It never came into existence, because matter and energy cannot cease to exist.
Unconscious matter produced conscious thoughts because reproducable biomolecules formed by accident, followed by billions of years of evolution.
Moral realism is established in the moment you can show that evverybody should value something. That people disagree is not an argument as long as the proof is valid. I came with this proof in the OP.
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I think this lady makes some really good points. The arabic culture is a culture of honor and shame. If we don't want to live in a society governed by the values of the Quran, we should watch out as the demographics of the western...
Seems like Mill is glued tighter to his own perspective than most of us. I find it a shame for humanity that this guy is regarded one of the all time greatest philosophers. I hope he did something better than that quote.
J. S. Mill said:
It is better to be a human being unhappy than a pig happy; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both...
The universe started as a clump of very condensed and hot elementary particles, that started to expanded cool over billions of years, following certain physicall laws that allowed for the formation of planets, stars, solar systems, and galaxies. Then life came into being by accident, and...