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I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings.

It's a stupid anecdote to point out the fact that differences in cultural attitudes can explain and somewhat justify test scores. I'm not even American, and I never claimed that th…

I once heard an anecdote that might describe some of what's happening. In the trenches of WWI, when it was time to fight, soldiers would have to climb up a ladder onto a battlefiel…

A lot has happened in the past decade, and it's not 3% driving the 97%, not that it ever was ( http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay... ). But either way, th…

In the U.S., the courts can't decide whether something is moral or immoral. If we throw people in jail for corruption, it won't be because they were found guilty of having a bad mo…

I'm probably going to be downvoted to oblivion, but I would actually be more at ease in general if most people would defer critical judgments to a reliable and open-sourced AI. For…

I meant call them and ask about how they handle cyber crimes. It's part of their job to answer questions about public security.

You should go ahead and call your local police department. Chances are that they don't deal with cyber crimes unless you live in a large city (or if your city contracts with a larg…

I don't understand people who call themselves clowns and calls everyone else clowns as well, then expects to be taken seriously.

It's not strictly about security. Some people like to close their curtains at night not because they think it makes them safer, but because that level of exhibitionism seems weird …

The 90's are in fashion at the moment, I believe.

yeah but mainstream culture is always defined by a small group. and it is recognizably American. like having a million of those ribbons and plastic trophies from science fairs or o…

hedonism can look great when it's practiced by people who believe that the greatest pleasure comes from appreciating art. but it can look horrible for example in the case of suicid…

they try to maximize pleasure and minimize pain

> but it doesn't match what I've seen from the behaviour of hedonists. it matches what i've seen. > Furthermore, they aren't 'pain avoidant' they are 'pleasure seeking', there's a …

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hedonism/ "Psychological or motivational hedonism claims that only pleasure or pain motivates us. Ethical or evaluative hedonism claims that only …

Finding value in pleasure is different than saying that only pleasure has value. It seems to me that a hedonist would not bother playing games or telling stories with senile parent…

You can move around the definition of pleasure, but then you end up with situations where pain as a means to pleasure is indistinguishable from pain as equal to pleasure, which und…

Mercy killings and martyrdom (or any beliefs that optimize for the afterlife)

Case in point.

There are many fundamental problems with hedonism, but hedonism avoids dealing with the problems because that's its nature.

I'm not sure, but when I was in the military, my SSgt told me not to burn bridges because I might end up in a situation where my life depends on that person helping me out. I thoug…

"Climbing the ladder" has the connotation of stepping on other people in order to get ahead. Thinking about the analogy, if there are a bunch of people trying to climb the same lad…

The bias isn't the surprise. I'd like to think that the core NPR demographic understands that every narrative has a bias. The surprise is that the mainstream left is exhibiting beh…