Show Posts
901
Off Topic / Re: Forum philosophy discussion topic
« on: March 13, 2011, 06:09:04 PM »Stop ending your stupid posts with characters you copy-pasted from google translate you weeaboo
マホ～
Race is a human concept also.No, it's a biological concept. Races are not just distinguished by amount of melanin in the skin, there are anthropological differences as well. Race is a result of the same species adapting in different locations.
Doing crack cocaine is wrong, because it without a doubt contributes to an early death, and it's robbing a human being of its right to life.I disagree entirely - If making choices that could inevitably lead to an early death be a choice of ethics, then every person who has ever had fast food or caffeine is of negative moral stature purely because their decisions may lead to their lifespan being shorter. But then, can people not value their own lives differently? What about stunt men who, through their own choices, put their life in jeopardy every day? Same with policemen and soldiers, or people who work in factories or offices? There's an infinite amount of things that can lead to an early death, so is the goal of life to live as long as you can? But you can't control how long your life is anyway, old people are old purely out of luck, luck that they didn't get cancer or get caught by the Vietcong or didn't breathe enough asbestos or they didn't fall out of an 18th story window when they were a baby. Your answer here makes no sense in more than one way. An inanimate object can not "do" anything, and you can't rob yourself of something you already own. The government has no right to dictate what people can or cannot do with their bodies, mind, or soul unless it crosses the line and starts affecting other people. My doing drugs or eating stuffty food is not up to the government.
If doing cocaine makes you happy and doesn't hurt anyone else, then it's not a negative moral decision. It contributing to an early death is irrelevant, because almost everything contributes to an early death. You're philosophizing backwards here, you're conceiving a reason to supplement a decision you've already made, that cocaine is "bad", and that's corrupt reasoning.
they have the right to take away your liberty to kill yourself with drugs if it means preserving your right to life.So we have a right to life, but not death? So if I'm not happy with my life, I can't threaten or end it? That's illegal? What about Johnny from "Johnny Got His Gun" or countless other war victims and vegetables who want nothing more than for their lives to end because they've simply become breathing statues. Unmoving, in pain, screaming and no one can hear them. Then there's people too distraught to want to live, knowing their lives are going to be full of disappointment and misery and all they can look forward to is growing too old to do anything they wanted to do when they were young, taking out their anguish on neighbor kids playing soccer in their front lawn.
Everyone has the right to life and death, as long as they do not harm another person or rob them of their life. Satisfaction does not come with living to be 100, at least for most people. I'd rather live until 55 and see/done all I possibly could in my life. Die happy, not old.
