Carl-Richard

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You're just misunderstanding the concept. Artificial selection (a.k.a selective breeding) is when a human decides using their own volition exactly who breeds and who doesn't: "this specific dog right here gets to breed with this other dog". When nature or a mate decides who breeds, it's natural or sexual selection. Natural selection means the individuals with the highest evolutionary fitness survive and reproduce. Darwin posited a system (evolution by natural selection) and articulated the constraints of that system (variability in traits, finite resources, descent with modification). "Nature", i.e. the constraints posited by Darwin, does the selection. The environment does not do the selection. The environment plays into some of the constraints, but so does the organisms. Again, we're not talking about a random sample of people. We're talking about a group of people with shared cultural values, a shared history and shared selection pressures.

I admit it's a silly argument. But why is being unreformable a necessary criteria for the death penalty? And how do you decide who is unreformable?

Lol I'm 25 and my hairline has been under attack for the last 5 years (it's like Norwood 4 or something). I recently started shaving it very thin with a machine. I'm preparing for the eventual dive into baldhood

Our class watched this very moving clip during a lecture on domestic violence (we watched up until 5:40). Thought I would share it here (I was only able to find it with Spanish subtitles).

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No. You don't even need to meditate to engage in spiritual bypassing. Even affirming a belief like "there is only Now" can be a way of spiritual bypassing. I used to do that many years ago to avoid thinking about the future and avoid responsibilities.

We should.

Leo thinks extremely bad people who are sitting in jail should be killed. I don't think so, because: Their ability to do harm to innocent people is absolutely minimal. Their ability to do harm does not differ substantially from the large amount of very bad people below the "extreme" cut-off point. Very few people are extremely bad, so removing them leads to only a marginal reduction in harm. Executioners have extremely high rates of PTSD: 31%, compared to 20% in Iraq veterans. We generally don't kill people for being a social or economic burden on society (e.g. institutionalized mentally ill people). "We will kill you not because we have to, but because we can" is a terrifying message for the state to send to its citizens. I don't believe anybody inherently "deserves" to die.

I'm saying Leo is being compassionate towards them despite their wrongdoings.

So, 1. They can be a drag on society (mentally ill) and you'll still be compassionate. 2. They can be a danger to other people (domestic abuser) and you'll still be compassionate. What about being both? That's a prisoner.

This discussion centers around whether animal agriculture is bad for the environment, and it's simply the case that it leads to deforestation.

Girlfriend and stop trying to convice my mom I'm not a loser.

Firstly, that's not nice. Secondly, there is a block button.

He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone.

He didn't human traffick anyone lol.

I used to think this new wave of prog metal bands were a bit recycled and lacking in style, but this might've changed my mind:

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@Kksd74628 The people who became a mod never argued for why they should become a mod ?

@Kksd74628 You shouldn't want it too much. Red flag

Yes they're great scientists.

Should domestic abusers be able to go to therapy? Do their victims who also are likely to become domestic abusers also get to go to therapy?

My time is also running thin. Do you want a place where people can grow at their own pace, or do you want a place where you can say how awake you are? Just differentiate between your psychonaut approach and the traditional spiritual approach. You do accept a plurality of perspectives and interests in personal development (some people mostly sit in the dating section, or journal section, or self-actualization section), but when people want to simply meditate and not take psychedelics 300 times, you denigrate them and threaten to kick them out? Also, this did not start with them. It started with you saying "you're not awake". Do better.

This has nothing to do with artificial selection. Nobody is artificially choosing who gets to breed and who doesn't. There is not a person somewhere who picks out who gets to breed like in a dog breeding program. The only thing the individuals are doing is merely adopt the values in question, and this alone creates a selection pressure which natural selection acts upon. In other words, in a culture that values literacy and education, people who excel in literacy and education have a higher likelihood of surviving (and probably also a higher sexual market value) compared to those who don't, and this is linked to IQ. So you can also argue for a sexual selection component.

Consciousness is everywhere, so that is not what is being passed on. What you're really asking for is this: how does the baby get its own window out on the world? You already answered it: through growth. Consciousness gives birth to the body, and through growth, it attains its perceptual and cognitive capabilities (sights, sounds, sense of touch, smells, emotions, visual imagery, conceptual reasoning, self-reflection). The body, perception and cognition all happen within consciousness. Consciousness comes prior to all of it.