Hi Stef, I've been wondering: If love is an "involuntary response to virtue," how can a parent love an infant? Can't animals display virtues, at least in a rudimentary fashion, as much as babies? Thanks
I believe that individualism vs collectivism is the issue beneath all issues and that adopting a “content of character” mindset rather that a “judge by immutable characteristics” mindset, is the only peaceful and prosperous path forward for humanity. Most people are decent, and if we separated the world by decent people vs assholes there would be a lot less incentive to be assholes. Thoughts?
Does philosophy come more naturally to honest people who are naturally attuned to the truth?
Is it moral for a man to give his son a leg-up?
- a good home with a loving mother
- a virtuous example
- a free college education
- help with a home or business?
Or is that unfair to another child from a poor and broken home?
Can UPB define truth?
i.e. it's the interpretation that could be useful to everyone.
Do we have a moral duty to fight evil and pursue virtue?
Are humans LLMs, with an extra mechanism on top ?
Where does philosophy end and religion begin?
What is more destructive: greed or jealousy🤷🏻♂️
Why, Stefan? Why!?!?
What is the most reliable way to resolve trust and abandonment issues?
Personally or interpersonally.
How do you from a moral standpoint pick between two warring sides when you find each side doing immoral things daily.
Does A.I. dream?
How do signs and symbols acquire meaning and what is meaning?
what is the best attitude to take toward the unanswerable questions
The structure that is UPB is not only relevant to morality. Because self detonating arguments are errors not only in the domain of morality but in all domains. For example Math is based on axioms but these axioms must be UPB? Have you thought what else UPB is capable of?
What is the atheist argument against suicide?
Are wealth and prosperity inherently wrong? It seems that many people who identify as “religious” believe you cannot be both wealthy and genuinely spiritual at the same time.
How does one analyze keeping traditions vs testing/accepting modernity? Can one go back to traditions abandoned if modernity experiments fail or prove to be a detriment and tradition was the ‘right choice all along’?
What percentage of people have an inner dialogue and is that an argument against all humans being the creation of gods image? I apologize you have mentioned the statistics for inner dialogue but it eludes me at this time. ✌🏼
Should the value of virginity be held equal between both man and woman?
The only answer I can conclude is Yes.
How do you go about convincing a person to live in accord with reality after they’ve gone too long living a lie.
Are unchosen obligations valid?
What's the point of knowing if you can't do anything with it or about it.
Why replicate?
There seems to be a widening gap between healthy and traumatized people. Even the smallest gestures can trigger someone. I asked our DIL how was our visit for her, if she felt there were things we could improve on or that would be helpful, “it’s our first time being grandparents”…reassured her we had a lovely visit. She snaps back with: “why are you asking this? What is wrong with just having a visit?!” It was her trauma (dad) speaking. Do I just avoid convos or play their game? It’s weird & avoidant
Is ham on rye objectively the best lunchtime sandwich?
Is mathematics discovered or invented?
- Verbally abusive mother, violent and emotionally absent father
- Dated and married a verbally abusive woman - had 1 kid
- I divorced when the kid was 4, an awful decision
- Remarried, had another 2 kids
What's the best that I can do for my 3 children?
I think you’re right in most cases, but why isn’t your opinion mainstream in society?
How could life have meaning? By what would it be measured?
People are more readily persuaded by rhetoric than reason. But it feels manipulative.
Is it ethical to use emotion as a means of persuasion?
Will AI ever have consciousness?
How do you determine if something is Art ?
Is it ok to violate the NAP to prevent people from smoking weed and becoming insufferable, smelly losers who blame boomers/society for everything?
Does a distinction between different senses of the words “objective” and “subjective” (like between objectively real and objectively true) define many philosophical problems out of existence as simple category errors? For instance making objective claims about subjective things.
What natural human traits have been collectively lost that could explain why people, when receiving new information, are unable able to change their minds?
Would you consider a serious engagement with Marx, and in a non biased way, meaning reading him in a chronology with the great classical economists like Smith, Ricardo and then Marx, reading him not as a communist but as a classical economist in the same vein as them?
Is the goal of life to be happy or good?
Can people who aren't intelligent enough to understand philosophy be expected to behave virtuously, in the absence of authorities?
What is liberty to you? Is it a lack of governmental interference or something more?
Where is the old Stefan? This 2.0 has been replaced with a "cuck!"
What’s worse, being immoral to yourself (Porn,drinking, overweight, bad hygiene, no self-improvement) or to others(Lying, stealing, cheating)? Or perhaps these overlap.
How do you properly address someone who does not accept external logic as its own truth? I got the kantian imperative down, but critical theory immediately targets the falibility of human rationality.
are the concepts of left and right useful for understand politics or are they like Hutu and Tutsi meant control people? If they are useful can you present definitions that work as well as the definitions of even and odd numbers does across time.
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