True, but neither does it turn impossible just because we add the concept of nonsensicalness in front of it. Making sense or being logical are propert...
Virtue by definition means being uncommonly good at something, and like skills in general virtuousness is a spectrum. Anyone is virtuous by some stand...
No, humans are the only thing capable of understanding the abstract concept of morality. I don't see the relevance. What, then, explains morals almost...
Morals can be viewed as a thing much larger than us puny humans. Taking our viewpoint of course does warp our perceptions of the matter. Without consi...
I heavily disagree. Most people would recognize that object, or a triangle with rounded angles, as a triangle. Furthermore, it's only our culture that...
I'm providing examples of people's views, not my own ones, so any of them, although I'm not sure exactly which religions base their morals on their de...
The concept of triangleness. We recognize triangles without having to count their sides or amount of angles, because they seem triangle-ish. Similarly...
As you wish. A triangle with an amount of sides other than three can exist, as triangles aren't defined by having three sides. Instead, there's a conc...
Ok, could you please fix the attitude of USA being the center of everything, and using the circumstances in it as arguments while discussing global to...
No. In the case neither of the parents made the decision to have the child, neither parent should have a say in whether the other parent will have any...
Seriously? Of course the father has no reason at all to be obliged to support a person he does not know and whose existence he has no responsibility o...
A good question, but not quite. Damn that's a tough question. Seriously though, that's a question. I think what is the reason for the motivation is a ...
It's not; there's a vast difference between one having an obligation, or being obliged, and that one should do something. Obligations are always exter...
"You should do things you want to because you want to" is circular reasoning. That's not a reason unless you answer the question "why should we do as ...
The question and its phrasing implied more that I assumed the answer to be no than yes. A very good question. For the same reason you think it's unrea...
Democracy is only unviable if there's one centralized power in control of everything known to mankind. That's just not happening. We don't have one go...
As I have stated, I don't. I'm asking on what ground you expect a god to do that job, as you wouldn't expect anyone else, including yourself, to be ab...
You seem to be mistaken about the physicist's stance on time. They also use matter to measure distances, but no physicist would claim that the distanc...
How can you be sure of this? Not as in what if someone else can experience future, but what if you don't experience single moments but a nanosecond of...
What you're writing isn't the scientific view of the time. In scientific stance, we use some event, the rate of which doesn't change, to measure time,...
A small error there: ((All statements are false) is false) is equivalent to (some statements are true). (All statements are false) is equivalent to (t...
I agree with Rich. Science, as is, does not explain the emergence of consciousness, we can't equate the brain structure of consciousness with consciou...
Can any odds be incalculable? I think the more unexpected an event is (which is required for it to be more difficult to calculate), the smaller are it...
I guess we should be asking what anything being morally respectable is based on and whether it's justified to demand us to respect the dead to find th...
It doesn't matter in the slightest what counts as anything legally speaking - ethically speaking, of course. I treat practical issues as irrelevant to...
I actually buy very much into that thought myself. I see mind as a construct that unconstructs itself into smaller pieces while asleep - a thought ver...
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