sun
2yr ago
If you don't choose to do harder content then... you don't choose to be challenged? That sounds like it's not the game's fault.
sun
2yr ago
Correct, but why would I care about genetic fitness in terms of individual genes?
sun
2yr ago
Your very definition of genetic success embeds an inevitable failure.
Correct. For an organism, at least.
sun
2yr ago
Sure, drop a few orders of magnitude... or even a few dozen, I'd be making the same argument. 2^8 is 256. I would struggle hard to name 256 distinct traits of my body.
"Are"? Well, in that case I'd thank the condoms for that. I assume those who are conscientous enough to wrap it would also be less susceptible to catching STDs even without condoms.
Not any more than handing out condoms in school is "straight conversion camp". After all, condoms primarily serve heterosexual couples by acting as birth control (pregnancy is the most common STD by orders of magnitude). And yet, I don't see any progressives complaining about that blatant bias.
Edit: now that I think about it, I can remember a few examples of schools that allegedly functioned as de facto gay conversion camps. British boarding schools 100 years ago, to be exact. Maybe they still are.
sun
2yr ago
Pragmatism can be applied to different goals. For example, it would be quite pragmatic to backstab all your rivals and send the region into a downward spiral if you decided that what you want is to rule the ashes in a perfectly orderly manner.
sun
2yr ago
I would understand the sentiment if they interbred closely enough to produce near-clones (aside from the sex, of course).
sun
2yr ago
If it doesn't get diluted and doesn't mutate, then how did it come to be different from another ethnicity's Y chromosome? If it does mutate, then it looks like there's the same implication as if it diluted.
I might as well skip to the logical conclusion of my view on genetic legacy: it's a scam. Its purpose is to preserve individual beneficial alleles, not anything as coherent as an ethnicity, let alone anything from one person.
sun
2yr ago
I would like to see the reactions of various groups if the left one day said "you know what? fine, sexuality is a choice, and we're going to give children a choice to go to a straight->gay conversion camp, complete with all the features of gay->straight conversion camps".
sun
2yr ago
I would not define a Good society as a competition in being virtuous. Pretty much by definition.
sun
2yr ago
If there is no such thing as having the wrong sexuality for one's body, it does not look like a contradiction or "interesting" to me that attempts to change it are akin to conditioning a dog to flinch when it sees its formerly favorite treats.
sun
2yr ago
If your descendants married out of your ethnicity for 32 generations and so there is about 1/(2^32) of "your" genes in them, have you really been all that genetically successful?
sun
2yr ago
No Treasure Island (Остров без сокровищ), an attempt to deduce the secret meanings R. L. Stevenson supposedly inlaid into Treasure Island through analyzing inconsistencies in narrative. It makes a case that Jim Hawkins' side of the story was heavily edited to avoid prosecution, that the crew's mutiny was largely entrapment by Livesey and that Livesey is not a real physician, among other things.
sun
2yr ago
You can still "not watch TV" in the sense that you don't keep up with the mainstream news channels and TV shows, and instead prefer to consume obscure political blogs and manga.
sun
2yr ago
"Their merits are not enough to beat fair odds" and "their merits are not enough to beat unfair odds" is the exact difference between being the common definition of "racist" and being your definition of "racist".
Some progressives did, I assume, come to believe the former but it doesn't look like they're a majority.
sun
2yr ago
This sneaks in the implication that a person with 160+ IQ who randomly hates your guts to the extent they dedicate themselves to ruin your life would actually exist.
sun
2yr ago
I would find a hostile human being with 40 more IQ points than me to be a formidable opponent, let alone one that isn't biologically constrained!
All else equal?
sun
2yr ago
I suppose we'll either go back to meatspace dating as women drop out of fake botted Tinder, or we'll have no dating.
Chalk it up to your bias and/or blatant hostile misconstruction. To me he's clearly talking about the man being hotter because the man is demonstrating care.
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