“If I own something I can put it to any lawful use without restriction or compensation.”

This also applies to my rental property, because it would be unlawful for me to use it in a way that violates my lease. If someone else gets to tell you what you can and can’t do with your property, is it really your property? Whether that’s because you signed a contract saying “I won’t grow pot here,” or you live in a region where local authorities can simply declare that you aren’t allowed to grow pot there, I don’t see the meaningful distinction. Of course, the concept of ownership is an ill-defined social construct to begin with, so this kind of disagreement is irreconcilable. We simply have different ideas of what defines “ownership.”

As such, whether a vampire cop can enter your property using a warrant depends on whether the vampire understands it to be permission. QED

It’s not about ability to tax, it’s about ability to sieze. If the government didn’t own your land, then taking it without your permission would be theft. Since it isn’t theft if they take your land without your permission, it stands to reason that they own it. You don’t own the property, you own a piece of paper saying you’re allowed to live and build there.

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I’m sure there are varying methods, but typically you silver the back of glass to make a mirror

Most of those aren’t breeds, they’re patterns. A calico can have tabbies and torties in the same litter

Used to work at an animal shelter, and I can count on one hand the number of cats we’d ever had that were anything other than “D(S/L)H (color and pattern)” or “(pattern) Siamese”

What would having more gladii actually do for us though? It would be cool if we had more specimens in better condition, but is there any information we could glean from more individual ancient weapons? Genuine question, I’m not a historian so I don’t even know what knowledge about this subject I lack

Me with anime

Granted I watch mostly >decade old stuff dubs, so it’s mostly the same 30 VAs in every show

He has to read it, but he doesn’t have to interpret it. It’s like the mental equivalent of those floating chairs from Wall-E

As they should, literacy tests are subjective and designed to allow the proctor to pass or fail based of arbitrary personal biases

This reads like a description of the D&D PHB.

…is that why so many people think they get an extra attack when they do something other than an Attack action? Yes, that includes the Ready action. You get one hit if you ready an attack.

My point is that we were never alive at all. We have no consciousness because of determinism, we follow a path that cannot be changed.

This doesn’t follow. Consciousness does not necessitate free will. Just because it’s an emergent property of a complex set of deterministic chemical reactions in our brains doesn’t mean it somehow isn’t real.

What we call “unconsciousness” is really just a state of reduced consciousness. Your mind is maintained throughout, and you’re still aware of the outside world, just to a lesser extent.

No it doesn’t. What we call “unconsciousness” is really just reduced consciousness. Your mind is maintained and you remain aware of external stimuli, just to a much weaker degree.

Hi, I’m a naturalistic determinist atheist. I won’t be taking a teleporter. The problem is that my body (which my continuous conscious experience resides in) will get erased if I do.

Replace “dismantled by the teleporter” with “shot in the head,” and it might make it a bit more obvious why it matters that the original you dies. I wouldn’t want to be shot in the head, even if I knew there was a perfect facsimile of me being constructed the moment the bullet entered my brain. The fact that this me would die makes intuitive sense to me.

There will be a you, but it’s not the same you. If you read my exchange with the other guy, then what are your thoughts on the “shot in the head” topic? Would you be okay with this you being killed in a very real and visceral way, as long as a you would be reconstructed elsewhere?

Your consciousness doesn’t stop when you’re asleep. Evidence: alarm clocks exist

I hate this comic. Your alarm clock is proof that you don’t truly lose consciousness in the way this comic implies when you go to sleep.

This is equivocation. Under one definition, a me died. Under a much more meaningful and relevant definition, the only me died. Someone else that looks and acts and sounds like me is alive, but I am not experiencing life through his senses. He’s a different guy, even if no other person can tell the difference between us. I already explained this.

If you acknowledge that “you” is just a electrochemical reaction, you’re just like a computer program: only defined by what’s happening, not which CPU is running it.

I said that consciousness is a chemical reaction, and also that my experience of life is bound to my physical body. If you destroy my physical body, my experience of life ends. I do not care if an identical program is running on a different CPU right now, I am running on this one.

I want you to imagine for a moment that I’m about to shoot you in the head, but I explained that “it’s fine, because I just scanned your body and at some point I will make a perfect reconstruction of it. Nobody will ever know the difference between the you that I shoot in the head and the you that I reconstruct later.” You don’t want me to shoot you in the head. I know that for a fact. You know there’s a difference between the you that’s experiencing life right now, and the you that I will reconstruct elsewhere.

It doesn’t matter whether I reconstruct you later, or I’ve already done so, or if I do so at the exact moment the bullet enters your brain. I know that you know that when you get shot in the head, you die, regardless of how perfectly I can recreate you elsewhere. Does this analogy help you to understand why I think that a transporter that disintegrates your body kills you?

Okay? That’s all well and good, but there is a way to know that a transporter does kill you. Given a choice between maybe living or definitely dying, I’m gonna choose the former.