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Vera Mont

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Why would people drag 'happiness' into social organization? Whether a person is happy or sad, grumpy or cheerful, bluff or dour, sociable or reclusive...
August 23, 2024 at 17:45
Okay. You have a certain set of assumptions about humans. Mine are slightly different, and my idea of a good society - one that aspires to incremental...
August 23, 2024 at 13:45
Yes, I get that. It's like someone believing they know what's 'optimal', but they don't specify any metrics or benchmarks. The ideal, like the optimal...
August 18, 2024 at 18:11
If you believe it to be unreachable. And yet, in order for the traveler to keep striding, the horizon has keep receding. "This still sucks, but it's a...
August 18, 2024 at 16:13
That's what they did, and are doing. But not because they're trying to behave the way Jesus is fabled to or according to his advice; it's because they...
August 18, 2024 at 14:07
These are never individual endeavours. If you read the Utopian literature, you'll find that a lot of people, in different times, have had similar idea...
August 18, 2024 at 13:35
What's the point of aiming for a compromise? If you want to go to Hollywood, you don't set your sights on Flagstaff and plan to reassess. If Flagstaff...
August 18, 2024 at 12:06
On reading over this, not participating looks like the best option. Can't help forming a picture in my mind, though, and that will amuse till I fall a...
August 17, 2024 at 04:06
If there were no rules, or chaos, the universe could not organize itself into galaxies, nebulae, suns and planets, compounds, molecules, life forms. F...
August 16, 2024 at 13:19
Just as well the ova are not, or menstruation would be a mortal sin, as well as unclean. (That was a funny song, but a really awful movie.)
August 16, 2024 at 03:03
You didn't look at the tutorial - or a dictionary. Take another shot? Human gestation begins at the moment of fertilization (conception) and proceeds ...
August 16, 2024 at 00:04
A baby is not inside the womb, or anywhere else, without conception. It doesn't exist; therefore it cannot be alive. That's pretty much the point ofco...
August 15, 2024 at 21:23
Whom are you quoting? Nobody can a kill a baby that was never conceived, but one that was brought into the world though coercion or brainwashing is pr...
August 15, 2024 at 17:11
That may be fine or horrific, depending on who defines "immoral" and what they mean by restraint. If you mean stop people from beating and raping one ...
August 15, 2024 at 13:45
In a well-regulated egalitarian society, it's quite easy. It's not even hard to have consensual intimate relations or protracted marital commitment wi...
August 15, 2024 at 13:09
Without even trying. I said a good society would let women make their own decisions as to the bearing of young. My purpose in saying so had little to ...
August 15, 2024 at 13:02
And the threat being perceived. The protection of loved kin and territory is also a strong animal instinct. But there is a huge difference between wil...
August 15, 2024 at 12:58
And this is your idea of a good society? And this is your idea of a good society? And that is your idea of a good society.
August 15, 2024 at 05:37
That's how we turned vegetarian. When we moved to the country, my OG asked where he should build the chicken coop. I said, we're not having chickens. ...
August 15, 2024 at 05:33
Why should women in a good society need men to 'provide for' them? Every member of a society has obligations, but they do not include submitting one's...
August 15, 2024 at 05:08
Ad yet Australians (relation to natives notwithstanding) have always been valiant in their aid of their sovereign (who was not even of their physical ...
August 15, 2024 at 01:38
No, that will take two generations of contentment and new horizons. The first fifty years or so would be full of strife, claims and counterclaims, old...
August 15, 2024 at 00:04
It's easy to declare a passionate adherence to something that makes very few demands.
August 14, 2024 at 21:40
War can be made redundant - along with the unimaginable waste of resources we currently plough into armaments, spying, vehicles and other expensive wi...
August 14, 2024 at 21:33
Seek to, sure. Options available at the bottom of society: nothing even remotely as you so quaintly depict. All you need is faith? Get real!
August 14, 2024 at 14:40
"Love" is a great big, amorphous, elastic Santa sack of a word. For some people, love of country means being loyal to the hierarchy of that country - ...
August 14, 2024 at 14:04
And that wonderful lifestyle is open to all the 712 million people who subsist under $2.15 a day. Not one frickin' clue!
August 14, 2024 at 13:40
You have no frickin' clue, have you?
August 14, 2024 at 04:07
They do, like it or not. And vice versa. But the influence of each on each is so diluted by numbers that it makes no discernible ripple in our persona...
August 13, 2024 at 21:03
By all means, go ahead and do what you think best. I don't believe there is a "we" for me to prevent or understand or influence.
August 13, 2024 at 18:26
Not up to you or me whether the universe continues. Chances are, it will proceed regardless of our sense of its worth. If you don't want to stay in it...
August 13, 2024 at 17:35
What Russia became after Stalin was the devolution of the Stalin era. The satellite states more or less broke away but inherited the basic structure o...
August 13, 2024 at 17:29
no, I didn't. Both non-being and dial-a-wish are perfect in their self-containment, so I didn't see anything to address.
August 13, 2024 at 17:21
...especially if you have kidney stone, three kids and a wife working two jobs... Okay, so then France will welcome all 4000 of us? The people at the ...
August 13, 2024 at 17:17
Happiness wasn't even on the agenda. The final goal of the idea was the physical welfare of every member of society. The interim goals were to wrest p...
August 13, 2024 at 13:43
Not really. It's a comment on dysfunctional societies. The poor and afflicted have options? Other countries welcome them? Nor do spiritual advisors 'k...
August 13, 2024 at 13:31
Yes, they do. They're bullied into it. More appropriately, they should be mad as hell. Instead of escaping into 'spiritual' whatnot, they should rise ...
August 13, 2024 at 04:00
No, it means you don't need the deep mental anguish in the first place; you're imposing it on yourself for no good reason. Because history wasn't writ...
August 13, 2024 at 01:17
Which was? This can't happen, so why bother thinking about it? So why bother responding to it? We could. It's harder now we've overcomplicated and pis...
August 13, 2024 at 01:07
Isn't being the same reindeer throughout space and time an essential element of what it is to be reindeer? It's an essential part of consciousness. Th...
August 12, 2024 at 21:53
God coulda this, god coulda that... No, he bloody couldn't, because God doesn't exist! It doesn't matter whether people are resentful or grateful, hap...
August 12, 2024 at 20:25
Without pain - no; so long as biology and physics prevail, biological entities equipped with a nervous system cannot avoid some pain. A good society w...
August 12, 2024 at 15:16
Huh? I mean, I failed miserably to understand that message.
August 11, 2024 at 17:48
Most bosses are. And maybe you could do their job as well as they do, and maybe you could do the jobs of every other employee - or maybe not. I don't ...
August 11, 2024 at 13:27
And are those moral standards higher (i.e. more stringent, more exacting, more rigorous) than the ones you set for yourself?
August 09, 2024 at 21:47
I went into town today and got a brand new space-age library card. It's a little wee tag that goes on my keychain. Go away for a mere decade, and they...
August 09, 2024 at 19:48
Fine. But it doesn't answer the OP question. If you don't raise kids, you have no values to impart. If you don't generate offspring but bring some up ...
August 09, 2024 at 19:40
Worth reading that whole essay. There is other material available, and he may give you footnotes and references.
August 09, 2024 at 12:17
Lots of people have kids without having thought it out. Just seems to be the natural thing to do. (It is.) Many couples want a baby as a testament to ...
August 09, 2024 at 04:09
Interesting observation! Worth a topic on its own? Must think about ways to formulate a question.
August 09, 2024 at 02:33