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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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educate and build a compassionate society is obviously the correct answer, but we can't do that because there is a portion of society that will never let that happen. remove the roadblocks. anything less is being complicit in prolonged suffering.
"We can build our utopia, we just have to kill everyone who doesn't agree with us" doesn't sound very right in my ears. It sounds like something where one should ask "are we the baddies?"
one of these days, maybe, you'll come to realize that there is no objective morality. there is only the winners that decide how everyone else will live. we all get a choice in who those people are.
i choose to live in a world where rational thought dedicated to furthering humanity and ending suffering reigns supreme. the benefits of that world far outweigh the losses that one generation would have to suffer to achieve it. it's just a simple trolley problem. if you can't see that, then you are blinded by emotions.
Objectively false. People in completely different societies (indigenous, uncontacted, etc) have shown that they don't kill people consequence-free or separated from morality.
even if we all agreed on one thing (which we don't), it's still nothing more than a human idea. morality is a concept. it does not exist. THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE MORALITY.
Oh yes, I am sure that the Nazis back then said the same about cleansing the german nation, the benefits for the Volkskörper outweigh the losses that one generation would have to suffer.
and had i been alive back then, i would have been calling for the extermination of those nazis before they could do the damage they did.
we're all humans and it's always been a war. one day you might realize that you have to pick a side.
You can't use the tools and methods of the enemy without becoming the enemy. Trying to build a free society by use of oppression and mass murder is something that is doomed to fail and to turn into the thing it has sworn to fight. One day you might by able to comprehend that.
prove it.
yeah, i see exactly what kind of limp wristed do-nothing you are. you would let the nazis kill your countrymen because 'fighting them would make you just like them'. i have no respect for cowards and pacifists.
also, i'm 51, so you can fuck right off with your "maybe one day..." - i know more than you. i have more experience than you. i'm wiser than you. show some respect.
Respect isn't earned by counting rotations around the sun. I'm also 51, so - in your worldview - I deserve just as much respect as you? Fuck right off with your nonsense!
ignore the other points and focus on the one thing you can score a tie with. GFY you disingenuous coward pacifist piece of dog shit.