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IDK I think things we 'really, really, really don't want to happen' are things that we're afraid of happening. I also think it's at least as natural to fear death as pain. Obviously it's hard to show at all that you're not fearing the pain, but I think in saying you 'really, really, really don't...

You're taking small issues as examples against a desire to live... There are probably few desires you have greater than to continue living, only things which you value highly will you probably feel what we all call 'fear' at losing. I'll ask the question to you too, if someone puts a gun up...

What do you mean change the definition? TBH I'm just using my own colloquial definition which is a mixture I think of what psychologists would say is both fear and anxiety. I don't think you can claim you didn't feel fear if you felt the flight or fight response, what you feared was death... I...

If you want to preserve your life... if you fear not living.... then you fear death. That is all that death is, death is not living.

The fight or flight response is activated due to a fear http://health.howstuffworks.com/fear.htm, you claim to have felt such a thing when you were having your near death experience... I think this means you fear death. TBH the way you guys act when questioned about your underlying beliefs is...

The fear would be losing your money, not the actual state of not being rich (much like fear of death I suppose, no one actually fears the state of death, just losing life). But I don't see how you could claim to love being rich if you didn't fear losing your money. Obviously the fear wouldn't...

Have you considered that you are 'coping' with an underlying anxiety, which will occasionally come to the forefront as a fear when faced with an unshakable acknowledgment of your mortality? Do you agree that if you love being rich you fear not being rich etc etc?

That doesn't cut the mustard for me tbh... If you grandfather told you he was going away and you might not see him again (say he went to america and you're too poor to probably ever get there within his lifetime) I doubt you'd be near as upset as you would be upon hearing his death, but it's a...

Why would people want to discuss philosophical issues but not news issues? News issues but not politics? They seem to me to be fairly well connected, at least with the amount of posters we have on this forum. Idk, do many people have a problem with there being many non-politics issues in the...

agreed... If anything I'd like one forum and a sub-forum for 'trashy threads' where the mods can move utter trash.

It means you're a woman.

The plot was terrible and under-developed, the romantic sub-plot was below par for such a thing and overall it was just really terrible. 31% on rotten tomatoes. I like this review Plus some crappy romantic thing thrown in... hahahahhaha

And then you've got the fact that people will just pick and choose what they want to believe anyway, I doubt there'd be any one man I could go to who would offer me the same answers to a large list of moral questsions as you would.

Nah that's not really why it's such a social taboo... I mean that's one theory but it doesn't really cut the mustard entirely, for me anyway. Other ideas are that if incest were allowed it would destroy the structure of the family unit, children would be less likely to marry outside of their...

Our judicial system would be less constrained if they could appeal to more perhaps abstract ideals such as 'freedom of speech' rather than our fairly lackluster 'freedom of political communication'... Laws which would have most likely been found invalid had we had such freedoms include the...

If you don't want to do any sort of calculations then don't even bring 'value' into the debate, the second u want to say the value is worth X you have to accept the debate will move to questions of calculating the worth of X against Y, Z etc.

Ok you don't think the value of the mother's pain lowers the babys value enough to make abortion ok, but this doesn't mean you haven't lowered the net 'value' of the baby unless you've decided not to include the mother in the calculation at all.

They are of equal value, as all people are of equal value... however when it comes to a decision about abortion I feel you have to take into account the value of the pain of the mother and that's going to lessen the value of keeping their life. Your choice is either: a) Don't accept the value...

They have equal gross value, but when you add in the value cost of the mother's pain of having to give birth and raise a child she doesn't want which is the result of an extremely traumatic event etc etc then I would say they have a lower net value, in that the value of not aborting a rape baby...

If you want to put it that way it's been the pro-abortionists vs the pro-rape babyist.