Happiness

What is rationality? One answer is that it is the use of reason. But there are at least two rebutting defeaters to this: (1) a comatose person does not use reason and (2) a person sleeping does not use reason. Clearly a comatose person or a person sleeping are in fact a person, it does not matter if they use reason. One other answer is that it is the capacity to use reason. So, a sleeping person or a comatose person has the capacity to use reason. One undercutting defeater to this answer is that we really does not know if a sleeping person or a comatose person has the capacity to use reason. Why not say that the sleeping person or the comatose person does not have the capacity to use reason? The proponent answers that the sleeping person or the comatose person has the capacity to use reason in virtue of their nature, namely, being a human. In answer, the conclusion is begging the question. At most it seems like there could be an unidentifiable moment in a person's life whereby they...

 It is said that a kid is to listen to the adult. The Bible teaches this and society teaches this. Are there exceptions that are pertinent, however? I say yes. Consider a kid who is told by the adult to murder. The kid is not supposed to murder here despite what the adult says. Does this stand in contradiction to the Bible and what society has taught? No. The answer is no because the obligation imparted to the kid wherewith the kid has to obey the adult is to be understood in different contexts. In the case of the exhortation from the Bible and society for the kid to obey the adult, it is (1) a general rule because a kid tends to not be shrewd, (2) a truth that kids act more according to impulse as opposed to forethought, and (3) a natural method wherewith a kid is taught growth. Now, in the case of the relevant exception, the failure of the proper functioning faculties of the adult means that the kid does not need to obey the adult, such as an adult who is a lunatic exhorting a ki...