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by Ondrej
Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:08 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Paying Attention
Replies: 13
Views: 173704

Re: Paying Attention

by Ondrej
Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:59 am
Forum: Racism
Topic: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Replies: 2
Views: 56174

Re: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Apparently there's a character limit and I hit it... Here's the rest 4 Fear of a Black Planet “In a 2014 speech, he said, ‘The fact [is] that in scores of our cities and market towns, this country in a short space of time has frankly become unrecognisable. Whether it is the impact on local schools a...
by Ondrej
Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:58 am
Forum: Racism
Topic: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Replies: 2
Views: 56174

Re: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

I failed to take notes on chapter one. We have collectively recognized and agreed racism is bad and have assigned a high degree of stigmatization to such behavior. But on what grounds? On the grounds that not everyone of a particular race ought to be assumed to be like others of that race. In other ...
by Ondrej
Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:21 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Paying Attention
Replies: 13
Views: 173704

Re: Paying Attention

by Ondrej
Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:23 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Paying Attention
Replies: 13
Views: 173704

Re: Paying Attention

Gad Saad reporting on UCLA suspending a professor who refused to grade based on skin color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zghcjk-kfwA
by Ondrej
Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:58 pm
Forum: Capitalism
Topic: Blaming capitalism for your own choices
Replies: 5
Views: 816609

Re: Blaming capitalism for your own choices

Obesity is due to people choosing to sell unhealthy food, packing it with artificial sweeteners and semi-addictive substances, because they will sell more that way than if they sold food that was good for you. In other words, obesity is precisely due to people not "considering others with utmo...
by Ondrej
Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:12 pm
Forum: Capitalism
Topic: Blaming capitalism for your own choices
Replies: 5
Views: 816609

Re: Blaming capitalism for your own choices

Yes, this is a theme in Atlas Shrugged that I appreciated. Shifting blame doesn't do anyone any good, least of all the person doing it, who then has an excuse not to change their own behaviour. My friends have told me that one of the more annoying traits of some Americans is what they call a "...
by Ondrej
Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:24 pm
Forum: Capitalism
Topic: Capitalism and Individualism
Replies: 3
Views: 1443330

Re: Capitalism and Individualism

There are some things a collective private endeavour hasn't the power to do. I think you mean "incentive". I don't see why private endeavors should have some limitation not also faced by the government. Things that pertain to the tragedy of the commons, for example. The tragedy of the com...
by Ondrej
Sat Sep 04, 2021 9:24 pm
Forum: Capitalism
Topic: Blaming capitalism for your own choices
Replies: 5
Views: 816609

Re: Blaming capitalism for your own choices

Yes you're right I am interested in what is fashionable, but I don't want to confuse fashionableness with truth. Yes, we are on the same page here. I keep bringing up what is "fashionable" to highlight the notion that we are picking up ideas from "the ether" and running with the...
by Ondrej
Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:24 pm
Forum: Capitalism
Topic: Does the government force people to do things?
Replies: 15
Views: 103661

Re: Does the government force people to do things?

I have been sitting here for some time thinking about which way to take this. I have a bunch of thoughts but I think at the root of the problem is something you alluded to: theft is morally wrong by definition. I think we need to specify what we mean by theft (which I think we already did), and then...