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  1. nilsz

    The debate of free will

    My position on the other hand is that randomness in behaviour is, unlike what free will is often said to be, not a foundation for personal responsibility, but that some degree of determinism can be.
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    Is anything real?

    My personal perspective is that nothing can be proven absolutely except perhaps for our immediate sensation, because all sensation can hypothetically have been manipulated so that it does not reflect reality. We may have false memories, we may live in a simulated reality, and our perception of...
  3. nilsz

    Would liberals defend incest?

    I am afraid that if we tolerate incestuous relationships between consenting adults, this may allow exploitation of family members disadvantaged by such things as economic dependence and mental disabilities, creating an immense power imbalance in any such relationships.
  4. nilsz

    Chocolate

    Perhaps not the most refined taste, but I like the Japp/Mars chocolate bar, and Dumle. I suppose I like the mix of caramel and chocolate. I consider trying out Divine, which is a fair trade chocolate bar.
  5. nilsz

    Extremes of Atheism vs Theism

    Sometimes, the correct answer is "I do not know."
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    Extremes of Atheism vs Theism

    A dice rolls beyond sight... "The dice landed on six." "How do you know?" "It must have." "I don't think it landed on six." "No? Well then you must have a different idea of what it landed upon."
  7. nilsz

    Do you feel you have a purpose?

    While that is indeed a function of our nature moulded by natural selection, that does not mean that it is invalid to choose a different purpose.
  8. nilsz

    what do you do when you have a cold?

    Eat spicy food and candies. Drink more water. Sleep more.
  9. nilsz

    Do you feel you have a purpose?

    Having suffered depression throughout large parts of my childhood, I tended towards nihilist thought. A mild comfort, in that as life seemed inevitably horrid, I could think to myself that nothing truly mattered. As I am recovering, and start to appreciate the beautiful in life, I now think...
  10. nilsz

    Extremes of Atheism vs Theism

    With statements such as that God can not be defined, He seems increasingly to be a feeling rather than part of objective reality.
  11. nilsz

    Extremes of Atheism vs Theism

    I personally define gods strictly as anthropomorphic personalities of cosmological significance. This is the definition I use when I take the position that gods are so implausible that it is reasonable to assert that they do not exist.
  12. nilsz

    Do you keep a religious journal?

    To some extent. I have a blog that in part serves the purpose. I also scribble philosophical thoughts down into text files, but I have failed to keep them sufficiently structured to make it feel worthwhile to look back at them. Currently I am attempting to program myself a system that makes it...
  13. nilsz

    Where tax money funds public schools teaching creationism as science

    I think it is reasonable to suspect that one factor could be both the cause of creationism in school and low test scores. I am not a pedagogue of any sort, but I am sceptical of the negativity towards rote learning of facts. Today there exist an effective computer-assisted method for it, called...
  14. nilsz

    Is Life Ever Unfortunate?

    The father's life is unfortunate. He should not have lived to do such a thing.
  15. nilsz

    Why do we accept the lowest common denominator?

    I tend to see the lack of quality in discussions on web forums in large part a consequence of how they are structured. On a typical web forum, the most recently replied to threads are given most visibility, which causes threads that spark many quick reactions to linger with most prominence...
  16. nilsz

    What is your stance on free will?

    I suspect the way free will is commonly understood is incoherent. It seems to be defined as a capacity to act counter to what our nature would dictate, so presumably this free will is somehow influencing our physical mind-state to accomplish this. But how can this free will make good...
  17. nilsz

    Are These Grounds for Legalizing Pedophilia?

    If the question is, "Does X make child sexual abuse ok?", then the answer is no.
  18. nilsz

    Would the world benefit or not if it were all to follow the same religion?

    I think the best way is to teach children to value life over death of people whom our disagreements with have trivial implications.
  19. nilsz

    Religious symbols in schools

    This is a discussion about whether it is a good idea to ban religious symbols in school. When you reject commonly agreed upon notions of whether this is right and wrong, then you have rejected a premise for partaking in this debate. You are saying that this is a stupid discussion to have, and I...
  20. nilsz

    Religious symbols in schools

    That is true, every experience is unique. But does that mean that we can never learn anything from past experience? You will have to argue why the wisdom gained from one experience cannot be extrapolated to another. What countries are you referring to, and how are the Sami fighting against them...
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