on an entirely mundane level, it's clear where they go wrong: the quietist whines and complains and is miserable, while other people are having f...

I'm not a Buddhist nor do I advocate Buddhism. I do have some knowledge of and interest in Buddhism. When someone boldly declares that the Buddha was ...

Like I've been saying all along: Early Buddhism, the Pali Canon.

What in particular did you read?

Yes. A quick search gave this: Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts The SEP in the entry on Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems gi...

When asceticism is presented in such an ascetic (eh!) manner, it's no wonder it doesn't come across as promising. Why not inform oneself about it some...

In that case, you've determined yourself to be a materialist. In their native contexts, those terms have definitions, and they are not what you claim ...

The Tao Te Ching was written by the upper class, for the upper class. Hence its aloof attitude toward hardship. It's easy to be aloof when someone els...

Well, if they don't have bread to eat, then they should eat cake!

Because it's usually not an alternative. Like they say, "Different packaging, same shit." No need to be at such a loss. Your approach is one that give...

For a no-selfer, you sure are hung up on individuals! Not everyone feels the need to resolve the disagreements between the Buddhist schools. This is a...

This sounds like a modernized Western rendition of Jainism. Or Quietism. Both are pernicious. The Early Buddhists would probably say that this is wher...

1. The planet and its plants and animals don't exist for humans to eat it up. 2. If one eats solely for the purpose of living, one might as well eat c...

Better to choose poverty before being forced into it.

Attaining a position of power shows what a person is really like. Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. The existence of nematodes provides some consolat...

Or simply overpower others. Understanding what is going on is overrated, for the most part. You'd need to show that understanding really does make a d...

No such reductionism. Again: You find yourself feeling good, hopeful, life seems meaningful. Question: Is this feeling because you just had a good mea...

Life in this world is about dominance. Antinatalists are simply losers, weaklings.

There is standard Buddhist doctrine.

No, anatta is not "no self". We've been over this.

In the past, and implicitly still now, there were whole categories of people who were not supposed to marry and/or procreate. Soldiers and servants, m...

No, it's about the limits. No matter what else you do, you're a lifeform that requires oxygen. There is no way around that. This is what living in thi...

It's certainly convenient to frame it that way, it makes it easy to criticize it. The antinatalist's particular socio-economic situatedness makes the ...

No. From what I've seen, insiders understand it immediately to be about the idea that one should "postpone" one's enlightenment in favor of "helping o...

?? Where did you get that??

Early Buddhism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I9XgzAmkXw

By seeing that there are two kinds of suffering: 1. suffering that leads to more suffering, 2. suffering that leads to the end of suffering.

I think part of the problem is that you're simultaneously holding onto two theories/philosophies which are mutually exclusive. Namely, one the one han...

Can you copy-paste it? I read the OP again, and don't see that question there. I think there is a "good life", it's just that I think it's not one dir...

Why the :ok: ? The joke is actually a harsh criticism of the idea of postponing one's own enlightenment in favor of others.

Actually, even if you were a deaf, mute, and blind tetraplegic, you could still be in compliance mode. The comply-and-die is first and foremost in the...

This is actually an overstatement. You're assuming a general model, an abstract notion of life -- those 75 years or so that one must somehow get throu...

At least theoretically, there is a way out. Early Buddhism proposes it.

This has already been addressed earlier in the thread. E.g.

There is an old inside joke in Buddhism about Mahayana heaven: Outside of the heavenly gates, crowds of bodhisattvas bowing to eachother, making a ges...

It seems the point is to have a theory about the matter, a certain mental framework. Hence the vagueness, the abstractness, the lack of concrete examp...