'I suppose it would feel like atheism so...I would feel nothing.|||When I was trying to come up with an MRA reversal for feminist sex rights for this topic, I realized I couldn't really do that because what feminism did was give both women AND men freedom to be...|||Goodness, I am not advocating for the argument I'm making. I'm simply making an absurd reversal of feminism to show the problems with feminism. Anyone would see that men acting this way would be...|||Not really, since women have biological privilege and get to stay home due to pregnancy and childrearing. Men deserve that too under this hypothetical scenario.|||Perhaps, but not without social stigma. Men are tired of being considered unmarryable losers if they refuse to work.|||Suppose there were a Men's Movement where men decided that that were tired of the status quo and they wanted more opportunities. They say that relations between the sexes are unfair, and that they...|||Funny, I would draw the complete opposite conclusion and say that a feminist society, including women in the workplace, is making this a rarer occurrence.|||I don't know what people are talking about her being witty. I remember her being witty a long time ago, but recently she was getting pathetic. You could point out the flaw in her logic only to be met...|||What kind of perceptional coloring? How do you know that we cannot know something with certainty? I do not believe in mind-independent reality, because if nobody knew the truth, not even God, then it...|||She was a Communist. Nobody has ever met a jolly Communist.|||Both terms have objective meanings.|||I see no difference. Care to explain?|||Really? You can only love if you have free will, and having free will means the ability to choose between love or non-love.|||How do you know what is best for someone unless you first know what they were made for?|||Crown me king, I'll abolish them. :cool:|||Nobody, not even God, can force you to love anybody. That is the reason Hell exists.|||You think that's bad? I live in California. My state loves illegal immigrants more than natural-born citizens.|||This post is rather confusing, starting with your statement, the goal of truth is correspondence to reality. I'm not sure if you simply made an error in expressing yourself or if you literally...|||This post was hilarious because of the post that immediately preceded it.|||I used to think such an idea was ridiculous. Now, it's the only way I can make sense of governments around the world being so suicidally stupid.|||No...where would you draw the line? And what would happen to female rapists or sexual abusers? Hysterectomy and vagina sewn shut?|||Good God, man. Well, this is why I am personally against the use of any psychotropic medication.|||It seems like it's getting more and more controversial to say that, as a white person, you're only interested in marrying another white person. There's a lot less stigma for other races to say they...|||I think the proper use of the word is only within the context of specific religions. If you take it out of the context of any particular religion, it seems like the word simply refers to a vague sort...|||Mere wealth alone does not determine your sinfulness or your righteousness, and it is just as much a sin to be envious of another's possessions as it is to be greedy with yours.|||I have no way of knowing that.|||This is a long thread, and I was thinking of making a topic on Libertarianism to some degree, so I just want to know: How many people here actually consider themselves to be Libertarians?|||He seems to truly care about America. He is the antithesis of SJW culture. He's not a member of the Communist party (D). He actually has the guts to propose actual solutions to real problems, like...|||Is this the version of the game where you get a new queen every time she gets captured, and you can turn your pawns into bishops?|||Define your terms, please.|||Governments may be able to prevent you from going down certain paths of evil, but they certainly cannot make you be good, only individuals themselves can do that (with God's help.)|||Is it that hard to understand? I'm saying that no government can make people good through pure authoritarian policies. The only thing that can make a society truly good is a just ruler and a just...|||BiPedal, have you ever seen the movie A Man For All Seasons? I saw myself in the character of William Roper and I am seeing you as that character now. To William Roper, Thomas More says:  Now,...|||Why would that matter? All that would matter is how you define good and evil.|||niss  Update #4:  CARPE DIEM. I called her. I figured either she would be surprised but the kind of girl who likes meeting people again and want to talk to me, or else she will be intensely...|||Reclaim your religion. Start praying again and ask God for help. Go to confession. Go back to church and receive the Eucharist. Look, I can't help you very much because I am in a similar situation as...|||You don't get it. If morality is determined by the individual then the natural result is that the strongest person gets to decide what's moral. Dictators get to decide what's moral. And conscience is...|||The exact same thing happened to me. It started small in high school when I thought about what I would have believed if I were an American colonist in 1776 America, and I figured to myself that it...|||Because it's only worth talking about if the same rules apply to all, and according to you, they don't.|||We're going with your answer to the question of who determines morals. If morality is non-existent then it is non-existent for humans as well as animals.|||Then right and wrong do not exist. Hence, animals cannot behave morally.|||Let's put it this way: who decides what is morally right or wrong?|||Because only a moral lawgiver can impose moral laws.|||This seems dumb. It just assigns value to certain words, that's all. I type in the word Good, and I get a result of 5% toxicity. I type in the word Evil, and it jumps up to 67%.|||Again, I am talking about a higher sense of justice here. I will concede and say that animals, on occasion, may have a small sense of fairness, but certainly not a human's sense of justice. What...|||That actually sounds like a really bad idea, and it's surprising hearing it proposed by someone who (as far as I am aware) considers themselves to be a sort of Libertarian.|||Then why call it morality?|||What I described is an aspect of justice. Animals cannot grasp that. The reason a punishment or reward is deserved is because there is a moral law above humans that we follow. Animals cannot judge,...|||Because if animals understood justice, then we wouldn't have to wonder whether they were moral or not. We'd just point to the literal kangaroo courts and have our answer.  Justice is doing the...|||It is impossible for animals to behave morally -- or immorally -- because animals cannot conceive of the concept of justice. Simply cooperating with other animals of the same species is not evidence...'