Minimal self – Uncommon Descent

Sentience: Is it wrong to boil a lobster alive?

In Switzerland, it is now illegal to boil a lobster alive. Are the Swiss right? Is it cruel? The question bears on the concept of a self.

jerry spot on The anti ID people have conceded the truth of ID. There only strategy is mocking and diversion. No... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Bowing back in: your point is essential. As free-willed moral creatures, we are the cause of morality: all the consensual... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
chuckdarwin Zweston @ 44 I thought I was the Black Knight of Monty Python fame. So now its Sev? I'm hurt....... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes If X creates your faculties of intelligence and free will so that you will have the capacity to think and... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
zweston Chucky d, will you tell me your responses to the thought experiment? – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
zweston Jerry, spot on. And I'm one of those people who continue to defend Christianity...but I really don't need to. The... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Lieutenant Commander Data Seversky If God is omniscient then He knows all that there is to know. If Seversky is ignorant then he... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Stephen, I see that you were addressing Origenes, not me, so I apologize for pressing you on responding to me.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
jerry Genetics and natural selection operating. Call it evolution but it is not Evolution. Wait till those cute adorable elephant cows... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
jerry Interesting phenomenon! When one is obviously losing an argument against ID, never respond to the logical argument but attack Christianity.... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB@ //on the claims “I, Origenes, exist” & “I, Origenes, am self aware”// O: I arrive at a self-evident truth.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
StephenB SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as the subject, be... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
bornagain77 Seversky asks, "if after death we move to a much better “plane of existence”, why does your God make us... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB @ The problem with your position is that you seem to reduce everything to the subjective realm, even to... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
Origenes SB, Viola Lee@ SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
polistra Climate change, climate change, climate change, pandemic, biodiversity, mass extinction, mass extinction, Anthropocene, Anthropocene, climate change, climate change, climate change.... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
Eugene I don't understand why they keep calling time a "dimension". It is clearly not a dimension, but a "variable" which... – At Medium: Six scientific paradoxes on...
Seversky Zweston/37 Sev: If the God of the Bible appeared to you and you had knowledge without a doubt it was... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Bornagain77/30 Seversky claimed that living in an imperfect world counted as evidence against Christianity. Yet, the Bible has ALWAYS claimed... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Doubter/26 Maybe there is no inconsistency with the Christian doctrine of omnipotence because He simply doesn’t choose to exert complete... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
kairosfocus SB, as a note, testimony of a responsible, credible witness often provides adequate warrant, and this may apply to internal,... – Materialists Know What They Say is...