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The majority decides. As is the case with most moral laws. Therefore, if the majority of Americans believed that the death penalty should be legalized, it would become law. Perhaps, the thing that...

I would also be interested in this story. I am writing a novel that is very much along these lines. I was unaware that the story existed.

There are some actions that are necessary for teaching and some actions that we define as right or wrong due to self-preservation as a culture. The questions that you pose are of different natures....

True friendship is a difficult concept to define, because true implies that which is not flawed. True friendship is close to the definition of love. Indeed, a true friend loves you. A true friend...

Love exists outside our cognition or participation in it. It is quite possible to be loved by one or many people and to never return those feelings. And the reverse is true as well. Love does not...

First, not all people continue to live knowing they are going to die. Many die willingly. Ruling that out, why do the majority of people live knowing they are going to die?

I would believe that...

Life is meaningless is the statement. You defined meaning I presume by showing us what it is not? One's cells combine to form a highly functional human being of intelligence and interacts with others...

I think morality is defined by that which benefits the greatest amount of people. Therefore, killing is morally wrong, because if it were allowed, it could lead to the extinction of the species.
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If not a reason, then why live?

It seems to me that Pascal allowed the enormity of the universe to break into his worldview. When one considers the billions upon billions of stars, the galaxies that we continue to find, the...

There is truth in what we observe through our senses. We may identify a tree by any name that we wish, but that does not make it less a tree. There is also truth in what we cannot observe, but has an...

Hi everyone. I really don't remember how I found this forum, must have been on one of my late night searches. I am a wife and a mother of four children. I love to read, and I am currently writing...

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Your writing appears to do just what you suggest. Boldly go where most won't. I think unique should be the watchword of writers, indeed, if it's not then how does it appeal to anyone?
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Flannery O'Connor is an excellent author to include. Her short stories are easy reads but packed with excellence.

Woody Allen is a very intelligent man. He has always been fascinated by philosophy and it came out quite a bit in his writings. Whether he should have the title of philosopher is debateable, but I...