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September 9th, 2011, 8:49 pm
I think that if you replace the word "emergent" with either "magic" or "gift of god", you essay reads and essentially means the same thing. "Emergent Property" doesn't really mean anything, other than "Insert miraculous bridge here to solve my essential p...
September 9th, 2011, 8:39 pm
I literally don't know anyone who claims that the meaning of life is to "be happy". Happiness is often the side effect of living a meaningful life; of fulfilling a good purpose; it isn't meaningful in and of itself.
August 25th, 2011, 2:36 pm
Intuitiv3infid3l wrote:Morality=equality.
Why should I accept that definition of morality?
Wowbagger wrote: As long as there are human beings dying preventable deaths each day (and currently that's 32'000 people a day), it's immoral to be rich and do nothing about the problem, no matter what political system one lives in.
By what principle of morality, and why should I accept it?
Any moral system that doesn't have sufficient grounds to accept it is nothing more than rhetoric and emotional pleading.
August 25th, 2011, 12:51 pm
Your premise is flawed. The Earth is not over-crowded by any rational consideration, and according to current world-wide population trends, never will be. Current estimates are the the world will reach zero population growth by 2050 with 9 billion people and begin declining from there.
August 18th, 2011, 9:45 am
Neither. If one wishes to behave morally, they must use locate self-evident moral statements; then from there use reason to discern necessary moral statements, moral axioms, then general moral statements, and contingent moral statements .. and, of course, live up to - as best one can - those moral s...
August 17th, 2011, 7:42 am
(quote not shown) I agree one cannot reason with most liberals, but what I write here isn't about changing their perspective, but exposing it for those who are not yet subsumed by the programming. (quote not shown) The same kinds of cruelty that led to the "social justice" campaigns and po...
August 17th, 2011, 7:26 am
(quote not shown) Seeing as "religionists", as you call them, invented the methodology and principles of modern science, and accounted for virtually all its discoveries for up until very recently, I think you would be hard-pressed to make the case simply because many of them (not all by a ...
August 12th, 2011, 9:16 pm
(quote not shown) No, they don't, not when examined logically and the necessary logical conclusions are fond out. Calling oneself moral, and claiming that what you are doing is moral, is meaningless if one can be Hitler or Gandhi and have equal claim to "being moral". (quote not shown) Tha...
August 12th, 2011, 6:00 pm
The argument of subjective (non-theistic) good vs objective (theistic) good: If we assume there is an objective good, then we have reason to believe we can find self-evidently true statements and then from there work towards necessarily true moral statements, contingently true moral statements, and ...
August 12th, 2011, 4:52 pm
(quote not shown) Yes, the will-to-power, anti-enlightenment irrational justification of youth-movement fascism, just like the brownshirt movement of Nazism and the fasciti under Mussolini & the weather underground and black panthers in the USA; seize what you want, force others to capitulate, t...
August 12th, 2011, 4:40 pm
(quote not shown) I don't think you have free will, so I don't consider what you're doing here to be evil. (quote not shown) Why should I believe that? Can you pose your answer in a way that is consistent with the argument for a subjective good? (quote not shown) No. Rational debate can introduce in...
August 12th, 2011, 11:51 am
(quote not shown) Neither group needs to argue. I would think that such arguments are tendered in order to come to agreements about how to go about creating appropriate laws, policies, how we should act, what we should expect from others,and how we should instruct our children to generate a rational...
August 11th, 2011, 4:50 pm
(quote not shown) No, it didn't. (quote not shown) Early Judaism did not believe in god as necessarily rational. That was strictly a post-enlightenment, Christian notion. Muslims toyed with the idea of a rational creator for a while, but then abandoned it. Only post-Enlightenment Christians believed...
August 11th, 2011, 4:35 pm
(quote not shown) Nah. I just think they're bored, angry, without morals or self-discipline and lacking in capacity to reason. I was watching a newscast that was interviewing random rioters; they couldn't produce a cogent sentence about what they were doing and why. I doubt they even know what the t...