Shawn

I don't think suffering can be encompassed by physics or toy worlds. What makes you believe that is so?

Haha. :nerd:

https://globetrottergirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/swimming-with-pigs-big-mayor-cay2-scaled.jpg I need a vacation with a Bahama pig.

It's all true!

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https://media.tenor.com/K70jpeY5a-4AAAAM/fat-pig.gif It's a little fat, but mostly happy.

It's good that you realize these things, as they do happen to cause s lot of turmoil for those who never had the abilities to be Wolfgang Mozart's or ...

It seems that Japan is quite ahead of this in their own way. They utilize animated women or manga to this end. Just some knowledge I gained as a teena...

So, since the parallels with pornography and advertising is so strong, do you think this potential habit leads to unhappy or rather unsatisfied people...

I'm not sure if it's a gateway activity... What makes you say that?

I wanted to point out that the greatest danger, whether apparent or not, of pornography is seen through the eyes of the religious and conservative typ...

While I was in college I talked with a guy who knew a few in the adult industry. He said they all smoke dope or snort cocaine. I'm sure you can find p...

Sure. So, ethically what do you think about pornography? I mean, for a Kantian it seems like a totally bad thing with the whole means to an end thing,...

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I just wanted to point out that your post took the cake. Well done, Sir.

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Yes, he's very vocal about it. See: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jordan+Peterson+and+pornography

It's pretty much a commodity. Just that the amount of it produced is astonishing. There's quite a lot of it awash on the Internet.

Yeah, as I said to Wayfarer, I practically have no idea to what degree is it a negative. It's commonly assumed it's a negative but not many people kno...

Interesting. I believe you are right about that.

I agree with the statement that there is some effect, yet this hasn't been proven according to science of the magnitude or degree or what kind of effe...

Sitting here in California and constantly hearing in the news about these nutcases killing people with guns in my vicinity.

@"unenlightened", what do you think? I'm not much of a psychologist; but, doesn't pornography have negative effects that change our beliefs towards wo...

I think the most philosophical problem I can present whist ethical is the objectification of women. Women are portrayed as some tool for men to gratif...

I haven't read any Proust, but philosophers routinely say some things of the real, apparent, and immanent in reality. So, it's a pretty popular theme.

There will be blood. 2001... Blade Runner Paths of Glory The Shining Anything with Jack Nicholson.

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That pig is one beautiful cucumber herself. She ate it like nothing else.

I felt like posting a picture of a pig, but cucumbers are what we're talking about, so, so be it.

Imagine what the founder of TNT must have felt like during WWI &WWII... It was the same guy who founded the Nobel Peace Prize awards. Yeah, scientists...

You might find evolutionary game theory more interesting.

Yes, I read most of it. He seems to advocate a very trivial notion of ontology that if something to exist it should exist in reality. However, how doe...

Pragmatism seems to be a sort of antithesis of Philosophical Pessimism... Not of society; but, the world as a whole, along with human nature reflexive...

So, just to clarify, Pegasus has no essence but can be instantiated in the domain of discourse without being a singleton, yes?

What does existential quantification look like for singletons? I know Quine is mentioned, so does Fine profess his 'no instantiation without existenti...

So, what is your opinion of what was said in my post above. I'll quote it again here: I don't quite understand the difference here ...

De dicto, we can only state truthfully what is analytic about Socrates. However, the author seems to argue that Socrates can refer to his identity wit...

But, that's an ambiguity introduced by not adhering to the de re de dicto distinction, yes? Nevermind, I don't think it's relevant, what I said.

Definition of a simple: In contemporary mereology, a simple is any thing that has no proper parts. Sometimes the term "atom" is used, although in rece...

The author brings up the de re/de dicto distinction, initially; but, proposes a different way to denote a person by a name, and argues that definition...

You will be missed. :flower:

I'm quoting the gist of the argument displayed between pg.7-8. Regarding the bolded part, what's the difference? Is it again the de re/de dicto distin...

Not a local phenomenon, in the least. My view is that after a period, which can last a decade and a half, the brain is developed, society steps in, an...

I read this again, and kind of slowly understood this psyche as dominated by want's. A lot of people want things, but to return to the OP, I don't thi...

I don't think we're as driven to ideals as you make it seem. We usually start with socialization, then individualization. It's during the teenage year...

I'm in my early thirties, and have seen many people fall through the cracks in society. I have been around homeless people quite a lot in the great st...

Do you mind me asking, that on a deeper level why do people behave this way? Namely, the yes to everything ending up with negative things?

Sorry to hear about that. He must be angry.

I honestly do not think life is getting worse. Progress, is a difficult measure to calculate and there doesn't seem to be a lack of it. I also doubt t...

As you say, the topic was directed at everyone and didn't have anything to do with antinatalism, go figure.