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> Afaik there are no wild animals exhibiting behavior that's comparable to human masochism The context of this whole discussion is hedonism, utilitarianism, ethical theory, and phi…

I've heard an accent that has trouble pronouncing the English "th" sound, instead approximating it with more of a "t" sound that misses the tongue thrust. Maybe that is what's happ…

> What living things do you know that go actively out of their way to experience pain and suffering? There are plenty of masochists out there in the world. Recently there was a pre…

You make a very good point. I think my observations are pretty similar to yours. My solution is to expand from the hedonistic goal of maximizing one's own pleasure, to the larger g…

Open a CrossFit gym or be a tango dancer/teacher.

> I just think an approach less focused on a single aspect would be more beneficial overall. Fair enough. I was focusing on the monogamy issue because it seems a lot more directly …

> The marriage as a whole. How precisely do you think the things I'm saying harm the marriage as a whole? I'm still not seeing your point. I'm not talking here about causes of marr…

> It feel like you are pushing a specific aspect to the detriment of the whole. Maybe. What detriment are you thinking of? I'm just observing that since monogamy restricts us to th…

> Or perhaps if they are in a marriage that restricts a resource that isn't supplying enough of that resource, then the marriage should be reexamined. There's a lot of social press…

I really like your story breakdown here. Those are three pretty clear contributors to the overall forced sex trade story. But I feel like there is one more story that is much less …

How is exclusivity crucial to marriage in the maximal broadness sense? It might be crucial in the current legal landscape, but that's not what we're talking about here. I tend to t…

Gay Marriage Advocates tend to be skittish of embracing poly marriage because that would make them look more extreme. If they can show that their position is not the most extreme o…

As is so often the case with government bureaucracy, that's pretty ridiculous (although I'm not disputing its truth). I can totally see it being a violation to knowingly look at do…

How is that a violation? My understanding is that it's a violation to disclose classified information. It doesn't really make any sense to prevent cleared people from reading these…

Wow, very impressive. Let's see someone do that in Swift. :)

I'm currently thinking about dipping my toes in Haskell web development, but am having a hard time deciding which web framework to use. Could you describe why you chose Snap over t…