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As long as there is an infinite supply of those moments.

I think social media and technology in general are lessening the quality of the interpersonal interactions conducted through them, and this lessening ...

But you know it's coming, it's just a matter of time when, and you know it could be anytime. You can't fool yourself or buy yourself time.

@"Xtrix" And you believe you can go gently into that night, a good one even, with no regrets, no desire to continue to be alive?

/am currently on a smartphone. Very tedious, can't quote properly. Later./

@"frank" I checked again: they said the highest daily incidence per million. I'm still looking for a reference and exact number, cumulative statistics...

I think we fear pain and the unknown. Just you wait for the pain. Two weeks ago, I had to go to the ER, I was in such pain. Gastrointestinal spasms be...

And what is it that is eternal? List 3 examples.

I don't buy into that assumption that humanity is indeed faced with brute suffering that can't be remedied. As long as there is eating, consumption of...

They are timeless, they are not bound to any particular time and place. They are about the nature of existence, not about a particular person or socie...

My point is that in order for people to treat animals better, people would need to adopt a whole different outlook on life. It's why popular slogans a...

It depends on whom you want to convince.

Because the human form is said to be the one most suitable for attaining enlightenment. But, like I said, outside of a religious/ideological context, ...

Outside of a religious/ideological context, there is no such argument.

Humans would need to sacrifice some (or much) of their comforts. Material ones, such as space and natural resources. And psychological ones, such as t...

You keep forgetting that resources on planet Earth are limited and that life is a struggle for resources. Humans and animals compete for the same reso...

Hm. On the news, they said we currently hold the record.

And evict humans?

What I'm getting at is that if you want to devise a perspective for a better treatment of animals, it will have to be such that is indeed unique for a...

Nor can children, the disabled, Jews, women, blacks, the poor, or any other category of humans that is disenfranchized in any given context. IOW, what...

How do you figure that animals are not rational agents? By your human fiat?

For the last week in Slovenia, the 7-day incidence in 100,000 people is 948,8.

I live in a country that has record incidence. In the world.

This is too simplistic. The fact is that sometimes, people get vaccinated and get sick from the vaccine, or get covid despite being vaccinated. If the...

But who actually cares about this purported equality? Perhaps the lawmakers, in the abstract. But for practical intents and purposes, nobody does. The...

You missed the first line: You are assuming too much uniformity and unanimousness for humans. What you're saying isn't limited to how humans think of ...

I think the salient question in all this is whether they are so rich because of their specific beliefs, or whether they have those beliefs because the...

I would, instead, formulate the question like that: "If one "looks within" by following someone else's instructions (on how to look within), is then o...

It must be great to be you.

Elvis is god.

Oh. And you think I don't know that? Are you enlightened?

Worshipping Elvis surely then is theism, as well, and Elvis fans are theists.

It seems to me that in terms of values, morality, psychologically, the 1% are actually similar or even the same as the middle class people. What makes...

But the same applies to drug dealers, mobsters, small time conmen ... and to pretty much anyone who is eager to succeed. IIRC, it was Bill Gates who s...

From a Wiki page on Hesse's Siddhartha: In Hesse's novel, experience, the totality of conscious events of a human life, is shown as the best way to ap...

You are assuming too much uniformity and unanimousness for humans. Look: I'm saying that Gentiles are in a different category to Jews - they have symb...

Reduction of human consumption does not change the nature of the relationship between humans and animals, only the mode of it. As long as the nature o...

I know meat eaters who say that humans must kill and eat animals, so as to make it clear who the boss is. That humans must continually assert their su...

Or was that onset of mental illness due to syphilis?

You still need to explain what you believe to be the correct inference from this.

What's your plan?

I wonder about that too.

For example, it can radically reconceptualize the way one understands "empathy" and the way one "empathizes". Normally, when an objectivist/naive real...

*shrug*

But the time to die has passed.

*sigh* Farming plants for food still results in harm to animals. By plowing the soil, by using pesticides or other substances and techniques to minimi...

To be clear: So you agree you gloss over the problem of what exactly it is that one should be doing?

And eat what? Plants, because "they don't have any feelings" so it's okay to eat them?

Nirvana is the complete cessation of suffering. See The Four Noble Truths. If you're going to insist on this terminology, more than just casually, the...

Why would that be a false dilemma? Are you saying it is possible to live without eating? To eat without causing harm?