VagabondSpectre

There are no short cuts. We're not born with the hooves, nor the lung capacity for getting to the top, and only grit and endurance can get us there in...

The stoic who feels nothing is just a myth. The real skill of being stoic is not showing emotion even while you're experiencing it deeply. Emotions th...

What's your point? Why do you want to live in a world where some people thrive at the expense of others?

:up: They'll call it idealism, but we do need reform.

I said it is a root issue. I'm characterizing money in politics, and it will take deeper reform than shifting money to ameliorate our electoral system...

It can work on many levels. Sometimes it's familiarity, sometimes is pheromones. It can be learned, it can be innate, it can fade and it can be forgot...

Money does buy power, and that's a root issue (along with relative economic inequality). That most rich entities are white is mere circumstance.

I'm not actually opposed to this, but this isn't the same as a quota. Where differences in merit are indistinguishable, I could care less who gets the...

I want the parity in outcomes to be a consequence of equal opportunities, and maybe getting there requires some messy generalizing, but I'm not that k...

The ERA would have set a strong global example, and would have given courts a kick in the direction of actually criminalizing sexist discrimination as...

Why stop mid stream? Shy bladder? :grin: I think you're doing an obvious bait and switch by using the analogy of accessibility ramps in the context th...

How do you move from accessibility ramps to gendered Parliamentary ramps? Make a stupid comparison, get a stupid interpretation.

Try not to define yourself by something so arbitrary as virginity, and try to keep an open mind about our varied sexual natures as individuals. Some p...

The causes which create male-female disparities in certain professions exist at different levels of the professional hierarchy in question. For exampl...

Isn't it astounding?

Congress/Parliament isn't just another man's club. We can fiddle with the rules of conduct/transparency of conduct for those who are put there by cons...

We're all capable of being the president (Trump proves that). So should we work to ensure that Ivanka Trump becomes the next president? (She does have...

Did you even read my post? Why are you taking this with or against us attitude? If I say that I'm against unjust discrimination, and I don't agree to ...

The same number of women and men don't always apply for the same job, and companies should have the right to choose based on merit even if it doesn't ...

There's always room for agreement, but where we differ is always more interesting. I've never said sexism and misogynistic bias doesn't exist, but I p...

My response is for us to stop the biased favoritism of men and the biased dis-favoritism of women, not to compensate by shifting to overt favoritism f...

But aren't you thereby suggesting that women lack the same capabilities as men (i.e: handicapped?)

I feel like this describes Peterson perfectly as well. And yet, for better or worse they have become influential thought leaders trend setters, especi...

@"Banno" confuses the mere aesthetic of dicks in parliament with the overall status quo that feminism should seek to overturn. Because I refuse to to ...

Ha. Indeed... I should have known from the get-go how it would play out (but I wasn't really familiar with Zizek). Peterson is no economist, and no po...

A good word to describe it might be "tribalism" (and when the going gets tough, we all tend to get downright tribal). Historically this is what served...

And? What has changed as a result? More support for Labor among progressives? Is more female butts in parliamentary seats the justice you set out to a...

Hate crimes are a bit distant from the kind of systemic discrimination that feminism alleges perpetuates inequality. How can we compensate people for ...

I can see myself taking up an opposing position: The overall impact of racism necessarily comes from the cumulative effects of individual acts of disc...

Who gets the privilege to sit in parliament and represent constituents is something that by definition can only be shared by a very small portion of i...

Why does nothing change? I'm agreeing to treating people differently, just not through the dogmatic lens of immutable identity.

I can understand treating individuals differently according to their individual needs, but I cannot comprehend treating entire races/genders different...

Can you clarify? What differences are there between the capabilities of men and and women, or straights and gays, or whites and blacks?

P.S, I'm not exactly advocating marxism, but laissez faire capitalism is definitely not my cup of tea. Universal basic income is something i support. ...

We're talking about adult humans with equal capabilities though, aren't we?

If anyone is interested, there's a debate going on right now that somehow represents one of the beating veins of contemporary political culture (at le...

Each to their own? :wink: I think that the forces keeping poor people poor have more or less managed to spread out evenly across all racial and sexual...

Isn't the argument: "the reason why we have persisting inequality is because people are not treated equally"? Fortunes are not completely static (they...

Isn't this a difference between negligence and an intentional crime? (negligence can still be criminal). EDIT: apparently obstruction charges require ...

Agreed, but even when we establish an objective we can still have no way to discriminate between strategic options. Consider a roulette wheel. Your ob...

Plenty of folks feel sympathy for men's issues (grass-roots grievance politics is already a multi-million dollar industry). There may be no coherent a...

This perfectly characterizes "grievance politics". That singular assumption (that there must be an agent oppressor) is basically the fundamental sourc...

Well, consider all the different realms of knowledge that are out there for humans to discover/create (innumerable fields within physics, ethics, civi...

But the trade-offs are not known or are presumed to be equal. Some boats means it is more likely that at least some people will survive but makes it m...

I appreciate this thread, and I commend you for writing it as dispassionately as you have done. I also think I agree with the main thrust of the threa...

I don't want to step too far away from the issue, but I've been flailing against this kind of over-sensitive censorship for a few years now. When thin...

Too many flies in the ointment can lead to unpredictable side-effects. I made a thread some time ago about what we could do to capitalize on the many ...

"Philosophy" can be so broad a category that I'm necessarily generalizing when I say it tends to use reason/logic/evidence as opposed to other vectors...

This guy gets it!

Fully disentangling truth and persuasion is probably a very tedious affair, but suffice it to say: in so far as "truth" of whatever caliber is actuall...