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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 23, 2018 at 11:28 pm
(November 23, 2018 at 11:18 pm)tackattack Wrote: Are there any societal goals, universal goals or subjective goals out there that you can list that are better than just existing?
Pretty much all of them.
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 23, 2018 at 11:43 pm
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That's fine, tack. I just don't see where you're going with this.
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 24, 2018 at 12:40 am
I'm not headed towards anything I just saw some ranting about "tard babies" on a different site and I wanted to see if people had ideas about
is letting a baby exist that has no goal or potential other than mere existence worth having?
Should doctors encourage abortions?
Should anyone's sole purpose be to exist and does that qualify them as productive members of society?
Are there goals theist, atheist, moral absolutist, right winger, etc. that are common ground for all groups in our species?
Is there enough societal push towards those goals... I'd probably save that for another thread though..
idk, just thoughts, no master plan. I think I'm gonna agree with Gae's posts on this pretty much all of them are better than just existing butthere should be some that are species universal we could come up with.
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 24, 2018 at 12:43 am
That gets into ethics and meaning, and that's a whole nother ball of wax.
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 24, 2018 at 12:46 am
ok then I'll save the phiosophy for a different thread. What about just some universal goals as a species like
-Passing knowledge to offspring is better than just breeding
-Overcoming hardships is inspiration to a society and guides social constructs better than just genetic adaptation
-Increasing life expectancy is good if it's not a burden to the environment the species exists in
-The perfect Rueben is still better than sex
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 24, 2018 at 8:23 am
I'm still wondering about the "removal of emotional pain" reference.
And I also question regarding doctors encouraging abortion. Do you have examples?
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RE: quality of life or life for life's sake
November 24, 2018 at 9:29 am
All I know is that most people don't give a fuck about quality of life when their life's at stake.
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