Thu 8 Oct, 2009 09:36 am - [QUOTE=Eudaimon;95959] Really? Canst thou easily kill a human being?
Surely all organisms have so-called mechanisms of self-defence yet when they apply them in practice they start feeling excited,... (view)
Wed 7 Oct, 2009 11:34 pm - The thing is that Hitler probably could have killed people with his hands. The human animal is built to be able to kill other human animals, and the type only affects the difficulty of getting it... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 06:47 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;95403]I am a determinist too (or let's say so for the sake of argument) but although if I were Hitler, I could not be someone else than Hitler, that does not mean that if I... (view)
Tue 6 Oct, 2009 06:10 am - That the psychology of a military leader has some relationship to that of a gamer seems plausible.
I think however a fundamental aspect of being a moral human being is being aware of when actual... (view)
Mon 5 Oct, 2009 07:14 am - [QUOTE=Eudaimon;68004]I tell thee: Kill the person thy neighbour. Think that's my order. If thou thou dost that, I shall really not care: I can't see blood, neither have I anger. The word... (view)
Fri 25 Sep, 2009 06:02 am - First, as I understand it satisfaction utilitarianism is a form of act utilitarianism, with its distinguishing characteristic being that what we are trying to maximize is the satisfaction of... (view)
Tue 22 Sep, 2009 10:42 pm - A) I like your signature
B) I think that is the entire point of being an utilitarian not a deontologist, ie I tend to think the rights of one person [I]should [/I]be ignored if it is best for... (view)
Tue 22 Sep, 2009 10:09 pm - [QUOTE]"I think the easiest critique of it, though, is the impossibility of prospectively weighing one good outcome against another so as to make the correct choice"[/QUOTE]
I'm not... (view)
Tue 22 Sep, 2009 08:57 pm - I think that rather than trying to point out particular celebrities a better approach to a question like this is to think about the ways in which people try to answer the question. And from the... (view)
