Re: Re: navel-gazing

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er — 6/8/2010 6:45:09 PM (archived)

It's funny how differntly we both react to this guy, even though we both believe he's crazier than a bedbug.

I see him as mistakenly injecting anthropocentric arguments to an essentially natural (and totally amoral) evolutionary phenomenon.

You see him as evidence of the degeneracy of Western academic intellectual ideas and how they threaten your own social Darwinist world views and their inevitable hyper-competitive extrapolations. Which by the way, I also see as mistakenly injecting anthropocentric arguments to an essentially natural phenomenon.

As for your observations about children, I totally agree. But I figure that as long as I don't threaten anyone's kids, I am under no obligation to have any of my own.

Personally, I think they smell bad, especially when they're wet.

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A thought experiment from Peter Singer - TB - 6/8/2010 4:16:30 PM
- The Golden Rule - Jody - 6/9/2010 9:48:27 PM
  - Golden thought - Eri - 6/10/2010 12:37:36 AM
- Right! - TB - 6/9/2010 9:03:55 PM
- Re: Re: Re: Darwinism - ER - 6/9/2010 7:48:50 PM
- Re: Shifting gears but along the same line.. - ER - 6/9/2010 7:44:15 PM
- Shifting gears but along the same line.. - Jody - 6/9/2010 7:11:27 PM
- Re: Re: Darwinism - TB - 6/9/2010 5:57:53 PM
- Re: Darwinism - ER - 6/9/2010 5:42:32 PM
- Darwinism - TB - 6/9/2010 5:17:08 PM
- Re: You might be making this too complicated. - ER - 6/9/2010 1:38:33 AM
- This whole thing is crap. - Eri - 6/9/2010 12:58:14 AM
- You might be making this too complicated. - TB - 6/9/2010 12:44:23 AM
- Not every one is a materialist ER. - Jody - 6/8/2010 10:03:15 PM
  - *sigh*...lowering my head and shaking it* - Jody - 6/10/2010 12:23:34 AM
    - Point(s) taken... - ER - 6/10/2010 2:12:01 PM
    - Yoo Hoo...ER... - Jody - 6/10/2010 12:32:33 PM
      - Thankfully... - mcfly - 6/10/2010 5:12:17 PM
        
        LOL! - Eri - 6/11/2010 2:38:20 AM
    - Spare us the feminist harangues, ladies... - ER - 6/10/2010 12:10:04 PM
      - Is it getting hot in here? - Jody - 6/10/2010 4:36:43 PM
      - A trophy pair... - er - 6/10/2010 2:53:32 PM
        
        Belay my last! - er - 6/10/2010 3:22:03 PM
        
        Tales of Brave Ulysses - er - 6/10/2010 7:43:55 PM
        
        Over the Sea our Galleys Went - Eri - 6/10/2010 8:40:19 PM
        
        The Sea Hold - Eri - 6/10/2010 8:37:40 PM
        
        Yo ho hum and a bottle of rum. - Eri - 6/10/2010 5:39:25 PM
        
        Avast, ye matey! - Eri - 6/10/2010 3:01:42 PM
      - Re: Spare us the feminist harangues, ladies... - Eri - 6/10/2010 2:26:51 PM
    - That's certain better than... - Eri - 6/10/2010 11:59:41 AM
  - Re: By your own admission - ER - 6/9/2010 7:55:58 PM
  - heh...very good Rob...and on that note... - Jody - 6/9/2010 4:27:30 PM
    - Eri Eri Eri.. - Jody - 6/9/2010 6:30:32 PM
    - Well, that's my opinion... - Eri - 6/9/2010 6:08:03 PM
  - The difference is, you followed your biological clock. - RobVG - 6/9/2010 4:15:27 PM
  - By your own admission - Jody - 6/9/2010 4:17:26 AM
  - Re: Not every one is a materialist ER. - ER - 6/8/2010 10:25:18 PM
- Wow... - Jody - 6/8/2010 9:59:07 PM
- Re: Re: navel-gazing - er - 6/8/2010 6:45:09 PM
  - I'm glad my parents didn't think that way. - Eri - 6/8/2010 7:11:14 PM
- Re: navel-gazing - TB - 6/8/2010 5:54:09 PM
  - Will you still need me, will you still feed me... - ER - 6/8/2010 9:40:25 PM
    - I'm broke. - Eri - 6/9/2010 12:59:17 AM
  - Well, I'm 63... - Eri - 6/8/2010 7:12:20 PM
- Typical philozawifigal navel-gazing BS. - er - 6/8/2010 5:43:54 PM

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