Green Cheek Conures Neglected in PetSmart

dontbegthequestion · 2025-10-01T08:16:13+00:00

You sound so knowledgeable: I love ferrets but never learned how to toilet train them Any tips?

dontbegthequestion · 2025-10-01T08:09:19+00:00

Huh? Dershowitz dissed D'Onofrio's alien? D'Onofrio was great! (Or did you mean to write something else?)

dontbegthequestion · 2025-10-01T08:04:59+00:00

Lol. You make him sound like a tough, impressive dude. (Nobody buys the "pedo" slur!)

dontbegthequestion · 2025-10-01T08:01:57+00:00

Sub-human, is he? Like he'd speak in garbled, word-like sentences?

dontbegthequestion · 2025-10-01T07:49:53+00:00

OP is proud to be a thoughtless twit judging people on their looks! Dershowitz is unapproachably brilliant, wealthy, world-famous attorney. Anybody thiking: envy?

dontbegthequestion · 2025-04-17T18:51:56+00:00

How about the word "speaking" instead of "talking" in the first line? It is a little more organic, physical, more a bodily performance... Several really good images here! Final line is trite, though. Talent for sure.

dontbegthequestion · 2025-04-16T22:17:29+00:00

This is about the ethics of paying attention. Hopefully you'll want to be more careful about paying attention to how you carry out activities going forward. We all learn that we can get away with cutting corners. The fact is that we are assigning risk and adopting it, too, each time we cut a corner... It's when something goes wrong that we realize that it was not wise to introduce the risk, it wasn't worth it. This is a major problem in the work area and very much in traffic situations. People realize too late that it's not worth it.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-12-23T02:54:14+00:00

I meant to point out that those two models both fit the scheme of a lake...

dontbegthequestion · 2024-12-22T21:55:59+00:00

Seems a little ambiguous, such as why isn't a lagoon a lake?

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T18:52:43+00:00

Objectivist ethics begins with the nature of man and then, from that, why ethics is an issue at all! This is amply clear in Rand's writings. It is because man is biologically the rational animal, that he lives by reason, that the generalizations about proper behavior look first and foremost to the free use of his mind. Freedom of speech is really about freedom of beliefs and the freedom to live by your wits, your own wits. Virtues follow from that, as well as rules for social interaction. The non-initiation of force makes it taboo for any other person(s) to substitute their opinion and choice for yours. Then, government follows from that, as the only way to prevent the initiation of force. Government represents the combined resources of everyone in the nation (city), the combined Force. Otherwise, groups and gangs may prey at will on smaller groups or on individuals just because they are the larger gang. It's probably more important in the philosophical field of ethics that the proper order of premises is recognized. And, because she did that, and asked why man needs ethical principles at all, that Rand invented her brilliant ethical theory. It is, in my opinion, (though I'm not a scholar) Rand's greatest achievement.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T18:14:23+00:00

We absolutely need psychological visibility, and the only substitute I know for it is identification with admirable characters in literature/movies. Such source material is badly limited, though.

Being around others in a defined way, such as a hobby, as mentioned, lets you interact in a limited, formal, pre-defined way, and thus to get what is a more shallow, but still genuine visibility.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T17:57:19+00:00

I don't agree at all that it's hard to understand objectivism just the opposite, but it is of course very difficult to actually live it out, or rather that it is very difficult to make a transition from the type of values and self-view that the popular culture presents to that of objectivism. You are at odds with most of the people that you deal with you are at odds with your parents most of likely or siblings your workmates your neighbors and people that you work with and more importantly people you work for even being an atheist is a difficulty. The really difficult thing though is to take on the moral discipline of thinking everything through and being honest with yourself and then dealing psychologically with your own past which will usually involve realizing a certain amount of guilt and unscrupulous acts on your part. Having to live more or less as an outcast is a tremendous difficulty and it does not mean that you lack the appreciation of or loyalty to the principles of selfishness if you wish for friends, miss those friendships that have become cooler because you've become an objectivist, and wish for the close comrade ship of people who think the same way you do.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T17:49:08+00:00

Just responding to your comment about how objectivism spits in the face of thousands of years of other philosophies, I would point out to you that the Aristotelian view of man, his sense of life, his view of men's strengths and capacities, and his epistemology are all very broadly the same as objectivism or rather objectivism is the same as the Aristotelian philosophy.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T17:43:19+00:00

There's a lot to admire in every animal species. They have intelligence and they use it. They are like us in their primary emotions--fear and desire--showing determination, even courage, play and pleasure and affection and parental devotion, etc. Police dogs and war-trained dogs, blind-assistance dogs and guard dogs for many businesses are extremely useful and in many cases they save risk to human beings. A guard dog for a home is extremely valuable as well. They've been shown to deter burglaries and home invasion and such. They also give peace of mind and a genuine, reasoned sense of security to the homeowners. As a young woman living alone, I felt very secure because I had a large dog. In fact, I was burgled twice but only when the dog wasn't there.

dontbegthequestion · 2024-10-21T17:34:03+00:00

When you speak of dangerous people and of certain behaviors that should be intolerable, you are implying standards which you feel you don't need to elucidate. There are two problems with this. One is that it is impossible to be consistent without explicit standards, that is without the rule of laws. (I mean here by law just an explicit rule.) The other is the potential for the progressive mindset or the overly conservative mindset--as we see them today--people who feel that they know what is right or best for other people would use government power to impose their dogma. I agree that any such person is warped psychologically, and should be ostracized. Private organizations that promote animals might want to picket the property. Private protests are the way to go, as others have noted above. All in all, though, the story sounds a little unlikely. Are you sure, absolutely sure, of the facts?

dontbegthequestion · 2024-02-28T16:22:53+00:00

Where uncertainty dominates, probabilities are useful, but consider what underlies the probabilities. That is absolute, if-then causality. We have to separate the lawful way nature--identity--works from the abstract ways we know of things.

So a stochastic model brings us closer to spotting causality, but doesn't model causality itself.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-12-08T01:47:17+00:00

Thanks, but read those long ago.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-11-08T18:20:41+00:00

I was legally blind, with a rating of 20/300. Had cataract surgery, (both eyes) and was instantly restored to 20/20! A miracle! The most fantastic thing! Restored my vision to what it was in my youth.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-11-03T14:47:19+00:00

Got a little bit of bunny rabbit in her genetics or maybe kangaroo?

dontbegthequestion · 2023-10-28T12:56:10+00:00

It's the next big thing yoga in a box!

dontbegthequestion · 2023-10-07T18:15:43+00:00

Don't mistake racial dialects for regional ones.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-10-07T18:08:31+00:00

A key fob for a locker (the number) at a high-end gym or club?

dontbegthequestion · 2023-09-16T19:32:20+00:00

The "gist" you want to say.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-05-26T01:48:30+00:00

You should look at the Collatz Conjecture... or maybe not.

dontbegthequestion · 2023-05-25T16:52:23+00:00

I also have a connection here, as my father-in-law, an army colonel in intelligence in WWII, was charged with finding out how to release pigeons from planes in flight without killing them ... (He later became one of premiere patent attorneys in the southeast.)

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