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Are you using the word "crave" to encompass all non-zero levels of sexual desire? Also, what about the rest of the quoted statement? i.e. your assertion that we all fantasize about living the bonobo chimp lifestyle?

Is this statement as disingenuous as the offer? Or are you honestly under the impression that it's true?

I may even be misremembering the IIDB days. Maybe nothing has changed. But my impression has been that there used to be more people here whose minds weren't already made up about everything important. Those people it seems have mostly left or become set in their ways, leaving this a relatively...

No, it is not, and it hasn't been for several years. I think the last time this was a rational forum, the place was still called IIDB.

The future and the past are both imaginary, but people compare them to the present all the time. Every possibility not yet actualized is imaginary. It's not silly to imagine something better than the status quo. It's intellectually lazy not to. It's not the price of life. It's just a current...

Well then, pretty much every human being who has ever lived, including you, is evil to some extent or another. The only differences are which people we regard as unimportant and how we rationalize writing them off. God, this whole business is such fucking bullshit. People are not continuous...

Wait a minute, if we're going to perform an action(punishment) in order to bring about a particular consequence(the victim feeling better), shouldn't we first make sure that there's reliable evidence that the action in question does in fact lead to the desired consequence? There's a difference...

You are wasting your time on somebody who is deliberately being obtuse, and has the stamina to keep the performance up indefinitely.

My guess would be that all else being equal, having the level of privilege which in this country is held disproportionately by whites makes it easier for a person to be neutral on matters of race. At the same time, though, it also makes it easier for them to be wildly misinformed. The bottom...

Whereas I, having never seen any of this hype, had no such problems. I could have done without the Dorne subplot entirely, but seeing as how it does exist, the sand snakes are pretty much the closest it gets to actual entertainment value, IMO.

"Would seem to"..." comes off as"... so you don't think the argument actually does break down? You don't believe such prejudice is fully grounded in the data? Do you have an argument that "people like us" could use to prevent people from jumping to the same conclusion as the supremacist...

I think you're looking at it backwards. He's marrying the transwoman. That's fairly decent evidence that he's attracted to her features. Supposing the transwoman altered her appearance in order to have those features, so what? Tons of "biological women" also alter their appearances in order to...

I don't see how a rational understanding of Abe's actual claims* could equate to something like that. I guess you could be equivocating when you use the word "racism" here. *(Intelligence varies witin populations. Intelligence is measurable. Intelligence is heritable. When those populations...

And what follows is a personal anedcote. But are you a professional anthropologist, or trained researcher in some related field? Have you systematically corrected for all probable sources of bias in your collection and interpretation of data? Are you even operating with a statistically...

Google says the reason for all the chewing is to minimize drymouth.

How do you know that? What is "us"? Where is the boundary between "us" and "the outside world"?

I never identified as Christian. I was taken to church a few times and attended CCD for a little while, and my mother taught my brother and I some vague non-denominational prayer, but that was like make believe for me. I remember being creeped out when I heard my brother praying without our...

Ah, okay. I guess my original argument still applies, then. Good day to you.

I envy your ability to candidly express unpopular ideas over and over again, in the face of such open hostility. But I really don't see what you hope to accomplish. I mean, what do you think goes into the yes/yes quadrant? Do you think that quadrant doesn't also contain "extinguished the human...

Unless you're actually defending the claim that "Proof that our minds are not completely bound/caused by the outside world is that we are able to imagine that which does not actually exist.", it's not important to me what you think imagine "needs" to mean. Have the OP clarify what they mean by...