RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
February 21, 2015 at 12:10 am
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(February 21, 2015 at 12:00 am)Nestor Wrote:Well, there are cases in which I wouldn't want to live in like dying painfully slowly from incurable illness, post-apocalyptic scenarios, being enslaved, or being tortured nonstop. In such cases utility to be had isn't much to care about since the pain would outweigh pleasure and in death there is no pain.(February 20, 2015 at 11:34 pm)whateverist Wrote: It's called suicide and people do choose it. Just saying.You cut my quote right before I went on to say, "and still be engaged in rational inquiry..."
Can a person whose solution to anything is suicide be considered by the rest of us to offer a reasonable proposition for each of us to pursue, judging its reasonableness by its utility in how it advances our interests?
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
