zeke5123a
1d ago
It is a difficult question. I guess I start at home where my wife is stay at home and we have a lot of kids. Our friends almost all have a lot of kids.
But there isn’t something similar to Hollywood we can turn to (though very old Disney such as original Cinderella fit the bill)
zeke5123a
1d ago
Somalians are objectively terrible people to add to the body politic. They are low IQ, extremely tribal with strong in group bias, happy to engage in piracy, and don’t have a history of any success. You call it racism to oppose adding Somalians to our body politic (or attempts to remove them). If so, then you’ll find a lot of people are racist.
zeke5123a
1d ago
The single defining moment for progressives for the last decade was probably George Floyd.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Faramir: Mithrandir! They broke through our defenses! They've taken the bridge and the west bank. Battalions of Orcs are crossing the river.
Irolas: It is as the Lord Denethor predicted. Long has he forseen this doom.
Gandalf: Forseen and done nothing!
While not fair to book Denethor, It is very apropos for the liberal defense here.
zeke5123a
1d ago
For what it’s worth, I don’t hate women. I’m married to one. I have young girls.
At the same time, I am of the opinion that feminism is poison. I don’t want my daughters to be girlbosses. I want them to have a lot of kids with a husband who is (1) the head of his house but (2) treats my daughter with love and respect. I also think it’s my responsibility as their father to provide some safety net in case their husband proves to be abusive etc.
I think modern society is all out if whack expecting paradoxically too little and too much from men and women.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Sure but it isn’t obvious this ought to be one of them. When something has a long rich history behind it, the party claiming to change the approach bears a strong burden besides “it’s uncouth”
Au contraire! Making someone an outlaw has a rich, august history in democracies (See, eg, the Icelandic Sagas, Thucydides).
zeke5123a
1d ago
They lead with “safety violations.” It wasn’t until you get into the report that fraud was a concern.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Yep. Except it’s been that way since the dawn of time. People react more to what they see as opposed to what is written. Modern media makes it easier to see.
zeke5123a
3d ago
The higher the defcon, the less the concern (or defcon 1 is the highest risk; defcon 5 the least).
zeke5123a
4d ago
Why do you post here? This is basically just snide at people you hate despite your alleged life being provided by that people.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Hmm I wonder why that is. Arabs are generally low iq. So why is this one group high iq? Do they not practice cousin marriage unlike Muslim Arabs
zeke5123a
8d ago
Different field (highly technical area of law) and my experience is that AI can give what appears to be a reasonable answer if you either read briefly and are a non expert in the particular area. But if you read closely and are an expert, the output is actually gibberish.
We had the AI champion at my firm on a deal with me and he used AI to look at the issue we were analyzing. I would’ve been deeply disappointed with a junior giving me the work product generated by AI.
zeke5123a
12d ago
I think (hope) there is some degree of social desirability bias in the first and just honest to god repulsion with the second.
zeke5123a
16d ago
No of course not. It’s an overboard statement. But again the basic instinct isn’t wrong (ie you don’t win by being a pow)
zeke5123a
16d ago
In fairness, is he wrong re capture? Reminded of The point of war isn’t to die for your country but to make that other poor son of a bitch die for his country.
zeke5123a
17d ago
Yes sex is very enjoyable. There is a base need there. But my example which you seemed not to understand is that even erotic love is greater when exercised with another that has a capacity for choice as opposed to self-love. It is in choosing each other and focusing outward that eros achieves its highest form. It is in self love where it reaches a base form.
zeke5123a
17d ago
You think pretty highly of yourself despite being a cad (if your story is true — more likely it is fake) and not particularly bright.
Your argument is against breeding—yes there are animals such as dingos that aren’t domesticated. But most dogs that humans interact with are bred to be domesticated meaning they don’t really have choice.
And kids love different than grownups. My daughters do love me but there is a difference in the kind of love that my wife and I have for each other. But the love my kids have for me will change with time—both for the better and for the worse (sadly it will lose the child like innocence but hopefully deepen in connection and understanding). There is a reason the Greeks had more than one word to describe love. I’m suggesting the highest love needs choice. It’s also the differences between parental love directed towards the child and the child’s love directed towards the parent.
zeke5123a
17d ago
To put it in erotic terms" is a phrase that almost invariably precedes a terrible argument.
Funny I have the same reaction when I see your name on a post.
First you are wrong with dogs. I’ve been around plenty of dogs who I’ve spent very little time with. They all reacted perfectly nice to me if I pet them. I didn’t earn anything.
And you misunderstand the argument. It isn’t about withholding love until certain items are measured. It is about choice. Dogs make very simple choices because they are simple creatures who’ve been bred to be simple. It is very simple to get a dog to like you — it really isn’t about you.
In contrast, humans are complex. They have a real choice in the matter of interpersonal relationships. You can’t form deep connections without some degree of choice on both parties. But it can be a beautiful thing when that choice is made. It is, in my mind, somewhat similar to charity as an act v charity as a law. The choice in the first situation isn’t about judgement but about love. But in the second? Sure you can feel for your fellow man but you are performing the charity out of obligation.
To conclude, the ability to say no is a prerequisite for forming deep connections. Provided you feed and don’t kick dogs, they can’t say no (they are after all your property and were breed to do exactly what you want). Ergo dogs don’t really have the ability to choose.
zeke5123a
17d ago
Dogs suck. The fact you describe it as love shows why dogfree is important. Dogs are conditioning to be pack animals and you are part of their pack. But for there to be love, the other party needs to have the capacity to judge you; to reject you. Dogs are incapable of that. To put it in erotic terms making love requires another human and the best kind is when each is enthusiastically into the act. Masturbation is a pale imitation of the real thing because it’s missing that other human. So it is with dogs.
Dogfree is less about hating dogs (though they do hate dogs) and more about hating dog people who degrade our society by abandoning attempts at true love and replacing it with the narcissistic love of dog.
I didn’t say you were thinking of me (would be slightly narcissistic to assume you were). It was more providing context re the comment that men who want to discourage current day gender norms often are women hating. I know you weren’t say they all are but wanted to provide a real life example to the contrary.
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