'The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy'

[Aiwendil]

Lush wrote:

This is why I find people that suppress their [immoral?] urges to be hilarious: because in my view they're not any better off as that cokehead that cannot resist doing another line or whatever one's poison of choice ultimately is.

I don't understand. What would you have them do, give in to their immoral urges?

btw, my friend, the laws of physics are not as cut and dry as you make them out to be, there is lots of stuff going on in that realm that we may never understand

Did I say that they were cut and dry? I said that they are knowable and possibly confirmable. I suppose I ought to have prefaced "knowable" with "possibly" as well. There's still a host of problems that get in the way (the justification of logic, the acceptance of sense-data, the problem of confirmation, etc.). But at the very least, putting aside somewhat radical skeptical claims, we do at least know a great many things about the laws of physics.

Or were you referring to foundational problems in quantum mechanics? These are problems of a very different sort; they are primarily scientific rather than philosophical.

There's a whole very interesting and very lengthy discussion we could get into on either of these topics, but then I guess that's not exactly the purpose of this thread.