What's vague about death threats and slander?" is too vague to make generalizations about. — Terrapin Station
Are you actually endorsing that?Why would that be in favor of my ego? Be a free speech absolutist means that I'm endorsing that people be allowed to call for my death, to commit slander/libel against me, etc. How is that in service to one's ego? — Terrapin Station
To say it even simpler - overindulgence is harmful.You brought up Buddhism that supposedly says that desire is suffering, but that's not what it says, what it actually says is that attachment to desire is suffering. Buddhists decidedly do not agree with you in saying that desire is suffering. — leo
Keyword - in the west.You do know that Christianity, primarily, kept women from voting for centuries. in the West, right? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
It's objectively problematic in terms of vitality. — Shamshir
How subjective of a problem is drowning, for instance?It's a subjective opinion whether something is a problem. — Terrapin Station
And maybe it does, but it doesn't share your view on revulsion. Perhaps what you find revolting, it views as sanitary.But the problem is, even if the dog could understand me, he has no concept of revulsion. — Wayfarer
As does every other. The traditional sense of gender is as extro- ambi- and introversion; rather than the mockup that's taken its place.Jewish mysticism has a tradition of viewing God as male and female. — Noble Dust
I don't see how it would benefit from it, considering women are the prominent benefactor of Christianity.I would say, Christianity didn't invent it, but it was founded on it, benefited from it, and endorsed it. — Artemis
The name says it all.What sort of secret is it if A Gnostic Agnostic knows about it? — Terrapin Station
I figured. Perhaps the word to be used there is 'intrinsic' - and then point one also falls apart, as it permits both.Because they are contingent on a subject's will, whether that will is a human, animal, rock, Reason or God. — bert1
Obviously. Otherwise, on your terms, it's just a bunch of atoms.Do you think that your subjective experience of Mount Everest is identical to Mount Everest? — Terrapin Station