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What do you mean? I know the gender of the torture-victim in the OP is male. I know the occasion for this thread was Agustino's horror, on another thr...

What happened to Agustino?

Reading groups were always my favorite threads.

Yeah, I suppose I don't know either. It'd be interesting to see the results of a study, if such a study were in any way feasible. I guess it's hard fo...

Short answer: a lot of them. Not a healthy coping mechanism, mind you, but a coping mechanism. Nietzsche's got a famous quote about it: "The thought o...

My intuition is: who knows. What would the phenomenological account of that experience be like? I feel like it'd have nothing to do with genetic kinsh...

But what if you knew all of them equally well, but had no idea who you were related to?

Yeah, I almost posed a thought experiment of my dad shocking me or some such when my elbows were put on the table. Is it ancientness or trauma that ma...

So the thing was the elbows was just that it wasn't of sufficient vintage, basically?

Ok, are you rescinding your earlier claim that not wanting to hurt family stems from habit and convention? (There are studies showing that most organi...

No, it's not. Though it feels funny at first. What makes the latter more deeply ingrained? You mentioned conditioning earlier, but I was certainly con...

Agreed, and being a 'good person' is usually tied, especially for kids, to social signifiers. Pretty gross, but that seems to be the truth of it. So w...

I was conditioned not to put my elbows on the table, for sure. Dad gave me very stern looks. I felt v small. I had an unconscious aversion to it for a...

Yeah, biology. I made this picture book about photosynthesis in 10th grade. The teacher really liked it, he gave me an A+ and told me I had a knack fo...

What makes some things trivial and others nontrivial? I agree that its the stuff you aren't aware of. Why is that?

Have my elbows on the table right now tbh

Like don't put my elbows on the dinner table?

idk - x did y because he wanted money, admiration etc. seems legit to me. I have a habit of buying coffee every day before work. If Iearned the coffee...

It's being singled out because its the relevant reasonless thing here. I don't think it makes sense for you to say most things don't have reasons bc h...

I don't think you need a reason either. I think that's what makes compassion compassion and not something else. Though its harder, no doubt, to be com...

ooo I want to read Counsels & Maxims, I didn't know it existed.

Why don't you want to hurt your family?

Yeah I think people like all that stuff. I think a lot people like compassion too.

Don't value compassion or don't value being compassionate?

I think you've answered your question.

Well there's for sure plenty of aestheticized horse crap empathy out there. I don't think ending someone else's suffering is a realistic empathetic go...

& to follow from that, that old chestnut about not being able to love others unless you love yourself is true. If you can't see yourself as someone wh...

I don't think that's what I meant, or said. There's aesthetically pleasing pessimism (Schopenhauer, early Cormac McCarthy, Beckett, Laszlo Krasznahork...

And then he pounded a beer, gave himself a tattoo, punched his girlfriend, and landed the sickest kickflip any of us had ever seen. c'mon man. This is...

You're right, all theorizing loses its luster during the Bad Times. It's just that pessimism, unlike the other approaches you mention, has an irksome ...

I have a soft spot for Beckett too. Of the the three, he's the best prose stylist, but also, more importantly, the most genuinely empathetic. Empathy ...

heh the very name 'philosophy forums' suggests a vast meadow of mutual masturbation. That's why most people steer clear. What are we all doing here if...

I'm not trying to make this a suicidal tendency pissing contest, but I spent a solid month getting drunk every afternoon and spending all night, every...

"they're called pause pocks..."

u guys r beating up a ghost hes gone

Yeah, I'm aware of those statistics. There are a lot of ways to look at suicide. I think it would be interesting to see what the correlation between p...

to go back to where this started - it does seem to me that women tend not to think in terms of homogenous totalities. I think they're more comfortable...

Yeah, I don't deny all these things exist. I just don't have the general impression, from experience, that woman are basically contemptuous and entitl...

Why do you think that?

Sure. But think of all the other unsavory causes that would make this same point. For a non-believer, there's something a little disquieting about thi...

Why do you think that? But, again, what led you to start frequenting these sites?

It sounds like most of what you read by women is polemical feminist material. I guess that could make it seem like women in general hate men. What's y...

What things have you read on the internet though? You've made sweeping statements about women as a whole (even if that as-a-whole is contingent etc et...

I'm actually kind of digging how two or three disparate threads are woven uncomfortably together right now. I would like nothing better than for this ...

That's a fair point. But i was being for real about typing-on-a-phone, I'm outta this bar in 5 & will reapond when I'm back home (just down the street...

Damn can I take it back?

Yeah idk I was willing to meet you halfway until the men-are-the-putty-of-the-cracks-of-the-world thing. Maybe. That stuff psychoanalyzes itself tho i...

That's true but "i don't know a.." backgrounds do kinda matter. I get the sense you don't know many women.

lol my gf is a marine. But I'll respond in full when I'm back home. Typing on the phone takes forever.

I mean I guess it depends on what you mean by glass floor. Most women probably won't be left to die alone. Because people will pay to fuck them (wheth...