Ah, a real context. The objectivism just continues, lol.
What I pointed out was ‘not’ a real context.
It’s not that you want a specific thing, right now. It’s not that you have preferences, about what we talk about now. It’s that what you demand is real and what I point out and notice is not even real.
As if the context I was pointing out did not address specific arguments and points you’ve made in the thread and not just in recent posts here either.
All you are doing here is saying…
hey, I don’t want to talk about that. (perhaps because you don’t want someone to point out the implications of arguments you’ve made or points you made, perhaps for some other reason)
But you couch it in objectivist terms. Your interests now (though not at other times in the thread) are the real contexts.
You one silly boy, I thought you were a nihilist.
There is evidence that Buddhist practice benefits many people, as you have acknowledged. So far you have never produced any evidence that your choice has helped you or anyone else. And yet, you demand proof that all rational people should engage in Buddhism before you would. Proof is for math and symbolic logic. But we have evidence that it is a better path than yours since there is no evidence yours benefits anyone. And, of course, while engaging in Buddhism, you could continue asking people for proofs of their moral positions.
This is real, human life. This is real. We make choices without having all the answers. Without knowing for sure.
That is the general context as far as I can see. And the specific context, in this thread, is that your criterion for not choosing buddhism (yet) makes no sense.
Real contexts. It’s not like you have an answer to anything, certainly not immortality and morals. And you have no evidence your choice does anything good.
Yet you cling to it in the face of others that at least have some evidence backing them.
And via incredulity and writing in the second person plural and using words like ‘must’ you present your choice as if it was not only objective, but the only rational one.