(July 17, 2015 at 11:35 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 11:24 pm)Cato Wrote: Do you not realize that you've just admitted the inanity of your position?Do I seriously have to keep spoon feeding you? A pine cone in my ass in not an experience that i can appreciate or disappreciate because it's never happened. A sunny day is not something you can appreciate or disappreciate with out ever having an overcast one
You can't appreciate good without having bad.
The fact that you are unwilling to shove a pinecone up your ass to try the experience proves that you don't believe what you are writing. You know that it is not an experience that would be good, without experiencing it for yourself.
You just don't want to admit that you principle is wrong, and so you pretend to not know that sticking a pine cone up your ass would be painful. But if you really had no idea about it, you would be willing to try it, just the same as any other thing that you have never previously experienced. But since you won't do it, we know that you don't believe your own principle. In other words, you are not as stupid as you are pretending to be.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
