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Re: False premise in this message needs to be identified as what it is
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:48:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

   Do you agree?

Well, sure.

I think that compared to at least some of the implications of “life affirming,” I this that satisfaction of preference is a better metric of morality. What generates more satisfaction/happiness, rather than what generates more life.

Chris



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  Re: False premise in this message needs to be identified as what it is
 
(...) I guess it depends on the definition of "life affirming", as I don't see more life as necessarily better life. Being happy is very life affirming. But ya. (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: False premise in this message needs to be identified as what it is
 
(...) Under your morality, perhaps. I recognise that different people hold different moralities, and under other moral systems, there may well be moral implications here. However I also hold the (somewhat unpopular and somewhat hard to prove (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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