"starvation-wages" and "compulsory work" are not a thing when one volunteers to sign a labor contract. — Garrett Travers
Go on... — Garrett Travers
It would seem somewhat incoherent to me if someone asserted that work could be compulsory, meaning involuntary, if you voluntarily agreed to work. Because in order for something to be voluntary it has to be free from compulsion. It’s almost tautological. — Average
Do you agree that folks with mental illness are victims of mental illness? — ZzzoneiroCosm
Yes. If we're talking neurological disorders. — Garrett Travers
So you accept that it's rational to feel compassion for folks with mental illness? — ZzzoneiroCosm
More contradictory than tautological. — Garrett Travers
I agree that it would be a contradiction to assert the voluntary work is compulsory work. What I meant by tautological was that voluntary work is automatically not compulsory. — Average
I don’t know if it makes sense to use mathematical symbols like the one for equality in the context of epistemology. 2+2=4 but I don’t know what A=A means. — Average
Not in any falsifiable manner. — Garrett Travers
I’m not sure I understand the point you’re trying to make about falsification. Are you referring to my mirage hypothesis? — Average
Do you accept that Hitler had a mental illness?
— ZzzoneiroCosm
Yes. — Garrett Travers
Yes. — Garrett Travers
It's rational to feel compassion for people with mental illness. Hitler had a mental illness. Therefore, it's rational to feel compassion for Hitler. — ZzzoneiroCosm
No, I'm saying that if an assertion about a fact of the world cannot be placed under the scrutiny of falsification, meaning it can be tested in a manner that has the potential to dispprove it in one or more ways, then it isn't science, per Karl Popper, and should thereby be dismissed from one's philosophical approach until such a time that it can. — Garrett Travers
It's rational to feel compassion for people with mental illness. Hitler had a mental illness. Therefore, it's rational to feel compassion for Hitler. — ZzzoneiroCosm
What assertion are you referring to though? Is it the assertion that a thing isn’t what it is? — Average
oh ok thanks for clarifying. — Average
Proper form would look like this: — Garrett Travers
It's rational to feel compassion for people with mental illness. Hitler had a mental illness. Therefore, it's rational to feel compassion for Hitler. — ZzzoneiroCosm
P1. It's rational to feel compassion for a person with mental illness.
P2. Hitler was a person with mental illness.
C. Therefore, it's rational to feel compassion for Hitler. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Yes, I accept the whole argument as valid. — Garrett Travers
Good.
On to the unskilled laborer.
If an unskilled laborer - in light of mental illness and lack of access to mental health services - is inhibited from self-development and career advancement, is it rational to feel compassion for him? — ZzzoneiroCosm
Yes. — Garrett Travers
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