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Luckily, my present girlfriend is an INFJ. No Fi, no die! -Duxwing

Hmm. New Girlfriend Inspection Checklist: 1.) Check for DSM-V diagnoses 2.) (new) Check for INFPdom. -Duxwing

I feel no hatred toward INFPs. :( They love getting hugs, I love giving hugs, and their fine emotional discernment can make them excellent confidantes; their demeanor is slightly gelatinous but not a problem. -Duxwing

Fi and Te Meet in Pretender, by the Foo Fighters. An ISFP rock musician stares down a whole army of ISTJ riot police and then stops their charge with the power of his music, which the gigantic red explosion symbolizes. -Duxwing

It also lets you check your own proofs by writing them down and returning to them a day later: your intuition will not cloud your understanding of the bare symbols. -Duxwing

What are the traits and values of a good debater? Justify your answer. I'll list off a few: --Altruism: we debate not only for our own sakes, but for others' as well, and we must remain emotionally safe throughout and interested in the larger picture. --Integrity: Debate relies on the idea...

Re: Modern Feminism I can't read your mind, Cherry. ;) Oh. :( I could also have been unclear to you. :D I forgot a "however," after the semicolon. I meant that intentionally realistic characters should have accurate sexes while unrealistic characters need not. E.g., Superman is not a...

Re: Modern Feminism Just a little while back you said that she didn't connect her examples with overarching logic: if you're so good at interpreting her statements that you can see beneath her stated arguments, then why do you disagree with yourself? Fiction that intends to realistically...

Re: Modern Feminism Now you're saying that you know her point better than she does or presents. Males and females equally often participate in tropes in general; many of the male-specific ones are so prevalent as to be implied, e.g. --A Real Man is a Killer --A Man is Not a Virgin...

Re: Modern Feminism The conclusion of her reasoning is therefore that no passive victim should ever be female (oddly enough, all passive victims would therefore have to be male or genderless--a strange, enforced sexism). Further, she could be a professional victim feminist and surrounded by...

Re: Modern Feminism Perhaps the late hour is making me punchy, but aww, thanks. :) Your words were like the softest hug. Precisely. Great literature can be written about a housewife or damsel in distress. Exactly. -Duxwing

Re: Modern Feminism The criticism of video games that contain very sexual or otherwise stereotypical women seems strange in that it views the aforementioned women as women, and specifically symbolic, normative statements of what women are and should be, rather than as very sexual people whose...

Life is not necessarily pointless; rather, proving that it has a point is impossible, just like proving anything else is. And why do we want perfect knowledge and truth in the first place? Wanting them is not wrong, but our reasons for wanting them often are far more human than we might...

Sociopaths never experience the social forces that your hypothetical surgeon would have to will himself to ignore. We are all capable of great evil, but we must be changed into other people before so doing. -Duxwing

Subwayrider! *big hug* I've missed you, man. I was worried that you'd killed yourself in despair, but now I'm glad that you're alright. I have so much to tell you! Check your PMs. -Duxwing

Re: Modern Feminism An illustrative anecdote or two and some reports would be great. Thanks for asking! E.g., study finds that 83% of employers disfavor masculine character traits + "My boss fired me after I made a joke about the big game last night". -Duxwing

Re: Modern Feminism Have you any examples of such demonization? -Duxwing

Oh please don't tell me that that was a Bible quote. >_< -Duxwing

Both. If the prospect of such rehabilitation were fearful, then it might not be allowed, and yikes, you're right! The disposal system provides deterrent. Consider me converted, friend. -Duxwing

(playing Devil's advocate) What about deterrence? Punishing a even rehabilitable agent may instill such fear in the rest that fewer crimes are committed. E.g., if, in a society, Andrew rapes Betty, and we send Andrew to prison for a decade, then perhaps ten rapes were prevented. The question...

Welcome! :) -Duxwing

Why and how? Why and how? -Duxwing

De-confusing me would be the point of responding. -Duxwing

Well of course, given anything, anything follows: can you be more specific than "proper circumstances"? -Duxwing PS No one here is suggesting that an instinct prevents humans from raping.

We weren't balanced before, either, as anyone who looks at the entertainment of the past would quickly see: blackfaced Jim Crow shows and bareknuckle boxing in the 1700s-1800s, bear baiting up to the 1600s, and all manner of bloodsport up to and including gladiatorial combat during the Roman...

Ontological constructs encompass everything, so there! :D A social construct need not be genetically heritable. -Duxwing

Biological constructs can exist at the level of the individual: e.g., a species could evolve an altruistic emotional response to expressions of suffering by members of its own species. Humans, primates, and other advanced mammals have the brainpower to make such reactions even more nuanced and...

And you're saying that the decision process is what I said that it was? Ok! :) We would need god-like knowledge to predict it, but hey, we're in the ivory tower: we're God! -Duxwing

Did I say that the decision was conscious? :confused: And I can hardly imagine that one could unconsciously rape another person (sleepwalkers?). I meant to say that one could predict how another person decides given sufficient knowledge. If, for example, while you decide about doing X, you...

He assumed that all men were rapists while making his argument. Not the kind that snaps. :D Regarding grounds 1: The alternate possibility is that humans naturally lack empathy, which is the less parsimonious argument because it not only requires that humans but other such social...

When did I say that the decision was rational? I admit that I begged the question by saying "not worth," but non-technical English is a poor vehicle for such technical ideas as theory of mind. However, when I spoke of pain, I meant actual pain--e.g.,guilt, fear, broken bones--because I was...

Ok then. Oi. I should have noted that I was presenting a counterexample to THD's assertion that all men are rapists. Ok. That was oddly out of character. It likely is natural because empathy greatly improves the mating, parenting, and society of the greatest number of humans (in other...

He may be saying that our emotions are the values by which we decide: if, for example, I knew I would feel so guilty after raping someone that the sexual pleasure were not worth the pain, then ceteris paribus I would choose not to rape. But they would not naturally so be and instead be...

You're welcome! -Duxwing

I've felt the urge to rape in the abstract during a fantasy a few times, but my primary sex drive remains oriented to mutual pleasure and bonding because I don't find rape enjoyable--even while momentarily ignoring guilt--and I've never felt the urge to rape someone. What about you guys? When...

Thanks. -Duxwing PS Your post contains an angel and a little girl eating a kitty. It's sooo cute. :)

Though I agree with most of your assessment of Montresor's thread, I don't think that by "ahh, reductionism" you meant to say that his insensitively making a mountain out of a molehill while ignoring the greater subject was an application of philosophical reductionism. :) -Duxwing

You're welcome. What help did I give you? -Duxwing

I hope that you're feeling a little better. Creatively integrating your two desires can help you fulfill both of them. For example, you could become a software engineer and help people with their issues whenever you can as a hobby, perhaps referring to local therapists people who need more...

:D Incidentally, I played Minecraft for a year a year ago. After a while, I grew bored and moved on to Kerbal Space Program, which is slowly but surely weaning me off warfare. Rocket launcher, you say? Ever fired the 120mm smoothbore of an M1? Or perhaps the GAU-8 Avenger of an A-10...

@Adaire Cognisant's point was that we guys all have the rape gene because such a gene, should it exist, would have by now thoroughly mixed into the male population. I don't know whether such a gene exists or whether rape is simply epiphenomenous. -Duxwing

Tack on having just one friend until the fourth grade, sitting alone at recess, ADD, not studying or listening to authority figures, flavor of Aspies, several small health problems, and an interest in home-made explosives, and you have lived decades of misery that my intelligence, good memory...

Reread my sentence. I said "the technology needed for..." before "artificial sperm". :) Hehehe... when I was younger, I had a lot of trouble with healthy social interaction and handling frustration; I outward turned the latter into screaming tantrums even at the ripe old age of eight, and...

The technology needed to make artificial sperm might also enable mind uploading and thereby render the issue meaningless but for those hardcore traditionalists who would want to remain biological. As for rape prevention, how about a twelve gauge shell that contains buckshot or a miniature...

I was that lucid right up to a few hours before I tried to kill myself after ~9 months of existential despair: If BabySnakes needs inpatient care, then that's that. :/ -Duxwing

The tautology is logically trivial and should not be taken as a serious philosophical argument; I intended it to refocus the readers on their own subjective reactions to unsolvable problems, reactions which they often unconsciously project onto reality and thereby create even more and greater...

*poke* Non-human animals love: e.g., elephants. -Duxwing

Boom goes the dynamite! One could see belief in a religion as a set of emotionally driven errors in reasoning that can either be prevented through proper emotional awareness or diligence in logic. Feelers can more safely experience and tinker with emotions than Thinkers can, but Thinkers can...

Wow! You've had quite the adventure; I'm glad that its ending was so happy. :) -Duxwing

Awwww. Thanks. :) -Duxwing