Shawn

That would make you irrational. I can help you with that, pick your drug of choice to distract yourself from the unpleasant feelings. TV, food, drugs,...

I am money. I don't doubt your feelings are real and apparent to you, about me. But, I'm assuming you still want and need me to maintain your way of l...

Yet, you still use me to buy the groceries, pay the bills, buy the girl dinner. How could you be so ungrateful for all these things that you enjoy and...

Then you haven't really experienced life without me. I have been too good for you as it is. Give me away if you don't want me anymore.

You're persecuting yourself out of some sado-masochistic or some such sad desire. You can have everything you want only if you have me. I am money.

Are you not satisfied by what I can provide for you? With me you can walk into a store, and buy anything you want. Compared to bartering a sheep or co...

Yes, I am money. I can provide for you, as long as you have me by your side. Easier to use me as a unit of exchange, than something as hideous and old...

Why make things harder on yourself? You can still have me and your life would be so much more easier.

The blatant exploitation of my bretherin for the gross satisfaction of instinctual urges like eating, was just too much to handle.

Money can already buy you all of those or in the case of death, even (one day) prolong or indefinitely prolong your life. Money can even buy itself, t...

Let's talk about me. Don't you want me, don't you need me? Don't you just love me? I'm money.

I have transformed from a helpless chicken to a symbol of universal might and power. I understand that everyone wants me and my lure is irresistible.....

When it comes to the real world, things aren't as clear-cut.

In principle I could though the idea is repugnant; but, would I be able to love myself with that conscious decision/deliberation?

Yeah, there's no free lunch as you seem to get the gist.

Yes, the baby itself can be the source of my satisfaction, though.

Assuming rational self-interest here, there is something being derived from the fact of having a baby of my own.

You can call it, that, given that the idea seems to hinge on rational self-interest and an eclectic mix of utilitarianism along with it. Everything's ...

How can a baby reciprocate anything, that's nonsensical to assume such a state of affairs? Anyway, the point you seem to be asking, is what reasons ar...

Depends on how you define what is of value to you in the relationship, is what I assume the question posed in proper transactional terms. Again, these...

Even reciprocation is usually transactional. But, gifts serve as an external reinforcing factor to the furtherment of reciprocity.

Again, have a expressed my love and adoration with saying that I love you more than words can say? Surely, we can talk about love; but, it is often sh...

A transactional relationship, be it emotional and material is no different than one based on one where love is present, as you seem to differentiate b...

You have no grounds for doubting here.

Isn't all of that manifest in transactional acts?

:cluck:

This is nonsense. When someone says that they love someone more than what words can convey, then they have conveyed their love, no?

Yet, we treat it as if a beetle in a box, that is unique to us only or to two partners. I don't understand the difference between the two here. We can...

Doesn't that imply that love is a unique experience, in a phenomenological nonsensical sense? As if the feeling cannot be learned, and appreciated, an...

*clucks knowingly* Edit: Can we add a chicken to the emoticons?

Sometimes the most lasting relationships are based on a transactional analysis between partners. If not material, than emotional.

I'm not sure how to generalize the feeling of loneliness. It's such a peculiar feeling of all the gamut of human emotions. But, I'd like to elucidate ...

There is a deep philosophical insight in this thread. Let's see who else sees it. It's still underdeveloped and glimmers in the shore, still hidden to...

Go away mean wolf who cares not about us chickens. We have feelings too!

But, all this is nonsensical in the Many Worlds Theory. Nothing in particular is special because absolutely everything is.

One has to wonder, was it an accurate observation? I think there is much to talk about this issue.

Quite interested in your attitude about the whole issue.

Is the PSR manifest in 'causality'?

*makes a joyous cluck*

I don't know. It's a depressing feeling. At one instance we feel as though we can emulate other emotions and feelings of other's through empathy and s...

Have you given up the cause and moved on, Baden?

No sympathy for the suffering of us poor chickens. Cruel @"Lone Wolf"...

Lies. You ate @"Noble Dust" and me the other day. All I see is hypocrisy. *angry clucking*

KFC killed all my sisters and brothers...

*lonely cluck*

*clucks a little*

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*cluck*

Obey, conform, consume.

Thanks for trying to not eat us chickens.