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[Player -0]

lol at people rapidly liking your mere one-word affirmation of your being of the fairer sex in this wasteland of virtual neckbeards.

It's more of I remember people answering questions with just yes or no a couple (hundred?) pages back and I thought it was funny.

IT'S NOT FUNNY IF I HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT >:C

 

[TimeSmash]

I think that is important. The one thing I know for sure, is that I know next to nothing.

Maybe I might know how to sew really well, but if you stuck me in front of a sink and told me to fix it, I'd be at a loss. Even brilliant people like Stephen Hawking do not have a working knowledge of all the things on earth. He's a brilliant scientist, but I doubt he knows how to fix the engines of 100 different models of cars, or how to paint depth and foreground into a painting.

That's why I never want to stop learning.

I feel the same way! I just learned how to crochet and it's definitely not the easiest thing but it's a skill

 

[shairn]

Fixed. And yes, I have at least three that come to mind immediately, one of which was already mentioned

You're a terrible person.

 

[Empyrean]

So with the apex salty suite thing cancelled for pm, does that mean no prof vs rolex mm anytime soon???
Dayum, that's too bad. Esports be the end of us

 

[Saito]

I mean, of course I would say that the murder of infants is wrong (which I do believe; I feel that murder is an abominable wrong), but right there you're assuming that murder is intrinsically wrong; it's only viewed as evil because we're biased on a psychological/social (sometimes I think even a biological) level in believing that it is. I can't really justify it since I'm biased towards letting little babies live, but that's assuming that it's even possible to be truly judged, if that makes sense. I've never really thought much of this stuff though.

There is a reason I made sure to cover my bases with the description. Murder by nature is not wrong, but like anything else, it can be used wrong. I tried to state a case where there is no reason to murder.

I don't believe murder is wrong for the reasons you listed but because of the significant impact it has on the victim's life.
It not only can possibly cause them an extreme amount of pain, but it denies them of further good life, which I don't believe is a social right, but more of a natural right.

You refer to judging, which leads me to think you are referring to the fact that no man should be able to judge another man, if I interpreted that correctly.

On the assumption that you are referring to an action being judged by man, I would say that the action isn't evil because of man's judgement, but it is naturally evil.


One could argue though that the murderer actually stood to gain something which gives him a reason to do it. While that would make it morally evil, it would not be naturally evil anymore because he stood to benefit from it as opposed to a murder where he stood to gain nothing nor be impacted by the infant remaining alive.

Also, doubting someone on the internet of being younger than they are? That's a new one.

KEK.

 

[MechWarriorNY]

Use that next time.

@ Saito
And that's not even getting into necessary evils.
Dirty business, urgh.

 

[Giygacoal]

What if waifu are real and we are all just characters in a Japanese video game/anime franchise?

 

[MechWarriorNY]

What if your perception of reality was out of whack in the first place?

More cool stuff from YT.

...That's Peter Cullen narrating, or, more famously, Optimus Prime.

 

[TimeSmash]

What if you stuck the Qtip in too far?

 

[GP&B]

It would touch your brian

 

[TimeSmash]

Even though it's terrible for you, cleaning the inside of your ear with a Qtip feels SO GOOD

 

[Vashimus]

Why is it that when girls show off their boobs in anime that they sometimes do this weird, near-sentient bounce? Like what, there are no muscles there. Japan please stop failing anatomy.

Because they'd rather create fan-service, hentai, and various other fetishes than actually having sex. This is why the Japanese population / birth rates have been declining for years and their suicide rates are among the highest in the world.

60 hour work weeks have a lot to do with it, but they should just bang it out already.

 

[Warsaint777]

its the weirdest mixture of pleasure and pain. Like ****ing a cactus.

 

[GP&B]

60 is the average? Damn, and I thought America was bull**** with working hours (though I shouldn't be that surprised).

its the weirdest mixture of pleasure and pain. Like ****ing a cactus.

what, jesus dude

 

[Choice Scarf]

Wow you guys weren't kidding about the animu talks.

Who Twintails here?

 

[Warsaint777]

Because they'd rather create fan-service, hentai, and various other fetishes than actually having sex. This is why the Japanese population and birth rates have been on the decline for years and their the suicide rates are among of the highest in the world.

Woah dude, there weird porno and fetishes are not the culprit, even though its not helping. Tons of 1st world countries are loaded with just as much porn. Ours included. There's deeper **** going on causing their lack of sex and birth decline.

 

[Alfonzo Bagpipez]

Even though it's terrible for you, cleaning the inside of your ear with a Qtip feels SO GOOD

It's the best...until you get a dime-sized wad of gunk piled up in your canal and you lose all hearing. That happened to me. The Smell was probably the worst part.

But, goshdarn. I would do it again.

 

[Warsaint777]

It's the best...until you get a dime-sized wad of gunk piled up in your canal and you lose all hearing. That happened to me. The Smell was probably the worst part.

But, goshdarn. I would do it again.

I don't understand, how did cleaning your ears CAUSE gunk pile up in your ear?

 

[GP&B]

Woah dude, there weird porno and fetishes are not the culprit, even though its not helping. Tons of 1st world countries are loaded with just as much porn. Ours included. There's deeper **** going on causing their lack of sex and birth decline.

This is true. The real source is that from the PoV of a woman, marrying (edit: more specifically, having children) is literally the death of your career. In America, a big trend has been dual income households (my older bro and his wife do this) and it helps that our maternity leave isn't completely trash (but not that great). In Japan, it's incredibly unforgiving and apparently a culture reason as to why. This is why love hotels and dating sim games are ****ing enormous in Japan.

 

[MechWarriorNY]

Who Twintails here?

sup

 

[Saxophoneoftime]

There is a reason I made sure to cover my bases with the description. Murder by nature is not wrong, but like anything else, it can be used wrong. I tried to state a case where there is no reason to murder.

I don't believe murder is wrong for the reasons you listed but because of the significant impact it has on the victim's life.
It not only can possibly cause them an extreme amount of pain, but it denies them of further good life, which I don't believe is a social right, but more of a natural right.

You refer to judging, which leads me to think you are referring to the fact that no man should be able to judge another man, if I interpreted that correctly.

On the assumption that you are referring to an action being judged by man, I would say that the action isn't evil because of man's judgement, but it is naturally evil.


One could argue though that the murderer actually stood to gain something which gives him a reason to do it. While that would make it morally evil, it would not be naturally evil anymore because he stood to benefit from it as opposed to a murder where he stood to gain nothing nor be impacted by the infant remaining alive.

Is there an objective wrong?; on a cosmic philosophical scale I'd say no, there's no 'true' right or wrong, only relative judgement and interpretation. Also, there can be situations where there's no reason to do good, and even then what dictates whether there's a 'real' reason?

You give life value, although it holds no true value, nothing really does. Value is only given to it, as if like currency. And who knows, maybe the babies are masochists.

The way I approach this just makes discussion run in circles and really redundant, philosophy can be dumb sometimes.

 

[shairn]

Wow you guys weren't kidding about the animu talks.

Who Twintails here?

Twintails are pretty great
I prefer ponytails though

 

[MechWarriorNY]

@ Saxophoneoftime
The phrase you are looking for is "anti-nihilism", something many people never find out about because they don't read through ALL of Nietzsche stuff lol.

 

[Giygacoal]

Even though it's terrible for you, cleaning the inside of your ear with a Qtip feels SO GOOD

Cool, I actually didn't know that. I looked it up.

Because they'd rather create fan-service, hentai, and various other fetishes than actually having sex. This is why the Japanese population / birth rates have been declining for years and their the suicide rates are among the highest in the world.

60 hour work weeks have a lot of do with it, but they should just bang it out already.

I knew of that concept but I'm unsure because thought the weird animu fetish part of Japanese culture is the minority that westerners just notice more and form stereotypes about. I mean, yeah, lewds could be popular, but enough to bring down the birth rate THAT much? Wow.

The logical solution is to make the fictional women less beautiful so the men would have to go back to the real women. Clearly.

 

[Saito]

@ Saito
And that's not even getting into necessary evils.
Dirty business, urgh.

How can evil be real if my eyes aren't real.

 

[TimeSmash]

I don't understand, how did cleaning your ears CAUSE gunk pile up in your ear?

The Qtip can actually cause impaction of earwax, which condenses it and makes it hard to remove. So you have to solublize it so it can be softer. This is often assisted by medication, and the actual removal process consists of someone pumping saline into your ear and then sucking it back up. It's common in incorrect qtip usage and also after infections (earwax is antimicrobial)

 

[MechWarriorNY]

All too easily, sadly.
i.e.

 

[Alfonzo Bagpipez]

I don't understand, how did cleaning your ears CAUSE gunk pile up in your ear?

Pushed a bunch of wax and dried up eardrops further in until it all sort of jumbled together. It was almost not a good time.

 

[GP&B]

The Qtip can actually cause impaction of earwax, which condenses it and makes it hard to remove. So you have to solublize it so it can be softer. This is often assisted by medication, and the actual removal process consists of someone pumping saline into your ear and then sucking it back up. It's common in incorrect qtip usage and also after infections (earwax is antimicrobial)

Man, I had to do this **** as kid and it hurts like hell. Fortunately my ears are nowhere near as bad now.

 

[Warsaint777]

This is true. The real source is that from the PoV of a woman, marrying is literally the death of your career. In America, a big trend has been dual income households (my older bro and his wife do this) and it helps that our maternity leave isn't completely trash (but not that great). In Japan, it's incredibly unforgiving and apparently a culture reason as to why. This is why love hotels and dating sim games are ****ing enormous in Japan.

but the articles are not stating the lack of marriage, or oppression against women wanting careers -- they're like talking about how literally NOBODY IS ****ING. Like, yeah. So I don't see how love hotels are getting lots of business.

 

[TimeSmash]

Pushed a bunch of wax and dried up eardrops further in until it all sort of jumbled together. It was almost not a good time.

I bet it felt amazing once it was gone though. Kind of like how you feel after you throw up. Like you're hungover or sick or whatever and it needed to happen

 

[MechWarriorNY]

Dem NEETS and hikikomoris though.
Trusting other people on that sort of level really IS enough to keep people avoiding it, no joke.
/would know

 

[GP&B]

but the articles are not stating the lack of marriage, or oppression against women wanting careers -- they're like talking about how literally NOBODY IS ****ING. Like, yeah. So I don't see how love hotels are getting lots of business.

Oh they're ****ing, but it's all ONS's which is what love hotels are for (just ask Nintendo, they used to do that kind of business before lol). No one wants to have kids is the issue. Again, it comes down to maternity leave and culture. IIRC, working mothers have a pretty bad stigma in Japan.

 

[MechWarriorNY]

Blame part of that on the ideal of the 'yamato nadeshiko', it's a pretty old cultural thing going back past most of JP's medieval time period. (more info here, beware doing the wiki walk: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YamatoNadeshiko)
It's not something that just appeared.

 

[Saxophoneoftime]

@ Saxophoneoftime
The phrase you are looking for is "anti-nihilism", something many people never find out about because they don't read through ALL of Nietzsche stuff lol.

Wait what is that in reply to? And can you define that pls.

 

[GP&B]

Oh yeah, it goes way, way back. There were even theater plays on the whole concept of the working mother being looked down upon very heavily. I think what emphasizes it so much now is the working environment.

Spoiler

Again, kinda rusty on the research but this is to the best of my memory.

EDIT: Damn mech, you're like sonic fast on the likes right now it's ridiculous lol.

 

[Warsaint777]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2473167/Why-Japans-20-somethings-stopped-having-sex.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/japans-youth-suffer-from-celibacy-syndrome-2014-5

 

[shairn]

There's multiple facets to the reduced birth rate in Japan. It's not just about the women, but also the men in general having a decreased interest in relationships and pursuing other interests completely. Often males in Japan are characterized as being herbivore, as a metaphor for their lack of lust for the meat, if you will.

 

[MechWarriorNY]

It's a huge problem, and I mean that completely seriously.

Wait what is that in reply to? And can you define that pls.

The philosophical stuff you were going back-and-forth with with Saito.

General summary of that mindset:
"Life is hell, we're all gonna die and you can't fight fate... but why not make each others' lives worthwhile and enjoyable in the meantime? The only thing that matters is letting people know that you care about them, because whatever someone is, has, or can do doesn't mean a thing in the end."

 

[GP&B]

@ shairn
Which is also true, but I can't remember any of the details as to why that is either (besides the constant pressure to be successful in the industry maybe).