Recent content by Red Fox

In that case, hurting animals is not wrong because it is wrong to cause suffering but because one knows about and can identify with that suffering. Also, many people do not hold animals on the same level as humans (not necessarily because they view humans as some supreme species, but because...

We can all agree that there are things that are fundamentally real; when we see a rock we know there is some object that corresponds with what we are seeing. Our perception of these things may not necessarily be perfect, but they come together to compose our reality. This reality can be said to...

-_- It is wrong to write that I was wrong for writing that the concepts of right and wrong are just plain wrong. When I write right and wrong are just plain wrong, the first "wrong", that is the wrong on the left, and the second "wrong", that is the wrong on the right, have two separate...

Exactly what i said before. Purpose is an invented concept.

Agreed. As i meant to imply with my previous post, this concept of right and wrong as absolutes is just wrong.

Its all about effect. If abusing animals has an over all detrimental effect on a given group of people for whatever reason, than yes it is wrong. If it has a positive effect (for example some odd or rediculous scenario in which it is the only way to achieve some necessary goal) than it may not...

As far as ants go, their brains function like little simple computers. They do not "think", and it is doubtfull that they feel pain other than to say they recognize physical harm and seek to avoid it. There are no emotions or feelings in the ant world, to say how would you feel if your house was...

I am going to have to agree with The Statutory Ape on this. As I see it, I have no moral responsibility to care about the suffering of animals I do not identify with. I care about dogs because I am fond of and to some degree identify with them, I don't care about chickens or cows because I see...

You already know that you, everyone you know, everything you are fond of, and every piece of evidence that you ever existed will eventually be dead and gone. What difference does having free will make. Also, a lack of free will does not mean that one cannot influence how their life plays out...

I agree that it is very entertaining to postulate about free will (in my opinion philosophy is very fun), but i don't think I would say it is useless scientifically (i really don't have any evidence either way, but there may be a time in the future in which this subject may indeed prove useful)...

I was so entrenched in the whole free will thing i thought you were talking about some bizarre new interpretation. As for the fortune teller thing, Even if one were to make a semi accurate prediction of an event in the future, I don't think that it would necessarily mean anything as far as...

First, the concept of an "illusion" used in the whole "everything is an illusion claim" is just ridiculously broad and all encompassing. Find a better word or make a new one. Second, there is a hint of truth to this mentality, however the wording and general direction it has taken has, for me...

So some lady happened to make a vague remark that later loosely corresponded with an event, I fail to see how that is significant. Also in the last paragraph of yours that I quoted, you start talking about 2 dimensions etc, I have absolutely no idea where you are coming from. Maybe I am just...

I specified what I meant.

This is quite an old issue, and philosophers today tend to reject the notion of absolute omnipotence for just this reason. Currently limited omnipotence (that is, the ability to do anything within certain confining laws, like the impossibility of self contradictory entities etc.) is favored when...