James Riley

Indeed, but it calls to mind a digression: The first time I argued with a philosophy professor some 40 years ago, after he taught us to trace all prem...

There is agreement. There is disagreement. And the simple fact that neither one matters, itself does not matter. For they both proceed apace as if the...

Thousands of years ago and before writing, we told stories around fires. Stories about good and evil. When we learned to write, the stories were reduc...

That makes sense to me. It was my understanding though, that space only grow between those aspects of non-space that are so far apart that gravity no ...

Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. The just ones are Natural Law reduced to writing; the unjust ones are an abuse of discretion and not Natural Law. Those wh...

I confess I did not read this article past the first page or two, but it might be worth reading. Especially as it addresses those cases where U.S. Cou...

People don't always follow the law, written or not. The law is for those who can't take a hint, and it often does not work on them, either. But at lea...

Logic has it's own skeleton in it's own closet. One need not pick examples, analogy, or metaphor, from the other sciences, or any where else for that ...

I don't know about that, but I never had a problem with lots of questions. For instance, is there a reason why it had to be a bang? How about an extre...

I agree, and my thinking that way started with a discussion about whether we are the center of the universe. I tried to add the next dimension and cam...

An executor will milk the estate for expenses of execution. If you don't have anything worth it, then yeah, you'll not find one. But if you have anyth...

I don't know where you live, but generally you don't need a trust. You just write a Will and say within it what you want done. It can be holographic b...

You can always adopt. You can even leave your estate to Gretta Thunberg or the like.

I guess I'm conflating you with 180 and his statement about consistency. I then ran off on speculating about what might be more or less consistent, an...

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Okay, I need to put that in my pipe and smoke it for a while. Initial thought, though, is that it seems to address unborn child issue, but when it com...

The "looking through itself" is a struggle for me to understand, in itself. But what I was struggling with in my post was not so much our looking thro...

:100: Humor is necessary. No, it isn't. Yes it is.

:up:

I get that. I was talking about a net. I apparently have not been able to explain myself, let me try again: There are 7b people on the planet. Joe and...

I didn't think I had a conclusion? But now that you mention it, is the antinatalist only concerned with heading off the suffering of one? And if more ...

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It is clearer, and it confirms my assumption set forth in the post to which you just responded. So, as asked in that post, if one can kill more others...

I alluded to that at some point on this forum. I tried to account for the possibility that I am at the center of this expanding universe while it is i...

Since you didn't explain why, I will assume because the homicide would create more pain (among the remaining loved ones) than it would remove by the k...

Would successful homicide, suicide who has not procreated be even more consistent?

I didn't know all that about him. Cool. I'll let him have Canada.

It wouldn't change my mind. But I have to qualify my position here: I'm not necessarily antinatalist. I'm more for rolling population back to a sustai...

HA! I know those boys were fallible. I just like the idea of telling the King where he can stick his immoral laws.

Where a state is reliant on authority, must it reduce it to writing (an X in the dirt) or is coercion and use of force enough? I understand a state mi...

And assuming there is not life on other planets that we'd ruin too if we get there.

So he draws Xs' and the State writes laws. Is the State excessively reliant on authority? Would simple respect for others prevent the State from punis...

HA!

I guess if you think something exists only when it's reduced to writing, you are welcome to think so. If my son draws an X in the dirt and says "There...

That was my point about writing. In your view, the law must be reduced to writing to be the law? I don't pretend to be a Constitutional Law expert, bu...

I'm just struggling to figure out the point you are trying to make, if you are even trying to make one. It seems that when I boil your posts down to t...

Why? Not why the assumption, but why the agreement? If life itself is good, and if diversity of species is conducive to life, wouldn't life be better ...

:up: Thanks, I'll check that out.

That position seems to be to a "higher law" what the law would be to one who does not believe the "law is law." Thus, if a champion of "law is law" ev...

And we're off to the races! heliod, you're on fire!

There is no such thing as "you." That's not France. There is no drinking. That's not expresso. There is no reply. Nothing is stupid. There is no threa...

When my niece started getting concerned I told to watch this: Access to food, medicine and electricity. If those all go and it's not explicable due to...

I understand history, somewhat. And I understand, somewhat, human nature. But I'm no expert. So what I do on such occasions is defer to the experts. I...

This conversation seems to flying over my head. If something exists regardless of any import, or lack thereof, which might be attached to it, then one...

I would place my emphasis on the word "world" that you use there. In that light, it's not merely "different people" which is an illusion, or that indi...

I know it's coincidental, but it's interesting to simpletons like me that Scotus is spelled the same as the acronym of for the Supreme Court of the Un...

I've been following this thread, but I confess I do appreciate the dumbing-down and the visuals associated with what one wag on this forum called "pop...

The fear comes first. It is only because you are afraid that you lack hope for the future or what it holds, hence the pessimism or nihilism. That is m...

They are all manifestations of fear. I don't see a distinction with a relevant difference. And that could very well be why it is you (the rational min...

I agree with Socrates and Plato, but that does not mean mental disease and madness don't exist. The other day I was thinking about the phrase "beside ...