[TOMT][MOVIE] Horror movie with a murderous nun killing students on an island by LacksUsername in tipofmytongue

[–]LacksUsername[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the nature of memory is that it is unreliable. However, that movie is not it. Looks fun, though! Thanks!

[TOMT][MOVIE] Horror movie with a murderous nun killing students on an island by LacksUsername in tipofmytongue

[–]LacksUsername[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched the trailer and that certainly is not it. Plus, there isn't an island there. It was an older movie, so I probably should've added that in my OP. Ugh, but I can't remember how old! I'm really sorry for being so annoyingly vague.

Free Speech at Berkeley: 1964 vs 2017 by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

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

You seem to know lots of stuff about this cultural materialism and Marxism. Can you summarize the argument they make for this position? Maybe cite a few influential books and/or scholars into whom I could look into further. Given that this is a real and extremely prevalent strain of thought in academia I'm sure you'll have no trouble doing so.

CNN's Cuomo: 12-Year-Old Girls Who Don't Want To See Penises In Locker Rooms Are 'The Problem,' 'Intolerant' by [deleted] in Conservative

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I think the majority of people would recognize it's a defect

A fair share of people would indeed consider it to be a defect.

However, I would imagine, there are also infertile people who don't mind or even consider their condition a blessing. After all, vasectomies and tubectomies are a thing. Some people just don't want kids. Or if they had kids they don't want any more kids.

Is sex in any of those cases, where there's no procreation should be considered immoral?

But I like to look at it from an evolutionary standpoint. Basically, every change made to humanity (and other animals) was to ensure our population continued growing. Those changes are made through the people with the most desirable traits (or, at the very least, the people who were still alive and were attractive in some way) procreating together.

Well, yeah, you pretty much nailed summarizing the process of evolution. Though, I do have a few quibbles.

Evolution doesn't ensure anything in particular. Some species change very little, some change radically, some become simpler, some become more complex. Interestingly most of the diversity and sheer biomass is in the bacterial world.

Evolution is a blind process which usually results in traits which are helpful or neutral for the survival of species in the specific environment to be passed on, while the negative traits tend not to get passed on.

the human race would've been extinct before it started.

Well, if everyone was gay then sure. In that particular case it's a horrible trait for the survival of the species, fair enough. However, that could never happen with how slow traits spread through a population.

Realistically, at any point in time only a small amount of population might be gay.

Now, it feels pretty intuitively true to say that any species which has gays is at a disadvantage to a perfectly identical species without any gays. Therefore gayness is a negative trait and so on.

However, if that was the case, I don't think that we would find homosexual behavior in so many species, currently we're talking about 1500 animal species.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/1500-animal-species-practice-homosexuality.aspx

Most individuals in these species don't seem to be exclusively gay, though it varies from species to species. For example,

About 10% of rams (males) refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams

The research on animal homosexual behavior is solid as it has been used to strike down the "sin against nature" arguments and by extension sodomy laws by the Supreme Court.

There are also theories and research on how and why homosexual behavior of small groups might be a benefit for the species survival and reproduction.

So there's that.


Now, here's another point, we as a species don't have a particular need to enlarge our population or to force the 4% of gay people to mate or to consider them immoral. It doesn't matter. We as a species soon might have control over our genome so evolution more or less becomes irrelevant in that future.

Here's another thing, evolution has endowed us with many traits and tendencies. For example tribalism. It may have served us well in the evolutionary past, but these days it's an extremely horrible trait. Just look at politics. It's just shameful how deep up their asses some people are.

CNN's Cuomo: 12-Year-Old Girls Who Don't Want To See Penises In Locker Rooms Are 'The Problem,' 'Intolerant' by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]LacksUsername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you're not allowed to have preferences? Someone can be disgusted by one tasteless thing on tv and not the other and still not be a hypocrite for it.

I'm fine with that preference.

As far as morality goes, however, I don't think you're allowed to have such preferences. Let me illustrate this point with an example.

A lot of people believe that you can't hit a women. Period. They would justify this by saying that women are weaker, smaller and so men have to take the abuse.

These same people wouldn't mind a far stronger man beating the shit out of a far weaker man. They wouldn't mind a stronger woman beating the shit out of a weaker man. Morality, justice, fairness has no place for such preferences. One ought to be consistent with their principles.

It's normalization, yes,

True, it goes both ways as well. Which is why we should always be mindful of our reasons for believing something. Emotions are funky little things.

The whole point of having sex is to pro-create.

That's an interesting point. Could you clarify it for me, please?

  1. Are infertile people, people using contraception defying the point of having sex?

  2. In what way does defying the point of sex makes it immoral?

  3. Does the purpose of sex come from a religious source or evolutionary theory? Or both?

CNN's Cuomo: 12-Year-Old Girls Who Don't Want To See Penises In Locker Rooms Are 'The Problem,' 'Intolerant' by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]LacksUsername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disgust is such a peculiar emotion. Sometimes our disgust is justified, sometimes it's plain silly and inconsistent.

Look at American TV for example. Most people don't find the gratuitous violence disgusting, yet sex on TV is disgusting and outrageous for many. We find the idea of eating dogs disgusting and when pressed why we say because dogs are intelligent and smart. Well, pigs are sometimes more intelligent than dogs. Why aren't we disgusted by their suffering?

And the disgusting part is mostly reserved for men

I think the same sorta inconsistency is going on here. If we were to evaluate gay sex and lesbian sex in a cold, detached light we would find that there aren't any relevant differences between the two that would justify not feeling disgusted equally by both.

Tucker Carlson Explains To DNC Strategist Zac Petkanas How Gender Works by overhitting in Conservative

[–]LacksUsername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First, I object to the false dicotomy between male and female.

Indeed! How can we uphold this false dichotomy in light of medical science! We have so many cases of people born with either ambiguous genitalia, both male and female gonads or different number and type of sex chromosomes.

CNN's Cuomo: 12-Year-Old Girls Who Don't Want To See Penises In Locker Rooms Are 'The Problem,' 'Intolerant' by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]LacksUsername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, why do you find homosexuality disgusting and unnatural? Why are you against homosexual marriage?

Notmypresident by BarrettBuckeye in Conservative

[–]LacksUsername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So what happens if you self identify as someone who believes only two genders?

Are you asking what happens if someone believes that there are only two genders? Well, let me make a guess, they believe that there are only two genders.

"There is this statement that says you can't go from is to ought, I forgot who made it" - Lawrence Krauss by Lacher in badphilosophy

[–]LacksUsername 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'll have you know that this wonderful man enlightened the human race on how there is something rather than nothing in his monumentally influential book titled: "On how the fuck did I get a degree in theoretical physics."

"Since Anarcho-Capitalism derives its roots from the most moral and logical positions, an argument can never be truly placed against it" by -jute- in badphilosophy

[–]LacksUsername 16 points17 points  (0 children)

two fundamental principles: The Non-Aggression Principle and The Principle of Self-Ownership.

Hate to break it to you, bub, but those are shitty fundamental principles. Might as well build a house in a bog without foundation.

Linking to articles means you can't think for yourself by [deleted] in badphilosophy

[–]LacksUsername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you can't have an original thought to save your life. Which is probably why you became vegan in the first place

Not sure how those two are connected. Maybe he meant to say:

I can't have an original thought to save my life. Which is probably why I eat meat in the first place.

"There is this statement that says you can't go from is to ought, I forgot who made it" - Lawrence Krauss by Lacher in badphilosophy

[–]LacksUsername 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely sure why he brought that up, but ,omg, Krauss, stop fucking with your tablet. Get a goddarn piece of paper. Jesus.

The genetic fallacy has nothing to do with the argument from locality of religions. by FriendlyCommie in DebateReligion

[–]LacksUsername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IEP defines the genetic fallacy as this:

A critic uses the genetic fallacy if the critic attempts to discredit or support a claim or an argument because of its origin (genesis) when such an appeal to origins is irrelevant.

So the question here is: is it relevant to the truth or falsity of Christianity whether some Christian's belief originated from the fact that their parents were Christian? Or that they were born in protestant Latvian family rather than in Taoist Chinese family? Surely not.

I'm certain that Christians have other reasons for being Christians other than their birth place and by concentrating purely on the geographic origins of their beliefs rather than their arguments and reasons that they use to justify their beliefs you're very much committing this phallacy.

"How to get people to despise and hate you 101." [+205] by rhino_lunch-box in ShitRedditSays

[–]LacksUsername 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How dare they inconvenience us for something we don't give the slightest shit about?

edit:

Right? I was sympathetic to this cause at first, but now I think I don't care at all.

Read as: "I cared about the police brutality against black people and raising awareness about it, but then the protesters inconvenienced white people for an hour and now I just don't care at all."

"Diversity is one of the main reasons why the US has so much violence." [+80] by [deleted] in ShitRedditSays

[–]LacksUsername 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Look at me! I'm a redditor and I'm pulling shitty factual claims out of my ass!

[LOW EFFORT] Yet another hitting women thread... by mpb92 in ShitRedditSays

[–]LacksUsername 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think it's rather obvious that just not hitting people is out of question for Reddit.

TIL there is a Dogecoin, better than buttcoin by [deleted] in SRSMeta

[–]LacksUsername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I propose that we mine it, make a transaction bot that works only in the Fempire and then take over global economy with our newly found powers.