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by jm__87 9y ago
The fact that you currently understand that lower aptitude is not the reason there are fewer women in STEM, in spite of the numbers, tells me that this problem could be solved by giving people the correct facts regarding the situation and s
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I think it is just OPs wording that got me arguing this point: "a man's success in life". Not a man's success in gaining material wealth. The argument I was trying to make (rather poorly it seems) is that people don&#x27
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by jm__87 9y ago
At a superficial level you would appear to be successful, as anyone who doesn't know you just sees the house and the car. As soon as anyone heard that you spend all your money on yourself and let your family eat scraps, I think most pe
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by jm__87 9y ago
Everyone's preferences are going to have some social element. Why is this a bad thing? The only thing that should matter is that people are free to pursue whatever life they are interested in, whatever the reason.
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by jm__87 9y ago
I would disagree that our society (presumably, North American society) judges a man's success solely by his wealth. Our society values men who are responsible - who can provide the best life for their family and protect them. I imagine
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by jm__87 9y ago
This is just a ridiculous comment. Why does originality matter here at all if it is helping someone?
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If you listen to enough of his stuff, you'll realize he is neither of those things (not sure what evidence ever existed of him being sexist), though I can understand why people would think he is transphobic. His original argument again
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by jm__87 9y ago
I think most people don't have a use for thinking of reality in these terms until they struggle with something that brings them to this line of questioning or unless they are just naturally very curious and have a lot of free time. As
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by jm__87 9y ago
Gotcha. I was a bit confused by your "physical self" terminology as the relevance of the term "physical self" depends on whether you believe in some non-physical self or if you believe that consciousness and thus the sel
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Are you referring to the difference between the subjective experience of feeling like a "self" vs your knowledge of being a "self" (or the illusion of being a self)? If that is the case, I actually disagree that the expe
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by jm__87 9y ago
You have to be licensed to fly an airplane. You have to log a flight plan. I'm not an expert in aviation but I imagine if your flight plan includes something excessively risky that endangers the lives of yourself or others, someone is
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by jm__87 9y ago
There are laws against driving above a certain speed. This is exactly the argument that was being made above.
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Do you mind giving an example?
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Not sure I would lump economics and psychology in there. Economics tries to explain some observable phenomenon which arises from human behavior which we don't fully understand. Psychology again, tries to understand human behavior. In t
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by jm__87 9y ago
One commonality across a few different mental health disorders is that an individual can have a set of irrational thoughts that they believe to be true. Knowing that a thought is just a thought and our thoughts are often not an accurate ref
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by jm__87 9y ago
I think you missed my point... your lack of existence is on par with anything else, to some objective observer. You are not an objective observer. You can choose to care about yourself. You just have to accept the trade off that caring abou
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by jm__87 9y ago
So what if life objectively has no meaning? You can only experience it through your own subjective viewpoint, so why not find something that is subjectively meaningful to you?
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* Permanent until the central bank chooses to contract their balance sheet at some point in the future. Perhaps a better way to describe it is that a pump and dump strategy has a transient effect on the value of the asset in question, where
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by jm__87 9y ago
There is a distinct difference between some pump and dump strategy and a central bank printing a ton of currency. One has a temporary effect on supply and demand for the instrument in question, the other has a permanent effect.
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As far as I understand, currencies have value because we all agree they do (or because there is a guaranteed fixed exchange rate for some other asset that we have all agreed has value). The extent to which a currency is a good store of valu
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by jm__87 9y ago
Yeah, I suppose I lacked some precision in my language there.. I agree with you that women as a group were certainly oppressed in the past, and any woman who didn't want to live within the cultural norm would have felt oppressed, wheth
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by jm__87 9y ago
Ah I don't want to comment on most of that, but I do think there is good reason to ask if women as a class are oppressed today, as they certainly were in the past. This means looking for and removing any biases in the hiring practices
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by jm__87 9y ago
Sorry to hear that. The point I was trying to make is that inequalities != oppression. I think it is important to distinguish between unfairness arising from random natural events (e.g. being weaker, shorter, uglier or below average in some
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by jm__87 9y ago
I kind of get what you're saying, but to be fair, there are certain characteristics that women find more desirable in men and yet no one would say that men are being oppressed because of this.
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by jm__87 9y ago
"Yet, in reality, beauty standards are a set of norms that reinforce the gender and class status quo in a patriarchal society." Can you please expand on this? That is a very strong statement.
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To add to this, it is very hard to argue that QE has not been good for those who are rich and have bought and held financial assets over the last 7 years or so. It is harder to say whether it has been beneficial for average individuals.. on
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So net debtors benefit if there is inflation before they have to make payments. The more inflation there is before you make payments, the greater the benefit to the debtor. As inflation naturally occurs over time, this benefit is less prono
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Well, you can actually measure the effects that the Paleo diet has on biomarkers, so it isn't nearly as subjective as dating norms..
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Feel like we really approach the whole dieting process incorrectly. People eat to fulfill a need. They are either hungry and eat to no longer feel hungry or they eat because it produces positive feelings (whether this is to negate negative
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by jm__87 10y ago
> On top of that we are constantly bombarded with images of the life we should be living via advertising and television. Not meeting these media driven standards leads to further depression and despair. Not meeting these standards does n

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