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ofd

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  1. How do you explain the Milgram experiments?
  2. Nice circular definition.
  3. The main problem is scalability once the Phosphorus fields are about to run out and the price rises so other methods of extraction become economical. You have to bridge a gap, where Phosphorus becomes rare. And during that time, the price of fertilizer will go up dramatically.
  4. Where can that theory be found? Peak oil means that oil production follows a bell shaped like curve. After the peak is reached, the production goes into a decline. Hubbert got the date of peak oil wrong, the rest of his arguments are uncontroversial. Every plants needs trace minerals, CO2, water, and soil to grow. If one ingredient is missing it will die. Unless new reserves for Phosphorus are found, it will be depleted in 20 years.
  5. Not really. To sustain a population of the current size, you need cheap fossil fuels and fertilizers. One important ingredit to fertilizer, Phosphorus, is very limited, we may run out of it in about 20 years. Other fertilizer is based on the availability of cheap fossil fuel.
  6. The basic stuff is likely to be encoded, the minutae not. Caring for deceased could be encoded in the DNA but the way this happens is different. Some cultures put dead people in the ground, others feed them to birds. Both may think that what the other culture does is barbaric.
  7. A biological perspective allows you to ask questions that can be answered. Where is our sense of morality located? What role does morality play in group cohesion and group selection? The proof is in the pudding. If your moral system makes the group and the individual spread their genes, it is correct. Evolution doesn't, your moral system does. And that moral system is under selection pressure over the generations. This is the conundrum. Your brain allows you to adjust to dysfunctional enviroments, but once the enviroment changes for the better you are still stuck with those now maladaptive adjustments.
  8. The chances that intelligent alien life is found in the next 10 years is higher than OP finding a waifu. Women adapt to the mainstream culture around them and since most attributes you posted are held by a minority your chances are slim.
  9. I agree, the NAP is the bare minimum. Max Weber distinguished between two ethical / moral approaches. Gesinnungsethik and Verantwortungsethik. With Gesinnungsethik, you do what is right, no matter the consequences. With Verantwortungsethik you take the effects of actions into account when acting. If you apply the latter, you have basically two options: accelerationism or trying to get back to the status quo. If you think that a collapse can't be avoided, you speed up the inevitable. This view has the advantage that you can argue for the NAP while at the same time applying a bird's eye view.
  10. Robert Sapolsky recently published a book on the topic where he describes the evolution of moral behaviour from a biological perspective. Well worth checking as well as his interviews with Sam Harris or Joe Rogan. He claims that conscience serves a role in adapting to society to spread our genes. Since social behaviour is complex and different from culture to culture, this part of the brain develops relatively late and stops when you are into your mid 20s.
  11. Except that it's not, but ok. That's several steps too far. Under the NAP there is no moral obligation for you to help somebody else or prevent a murder.
  12. Tell us more about the scientific and logical discoveries during the Ancient Egyptian empire (which dynasty?).
  13. That's a common misunderstanding of how evolution works. Evolution doesn't select for the best defense possible, it builds on existing structures and makes them good enough so that you can pass on your genes to your descendants. You can see that in designs that make no sense, until you realize that they made sense once and that they didn't change because they didn't inflict with your ability to pass on genes (teeth that have nerves make no sense, nor does the route of the nervus glosspharyngus) It's only indoctrination if you show that what was taught (or dictated) was in fact wrong. Calling it indoctrination before determining the truth value is begging the question. Lets assume for the case of the argument that pandora's box is opened and vaccines are shedded. How can that be any worse than the virus shedding?
  14. 'Normal' is an appeal to nature, in case you missed my point entirely. And you find out that via statistics, looking at the death rates of children before and after there were vaccines, reasons why they died. Let me tell you a sad truth. For evolution, rubella and measles are just as important you. Evolution doesn't care if you are dead or alive. Evolution also doesn't look after safe consumption for humans or other organisms. You still have no idea what appeal to nature is. Fascinating. I have a suggestion for you. Look at how many children died of infectious diseases against which there are vaccines now. The natural way would be for them to die. The artifical evil method of vaccination prevented that.
  15. Just in case you don't know what appeal to nature is. Ok, you don't know what it is. You know stuff like observations and statistics. I cry everytime.
  16. Where? I am suggesting that appeal to nature is a fallacy. Wakefield made specific claims that have been verified. He also claimed that the vaccine that he promoted didn't have the side effects (inflammation and autism). Ever since he seems to have changed his position to be against vaccination in general. Why people who are against vaccination cite his study that promotes a better vaccine is beyond me.
  17. Gaslighting.
  18. The Chinese hold a lot of US obligations which are traded in Dollars. They have to walk a thin line lest they become worthless.
  19. This is a thinly veiled threat to the US. If the BRICS choose this option we'll see a number of Black Swan events, one being the end of the neoliberal doctrine. Via http://www.atimes.com/article/real-brics-bombshell/
  20. Documentaries are indeed quite useful
  21. I don't see why. You act on your personal preferences which are subjective. For one person the highest good might be eating strawberry ice cream for the other person it could be burning down houses. Both act and that makes them happier. If they didn't value what they acted out, then they wouldn't do it.
  22. I wonder which nonwhite group might be behind that and also be responsible for promoting promiscuity and deviant sexual behaviour?
  23. Things that aren't normal either: - Toothpaste - Soap - Coffee - Aspirin - Cooked food - Any drug - Any medical procedure
  24. Your unwillingness to see the problems prevents you also from thinking about the fundamental problems behind them. You assumed by assertion that ZF can easily be translated to PA. That proposition is anything but clear and requires some research and thinking. That question alone is more worthwhile pondering than your drivel. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.6357v1.pdf
  25. You haven't shown that the universal set is universal and finite. You just assumed it, unless I missed that part. Because of the many world aspect of it. You can distinguish between true and necessarily true right away. Furthermore, the theory is already established and well researched unlike set theory for ethical systems.
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