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Lol, I regularly play with my hormones and am regularly over 1200ng/dl of testosterone. I'm not at all more aggressive unless my e2 is out of control. What is true, however, is that testosterone can make you meaner, not by making you more aggressive or angry (because androgens tend to calm you down) but by making you more permissive. The more testosterone you have, the less guilt you have in your actions and have an "I do what I want" mentality. You won't want to be vegan, you won't want to be part of a charity, you won't want to follow a religion, you won't want to be orthorexic, you won't want to welcome migrants to your country and be kind to criminals, you will not want to be prevented from using and selling drugs, you will not want to be prohibited from being homosexual or part of a social minority etc etc etc. It's the hormone of libertarians if you will.

Testosterone does not increase aggression, it just makes you more confident and therefore likely to assert your anger/displeasure on an ad hoc basis. Testosterone also increases the release of cothecholamine so you can be more impulsive. Otherwise testosterone and androgens actually make you more relaxed and sociable, the sometimes observable association between testosterone and aggression comes from testosterone converting to estrogen (particularly estradiol), which is actually the cause of increasing aggression AND manic libido by increasing the signaling/release of serotonin, histamine, and other neurotransmitters involved in this type of behavior.

Paris is a very expensive shit hole, ethnically replaced by Africans, and sometimes dirty. There is also regularly a huge traffic jam at rush hour if you live in the outskirts or even outside the Ile de France. If you come to France, go to cities like Bordeaux or Strasbourg, or even better in the provinces (Alps, Périgords, Gers, Pyrenees-Orientales (not Perpignan, it's a shit hole!) etc).

You say nonsense, I literally spent two decades in France (all my existence in fact) and I have never heard of orgies, as in all countries there must be some but in an extremely marginal way. And there are also no "frog soups" there are restaurants, sometimes, that offer frog legs, usually cooked with butter and air like snails. Do you have a problem with this. And there is no hint of Nazism in Germany, it's just in your head. And the French are actually probably more conservative than the Germans, on average.

I may have misunderstood your answer, but I meant romantic in the philosophical (and artistic) sense of the term. "Idealist if you will" Nihilists do not commit suicide, they are idealists in cognitive dissonance who do. This idea of suicidal nihilists in the collective unconscious comes from a sociological bias, the majority are (even unconsciously) idealists, both by attavism and by cultural background, and are ultimately confronted with nihilist ideas only in troubled situations see dramatic. You are nihilistic if you embrace, accept, this vision of life and of the world. Although obviously the worldview is more complicated and subtle than these terms.

I'd rather be a nihilist than a romantic, which induces a form of idealism.

What do you mean by "death is imaginary"? Saw it from Leo and other people. What will happen when I'm old and my body is going to fail, my brain is going to malfunction, etc. This question has been asked several times but I haven't seen a clear answer.

You don't have to answer me on this topic, no one has to answer me. I'm not a spammer so I'm not getting any replies I'll stop and that's it. I just ask, in a polite and simple way, to have it explained to me why my nihilistic "ideas" are wrong, but all I get in return seems fuzzy and irrational, and if I dig I get surprisingly hostile reactions or calls for silence, whether here, at the university, etc.

Atypical things attract atypical people

So it's also "selfish", the purpose is not "animal welfare" but to feel good. The difference being that if an average person will take more pleasure in eating animals, while you, because of your guilt, will rather take more pleasure in depriving yourself of this consumption and feeling proudly virtuous. No ? That's what I meant, I may have expressed myself badly, I'm not an English speaker. It's true that you can be too sensitive to kill an animal and eat it for environmental and genetic reasons. But suddenly it's not "ethics", it's just that you can't, it's a limitation that comes down to hardware (your mirror neurons, balance of neurotransmitters...) in the same way as a quadriplegic is not "ethical" if he cannot do the same thing. Do you think, if you actually act out of empathy, you are more "ethical" than someone who simply has less empathy? You haven't really answered, why do you absolutely want to minimize your impact on animals if it ultimately has no repercussions on your life?

why ? i don't understand.

Why ? What will this change in your life? You don't want to be hit because it's "immoral", you don't want to be hit because it bores you. But you're not that animal, you're you, so what's the problem with killing an animal to eat it since you don't feel its pain and you're not afraid of being punished by a superior entity? There is no double measurement. Besides, do you pay so much attention to animals, including humans, in other sectors other than the consumption of animal flesh? Do you pay attention to where you buy your exotic fruits (annanas, bananas, dates, certain nuts...) which often exploit precarious Third World workers or even children? Are you panicking at the idea that thousands of small animals still end up literally squashed in cereal monocultures? Are you careful not to take a phone so the CPU was not manufactured in foxconn, qualcomm or other factories known for the number of employees who died by suicide?

What is your "ethics" based on if it has no bearing on your life? If you are not religious then who decides on ethics? where is it written? in the clouds?

Are you a woman or a man? The only reason that would push me to cheat is sex, and it's precisely because I don't have a big libido that I don't consider it. + why are you talking about pornography?

More than ketamine ?

No, there is the whole nuance. I mean that men from the south of france (and from southern europe as a rule) had less problems committing actions punishable by law and considered by a certain number of people to be "immoral", including deceiving his wife. Cheating on your wife is not "moral", the French are not polygamous, it's just that I observe that the French and even more from other European countries around the Mediterranean attach importance to respect for the government and cultic norms ("morale") in a much more conditional way. I don't understand why cheating makes me bad, because I don't hurt my wife, especially obviously if she doesn't know about it (logic of omerta, indeed). I said I was trolling in the sense that I was having fun teasing you, but my question is sincere. 1) Trying to hurt me will be the last thing you do in your life. 2) More seriously, why are you so interested in what I could possibly do and which concerns only my private life?

So what is the point of such considerations? Why not kill (at least indirectly through purchase) any animal you choose to eat?

@Devin @Something Funny @something_else lmao, I don't even have a big libido and I don't necessarily "want to cheat". I'm just defending a pragmatic and vain worldview, and trolling a little along the way. It is also in this kind of discussion that I realize cultural differences, I come from the south of France and the majority of people I have met have a similar vision. The biggest clashes I've had are actually on the internet, against people from northern/central Europe, or Anglo-Saxon countries with a much more romantic vision. This sentence seems incredibly strange to me

None unless you subscribe to the idea of karma, going to hell etc. Anyway in reality it is not so easy and you risk being punished one way or another.

It's true that if she found out it could hurt her, but I made it clear that that won't happen in my example. The fact that I have to hide from her does not prove that it is a "bad act", I hide from her because she has a problem with it. She thinks it's a problem if I cheat on her, but that's only true in her head, so it's no problem if she doesn't know. It's like telling you that you shouldn't take psychedelics because it will force you to hide it from your parents (if your parents are against it). The fundamental problem is not to put any serotonergic substance in your body, what is problematic is the knowledge of this act by your parents because handling such a substance is for some reason taboo for them. Now I ask my question again: If I have sex with another girl, what's the problem if I'm still in love with my girlfriend and the relationship is unchanged? You totally changed the meaning of the sentence. I said that even a millionaire I don't want a ferrari because I don't like it, I prefer a cheaper car but that suits me better. Incidentally, I don't compare girls and cars. Either you like cars or you don't, money is just a limiting factor.

@LSD-Rumi 1) Why are you vegan? Are you afraid of being punished by a superior force? 2) Why have a cat, why not have a child instead?

@JannesAre you part of a religion or spiritual dogma that condemns the consumption of animals and threatens you with reprisals (karma, hell...).

This is true for impressionable/weak-minded people. Even billionaire I don't care if I have gold, diamonds, a Ferrari, a villa... I just want what I really like, and what I really like is usually cheap. To get out of the metaphor, how fucking another ass one night will alter the quality of your relationship with your partner? can you give an example? It's just in your head, you created a relationship -> cheat = mean = loser etc. Can you explain how ejaculating in another vagina one night puts me in such a category? Having sex with another woman isn't going to make me love my wife less or just alter the relationship, so I don't get it. Are you a woman? women often struggle to understand the very primitive and emotionally detached nature of the male libido.

Ethics is a subjective and therefore relative concept, and anyway worthless if you are not religious. What is concrete is what might happen to me if I commit this crime? (apart from the obvious pragmatic consequences like retaliation, for example). That goes for any "immoral" action. You may call me lazy, but you're the one who just releases cloudy, murky terms like "ethics" or "ok." Why ?

there is no problem, you do what you want What does "ok" mean to you? obviously you have to be particularly strange and dangerous to want to do that, but do you think that God is going to punish you or something like that?