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Again, why would it? Hitler breathed air and ate food, and so do you (I assume). Your ally is Adolf Hitler. Are you ok with that? You'd probably point...
August 14, 2017 at 21:02
Why wouldn't I be? Does a "bad" person doing something automatically define that action as morally bad?
August 14, 2017 at 20:47
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall
August 14, 2017 at 20:27
That the opinions of those who care should be more important: now that's a good idea. Unfortunately to you, I do care. As I have said, to me the statu...
August 14, 2017 at 19:54
You're offended by it and find the statue to be universally insulting, while other people, not offended, are saying it's not offending. Do you see whe...
August 14, 2017 at 19:41
But there's hardly such a thing as representing something objectively. The statue does not represent slavery, but there are people who interpret it to...
August 14, 2017 at 19:01
Everyone you disagree with? Ok, add the people in this thread while you're at it.
August 14, 2017 at 18:56
Maybe. I wouldn't judge it so harshly. But radical.
August 14, 2017 at 18:54
August 14, 2017 at 18:53
Indeed, quite radical. I like that.
August 14, 2017 at 18:50
What what? I'm failing to see your point here, I thought the part you quoted here was rather cleverly pointed out. Is the "what the fuck" an amazed or...
August 14, 2017 at 18:47
This is just the claim that having an opinion doesn't hold a moral value re-phrased. Imo there are three kinds of "thoughts" (incorrect term but there...
August 14, 2017 at 17:47
Tolerance towards intolerance. It could be a statue of Adolf Hitler, and I would still be against its removal even though I'm leftist myself. Slavery ...
August 14, 2017 at 14:06
Why would having an opinion not be right or wrong?
August 14, 2017 at 12:14
Those are wise words. Thank you.
August 13, 2017 at 18:13
Is reading that hard for you? ... this is a fucking joke, right? No they can't while discussing the existence of God. We both know this to be a lie. S...
August 13, 2017 at 10:58
Are hypothetical examples ok? If not, I could take anything from the fields of social sciences which you can theoretically explain with chemistry but ...
August 13, 2017 at 10:44
Everything chemical is natural (within the context, to stop any nit picking beforehand), but not vice versa. I don't recall anyone saying that soul co...
August 13, 2017 at 10:22
Doesn't mean you have to have contact to them. Is a dead person outside the society? What about one that doesn't exist?
August 13, 2017 at 09:45
Quite an assumption.
August 13, 2017 at 09:02
First the discussion is about the possibility of soul being natural, and then you jump to the idea that it is chemical? Sure. Also, there are stars, p...
August 13, 2017 at 08:47
May I disagree? If you have no contacts to other human beings (or whatever we want to define society to consist of) you aren't a part of any society.
August 13, 2017 at 08:27
But it doesn't. Leave the society, and it pretty much ignores you while moving onwards. To try to deny a social construct while staying in the society...
August 13, 2017 at 08:22
If that grander dance is the social world, what is the stampede? Also, common sense says that there is always an option, in this case a way out of soc...
August 12, 2017 at 16:18
But it can turn west. What does being trampled stand for in your analogy?
August 12, 2017 at 15:50
I don't have any argument for what I'm suggesting being actually true, I'm just saying it's a possibility and there imo aren't any arguments for it be...
July 30, 2017 at 18:55
I thought masochists only find physical pain enjoyable. Are you claiming that masochists can't feel any negative feeling because they'd get pleasure f...
July 29, 2017 at 08:38
Pain isn't the only negative feeling there is. God could cause X suffering/sadness/craving for something X can't get. Besides God is omnibenevolent an...
July 29, 2017 at 07:00
This does not actually answer the question but imo it's immoral to be less insulted by the first one because of being relieved by someone else being a...
July 28, 2017 at 22:34
That scenario has no contradiction if there's no law of contradiction. The law is there and is not. Everything contradicts and doesn't contradict itse...
July 28, 2017 at 20:53
That's not really a valid argument to counter my argument, just another example of what you claim to be impossible in all universes.
July 26, 2017 at 07:29
It's also not any more nonsensical. If we observe something to be unimaginable, then that proves it is unimaginable within our universe, and it is imp...
July 25, 2017 at 11:36
Logical connectives themselves don't have anything to do with tenses. Let A be "I breathe" and B be "I am alive" Let C be "my neighbour is alive" Then...
July 25, 2017 at 11:33
How is the question even a moral one? I'm not saying it is not but this is the question we should be asking, otherwise I don't see the discussion gett...
July 24, 2017 at 13:53
"If there exists nothing, there exists something" means those are true simultaneously. The correct form is "if there exists nothing, there might (note...
July 24, 2017 at 10:30
This is exactly what I said in my previous comment. ... no? Just absolutely no?
July 24, 2017 at 09:21
Most of this I have no idea of. I guess some structures of matter are capable of interfering with that substance, and brains are some of those structu...
July 23, 2017 at 21:55
As I mentioned, I hadn't thought of the question before but I think I have a better answer now. I think human mind exists outside human body as a "phy...
July 23, 2017 at 21:07
Hadn't thought of that before, a very good point. But yes, unless one is dreaming.
July 23, 2017 at 20:47
The self, which is the same as consciousness. Consiousness is conscious of itself.
July 23, 2017 at 20:41
You seem to be good at avoiding questions, can you teach me?
July 23, 2017 at 20:29
According to whom? Seeing 100% of the votes in the poll in the same choice, wouldn't it have made more sense to ask the question from a different POV,...
July 23, 2017 at 20:14
¬p?p would mean "if there exists nothing, there exists something", not that something is created out of nothing. If you actually mean ~p -> p and that...
July 23, 2017 at 20:04
OP didn't say ¬p?p, he said ~p->p and could claim that those are not logical connectives. This is basically what he's been doing because he said that ...
July 23, 2017 at 12:47
It'd be an interesting topic whether anything can actually be impossible. Logic and natural laws or part of our universe, so outside it things like st...
July 23, 2017 at 12:43
1) No, it doesn't. What you're correct about is that you can indeed put something other than statements in these logic formulas, unlike everyone else ...
July 23, 2017 at 12:40
The society from Psycho Pass fits the definition given by OP so I guess we do need a more specific definition, especially since there are people who a...
July 22, 2017 at 19:31
The graph doesn't show the amount of people using either word in specified context though.
July 22, 2017 at 19:25
Well, depends on what everything we want in this prutopia. On what scale do we want it? What about environment? Even considerably slowing down the cli...
July 20, 2017 at 23:01
Is the colour of the fruit relevant? I wouldn't like being thrown around to confirm the claim :D
July 20, 2017 at 22:55