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You point out that contemporary HG's are non-white so often that I'm starting to think ethnicity is somehow an important factor to you. Do you know th...
July 07, 2018 at 12:02
Life only wants you to think that it's about sex in order to obfuscate its cyclical existential crisis. Like all good show(o)men, it fakes it until yo...
July 05, 2018 at 18:21
It stands to reason that some groups will have engaged in more violence prior to western influence, and some will have engaged in less (it's not an ei...
July 05, 2018 at 18:05
To be clear, the Hadza are the least violent hunter-gatherer group I've found, but they're still more violent than the west at least in terms of homic...
July 04, 2018 at 17:07
Whataboutism isn't really that bad and all, but pointing to total numbers of suicide is less revealing than pointing to suicide per capita or a full p...
July 03, 2018 at 21:20
I don't remember enrolling in moral outrage 101. The Hadza happen to be semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, and so are Eskimo, but if I've not addressed hu...
July 03, 2018 at 21:15
Here's an article which covers a gamut of reasons for infanticide. Here's an article covering the superstition based killing of twins in a region of I...
July 03, 2018 at 08:40
The only thing I've said is backwards are reasons for infanticide. Violent, superstitious, scraping a living from the dirt, need to be educated out of...
July 02, 2018 at 09:37
I find the Candian "living tree" (an ongoing interpretative process) metaphor and the American constitutional originalism extremes to both be rather s...
July 02, 2018 at 00:03
You're basically saying archeology and anthropology are hopeless endeavors because we don't have perfectly representative remnants. Depending on the g...
July 01, 2018 at 22:58
It would be themselves if the universe was solipsistic so no. If the universe was not solipsistic, then it would be better characterized as an angel o...
July 01, 2018 at 08:19
Well, if solipsism grants absolute certainty, and someone was validly absolutely certain that they were in a solipsistic universe, then they by defini...
July 01, 2018 at 08:15
Solipsists cannot logically reason that they are in a solipsistic universe using the following argument: P1: I would have certainty in a solipsistic u...
July 01, 2018 at 08:07
By doubting that the world is full of absolute certainty to begin with, of course!
July 01, 2018 at 08:00
Can a solipsist doubt their beliefs? Yes. I might have said that a solipsist can only become a solipsist by doubting that anything they perceive did n...
July 01, 2018 at 07:57
We can actually learn quite a bit about how people lived from their scant remains and ruins. The bones themselves tell us about the age of the decease...
July 01, 2018 at 07:47
I would like to ask if you can imagine a technologically advanced society that is not a disaster. Is anything short of utopia not worth the effort? Ob...
July 01, 2018 at 05:29
I think it's about 1/1 000 000 that a benevolent god would force us all to claw and chomp the raw bit of reality in such a harsh world filled with thi...
July 01, 2018 at 04:42
It's hard to believe unlucky coincidence. The headline alone which mimics the 14 word shtick, and is itself 14 words, is too much to accept as acciden...
June 29, 2018 at 03:31
Actually I pointed out your well repeated misinterpretation, and then explained why your continued misinterpretation suggests you're an anti-natalist....
June 17, 2018 at 22:58
You know very well that I'm not arguing that we ought to reproduce or raise farm animals for their own sake. I've explained this multiple times, you k...
June 16, 2018 at 05:51
If anyone is interested in first hand accounts and criticism of old school beatniks and hipsters , I just came across this absolute gem: https://www.y...
June 15, 2018 at 08:55
We're talking about booze, nicotine, and THC, not crack-cocaine or Fentanyl. Different substances do different things, and many of them do not require...
June 15, 2018 at 00:40
It's Prager U. It's like, some kind of conservative video production group founded by a religious American conservative pundit who panders to pro-Amer...
June 14, 2018 at 00:11
Medical professionals might not be intimately acquainted with our individual emotional ups and downs, and when to have a beer, a smoke, or a toke is p...
June 13, 2018 at 23:43
Humans have been self-medicating since time immemorial... Incorporating some sort of psycho-active substance or inebriant into diet or rituals is abso...
June 13, 2018 at 22:29
A) Once a creature is born it can begin exhibiting preferences and interests. Therefore, once a pig is born it can be indirectly pleased that you crea...
June 12, 2018 at 22:02
But I can afford the pig if I harvest it at some point, and I'm confident that the pig would rather have lived and been harvested than to have never l...
June 11, 2018 at 23:56
The study found that a non-animals agriculture would increase the amount of grain available in our societal food stores, resulting in a more grain hea...
June 10, 2018 at 00:58
I'm well aware that Vegans eat grains, and you're well aware that eating too many grains and not enough variety of other plants will result in nutriti...
June 09, 2018 at 01:43
The article is not telling people to give up healthy foods. It takes a look at the feasibility of America switching to a national vegan through the nu...
June 07, 2018 at 23:23
But this is what you seem to think plants are: a silver-bullet to solve problems while creating none. Alas, a lack... The world isn's so easily manage...
June 07, 2018 at 00:51
I was sold three strums in. I've got a thang for them blues, and boy them blues got him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07o8ofrZcU
June 07, 2018 at 00:46
We definitely do. Appreciating the novel and the other can be quite difficult for some; it often takes wise eyes. Good music is hard to scoff at thoug...
June 07, 2018 at 00:38
I don't know if this counts because I was listening to it in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFYUUChIYU Something about the nipponification ...
June 07, 2018 at 00:05
I know that a well planned plant-based diet does not include too much grain, which is what we would have on our hands given the aforementioned difficu...
June 06, 2018 at 23:48
In Canada, "the Crown" is ostensibly the federal government given how very little the monarchy and governor/lieutenant generals can actually do (they'...
June 05, 2018 at 22:40
Ah, yes, but not the monarchy itself! (ask the French)
June 05, 2018 at 10:56
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to ...
June 04, 2018 at 21:41
Vegetable produce is inherently more expensive than grains and legumes. We rely on grains so heavily because they are easy to grow, are light weight, ...
June 04, 2018 at 21:32
This is not exactly relevant to the discussion we're having, is it? Appealing to presumed hypocrisy in my actions doesn't establish your argument abou...
June 04, 2018 at 06:26
Whether it magnified or amplified, distilled or quickened, concealed or revealed, the contemporary result is the same: a new wave of white nationalism...
June 03, 2018 at 00:47
Long ago, only white Europeans were allowed to immigrate to America, and only white land owning males could vote... Fast forward to 1830, the rising p...
June 03, 2018 at 00:21
Trying to grow crops which require warmer weather or more water or better quality soil runs the risk of crop failure, which is why farmers are very ca...
June 03, 2018 at 00:00
It's customary to make some attempt to cite or paraphrase, otherwise we're just hurling links at one another. Its main criticism is based on the fact ...
June 02, 2018 at 10:27
This is pricelessly apt. I read straight through a new english version of the old testament when I was quite young, so this simile has been fermenting...
June 02, 2018 at 00:36
Destination truth, ultimate verity, will likely never be reached, but as we rid ourselves of our fallacious reasoning and fill in our knowledge gaps w...
June 01, 2018 at 23:55
I've stated that factory farming standards are immoral in one my earliest posts in this thread... But just to clarify, if I ethically raise chickens a...
June 01, 2018 at 23:37
Not if the population keeps growing and we don't come up with a new way to meet our food and nutrition requirements. You were making the argument that...
June 01, 2018 at 23:14
Nothing would make me happier to take the cleverness credit for referring to "kafka-trapping" with hidden meaning, but I honestly just thought it soun...
May 31, 2018 at 21:56