What am i not comprehending? You implied that researching Thailand would “update my worldview”, when I merely mentioned cultural preferences and better amenities. Researching Thai culture would not make one like it any better than Japanese culture nor would it eliminate the fact that Thailand is a poor country with poor amenities, especially if you’re moving to a rural village.
Also if you can’t handle the word “fuck”, then you might consider getting off the Internet.
The thing about adopting the “live and let live” philosophy with children is that children are psychologically incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions, or exercising proper impulse control. If their parents have failed them then it is the moral obligation of the rest of society to make up for it.
I believe that something resembling religion will reappear in society (American society, I mean) in the future, maybe even the near future. Political substitutes for religion have given meaning to people’s lives, i.e made them feel apart of something greater, but they have not provided them with physical community, a path toward self-improvement, a guide for how to manage interpersonal relations (Apart from “don’t offend people”, in the case of progressivism, I guess?), or any compelling reason not to be afraid of death.
Traditional religion’s staying power came not from oppressive power structures or whatever people think these days, but because of all of that. Just having an oppressive power structure and none of the other stuff has generally led to religions/philosophies dying out within a few generations, like Nazism or communism. Both of those had their time to shine, completely ruined the societies they took over, and are now viewed as jokes by most people today. Meanwhile Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc, which offer way more than ideology ever has, have been around for millennia and are on track to stay around for millennia more.
Homo Evolutis
I think using a political philosophy or a common enemy to unite a society is more harmful than it is good, since those things will inevitably be held sacred, and it becomes impossible to think rationally about them. Religious people are able to disagree on things like economics because the things that they hold sacred are supernatural sky gods, instead of things which are of this world (Americans are an exception due to the polarization of the two-party system and the compelling force of American Civil Religion, which makes freedom, democracy, and the Constitution into sacred things), but people who hold a political ideology like Marxism or Liberalism to be sacred (Tons of people, many of them on this very website) cannot tolerate disagreement and will ignore facts that might disprove their ideology. This is manageable when it involves nothing more than a sky god, but when it involves the very basics of how society should operate, it gets bad, quickly, which is how you get thousands of dead dissenters and a permanently stagnant society. Using a common enemy is even worse since it leads to an irrational hatred of said enemy that drives people to do horrible things to eachother, with the most infamous example being the Holocaust. The Nazis also held their political ideals to be more sacred than their religious beliefs, coincidentally.
Why the fuck would researching Thailand suddenly make me like their culture and amenities any better than Japan’s
What are you trying to achieve with this pointless aggression?
Some people in the tech community just seem to have this weird superiority complex for some reason. They think they’re smarter than everyone else and look down on the normies, meaning they come off… Like this guy. It’s like they put all of their skill points into INT and none of them into WIS.
I was a high schooler last year and by this standard, every single one of my classmates’ parents are complete failures, including mine. Not that I disagree, but clearly we can’t trust the parents to do anything about this.
Some dude thinking his pet snail is dead, only to throw it in the trash and forget about it, and then wake up to a snailpocalypse a week later is pretty funny to think about
what if you like Japanese culture and first world amenities
Microplastics are the new lead, and screens are the new tobacco, in my opinion. Overuse of sugar in processed foods is the new version of how they’d cut food with inedible stuff like sawdust back in the day.
You’re literally a communist, you don’t get to speak to anyone else about respect or having a backbone. Your specialty, as shown in this comment section, is twisting others’ words and running from your prior statements. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s two hours until midnight and you’ve proven yourself not worth speaking to. I like to stay off social media on Sundays. If you are ready to engage in good faith discussion and apologize for your statements about non-whites come Monday, then we can continue this conversation then. Goodnight, and I hope you can become an adult someday.
It is an easily discernable fact that western nations who value inclusion, democracy, economic freedom, property rights, and tolerance are more moral than countries like Russia, who value none of those things. This is also visible when America wages war. America makes painstaking efforts to avoid civilian casualties even when enemy action makes it exceedingly difficult to do so, especially in modern times, and that’s why only 46k civilians died in Afghanistan. America’s war was also justified because we were attacked first, but you seem to think Al-Qaeda’s attack on a civilian target was justified because of the acts of America’s government, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what other atrocities you believe are justified by your own logic.
Meanwhile, Russia is systematically raping Ukraine and Russia’s predecessor, the Soviet Union, killed or exiled a third of Afghanistan’s population. Numerous genocides and ethnic cleansings were also committed in service of the Russian ethnic group by the USSR, and another one is ramping up in Ukraine as we speak.
Note that Russia is also white, meaning that there is no racial dimension to this. You brought whiteness into this, and you have exposed what you really think about non-whites when you stated that being moral is a trait of the white man. Your obsession with me being a fascist or a white supremacist is merely projection meant to obscure your own beliefs.
Sir, you literally said that non-whites being moral people means that they are acting white. I gave you several chances to explain yourself, but you doubled down. The only white supremacist in this comment section is you.
Also who the fuck is Clyde?
I appreciate the honesty. You are clearly either a troll or a red fascist. I sincerely hope that you go outside and speak to some non-white people so that your opinions on them can be proven wrong through experience. I sincerely hope that, one way or another, you stop spouting this garbage about morality being a characteristic of the white man. Preferably by becoming an adult. Throughout history there have been many cases of non-whites being more upstanding than their white peers, and some of the most upstanding people I have met and come to look up to are non-white. Every race and ethnic group has people who behave immorally, but the vast majority of them are just as upstanding as you and I. Simply speak to them and you shall understand this.
Aaaaaaaaand - you’re a rabid white supremacist, Clyde… or would you prefer me to use the term “western chauvinist”?
Explain what the fuck you meant or I’ll assume all this white supremacist talk is just your fucking projection. You implying that non-whites are either immoral or “acting white” is an unforgivable insult to my non-white friends and family, and all upstanding people everywhere.
Why? Is the current levels of rape, torture and murder in Saudi Arabia not enough for you, fascism-boi?
Nah, such a beautiful country simply deserves better than the House of Saud.
Can’t let a jungle get in the way of white supremacist murder-sprees, can we?
Actually, the murder-spree was anti-communist, significant difference
So, again… it’s just fascist fantasy and nothing else. Your “tribalism” only exists in your right-wing ideology-addled head and nowhere else.
Get back to me when you’ve studied a little bit of psychology
Come now… tell us why you believe the KKK is merely “misunderstood.” We know you want to.
Oh hell nah, I want you explain why the fuck you think being moral means someone is acting white. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Oh, the poor, poor US… what were those dastardly Saudi’s thinking, forcing the innocent and righteous US to treat Saudi Arabia like a client state for it’s neocolonialist agenda in the middle-east?
Would you rather we invade Saudi Arabia and establish a client state directly, so that we can establish a country that doesn’t commit rampant acts of evil against its own citizens? I can get behind that.
They’re almost as bad as those evil Vietnamese, who forced the US to innocently drop more ordnance on south-eastern Asia than it dropped during the entirety of WW2.
Well, ya, they hid inside a jungle where we couldn’t see them.
Poor and innocent US… oh won’t somebody please think of the poor military-industrial complex billionaires and oil tycoons?!
The MIC deserves more credit for the jobs they create and the technological innovations they pass onto the private sector, not to mention how powerful they make America.
So… it’s just fascist fantasy and nothing else. Your “tribalism” only exists in your right-wing ideology-addled head and nowhere else.
Nowhere else except every civilization and time period across human and pre-human history
Oh… so if non-white people act white enough you will temporarily view them as honorary “westerners” as long as they are useful as a propaganda prop for you?
So, you believe being moral to be an exclusively white trait? Because that sounds like what you’re saying.
Does this look like something that was built in Britain to you, Clyde?
I know the Sykes-Picot agreement and its consequences isn’t covered in Capital, but come on, I know you know what I’m talking about. The USA was just allying with who was already there, the Saudis would be rich regardless because of their oil.
So this (alleged) “tribal” gene of yours is just fascist fantasy? What a surprise.
Well, nah, there is no tribalism gene, there’s a bazillion of them that all interact with other genes and form the complicated being that is a human. Most of them are probably shared with our fellow apes, who act quite similar to how we did during the stone age.
Spoken like a true white supremacist - which means everything I said applies, fascism-boi.
Non-white westerners are morally superior to the Soviet Union and its successor states too.
>High school aged children definitely can understand the concept. I would argue middle school aged children can as well.
High school aged children are well known to be complete and utter dumbasses, especially when it comes to making mistakes who’s consequences are abstract and long-term in nature. Punishment by social superiors is oftentimes the only thing preventing them from doing idiotic things, because their brains are not developed enough to think very far into the future. And even then, proper impulse control is one of the last things a developing brain develops, so they might understand the issues but be psychologically incapable of the self-control needed for it. Not to mention, social media apps are designed by psychology experts in Silicon Valley to be as addictive and distracting as possible, since that’s how you get people to use your app. Having those in your pocket, when you’re too young and dumb to understand the consequences of overusing it, and can’t even exercise self control when they’re pointed out to you? It would be irresponsible for us adults to continue allowing it.
>Again, if the parents are worried the kids are spending too long on their phones they can do something about it, not the gov.
Parents aren’t worried about this, and that’s the root of the problem. If the school system does nothing about it, then the kids will just end up addicted to TikTok and completely unprepared for the world on account of being distracted in class. Their parents aren’t going to do anything about it until it’s too late.