But is it really so simple? Did I just burst from a parinibbanic state, taking form as this body only for this conscious experience to dissolve back into nothingness, eternally? — Inyenzi
"The majority of stable middle class people with access to the internet in a 1st world country like life" is a bit better though I still think it's not as obvious as it seems — khaled
You can get from Anti-Natalism to Pro-Mortalism by realizing that Epicurus was right about the nature of death. — luckswallowsall
but that never made any sense to me, and it still doesn't--at least not if "suffering" is supposed to have a negative connotation. — Terrapin Station
That's the point. It doesn't matter what YOU think of life you have no right to take the risk for someone else — khaled
You know that rights are something we make up, right? — Terrapin Station
But you expressed a moral principle — khaled
And yet you started your comment with "My policy on". That's a moral principle if you ask me if a personal one. If you'd said "My temporary policy on" I wouldn't be talking to you in the first place as there would be no point. — khaled
But you're employing a principle based approach when you say "My policy on X is Y". — khaled
I'm trying to get you to stop talking really. — Terrapin Station
You could do that by not replying but you're still replying. That tells me this isn't actually your goal and instead, you just do not believe in any principle morally (subjective or objective) and are literally just trolling everyone on this thread as you proceed to do principle based ethics while claiming you don't like them. — khaled
It is amusing to me that you can't understand this — Terrapin Station
“It is immoral to do certain action X to class of being Y when it is abnormal” is principle based ethics. It is amusing to me that you can’t understand this — khaled
Speaking of being stupid, you're still bringing up the notion that you're "taking a risk for someone else" by procreating. — Terrapin Station
So re you being stupid, didn't I just write, "I'm not going to restate every single nuance in every single post"? — Terrapin Station
You’ve never stated the nuance between “It is immoral to do X to Y” and a moral principle. Because there is none. — khaled
As you hold up a sign announcing that you don't understand what not stating every nuance every time amounts to. Nice. — Terrapin Station
You can’t explain something “every time” if you have never explained it before. Please enlighten my stupid mind with the difference between “having a policy towards certain actions against certain beings” and a moral principle — khaled
Who are you putting in an unusual situation by procreating? — Terrapin Station
I said risks putting someone — khaled
I didn't explain that I don't use a principle-based approach to ethics? — Terrapin Station
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