Learning some 'thing' NEVER means one HAS TO BELIEVE ANY 'thing'.Age wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:51 pmHOW was the WANT of a 'red ferrari', for example, determined by SOME so-called 'biological need'?Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:24 am"The element of wanting" is determined by your biological needsbahman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 1:00 pm
A decision is either biased or not. In the first case, it is determined and in the second case, it is free. You don't have any other option. Free will looks random from the third person's perspective but it is not random from the first person's perspective since there is the element of wanting.
And,
WHAT 'biological need' could, supposedly, create or cause the WANT of a 'red ferrari', for example?
Or, what possible 'biological need' could possibly drive a person to DESIRE or WANT to travel around the world to watch a coffin drive by, which may well contain NO human body AT ALL, or not, within it?
Are there REALLY some adult human beings, in the days when this is being written, who Truly BELIEVE that they are ACTUALLY 'entitled' to some 'things'?
If yes, then WHO are those human beings?
And,
What, EXACTLY, do they ACTUALLY BELIEVE that they are 'entitled' to?
Obviously you have learned mainstream morality, therefore you believe you are entitled to glorify goodness, truth, and beauty.
For example, you might have LEARNED that God created the Universe, or 'mainstream morality', (WHATEVER that IS, EXACTLY), but there is NO reason to then just start BELIEVING some 'thing' as ABSURD AS; 'you' are 'entitled' to GLORIFY 'goodness', 'truth', NOR 'beauty', (WHATEVER those 'things' ACTUALLY ARE, EXACTLY).
Oh, and by the way, IF one had ALREADY LEARNED, properly AND correctly, what 'goodness' IS, EXACTLY, what 'Truth' and 'truth' IS, EXACTLY, and what 'beauty' IS, EXACTLY, then they would be CLOSER to GLORIFYING only those 'things', which DESERVE being GLORIFIED.
HOW and WHY would this even be a POSSIBILITY?
WHEN 'you', ALSO, have the ANSWER to this question, then 'you' KNOW 'you' will, ALSO, be MUCH CLOSER to thee ACTUAL Truth of 'things'.
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The want of a red Ferrari is easy to explain biologically. Humans need some power if they are to participate in social life. A red Ferrari would typify conspicuous consumption in many developed societies.
In 1899, the sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury commodities (goods and services) specifically as a public display of economic power — the income and the accumulated wealth of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, the public display of discretionary income is an economic means of either attaining or of maintaining a given social status.