L'éléphant

Please read the above post. Thanks.

The ISS is a scientific lab. Like Antarctica. Not a settlement or habitat. Wait until a planet is habitable. Then you get the same attitude as on Eart...

No, because Antarctica was never earmarked for settlement, only scientific exploration. Second, only those who have the means to go to the chosen plan...

Antarctica is a continent on a planet that's already organically occupied by humans. When I said "entity" I meant a separate body of a planet. Sorry f...

There is an unwritten rule about white lies, yes. For those, we have a common understanding not to castigate someone telling white lies.

Hahaha! :grin: No. The collective truth has a power beyond utility and boring. This is not the whole-greater-than-sum-of-its-parts case. Rather, when ...

While I never doubted the power of the intelligentsia -- philosophy, sociology, politics, and economics -- in world politics, I think most of the worl...

Search for a Naturalistic World View - Shimony

Okay, I can agree that we're not sure about realistic measurement. But could we at least look at the big picture of the results of our mindset. For ex...

No, I just couldn't outright argue as to the comparison to the mind-capacity of the prehistoric humans. And I'm not even sure if you're being sarcasti...

I said in my OP it has nothing to do with the size of the brains -- at least not this time. While this is not the subject of the studies I mentioned o...

Thank you, @"jamalrob". I dead-ass believed I had pissed you off permanently.

:up: It's not my problem that you refused to delete it. If you're not happy with it, then just close it. No need to stress out and show you care. It's...

Don't worry about that. I said that becauseI favor that kind of thinking. There's insight. Well, that's what we would commonly expect. But have you ev...

I'm gonna use my bias argument and say this is the kind of thinking I have been expecting on this thread. Unfortunately, I do. I started this thread. ...

In light of Aristotle's the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts..., let's define what it is to be y...

There is truth to this. All in moderation. IQ is influenced by culture. And yes, you can practice the IQ tests.

Are you referring to the Darwin Awards?

@"Banno", @"Tom Storm", @"Bitter Crank" Thanks for the laugh. Meanwhile, I have work to do: Are Humans Getting Smarter or Dumber?, Stephanie Pappas, L...

You assume too much. My post was gathered 100% from ToothyMaw's OP. I was wondering why no one could get what he was saying. This is the reason why I ...

He is talking about how the government tries to stir the public's attention to the domestic (internal) problems, while talking about going to war on t...

You can close it if you're tempted. No sweat. Right. Compared to your boring threads? Sorry, just kidding. *giggles* They actually did some measuremen...

Banno, sometimes talking to you incites the murderous self in me. Did you read the links I provided?

In case some of you don't know the relevance of learning curve theory: https://www.valamis.com/documents/10197/520324/learning-curve.png The steepness...

I said in my OP "studies suggest". The precursor of all our skills today are the evolutionary wins that the prehistoric humans had achieved. Do you re...

Here's another article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-smart-early-humans-brain-imaging-answers-180963176/

Here's one. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2011.0099 You guys should wean yourselves from IQ and Wikipedia.

Tom, now that you said that, we can look at philosophy to know that misery is actually a modern problem. But, good point. lol.

Mostly spatial skills and tasks-driven abilities. They contend that our ability today, such as computer knowledge, is the result of those early primit...

Sorry, I made an edit above. Please read my OP again. Thanks.

Not that I care, but I'm going to try to be the devil's advocate here. Word count limit could potentially lead to concise, well thought-out posts beca...

Meaningless in what way? Is living all about meaning? Whatever happened to getting out of bed, getting ready for work, and coming back home and having...

Okay, I agree. I should use sex. You can't use an assumption to argue against what you call an "assumption". I was speaking in terms of achaeological ...

Note that the above scenario was presented by Kohlberg to adolescent children, not adults.

Here's one of the choices, among the choices included in the moral dilemma: (Thanks, Tutorials Point)

If anyone is wondering who Lawrence Kohlberg is, he is the one who created the "Heinz Steals the Drug" moral conundrum: (Thanks, verywell mind).

Carol Gilligan's theory of sex differences in the development of moral reasoning during adolescence : Here's an abstract.

Well, if you put it that way, of course, one is inferior than the other. I'm talking in terms of necessarily. The difference I'm talking about is gend...

Universal claims about morality are dumb? Really? You don't hold any values yourself, about your family? Friends? Your livelihood? I find it controlli...

There are other experiments/studies that could at least suggest that there are fundamentals differences in moral traits that have nothing to do with h...

Oh you're trying to make a valid point? I thought you were just complaining that I was using vaccination as a means to win an argument. Well, in that ...

Because I'm trying to make a point. Vaccination is something concrete they could grasp.

The primitive humans living in caves had no concept or awareness of socio-cultural constructs. Heck, they're primitives, with no language. You should ...

I have no objection to you forming your own opinion. This thread is as much pointing out the facts that most wouldn't want to talk about as it is expr...

I'm saying that morality and ethics for men and women are different contextually based on gender/physiology. So, while we can generally say that peopl...

No personal opinion. All the points are taken from articles citing studies. And yes, statistics was involved. So, we're just gonna ignore the fact tha...

Hyperbolic? So everything that's said on this thread is just..exaggeration? The point is to point out there is a class of low wage earners. I know, fu...

In western economies, there are people who get paid this way -- artists, for example. That's not a white collar job. It's artistic. Because we were ma...

I don't know. In western societies, the "necessities" are different than in other countries. For example, creative self-expression and low unemploymen...

In western societies it's a crime. So you assume the same poor people occupy the low income class. They might be able to move up, but then there will ...