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How I read that.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
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I don't believe in that kind of shit (re: tea leaves etc.)
When governments make policy, they should not strictly use mathematical intelligence. It certainly helps, but emotional intelligence and foresight play a huge role as well.
It it naive to assume that decisions made based solely on numbers would fair well. People are more complex than a simple equation. And if science was able to boil down the human race into a predictable, malleable, bland race, then there would be no point in mankind sticking around.
who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch invents an instrument to measure Spring with
what about people that simply do not want to come out of the closet, for their own reasons whatever they may be
Yes. That is pretty much what I said.
I mean you conveniently leave out the reasoning and examples that explain why I believe that, so your post is argumentatively meaningless, and doesn't engage any meat of the discussion, but you're not wrong, I guess. You're dodging the argument, but you're not wrong.
By a closet case.
but reprisals, legislation and genuinely reasonable fear hold it back
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but it's where you come off as really fucking judgemental from a clinical view
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Right, but all the advancement we've made has been dependent upon gay people saying "fuck you we'll do what we want and you better get used to it."
The Civil Rights Act wasn't achieved by black people meekly keeping their opinions private.
You don't get Selma or Stonewall without open confrontation. You can't move the debate forward if you don't admit you are part of the debate.
Here, I'll break it into smaller pieces.
Yes, shoving cameras up asses makes people lie less.
No, shoving cameras up asses, no matter how far, no matter how many, will never make people stop lying.
Shoving cameras up asses won't create a utopian society where no one ever deceives anyone else.
There are more desirable goals than not being deceived.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
but shit, if they don't want to come out, they don't have to
Yeah but forcing people to become part of the debate kind of defeats the object for the people who are fighting for the cause
The whole idea being that sexuality/race/whatever should be pretty much irrelevant and have little bearing on people's attitudes towards you
but you at least realize that yours is the opinion of an observer
however set you are in your belief system, you at least gotta have objective thought enough to realize that there are other perspectives and it'd be foolish to assume it's the only sane one
like a gay dude that don't want to get clobbered
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it is not moral to put a hardon in your relative
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http://www.pickmeupmagazine.co.uk/real_lives/In_love_with_Grandad_and_having_his_baby_article_296922.html
If Shoe was taking handouts from Ticketmaster to fuck with the tickets at work? I'd have a right to know that too because he's fucking with MY tickets!
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fire him
alright tlb i want in on the ground floor of this shit
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also this
http://www.pickmeupmagazine.co.uk/real_lives/Stabbed_for_not_being_sexy_enough_article_146877.html
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Well, I think this may be a fair point but I do want to put it out there that individual humans are really bad at predicting what will make us happy. Freedom of choice is not at all related to well-being, even subjectively defined. Look how many people pursue great wealth when all evidence suggests that once you're about middle class all additional wealth fails to correlate to any significant gain in well-being. Look at how Americans tend to rate themselves as less satisfied and less happy than many people in developing nations.
Honestly, I think there's really a paucity of evidence to suggest that our society is substantially better at producing well-being than most of our hunter-gatherer ancestral societies were. That doesn't mean we go back to that, because it wasn't any better back then either, but most studies of self-reported well-being seem to suggest that freedom of choice and wealth don't correlate to well-being as closely as we like to think.
Which means that someone's choice to stay in the closet may be motivated out of a limited scope of knowledge and experience that fails to accurately predict the results of their actions. I mean how many times do you hear people say how great they felt when they finally came out. It's more than a bit more common than the reverse. I mean have you seen San Francisco? It's basically heaven.
In general, I tend to think that an individual person is one of the worst predictors of what will make themselves happy. It makes sense, from an evolutionary standpoint. Our actions are largely motivated by emotion and desire, which are heavily genetically influenced (in the sense that guilt or love or euphoria or hopelessness is an evolved mechanism. All humans feel these emotions -- they're built into the brain). However, that doesn't mean they'll make us happy as individuals. After all, as we all know, the individual is not the unit of selection.
Essentially what I'm trying to say is that our actions (our choices) are generally better suited to preserve the genetic viability of the genes that influence those actions rather than to preserve the well-being of the individual organism. I mean, shit, look at misery. It's clearly evolutionarily useful, because it's universally present in our species and is an important way to motivate us to do stuff. Definitionally, though, it sucks. What is useful to our genes is rarely what is useful to us as people. They are not perfectly overlapping spheres of interest.
I think, on this note, that a lot of the ascetic religious groups of the world have basically figured this out. Buddhist monks, for example. You got the basic idea that desire is the root of all suffering, which is pretty much another way of saying what I just said from an evolutionary psychology perspective. They train themselves to live lives as uninfluenced as possible by their genetic interests, and more influenced by their interests as individual human beings to find happiness and well-being. I definitely dig on ascetics for this reason.
But, back to the point of privacy. I think it may even have a few good applications, but on the whole if we got rid of it in general, I think the good would more than balance out the bad effects.
http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/new-idea/real-life/article/-/7124792/im-in-love-with-my-grandson-were-having-a-baby/
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No I absolutely understand that perspective
But, see my above post
we can get rid of privacy once we're in the Star Trek Shit Is Real And Functioning Era
by that time we'll be immortal robots
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