https://i.ibb.co/YWVJ9cP/venn.jpg Does this venn diagram make sense? I think if political correctness has any meaning, then it means more than being p...
I don't think I've ever used the term 'sheeple' but I have often been surprised, when watching, One Man and His Dog, how easily the sheep seem to chos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia The Cross-race-effect is partly about facial recognition. Facial recognition is an incredibly powerful par...
I'm not talking about those aspects of how racism presents itself. I'm talking about some of the things which lead to racism. Facial and other charact...
it's not just colour though, is it..there are other physical differences that tend to go along with race. eg: type of hair; curly and thick, or thin a...
no, well, the kidnapper might have just assumed the hostage is tech savvy. They might be, they might not be. I'm not very tech savvy, myself. I don't ...
most people just get on with life probably.... But this just leads them to develop very basic world views I would guess...a world view like a shed, pa...
people might use the term 'objective reality'; I was just asking if anyone might post what they thought would be a good definition for that term. Don'...
no in that post I didn't use the word 'objective' to mean anything in particular. I was just asking for any other ways in which 'objective reality' co...
I know.. If the only definition that is possible for 'objective reality' is that which comes by forming a consensus of what happened with other people...
yes, I realise there has to be an actual useful definition of 'objective' and 'subjective', and they can be useful concepts. But you mentioned But how...
if someone considered them selves a solipsist then I would probably assume that they prefer abstract logic as a way to view reality, rather than base ...
well, I was just reiterating what I said earlier, really. A person might be trying to claim that there is an actual objective way to view reality. And...
yes, if I used my argument about the supernova then the person I am trying to counter would just claims that my argument is 'absurd'...it is only absu...
What I don't like is that some people take the utilitarian and pragmatic view of 'objectivity' in science and roll it out to other arguments to try to...
I would argue your case by saying that one thing they have in common is that they can be compared to each other at all. Another way of putting this is...
yes, automated production; either 3d printing, and/or robots etc, is really going to change the way society works...what will become of the consumer s...
It is interesting the idea that being rich allowed you to buy better quality products, and then consider things like gaming software that came along i...
by the by; I always think it is ironic that police forces have the impact on society of making the accumulation of wealth possible by enforcing the la...
is it always the reason for racism? That one group is better? I think it is more to do with feelings of hatred. And I think some of the reasons can be...
through most of my life as a vegetarian I didn't bother with supplements, and didn't have any problems that I could see....as a near vegan, I did star...
that is the problem with groups. A group will often need forces of cohesion, but when you get a group of people who have a few things in common, they ...
so in the case of black people, you might emphasis the difference in colour/shade, in racial features....there may be dangers in that, but at the same...
that makes the assumption that emphasising differences is a counter productive thing to do. That plays into the hands of the people who use difference...
it can be a useful mechanism for any oppressed group of people. They take pride in surviving oppression, and maybe overcoming it. The pride they feel ...
what do you mean by 'welders'? I read the idea that a lot of people simply do not have the time to invest in much reading, and research etc...so they ...
my GP once gave me some pills that were supposed to reduce appetite. They had the opposite effect and made me ravenous...the 'paradoxical effect'....a...
for a meme to survive it has to just consistently survive(not meaning to be circular but it is true)....a meme might be useful in some way to some gro...
I was in the rugby team at school for a while, and the atheltic team....all on and off, as I wasn't that intrested in those sports. What I wanted to p...
My general feeling is that attempts to deny things like race, might be a temporary band aid for the problem of racism and racial politics, but in the ...
I read that in India doctors often ask which cast a patient has come from, because the different casts have historically been so separate that they ha...
yes, biology is kind of a fuzzy thing with fuzzy definitions. I don't know if tigons and ligers are sterile, but that an offspring can be produced sho...
well I don't think it would be a good idea to deny that race variations exist just because the idea is used in identity politics...it might seem like ...
Lions and tigers are species that are closely related. They are close enough to be able to breed together and the offspring are either tions or ligers...
yes, people do make that argument, but the same can be said of the whole animal kingdom, yet there are separate species. Race has ended up being a con...
that also made me think about the genetic variation amongst the people who usually come under the group description 'black'....I saw on TV once that m...
another thing regarding memes and language. I gather that chips can be taught sign language to some extent, and babies can be taught it as well...so I...
the term 'white' sort of does what you were talking about in the OP..it kind of sets up a way of looking at race in a binary way; ie black and white.....
it might seem like will power but how would you feel if you went ahead and behaved in a bad way to people? I was and still am quite overweight. I have...
just as an aside, I am not keen on the term 'white' people, mainly because 'white' people are not white generally; a piece of paper is white, most 'wh...
I always had problems with my venn diagrams. :) What I mean is that good manners is just a part of political correctness. Having good manners doesn't ...
that is partly where the mainstream media come in. It is up to the media organisation what stories they focus on and how they set the framework to pre...
Authoritarian control....well maybe I should have just said 'control'....it might feel authoritarian though, if you feel that you are being censored a...
yes that is the problem with talking about models of god. It is possible that God doesn't function on such things as 'needs' and 'motivation'....but h...
I was positing the existence of a god with no personal needs and asking people what the motivation for their behaviour would be... You can have a go a...
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