zeke5123
2yr ago
Really? I don’t think most HDB enthusiasts think all whites are smarter than all blacks or even the less strong form that very few number of blacks are smarter than a very few number of whites.
I do think HBD proponents believe that at a population there is a material difference and it largely explains difference between white and black outcome.
zeke5123
2yr ago
The problem of hell is a classic theological issue. I do like the idea that hell is temporary. In short, despite being raised Protestant catholic ideas really appea to me
zeke5123
2yr ago
I think the problem is HBD sounds fatalistic. There is no “solution.” Some might say “welfare” but that doesn’t really work and has a lot of corrosive side effects. Some say “bad roll of the dice kid” which while true seems heartless. Eugenics has a bad name.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Jews are interesting for Christianity. It isn’t crystal clear their afterlife status.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Again, I don’t really see red pill as low trust or anti social. This isn’t defecting. This is “I won’t risk my life to save someone who foolishly puts themself in danger when they easily could not.”
Of course the calculus is a bit different if small children are participating who aren’t capable of understanding.
zeke5123
2yr ago
My MIL fits in the country club GOP voter of yesteryear. But it turns out she didn’t vote out of political conviction; she voted because she liked the status of being “rich.” Now when rich people vote democratic, she votes democratic.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I think this is the biggest mistake republicans make. It isn’t whether someone has the right views; it is whether they can wield the power of government.
Vivek has no experience doing the latter. Why should we expect him to excel at it? He is a non-entity to me.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I’m not arguing that atomization is good. Just that there are still plenty of reasons to have kiddos.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Or the oldest are generally more fit since definitional the mother was younger when pregnant
zeke5123
2yr ago
Seems to me to your post is the marshmallow test. Being a parent is hard for the first 5 or so years (but is also full of joy). The older the kids get the easier it is and you get the rich life of being a parent and hopefully a grandparent.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Pro social is not picking blue. Blue almost certainly leads to a worse society as more people die.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Compulsion is one way of seeing it. Another way is merely preventing someone from killing someone.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I think the really interesting thing about abortion is how sui generis it is.
The vaccine example doesn’t really work. First, the vaccine may save a third party. Second, any life snuffed out by a party that isn’t vaccinated was snuffed out because the dying person choose to create the potential interaction. That is, A and B both have to choose to be in the same vicinity. A could solve the impasse by taking a vaccine (assuming the vaccine worked perfectly). B could solve the impasse by taking the vaccine or not being there.
It is thus hard to say B has a right to force A to take a vaccine. With abortion, the B (ie the fetus) can make no choice to prevent the conflict of rights.
Third, there is a difference morally between spreading unwittingly a virus and actively choosing to kill someone.
I think perhaps a better thought excitement is that you are doing a fun activity that you know will have a reasonably chance of causing a third party (who has zero control) to die unless you under take a 9 month uncomfortable period of physical stress and a slight up tick in risk that you’ll die. Phrased that way, I think even most Democrats would say yeah you are morally obligated to take the physical stress and slight uptick in death. How they get out of the implication is by saying the third party isn’t really a human (which is probably true at conception; less so the longer in the pregnancy).
zeke5123
2yr ago
I struggle with abortion. There does seem a time when the fetus isn’t a human (eg minutes after implantation). There does seem a time clearly when the fetus is a human (eg minutes prior to coming out of the birth canal). So there is a bit of a sorties paradox going on here that creates hard line drawing.
I also don’t really buy the arguments of bodily integrity. The woman (outside of rape) created the situation that creates the conflict of rights — indeed this is a unique situation where there is a conflict of rights and one party took zero action to create the conflict. So to me this is purely a line drawing exercise.
I imagine many Americans feel somewhat similar (at some point it is perfectly fine, at some point it is murder, and drawing where that crosses over is difficult).
zeke5123
2yr ago
I highly doubt that. But we are arguing over a stupid point — what hypothetically dead people would pick in a highly contrived example.
zeke5123
2yr ago
On the other hand, if you lose then your kids get sold into slavery and your wife is raped…that is actual downside to losing in real life.
zeke5123
2yr ago
It still seems like the definition of sexual assault is quite broad. But really I think you can just say “we don’t know” when you have a non representative sample just due to response rate.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Mottcels? Really?
Also I think the vast majority of blue pill pickers are liars. If faced with the actual choice, they pick red.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Interesting post.
Personal question so feel free to disregard. Do you see a long term future in a mixed relationship? How would you end up navigating things like child rearing? Honestly interested (not a gotcha).
There is besides the circular argument base stealing. Holocaust has denials. We have denials here. Therefore we are just like the Holocaust.
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