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Nope, claiming that people having abortions have "no problems" with it mischaracterizes their intention and motive, strengthening my claim that you are lacking empathy. What you believe and what people actually go through are very much different things. I think there's a need to think deeper and...

I thought we were past equivalenting abortion to murder. If you think abortion is the same as the holocaust you obviously are willing to abort your empathy to do so. Either way I think you're too emotionally invested in this for us to have a rational conversation about it. Well, at least I...

Having a certain consensus about something is much different than utilitarianism. Having censensus means you have a certain sense of morality towards an issue, thereby having enough agreement as to how society at large should move forward with the thing. Also you seem to be selectively replying...

Okay, I've understood your position. Having understood it, I can raise several objections that might snag at the phrase and the denotation of phrase 'the fetus is a human'. First off, a human fetus is a human fetus. I think when we say that it is human, we are not saying that a human fetus is...

That's a poor understanding of what murder is and a false equivalence of the two. Murder usually entails great hatred or some kind of violence via passion. Abortion doesn't happen because we deliberately distaste the baby, it comes from extreme emotional determination that doesn't come lightly...

Asking whether the fetus is alive doesn't put to rest the issue of abortion. Whether we put the fetus into a labeled category, those who seek abortion will have the abortion. The issue here isn't about labeling the fetus a certain category, it's the poor programs that keep the rate of unwanted...

Do you have statistics to back this up?

I wouldn't go as far as the sexual revolution that America went through. I primarily see a problem within consumer culture that uses sex or sex appeal to sell their products. As far as I'm concerned, within the current cultural landscape of America, banning abortion would cause incredible...

Everyone does, but not everyone is inoculated with the same conception about sex. I grew up in a Christian household, but those who haven't, were grown up with notions that had a secularized notion of sex via the common culture. The problem for me is the vast liberalization of sexuality. People...

That's the political outcome.

I think it sounds like if you think the war is just, then you are open to supporting that war. I think you have an idea of where I'm going with this, my stance on abortion is that at the end of it, it ultimately comes down to the choice of the female. In all probability I probably wouldn't...

I'm curious Old Things, if you support pro-life, do you also support just war theory?

Yup, you're a doomer. :)

That's a very poor attempt at an apology. Don't expect people to be understanding when you aren't giving the same kind of respect. We live in a society.

I don't understand this chicken stratch, someone tell me what this thing is saying.

I don't understand, therefore, it must be dumb. Kids these days..

My sibling doesn't use the internet ever, doesn't watch the news or use youtube for that matter. The only internet my sibling uses is for work, that's all. I think it's what keeps my sibling grounded a bit more than other people.

I think if you aren't married by the time you're in your 30s, you have a side of you that's very doomer. You're old enough to understand how the world works i.e. politics or the economy, and the cultural landscape, and know very well that most of it is out of your reach of control. You also have...

I lived in two of the biggest metropolises so I'll try to explain the mindset... (in Seoul and Tokyo) Typically you feel that it's just not your responsibility, and that there are institutions that deal with this kind of stuff professionally. I think if you lived in a town or a smaller city...

I think when it comes to societial perceptions like these, it's best to let time be the judge of things. When 'feminists' grow old and without child, the ones who matched up and had kids will have certain perceptions towards these females. I think as of now, there really is no mechanism where...

Empirical understanding, and the quality which we might call awe or wonder, is an emotion that's fleeting and like most worldly goods, lasts for a certain moment. I too was impressed by calculus and certain physical laws, as well as experiments and insights that were found in psychology or other...

The definition seems pretty tautological in nature. I think for me truth has a fundamental direction. The sciences and certain religions portray truth as a legalism, something that is immutable and empirical, both in the metaphysical sense as well as the physical. For me, truth goes beyond...

I think the problem with population isn't necessary the numbers but whether that population number can create an economy that is relatively fair for all. Because combined with technology you do not require as much labor, meaning people have to resort to work that's outside the core economy. I...

Depends on whether you want to approach the question rationally or empirically. Rationally we could use ancient models preconceived by religions, or talk about cosmic ontologies or models that begin with or begin from, the self. If not, we can talk about empirical models that are based on...

I mean the universe existed before any arab thought of arabian numbers.

The self almost rhymes with shelf.

Travel.

I think I've come to understand that my parents are the outcomes of their own experiences. When I understood that, I feel my sense of respect and reverence for them heightened. But because of this knowledge, I feel that it is up to me and my generation to make better from the learned knowledge...

It is Gopher again?

Honestly my advice is just not to partake in this kind of discourse. There's a wise saying in the Psalms: Unripe ideas don't need attention, it only hastens their complexity and becomes more resillent like a virus.

This question really doesn't make sense because no society would be devoid of currency or wealth, the value or worth that is behind money. If the paper currency were to disappear, there would be another form of currency that would replace it, because products, goods and services naturally have...

Pretty much. Computers cannot think in terms of systems or totalities. AI cannot discover calculus or write new philosophical treatises that advances the cultural psyche.

AI can't feel, it can only execute the program it was written. There is literally no experience the AI has, it's just code and text. We give the experience, or percieve that it exists because it mimics human language- the one we programmed it to do. However I do think that in many thousands of...

I'm not aware of anyone reputable claiming MBTI to be empirical.

Well, empiricism isn't the only form of epistomology. There's a reason rationality exists; we reason, not simply just use our 5 senses. When we discuss things, have a back and forth dialogue, we uncover the process of building up the reasons for things and discover the turns and twists of...

I think there isn't really a forumlatic way of creating a prosperous society. This is because every society is different- its size, its history, it's culture and its language. Geography plays an important part too, in creating such societies. An open city out in the fields is more condusive to...

I've thought of this before, but there's a simple counter-question to this. Let's say there was a world that worked so well, in a parallel universe. Wouldn't it be rational to say that they would ask the same question? In any reasonable world where things went well, that world would ask this...

It sounds more like a housing crisis due to a massive immigration policy. Housing crisis's aren't really a problem, the more pressing and difficult problem is economic collaspe due to a non-reversable birth rate (like what South Korea and Japan are on the verge of). While you're correct that...

I think the poem exerts confidence, particuarlly of contentment. But I feel like the essense of the poem leans a bit too much on tautology rather than a specific, shared experience. I encourage more though!

It sounded like a Planet of the Apes scenario to me at first but if it's by Sam Raimi then I feel like there's more of a crude horror aspect to it?

Most of the questions I've put in about philosophy were on point and pretty thorough. In the subway, when I get bored I like to put in questions like how I would sift through wikipedia. I like it because it goes to the point straight away, and if you're wondering about more of the details, I...

I think here we're saying that the harmony wasn't something that was mapped out by random coincidence, but a result of mechanistic features that result in the survival of the one experiencing the psychophysical harmony, law, what have you. By saying that the harmony is some kind of natural law...

That's touched a little bit by the argument, but the argument is that the mapping itself is like a law, that when certain sensations are given to someone, it triggers the same region of the brain, which causes us to either enjoy or reject that sensation. There is a mechanical law within how our...

This is a Berkelian explanation of reality and is something that is quite defensible. However the video I posted operates on epiphenomenalism, which is the view that most people have concerning the mind-body problem. Concerning substances of reality, I would think most people are property...

The video goes into it, but basically, an evolutionary explanation would only explain how the harmony came about rather than explain what the reason for the harmony is, or why there is a harmony in the first place. It would explain the process of its survival rather than explain why the harmony...

Okay I take back what I said about degenerates not being able to find a genre.

I still don't feel I have a strong understanding of it, so I'll be posting this video instead: To summarize, I think what the argument is that there isn't a strong explanation for why our mental states (perception) correspond to the physical world, and that theism offers a simple explanation...

If you have running thoughts before sleeping it's more indicitive that you aren't talking with other people and being engaged in relationships. Your mind is more like a dog that needs taking care of rather than a computer.

Philosophy is history, and philosophy is useless unless the larger population learns of it so that we as a society can debate how to progress forward with that knowledge of history. Truth is engagement with society and knowing how to make it better, in the light of all the history, morality, and...