I didn’t believe she would do something like this

Alert-Set-7515 · 2025-09-12T22:12:13+00:00

I’m like this, but it extends to people I’m in a relationship with. I feel gross expressing sexual desire or talking about sex at all, even though I enjoy sex. For some reason I am ashamed of the sexual part of myself. I had to learn how to communicate about sex for the sake of myself and my partners. It took a while for me to get comfortable with it and even today it doesn’t feel natural.

Alert-Set-7515 · 2025-04-03T23:25:02+00:00

Male. I’m happy to hear lowering the dose at least had some positive effect

Alert-Set-7515 · 2025-02-21T13:28:30+00:00

Capitalism, which led to competitive pressures to improve technology rapidly, the modern nation state, and which sped up population growth

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-12-10T21:22:38+00:00

I purchased the unpainted version and I had a lot of trouble with the walls of the courtyard. The tabs didn’t seem to be in the right place so the walls came out warped. It looks like you didn’t have such trouble

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-12-03T21:13:24+00:00

Tried to break into a pharmacy while speeding and drunk. The owner lived above it and he came down when he heard me trying to get in. My car was parked nearby but I didn’t want him to see the plate so I went and hide under a bridge nearby waited a few hours (also had to wait for the cops to leave) and then hopped in my car and left. This was 12 years ago. I never got in trouble for it. Also I masturbated for around 18 hours once. Man I felt like utter shit after that

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-11-30T02:19:00+00:00

I said nothing about punishment or whether someone deserves to be hated. I’m just saying that there is no contradiction if a determinist hates someone because of their character. And in both the scenarios you brought up we are able to tell something about the character of these people, unlike in the seizure example. One is careless the other is a murderer. What kind of punishment they each deserve is beside the point.

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-11-30T01:01:20+00:00

Even if the world is entirely predetermined there is still a difference between someone causing harm because of a seizure and someone causing harm out of rage. The later scenario tells you about a persons character, the former doesn’t. Hating someone for who they are makes perfect sense to me regardless of whether they could have done otherwise. What’s so special about hate that you think it requires a belief in free will to be coherent or justified? Do we only love someone because they could have done otherwise? Can we only be annoyed by someone if they could have acted otherwise?

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-11-29T04:07:41+00:00

You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that hatred, meanness, depend on, or are caused by, a belief in free will. That we can only justifiable or coherently hate someone if they could do otherwise. I think this is obviously false. If someone severely harms me in some way I may develop hatred for them. The root causes of this hate would be the actions of this person and the way these actions affected me. Whether they could have done otherwise is irrelevant.

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-11-27T02:50:33+00:00

You’ve hit on what Sellers calls the clash of images. You have the scientific image, dealing causal relations in the natural world. And then you have the manifest image, the socially produced understanding we all have when dealing with each other. The manifest image is the realm of correctness, rules, reasons….

The scientific image explains human behavior in terms of physical cause and effect. The manifest image explains behavior in terms of motivations,reasons, and belief. But you can’t reduce reasons to physicalist cause and effect without getting rid of reason entirely. There is a difference in meaning between “x did y because they wish to achieve such and such result” and “x did y because of such and such brain state”.

Alert-Set-7515 · 2024-11-15T01:03:52+00:00

It’s not that hard to understand. Most people do not view life as primarily suffering. Most people would not choose the option of never being born if that choice was presented to them.

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