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If the reductio is based on the conclusion that nobody exists and your reply is, it's not a reductio when still someone exists, then quite simply you ...

That you don't understand a reductio ad absurdum. :roll:

Lmao. If you don't pursue the conclusion to its extremes then indeed, by definition, you don't have a reductio ad absurdum. Your reply to my reductio ...

educate yourself : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Yes, let's not engage the argument. See, that's the difference I ridicule your position but I still engage the argument ad nauseum. I get to pepper th...

It's called a reductio ad absurdum, which demonstrates the idiocy of the position. But I see logic and language are lost arts to you.

As usual, I think you're not using language correctly. If there wouldn't be any cars, it would be weird to talk about how the absence of those cars pr...

OK, good, we've established you don't know what you're talking about. I can stop investing time in this.

Ok, explain the mechanism to me how monetary policy in the US affects the price of buying milk in the Netherlands. If you can say this with such convi...

It's affected because exchanging from one crypto to another asset class requires the currency managed by the relevant central bank. Monetary policy of...

Do you like the monetary policies currently enacted? If the answer is no, then that would be a good reason I think.

I know a lot of definitions...

Blockchain has its uses and there's certainly a few interesting applications out there. The intrinsic value of cryptocurrencies at this time seems low...

Oh good, I guess we can then tax any profit with 97% as well then since we paid for it? Wtf...

sweet.

Yes, 10%. I'm getting 12% actually, because I changed it in a term deposit of 3 months using fiat currency. It's not a lot of money so even if I lose ...

Nexo.

The potential upside from the trade I'm doing is in the 4 digit apr with relatively low downside, compared to a carry trade. Plus I refuse to trade bi...

Well, I got into the crypto game as well but I'm funding loans and accepting cryptos as collateral for an 8% yearly return regardless of which way cry...

Because this isn't true and I don't like to repeat myself. Restarting the same isn't a new argument. There's plenty of life happening right now where ...

I'm not forcing anyone. Nobody exists when I make the decision. Edit: this is in any case a tangent to my point that I still haven't caused suffering ...

Of course you're not convinced, you've believed this nonsense for years. If life doesn't cause suffering, then my decision to create life doesn't caus...

Because it's sufficient to establish that it isn't life and after that I don't care, because suffering is particular. And if life doesn't cause it, th...

Here's another analogy for you. Pollution is bad and terrible for nature but if there was no nature, no pollution, so let's get rid of nature.

My argument isn't addressing an empirical question. That's you just raising a straw man. The argument is about properly identifying what causes suffer...

I continually demonstrate life doesn't cause suffering, so your rebuttals are irrelevant unless they specifically deal with issue of causality and pro...

Your rebuttals don't come into play until it is accepted life causes suffering so I don't need to address them because they're irrelevant.

I'm an antinatalist and I solve problems as follows. I don't like getting wet, water causes me to be wet, so we should get rid of water. I don't like ...

All cases of suffering stem from the big bang. To be consistent, you should be aiming higher and wipe out existence instead of just humans. It also ma...

Not to derail the thread into an anti-natalist debate but I find that Benatar is just plain wrong because if suffering is intrinsic to life then life ...

This ties in with what Bitter Crank is asking and @"Noble Dust" points out with his "human condition". Apologies if this is a dumb question that can b...

Sigh. Of course, you don't believe me because you already bought into the capitalism is good nonsense. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143036580/re...

You're such a child at times. Red herring and all that. Alleviating world poverty would cost about 1% of GDP of Western countries. If it was profitabl...

Why should I remind you of the context when it's readily available above? If you would've read what I wrote instead of imagining what you think I said...

Walk me through the argument you constructed in your head where I point to other possible causes, without ever mentioning communism or socialism, as a...

Or did the washing machine, steam engines, automation and the combustion engine, or indeed worker unions, cause this and these things merely coincided...

One can only hope. I mean that in the sense that if robots produce everything, and since they don't have needs, we can finally create the communist ut...

This isn't about Marx missing anything (which quite frankly is a bullshit claim, since Marx was describing an existing economic system unlike fairytal...

Sign off the times you think the profit motive is any kind of ideal, and a higher one at that.

Uhmmm... Is there a meaningful difference between whining and whinging?

Ah, those two articles basing themselves on a single opinion piece from the Netherlands. Fantastic. You're such a cunt, you know that? You have no clu...

I never said that and again you're trying to make it about colour. I've made it very clear that experience with the subject matter is important. Learn...

Yeah, one wonders why we bother with translators at all. :roll: Sigh. Of course Google translate isn't sufficient. What part of my comment even remote...

God, are you wilfully obtuse or what? We're talking about a translation from English to Dutch. That, at the very least, would require the person doing...

I can read English and read local sources. How's your Dutch? Yeah? Thought so. That's why I can accurately comment about the US and you can't about th...

I was being helpful telling you what the actual criticism was since I'm Dutch and live in the Netherlands. That you insist the Cnn article to be accur...

The Booker Prize was for her translated book from Dutch to English, which was translated by Michele Hutchison, you fucking retard. The original is De ...

And even that isn't true. Decency laws require you to be clothed instead of naked on arguably less important grounds than the requirement to wear a ma...

Not sure that can be laid at his feet. In any case, rather varied results I think: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/16/maybe-i-was-w...

The "colour blind" progressive is poisoning the Dutch debate as well. I always wonder how they imagine problems will go away by not talking about them...