stoicHoneyBadger

I am sure I can answer for most men. If you prefer dudes, or at least girls that look like dudes, well, that's up to you. I do not see decadence, i.e....

all human history. also it seems an inevitable trait of human psychology, for a large group to split into multiple sub-groups that compete against eac...

Not sure I get it. I mean the whole idea of a group is that there also in an out-group, so you can not include all and everyone. ) Broad shoulders and...

I mean it is an ideal to strive towards. Certainly no one has 100% of all of those traits.

Not sure I understand what it has to do with the topic at hand...

Of course. Boys would benefit from boxing & weightlifting. Girls certainly not so much. :) so probably swimming or jiujitsu would do better. Not sure ...

I am not saying that children not satisfying such criteria are not worthy. This is more like an ideal to strive for, understanding that of course you ...

Thank you, I will look into it. Yet I myself am not a huge fan of Christianity, with all my respect to it, the way it manifests seems to be more of a ...

Well, genders clearly have their differences, such as you wouldn't want to take your daughter to boxing and weightlifting. :) I guess it is very situa...

Yes, thank you. ) no, not sure why you need to inject this here... quite the opposite. Like learn lots of view and conjure your own. Not afraid, but d...

I think so. So 'all mighty personal God' concept might not work for modern people, so something that does the same function, yet is culturally accepta...

For example, “a good person has to fight climate change” or “a good person has to support BLM” or "democracy is the best and only just system of gover...

Probably an 'ideal' is something you strive towards. Like Christians want to be like Jesus, so Jesus is their ideal. 'Ideology' might refer to world v...

Our culture does not have an exact term for this thing, so we need to coin some precise terminology to describe it. )

Thank you! :)

Of course, again, that's how the world works. Different people have different concepts and they often fight each other in some way to make one concept...

On the other hand, that is how the world works. People do what they believe is good, sometimes it is really good, sometimes they might be extremely de...

I think people always bare responsibility for their action or inaction, no matter whether they did it on their own accord to were lead there by societ...

Well, of course when a person goes against the mob, the mob would try to bully him back into conformity. But hopefully he has enough of a spine to say...

I thought about it the other way around - that a person would NOT do what he deems as immoral, even if his society tries to force him to. For example,...

Of course the numbers of stages are arbitrary, but still there can be a distinction between "realizing that you are in a bubble and trying to find the...

Nah, his communication style was rather cringy and he failed to enforce his believe with sufficient vigor. :grin:

What exactly? No...

Why? I have one son so far, another 1-2 with time would sound great. I try to critically evaluate any ideas and beliefs that stand behind them. So far...

Thank you. I'd say most people are at stage 1 , maybe like 85%, some 15% at stage 2. But what seems to dawn on me is that everybody wasn't born to bec...

WTF? Funny how those willing to reduce the population never want to start with themselves. Seriously though, social engineering is an extremely comple...

- I don't like cult leaders, so I would put than down to stage 1. , since they are themselves slaves of the 'I need my followers to love me!' concept....

I would say being an authentic thinker is a higher evolutionary stage.

Makes one think about the concepts he is using. Whether those are his concepts or he is enslaved by someone's else concepts. Meaning whether he is jus...

Probably a good starting place would be to agree on what are those urgent issues that need to be solved. I would say that the main problem is modern s...

I think it is not applicable to one person's life cycle. I'd say some 85% are born on stage 1 and die there. People who reach stage 4 ( what you could...

I think the difference between a genuine care and virtue signaling is that a person can critically evaluate his believes, actions and their consequenc...

Me neither. :) so why should we even care about him or what he is doing with his money? Lucky you! :) I can't have it as often as I like, I want a six...

My believe would be that people should be hired based on their ability to perform the job, not some diversity quotas or any other job unrelated merits...

Would you like to swap places with Bezos?

I am not afraid, I just didn't see a direct way of engaging with such comments. Also I never said that acting in a self-interest is mean-spirited, it ...

Not sure I understand what you say. :) You might want to make it simple, so common folks can grasp your ideas, too. )

I would say the concept of you, or someone else for that matter, starting to judge who deserves what in life might be a very dangerous path. ;) i.e. N...

Man, I think you're just envious of Bezos. After I started doing WHM breath work and reading Yogic books, I feel happy and totally non-judgemental. :)...

So why do you think a baker bakes bread at night? Why a truck driver gets up at 6am to deliver it to the stores? Is it because they care so deeply abo...

I'd say that people expand their sense of self over to their child. So the child is seen as their continuation. )

So, what percent of people would attempt to help a stranger before helping themselves?

No, but I didn't try to prove it being impossible. I am more stating that the majority of people would act in their self-interests, not necessary all ...

Even those uber-altruists might be driven by a sense of moral superiority they get from helping other. :) But still we are talking about the majority ...

I would say that human enjoy generating jargon and classification systems way beyond a any practical needs, leading to futile arguing. :) In my view '...

I would argue that our logic and reason can work only within some 'metaphysical box', i.e. what we assume as good or true without any evidence. What d...

Freedom! What if the cost of preventing a war is to surrender and live under an oppressive regime?

Yes, i was just born in a than communist occupied country and all the atrocities they committed are still pretty fresh in our collective memory, so wh...

How many people did communists kill in Russia? How many countries were occupied? How many were worked to death in Siberia?

And saying that communists missinderstood Max is as naive as saying that Hitler had good ideas, only those damn Nazis took them out of context.