Recent content by PrinceFortinbras

If you want to know where you can help people most per dollar, this might be a useful website. http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

I think this post might stem from a slight misunderstanding of what the majority of people practicing BDSM think it should be about, namely consensus. A dom should not proceed with anything unless She/he is sure that they have the subs consensus. Communication is vital in this sort of...

It is true that we can be completely sure. What we can do is make educated guesses based on the knowledge we have. At the present time we know that our concept of pain requires a nervous system, and we know that our concept of interest or preferences requires a brain. It may well be revealed to...

I know she isn't animated, but the present one is Jessica from the later seasons of True Blood. After she stopped being so innocent. My God...

I think you are right. We'll leave the debate here. But it has been a good one, and thank you for not being an internet douchbag, but a sane rational person it's possible to talk to!

This! Also I would have liked it if they gave Bane an actual ideological conviction that could motivate him. Maybe something in his past that really made him despise the rich and do all in his power to redestribute wealth. It would make the film much smarter as it would set Batman in a...

That is a good point. Which is why I don't think that morality is all about minimizing suffering. I am a preferance utilitarian so I also think we should do our best to maximize the pleasure of other according to their preferances. My vegetarian lifestyle is a product of the fact that I don't...

1. Going to the dentist causes less suffering in the long run so it is the right thing to do. Also this is a matter of personal preference: if you think it is better to suffer a tooth ache then to suffer at a dentist to get rid of it that is your own decision. I see no problem here. 2. I...

You seem to confusing morality with what people think is right and wrong. The fact that people disagree about ethical questions does not mean anything if we accept that sometinhg actually IS right or wrong, inderpendent of the people thinking it. It only means that someones moral position is...

Of course you have to take advatages and disadvantages in to account, but I was constructing a simple moral maxim to try and show that ability for suffering grants moral relevance by comparing other (that includes animals) to the self. However it do seem to me as if you link this effect a...

This is getting really interesting. I like it. I agree that sympathy does not tell us what is right and wrong. That was not my point, and I can see that I have expressed myself imprecisly, so I am sorry about that. My point was that sympathy can tell us something about what it is about...

It certianly is taboo. But if the justification for eating meat is that animals are not intelligent then should it be? Granted that we are all rational of course..

My parents got some pigs each spring that was killed for food each autumn when I was a kid. so I have seen many of the same things. And I think that it is by far the best way to procure meat. I have big problems find much moral fault with it. And they really are! :)

Tought experiment: If you really wanted to eat human flesh, and you were presented with a brain dead person that no one would mourne if died, would it be premissable to eat him/her? I don't see how intelligence has moral relevance. If you fall off your bike and hurt your self I will feel...

I have. But I have never said that a vegetarian diet is perfect, nor have any vegetarians I know. Simply that it is better. Even if animals die to ensure that I get my food it is not hard to argue that fewer do. That article also points out that meat production requieres the repeted...