I agree that the Torquemada problem is a problem for our moral responsibility. Completely agree. Except insofar as to agree with an article positing a particular viewpoint means forfeiting my moral agency in a particularly torquemada-esq way.

About The Shoutbox. is the new The Shoutbox

Thank you both.

an English dictionary is more useful than an English-Greek one. — Πετροκότσυφας

Why do you think it is more useful?

My only real aspiration is to experience ego death before I die. — praxis

Sounds like an oxymoron

Dic(k)tator putin, and his insidious alliance with Winnie-the-Pooh:

https://youtu.be/a_7dw8bXRpk

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45330161

Evil day Good.

did you get that from some Tool lyrics?

So everyone finds out what death is on their own?

Sounds... lonely

Well I'm evil and I say he can't.

I think if one ( it ought to be two, really) could completely grasp that the image can do nothing to help in this situation, that one is completely helpless, then one simply does stop. One gives up. — unenlightened

If there are two... who/ what is the other?

But to have an image that acts is to have a divided mind; it is to be running a simulation of oneself and letting that run one's life. One performs one's identity. — unenlightened

How does one stop acting from the image?