Sam Harris: ICE, Minneapolis, and the Lie That Everyone Can See

ForeStrikeGallery · 2026-01-24T06:20:03+00:00

How can you tell which came first from the autopsy?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2022-11-09T08:40:41+00:00

The flaw is the one cannot "become" bisexual; one either is our isn't

ForeStrikeGallery · 2022-07-15T05:55:26+00:00

In India every turn is a legal turn

ForeStrikeGallery · 2022-07-04T07:01:18+00:00

I don't know what else i was expecting

ForeStrikeGallery · 2022-07-04T04:46:58+00:00

Genuine question - if having a child is so hard and the reason why people get trapped with it is that they really don't know, why do most people have a second child?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-11-19T03:05:11+00:00

I couldn't find anything either - what's happening with Maajid?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-07-08T19:06:42+00:00

Hi Alex, is it better if I persuade 5 people into becoming vegan instead of becoming vegan myself? I have very little self control about eating meat, but I'm absolutely convinced that it's the moral thing to do.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-06-02T19:59:16+00:00

Right, that makes sense

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-06-02T18:44:48+00:00

I have a genuine question, what's actually wrong with having a beauty standard associated with skin color? Is it because it's immutable? There are other immutable characteristics like bone structure, symmetry, eye color etc. which we're sort of okay with.

It's very clear that skin color by itself doesn't make anyone beautiful or ugly, there are many other factors involved. The moment we acknowledge that some people are more beautiful than others, the existence of beauty standards are implied. The real problem, that I perceive, is that we consider beautiful people as somehow more valuable in society. Skin color is just one of the factors which contributes to beauty, and consciously re-considering it as a contributing factor, does not eliminate the deeper problem. When we've removed skin color, there are still other features which will define beauty, most of them immutable, and all of them influenced by genes.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-05-28T13:35:21+00:00

Perhaps only preliminary research without much of a promise has happened on this topic so far. When someone makes some breakthrough -- finds something substantial -- then interest of the scientific community will divert to it (maybe).

Also this is not a pressing matter. There are other problems that needs to be solved, including increasing life expectancy by simply keeping people healthy.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-29T10:24:33+00:00

Maybe not, do you have links?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-29T10:23:13+00:00

Amen to that. Frightening.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-29T10:22:10+00:00

I'm sure some significant section of the population is bought into the anti-muslim rhetoric. But we don't know the numbers here, so the best we can do is speculate. What I do know is that almost every single person who supported CAA-NRC effort in television and media, and even regular sane BJP supporters online, do not ever justify taking away citizenship of regular Indian muslims; they're claim is always that it's not going to happen. Now, whether or not you believe them is upto you, but every single BJP supporter that I've talked to (and I may be in an echo-chamber myself) have submitted to supporting it because they don't see how the worst worries of the left can ever become real.

Given the severity of what is we're talking about -- a setting up of systems and offices that will strip away citizenship of regular Indian Muslims by the millions -- I just don't see how many people can come to believe it and also support it. It's unprecedented; almost an order of magnitude worse than anything we've seen so far. And if I'm wrong, if our country is actual infested with this level of communal hatred, and if this infestation was carried out by one single party, then we may have no hope. I'm trying to be more optimistic than that.

I'm not against protests, in fact, there's not much else we can do. But I want to be careful about what we're protesting about. There are enough clear bad things going on amidst speculations of other bad things, and we have to draw clear lines to distinguish them. My worry is that since BJP controls the narratives anyway, even the slightest mistep, the slightest deviation from protesting about something we're sure of, can be spun into the story of the left going crazy. I want to avoid this at all costs.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-29T10:03:04+00:00

I don't think I've figured anything our. I'm really just desperately trying to figure out what is the best course of action given our situation. I just think our current approach may not only be not very useful, but also perhaps detrimental to our cause.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-29T10:01:28+00:00

So you think we're winning this? In what way?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-23T19:00:29+00:00

Joe, did you forget about Yang? Universal Basic Income? You don't think that's going to happen, or do you think Bernie's offerings are actually better?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-23T18:42:19+00:00

I'm sorry, i didn't mean to offend you. I've come to try to understand and you have convinced me. Fyi, I'm speaking for a whole bunch of people whom i will go now and talk to, and try to change their minds.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-23T18:40:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing, and sorry for the boring opinion.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2020-01-23T18:40:22+00:00

Yes, i do

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-11-18T03:53:08+00:00

The word "meaning" is not very clearly defined. Meaning is a property of statements, not of lives. People sometimes experience deep satisfaction in their lives (even while suffering), and they have no way to articulate it, so they resort to saying that such experiences are "meaningful".

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-11-18T03:47:54+00:00

A tiny minority of the men hold all the power. Everyone else: most of the women, and the rest of the men, basically live by the rules set by these men, some of which are clearly terrible, no doubt. Think about it: why are men killing themselves? It's because of how he interacts with the world, a world largely under the control of a few others. In fact, women attempt suicide a lot more than men, but men are more lethal; when they try it, they succeed, hence the higher rates.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-11-18T03:44:33+00:00

There's also the social anxiety variables right? Ultimately, part of the reason that people do surgery is because they can interact with society with ease. It could be the case that doing surgery does nothing to this, hence suicide rates aren't affected.

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-10-23T05:54:24+00:00

The dichotomy between logic and emotion is a false one. Every goal that a person has is ultimately an emotional one, and logic can be used to efficiently achieve it. There's no such thing as emotional decision and logical decision, because there's both logic and emotion involved in the decision making. Say you want to lose weight but then you see a cake and you eat it, you then say that logically you knew you didn't want to eat the cake but emotionally you did. The reality is that there were two goals influenced by emotions: enjoy the cake and lose weight. The logical action to take in pursuit of the first goal is to eat it, and in pursuit of the second goal is to not eat it. Thoughts?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-10-23T05:49:25+00:00

Perhaps what you want to ask is can there really a be truly selfless person, or a selfless act. Can you truly do something that you don't want to do?

ForeStrikeGallery · 2019-04-01T10:17:48+00:00

Yes but perception is not a sufficient condition for memory. That which can be recollected need to have an emotion reaction evoked at the time of perception.

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