We havta ponder all the negative aspects of life; it's a necessity if we're into selling life tickets (making babies). — Agent Smith
I was reacting to an implicit moral argument on your part with a description of what I think is a factual issue. The fetus and babies will seek out more life. — Bylaw
I have not argued that having babies is good. I don't think that even makes sense. — Bylaw
Well said. :up: — schopenhauer1
The point is you are not forced to play chess lest you kill yourself. — schopenhauer1
I don't understand. You're not forced to play chess for fear that (lest) you'll kill yourself? — Ciceronianus
You can play it and if you want to resign, you can move on. You can't do that with the "game of life". Simple, but tragic. — schopenhauer1
But what is tragic about that? Death would be an end to suffering. Continuing to live would mean continuing to suffer. If you resign from a game, you continue to suffer. If you "resign" from life, you don't. — Ciceronianus
Life and chess are incomparable. The fact that one can move on from a game like chess is another reason why it is a false analogy. — NOS4A2
I was arguing that your throwing someone into life (take that literally or metaphorically) as if they are victims or as if they have not consented is confused. As I said, you cannot create life that does not seek more life and to thrive. That does not match your model. You have an 'is' model that you base your 'ought' on. Since I am not a moral realist, I am not making a moral argument. I am critiquing the is part of your postion.Then this isn't arguing anything contra my moral argument. It is simply a description that fetuses develop and become babies. — schopenhauer1
Since I am not a moral realist, I am not making a moral argument. I am critiquing the is part of your postion. — Bylaw
How easy is it to leave a game compared to life? — Down The Rabbit Hole
It does make one wonder about who's running the show, who's calling the shots, who's in charge, if you catch me drift. — Agent Smith
Technology seems to transform our lives drastically and one way it does that is by making us so dependent on it that a rollback would be catastrophic to civilization as we know it. We're, to that extent, on invalids. — Agent Smith
And as I have asked you on other threads: So What? :eyes:There is always a philosophy for lack of courage. — Albert Camus
What now? We wait until we die, persuade others not to reproduce, and thats it. Do I have that right? — Moliere
I don't want to dieee! :cry: — SYR
dealing with a psychological condition. — Nickolasgaspar
Sure. Philosophical pessimism tries to evaluate existence through our attempt to project our values and meaning on nature. So in my opinion this request returns back to our psychological condition.philosophical pessimism — schopenhauer1
So in my opinion this request returns back to our psychological condition. — Nickolasgaspar
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