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I’m pretty sure right now Trump is going: Zheesh…Iran actually fought back? What the fuck should I do now? While every advisor is already saying “I don’t think that’s a good idea sir” to every idea he spits out.

Indeed Unseen. Hypocracy unbound. I certainly respect people who choose to be vegan (though I worry about the malnutrition involved especially for children forced into veganism by their parents). But the overt lecturing of “it’s wrong to wear fur or eat eggs” done by a minority, a vocal obnoxious one, is so full of holes once you follow their…[Read more]

Jake please spare me your analogies…they don’t work. Animals and humans are not comparable in modern human morality. I simply don’t take most vegans seriously because they almost always end up answering the following questions in a very similar way: A building is on fire and you have time to save a helpless crying 12 year old girl or 25…[Read more]

Animals are yummy and full of protein and essential nutrients and it’s simply asking too much of too many of us to give them up. People can speed up the end of slaughtering animals by funding research that allows economical meat to be grown in a lab (the science is there, the means of cheap mass production is not). Once that happens and the meat…[Read more]

Ivy nobody here wants to hear dogshit answers like

You sound SO elitist when you say that

here. That’s a barf of a response, absent of an argument, it makes no sense and even if it did it’s still irrelevant. Would you give Jake the respect of responding to his actual argument instead of applying a label to him with the goal of disrupting actual debate?

I think Nicolas Taleb put it really well in his book The Black Swan (outstanding read if you have the time). Throw a pool ball at two others and you can likely work out where they will go. Throw it into a pool table with 15 already moving balls and you need to account for the current wobble of a star 1000 light years away in order to properly work…[Read more]

 scientifically that such strong social connections in fact enhance survival in some species

And of course the opposite. Sexual harassment and abuse, an extremely toxic and malicious by-product of human sexual behavior, no doubt does mostly the opposite. May pass on genes but for most cases in human history, in a less than ideal or beneficial way…[Read more]

It seems obvious that there is an evolutionary bias toward sexual relations that can pass along genes, anything else is frivolous in a sense

Humans evolved to be sexual WELL outside of their fertile zones. So yeah, you could call it “frivolous” in that sense but it has numerous other benefits than simple procreation. Passing on the genes isn’t…[Read more]

Jake has responded best. A lot more investigation has to be done. While I have no doubt more people would be more open to different sexual experiences if it weren’t for cultural conditioning (most especially the horror of the Abrahamic religions that still haunts the world quite viciously in many places). Alcohol and prison does change things but…[Read more]