Unseen

jakelafort wrote:

I would think that primitive cultures would be instructive. Or is that a bias on my part to assume that modern cultural overlays will be missing? No doubt there are innate differences but what may truly complicate matters is neuroplasticity. And that means that what may appear as an innate difference is a response to the…

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Why would nature create just one mammal whose gender behavior differences are not encoded and not primarily influenced hormonally? What evolutionary path would lead that species there? Don’t make this about equality. We can be different and equal and we don’t need a  Handicapper General to enforce equality.

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Simon Paynton wrote:

I don’t know, there has to be a reason why there are mainly patriarchies and almost no matriarchies, and it’s not necessarily to do with “success”. Endicott (1981) says that males take advantage of power structures in society to impose their dominance over females. How this happens I’m not sure. In egalitarian societies…

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In a kind of gender-oriented Fermi paradox, somewhere in Camille Paglia’s corpus she asks if a matriarchal society is as superior as the mainstream feminists imply, if it gives its citizens advantages over patriarchies, then where are the successful matriarchies? Successful societies, to the extent they are archies at all, are always patriarchies.…[Read more]

The Nightmare Scenario That Keeps Election Lawyers Up At Night — And Could Hand Trump A Second Term

Read the full article here:

Between the political machinations described below, an already conservative Supreme Court, possibly to become even more conservative in coming weeks, and the naked power mad hypocrisy of the GOP who for years now have t…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

Do the legalities play a role when he has decided he is not leaving? March on DC Tcultists. Now what?

Depends on who follows the rules (and him losing the election), but once Biden is sworn in, Biden is the President and Trump can leave holding a cardboard box of the contents of his desk, or the Secret Service will treat him as…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

The only current swing states with a Republican trifecta is Florida. Ohio, Iowa and Arizona. I’ve taken a look at all four states and:Florida has the slimmest majority in the Senate. It’s unlikely a super contentious bill like that would pass there…especially in a state with a serious history of voting supression and electoral disas…

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Jake, read that Newsweek article about how Trump can lose the election but remain President.

One of the things I fear the most is that Trump, having lost the popular vote, perhaps by an even greater margin, is still just a few EC votes away from winning. Since the GOP tends to run the state legislatures, especially in swing states, there is time…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Mitch didn’t waste much time, did he? Do the Democrats have a secret weapon to thwart a rapid Ginsburg replacement?

I love alternet.org but they are very aggressive in terms of forcing visitors to turn off their ad blockers. Unfortunately, I’ve found that even after you create an exception for them (called “…[Read more]

He’s already done so much damage along with that evil genius from Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has rammed through 216 Federal judges (lifetime terms) with 220 possible by Election Day. Thus, anything Biden does, should he win, would likely be run through a gauntlet of conservative (and in many cases unqualified) judges before it even got to…[Read more]

Things just got much worse. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. Senator Mitch McConnell, who runs the Senate, has assured everyone that there will be a conservative replacement for the ultra-liberal Ginsberg before Inauguration Day. So this will happen no matter who wins the presidency. If Biden wins, he’ll have a very very conservative Supreme…[Read more]

I just thought of a good one: I was dead before I knew it.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Unseen, if you can transfer your consciousness onto a disc or into a Frankenstein or Adonis for that matter will you do it? Emmm…….do you not have maximum headroom to do so? 🙂

Frankenstein…I like he ring of that.

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:

Introducing facts and rationality into an emotional issue

To pro-life people, it’s a “fact” that the foetus is a human being. To pro-choice people, more accurately in my opinion, it’s a proto-human being, not yet a human being. However, it has rights under the law, not to be killed in an assault. It’s one big g…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Is there a hidden agenda for pro-choice people?

Introducing facts and rationality into an emotional issue in order to create a rational world, but it’s futile. Emotional issues are generally not based on misunderstandings that a fact or two will change.

I love the way Simon and Davis are proving my point. Nothing either of you can offer as evidence will change either mind. It’s because your attitudes aren’t fact driven. You use facts to justify your position but no fact will prove your position.

Can anyone think of a seismic shift on a moral/ethical issue that was due to a fact rather than a widespread shift in the public’s attitude, or a fact that changed the public’s mind on a moral/ethical matter?