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Haha :) Alright I get it. Seems a bit personal. Not like I'm the only person that agrees that a lot of traits are malleable/workable.
May 23, 2023 at 05:38
absolutely. I agree. I think all in all values dont differ massively between sexes. However they can slowly migrate towards sex based extremes if not ...
May 22, 2023 at 19:25
Me too Vera. Absolutely. I think both sexes have incredible traits, ones that work best when in cooperation. I wish modern societies were run by co-op...
May 22, 2023 at 18:49
Understand it, and act accordingly. I believe in hearing people out and applying reasoning to show them the result of their claims/beliefs. Often when...
May 22, 2023 at 17:33
I agree. You see a clearly harmful set of affairs that can come to no good. And have little tolerance for it. I would include myself in such urgent ca...
May 22, 2023 at 16:53
Love thy neighbour (gender/sex unspecified). Spirituality and religion does something that science cannot, appeal to intuitive sense of moral and grea...
May 22, 2023 at 16:48
Only the bad/criminal kind. Using the fear of death as an threat/influence may be effective temporarily, but long-term it is asking for intense revolt...
May 22, 2023 at 16:45
Absolutely, at the end of the day social media is a business. It's about maximising engagement with products through advertisement. Algorithms are pre...
May 22, 2023 at 16:41
I agree. Reality is one thing. Delusion regarding it is another. It is part of reality for sure - delusion that is - but it isn't the truth of it, tru...
May 22, 2023 at 16:36
None. I look forward to the day that men are properly humbled by the clout of women - their intelligence, their strength and resolve - strong fierce m...
May 22, 2023 at 16:28
This is an interesting topic. I agree, that when the roles and responsibilities that used to be typically met by men are now met by women (more indepe...
May 22, 2023 at 16:19
[ Yes but here's the crux of the situation. Never before have these things been as impossibly un-ignorable. There has never been such integration of s...
May 22, 2023 at 16:12
I think it's not even so much actively teaching children to be narcissists. I think it is the fundamentals of social media that alters our behaviour. ...
May 22, 2023 at 15:48
Maximise the skills talents and positive traits you do have. No one, I think, is without any. They're just either not identified or cultivated. The mo...
May 22, 2023 at 15:38
maybe create a healthier dating app that emphasises more the character of a person than their appearance. Many people would go for that. There's succe...
May 22, 2023 at 15:27
This is very good point! I like the link between stratification and inbreeding. Never registered on my radar in the discussion so far. Good addition
May 22, 2023 at 14:54
How does that look for you. Have we corrupted the beauty ideal as a society? How do we ensure every child grows up feeling attractive/ with good self ...
May 22, 2023 at 14:52
Okay wow. Haha I'm taking this as satire/ humour because it swings to the opposite extreme and I suspect I know you well enough to assume this isn't s...
May 22, 2023 at 14:49
That's true ChatteringMonkey I think the culture is pretty much standard anti-violence in most places and I reckon now is the least violent we have be...
May 22, 2023 at 14:42
Hmm. I see certain good points in your post but maybe not the ones you were highlighting. I note the diffenrce between the small community and the soc...
May 22, 2023 at 14:38
See I'm not so sure tbh. Because, the more innate a belief becomes in ones mind by compression/condensation - by others and how they view you (be it p...
May 22, 2023 at 14:15
Yes jealousy definitely seems to be an underpinning facet of Incel psychology. It's ironic also in that it's a vicious feedback cycle. Seething with j...
May 22, 2023 at 14:05
Interesting. So incels were always there you say. And in a way, the incel is becoming hyper-radical/more extreme as a byproduct or unfortunate counter...
May 22, 2023 at 13:11
No I'm not talking about the content of language. I'm speaking about the structure of language. Fiction writings still uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, ...
May 22, 2023 at 11:49
I think if we are to truly see each other as equals, then we should operate as one race - the human race. This would seem to entail having one society...
May 22, 2023 at 08:00
I think you will find most religions have a common thread under/through them. It may be simple, basic but it is there. There are several concepts that...
May 22, 2023 at 07:21
For me the issue is that there is a belief that economy has infinite potential to grow. We always talk about the growth of GDP. And yet we know that r...
May 22, 2023 at 07:04
Well the way I see it is that nature itself is creative and destructive. It's chaotic and ordered. And natural living things embody this - acting in b...
May 22, 2023 at 06:58
Can one not do something purely spontaneous and random with no purpose at all. Like scribble on a page for example. If so, then people don't only do s...
May 22, 2023 at 06:51
Thoughts - both linguistic and visual imaginings - are based on sensory input. Verbs, nouns, syntax/grammar reflect the actions, objects/locations and...
May 22, 2023 at 06:46
It's about consentual bdsm. Consenting to have someone else bind you in a system of rules and govern your life, dominate your social and political cap...
May 18, 2023 at 10:49
When is a human a human? In the sense of gradual slight changes over evolution? Presumably if we have a strict set of conditions that determine us as ...
May 18, 2023 at 10:38
Ah I was not aware of such an initiative. Thank you for pointing it out
May 16, 2023 at 17:15
Well, it is indeed certain that we cannot establish all truths, at all moments in time, everywhere, all at once. For that, we would have to be everywh...
May 16, 2023 at 17:11
Anti-natalism is extremely biased. If life is good and beneficial, antinatalism fails in its arguments. If life is bad or harmful, antinatalism is war...
May 16, 2023 at 16:22
Morality arbitrary? No. Try telling that to anyone you wish to do harm to. Try insisting on that to the law/legal system, or society at large. I think...
May 16, 2023 at 15:49
Morality refers to minimising harm.
May 15, 2023 at 17:54
no worries.
May 15, 2023 at 11:19
At its most basic, I would characterise perfection, the ideal or "paradise" state as one of universal kinship. Total benevolence towards oneself and t...
May 15, 2023 at 11:12
What I think is this is an excellent, coherent and articulate analysis and summary of the role of philosophy to humanity. It clearly has a rightful pl...
May 15, 2023 at 10:34
Thank you for the kind words Quintillus. I'm glad I can add something of interest :)
May 15, 2023 at 10:24
If everyone had "pure common sense" - in the sense that they could consider all possible outcomes of an action (foresight) , as well as how this would...
May 15, 2023 at 07:53
Law is a tool. A guide. And an imperfect one at that. Law is only a rough blueprint, constantly revised and ammended as needed. But it is not permanen...
May 15, 2023 at 07:34
Well for me there is truth ofc. And it is valuable as it is how reality truly is and truly works. Having said that, I also believe" anything goes inte...
May 15, 2023 at 07:23
For me the brain in vat argument is rather non-workable and fallacious. For me it's like saying what if you had a "boat" (brain) except the boat is ma...
May 15, 2023 at 07:14
Thanks for the link!
May 15, 2023 at 07:03
I wonder if "asymptomatic carriers" of an infectious viral disease in this analogy are like societies (genomes) that found a compromise with the invad...
May 14, 2023 at 17:04
And thus they became viruses. Excommunicated from the community (genome). Marginalised, shunned, adrift on the gene pool winds, such heathenous and bl...
May 13, 2023 at 17:23
If a word is a symbol holding meaning, and a molecule is a symbol holding meaning (ie what it is, what it does, it's relationship to other symbols, it...
May 13, 2023 at 17:03
I find it particularly interesting that RNA is an intermediate between DNA and protein. Not random I'd imagine. Maybe this is the primordial species? ...
May 13, 2023 at 15:36