To my view, based on my understanding of nature, there is a basic right than any conscious being should have, which is the maximization of its wellbeing (or minimization of its suffering). This is my base for morality.
So the question for me is: can they suffer?
I don’t know if this has been...
Things will make sense to me if I can somehow connect them to my experience. Some areas of science are beyond my experience so I’m not surprised when a scientific model makes no sense (e.g., quantum mechanics). If the model works (evidence), I accept it until a better one comes up.
Some seem to...
I agree 100%! I hope one day the UN or some other international organization will enforce that fairly.
As an additional note, the USA has about 1000 military bases worldwide (outside its territory), and NATO has been expanding consistently (for dubious reasons) since its formation. Now put...
In the west, the media and other corporations own the politicians and choose which politicians to make look good (or even participate in debates). Is that democracy?
NATO wasn’t supposed to grow as it has. What would USA do if Russia had a security agreement with Mexico, Canada and Cuba so they...
Yes, it does bring some light, thank you for the clarification.
My bias is that I can’t automatically think of a religion without a god. And if a religion says there is a god (creator of the universe), then it’s making a claim about the nature of the universe.
In fact this god is the foundation...
It was a question, not an assertion.
For example: If you have 1000 claims mutually incompatible, at best only one of them can be true, and the probability of any of them to be true is 1 in 1000. That's all I meant to say.
I appreciate your patience to explain this, and I apologize for my ignorance and if I offended you.
What word should I use to refer to the kind of religion I was talking about?
You may be right about my conception of religions.
I think if some religions wouldn’t make claims about the natural world or try to influence public policy, I wouldn’t even know religions exist.
Maybe my English is not very good, what I mean with “cosmos” is the universe, reality, everything. Its nature cannot depend on anyone’s opinion.(
If you keep looking for semantic issues this will get really boring)