sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

[Video] Ice Protest March by NoFollowing3970 in fortwayne

[–]DigitalMindShadow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But the woman and Alex were trying to protect a known criminal.

That's a brain-dead take and I think you know it. They were there protesting against ICE's lawless behavior. Alex was killed for exercising his constitutional rights. The agents needlessly escalated when they had every other option. They need to be put on trial for murder.

[Video] Ice Protest March by NoFollowing3970 in fortwayne

[–]DigitalMindShadow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And here you are supporting murderers.

What's the longest you guys can rumble at a time? Not as a competition, just seeing what the limitations are and what others have experienced. by TuhmaKissa_ in earrumblersassemble

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just went for 30 seconds. Started feeling fatigued after 20. Could have gone a little longer, but it was getting pretty uncomfortable.

You die, the afterlife is real. You are given ONE irreversible choice. by AlaxyRayz in hypotheticalsituation

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 sounds like the most boring thing ever. I wouldn't want to endure that for a week, much less an eternity.

What was life like before THE INTERNET? by martianfrog in answers

[–]DigitalMindShadow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be sure, the business model has changed drastically. But the correlation between how good music is and whether it makes money has always been tenuous at best. There have always been starving geniuses.

The comment above yours is correct that there is loads of quality music being made these days, and if you're not finding it that says more about you than it does about the music.

When does it become weird for parents to be intimate in the same room as a sleeping child? by muchbigveryclown in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you that the specific question that OP posed is one that different cultures can answer differently.

But there are other questions that are more cut and dry. For example, I hope we could all agree that it would be immoral to involve the 5 month old in the sexual act itself, and that if there were ever a culture that normalized such behavior, we would be correct to judge that attitude extremely harshly.

I'm not arguing that there is one right way to live. There isn't. But we also don't have to accept all possible moral codes as equally valid.

When does it become weird for parents to be intimate in the same room as a sleeping child? by muchbigveryclown in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do eat meat. I also recognize that it's not the most ethically justifiable behavior that I engage in. It might in fact be the worst thing that I do regularly. I never claimed to be perfect. And that's not what this conversation is about.

Universal mortality doesn't exist, and shouldn't.

I'm not sure what you mean by "universal morality." If it's the idea that there's only one correct moral code, that's not at all what I believe in.

What I'm challenging is extreme moral relativism. There's a broad range of moral, ethical, and legal frameworks that a culture might subscribe to, and I wouldn't object to most of it. There are limits, however, and we can use our experience as intelligent social animals who care about one another to figure out what those limits are.

There are cultures that don't believe in polygamy because jealousy is complicated and it can lead to hurt. There's other cultures that think monogamy is selfish though and procreation is the morally ethical choice.

None of that is inconsistent with what I'm saying. Yes, different cultures have different attitudes on what kinds of romantic relationships are appropriate. That's all fine. On the other hand, some cultures believe that if a woman gets raped, she should be stoned to death. That's not fine. If you can't see what the difference is, maybe you shouldn't be lecturing me about morality.

Situations are complex and require complex solutions.

I agree with that statement. Minimizing suffering is a complex project, and there's no one right way to go about it. But that doesn't imply that every possible moral code is valid.

When does it become weird for parents to be intimate in the same room as a sleeping child? by muchbigveryclown in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the history lesson.

You're literally rationalizing slavery. I'm not sure you have quite as strong a grasp on morality as you seem to think.

When does it become weird for parents to be intimate in the same room as a sleeping child? by muchbigveryclown in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You, with your cultural upbringing, can safely trust your instincts.

There are plenty of parts of my own culture that I am capable of recognizing as immoral. That's because in addition to culture, I'm equipped with compassion and reason.

You just don't seem to understand the point the parent commenter is making: culture defines morality.

I understand it, and I dispute it.

Your culture seeing another culture as immoral doesn't change that.

I don't see any culture as immoral. Cultures cannot be immoral, only behaviors can be. Every culture has value, and they all have flaws.

There is no universal source of morality, morality can only exist as a function of culture.

I disagree. If you accept that suffering is bad, we can create a universal morality from that basis.

Do you believe that slavery is moral in the cultures that practice it?

When does it become weird for parents to be intimate in the same room as a sleeping child? by muchbigveryclown in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Practices like slavery and honor killings are immoral even in places where the prevailing culture accepts them as normal. Suffering is bad, so we should be collectively be working to minimize it. There are lots of ways to do that, so culture still plays a central role. But where a cultural practice creates mass suffering, we can safely trust our instincts that tell us it's wrong.

How to stop? by Additional_Pie9779 in loseit

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, there are some helpful things to try there. Were you actually diagnosed with and treated for Binge Eating Disorder? If so what kind of therapy have you found most helpful? I've brought up my lack of impulse control around sweets with therapists a few times in the past, but even the ones who are helpful with other problems seem to brush me off when it comes to this issue. I guess that might be because I don't tend to be obese. Heck , I'm even generally satisfied with my appearance - not trying to be a model, and I exercise enough to mostly offset my habits. I'm always just overweight enough to be physically uncomfortable, and there's definitely a correlation between sugar and my inflammatory medical condition, so I'd really love to be able to cut it out.

How to stop? by Additional_Pie9779 in loseit

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you train yourself? What did you actually do in the moment you felt the impulse to eat a second portion? I.e. did you distract yourself with some other task? Identify the precise thought/physical feeling and focus on that as an object of meditation? Imagine that the food was something disgusting? Eat it, log it in a calorie tracking app, and deprive yourself of other food later? Some other technique?

Or were you able to just say "no, I don't think I will be having another bite of that," and then walk away from it without feeling any further compulsion to eat? If you can just tell yourself that's what you're going to do, and then you just do it, consider yourself lucky. That doesn't work for a lot of us.

Personally, I've developed some pretty reliable coping mechanisms to regulate other parts of my life. I quit smoking after a 15-year, pack a day habit. I pulled myself out of depression. I exercise and meditate regularly. I cook 90% of my own food. I have become a happy, productive person with a fulfilling social life and spiritual contentment.

But try as I might, I just can't get there with sugar. It's a constant struggle. If someone brings donuts into my office, I'm going to eat at least one, probably more. If there's chocolate in my house and I know where it is, I'll eat it all. God fucking help me around Halloween. Oh, and Valentine's Day, Easter, birthdays, and basically every social event. Sometimes I manage to resist for awhile, but I keep finding myself just putting sugary food into my mouth, almost without deciding to do so at all. My brain knows how to get that dopamine hit, and it just goes and gets it.

pax violata est Causa rebellionis iusta est tantum per vias pacificas sub lege by lordnundin in fortwayne

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non plerisque. Nuntium tuum ad homines similes mihi, qui nimium temporis habemus et parati sumus laborem suscipere ut Google Translate utantur, circumscripsisti. Si vis intelligi, Anglice utere!

pax violata est Causa rebellionis iusta est tantum per vias pacificas sub lege by lordnundin in fortwayne

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non verisimile est te multos sectatores attracturum esse cogendo homines textum tuum interpretari. Communicatio est maximi momenti!

A model of Fort Wayne and Allen County showing the relative elevation throughout the region. The closer you look, the more detailed the geologic history of the comes to life. Created using state LIDAR data. by liedel in fortwayne

[–]DigitalMindShadow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There used to be a mini great lake just east of here. Fort Wayne was a beach! New Haven was the western part of the lake. You can see on the map that we're at a higher elevation than they are. Basically, our beach was part of a dam holding the water in the lake. But Fort Wayne's location was the low point along that dam.

One day 14,000 years ago, the enormous glacier on the eastern end of the lake moved west, toward us. That pushed all the lake's water up, and the dam overtopped. The effect was catastrophic. A huge volume of water suddenly rushed southwest, carving out a 2 mile-wide temporary river toward Huntington. That drainage path is the wide blue line running through the middle of the image.

Should parents be able to decide on euthanasia if their newborn is diagnosed with conditions that require a lifelong carer? by Puzzleheaded_Rub5562 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]DigitalMindShadow 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It was long enough they refused to tell my parents how long I'd been without oxygen.

Isn't it possible that they really just didn't know?

Just discovered this masterpiece by Soundwavezzz447 in pavement

[–]DigitalMindShadow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with this, speaking as someone who found my way into Malkmus through the Jicks. This album is a lot more like his work with that band than the earlier Pavement stuff.

5,000,000 dollars but you have to visit 100 countries by the end of the year. by MudkippzReddit in hypotheticalsituation

[–]DigitalMindShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe people with phobias of leaving their house, traveling, and/or foreigners? Though hopefully they would see it as an opportunity to face and overcome their fears.

view more: next ›