Two Plus Two Newer Archives  

Go Back   Two Plus Two Newer Archives > Search Forums

Showing results 1 to 25 of 500
Search took 0.02 seconds.
Search: Posts Made By: lucksack
Forum: Medium Stakes 11-20-2007, 05:09 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 50
Posted By lucksack
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-18-2007, 07:44 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

I doubt the "opt in"-population would be big enough any time soon, I don't know though.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 05:54 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

Maybe the biggest mistake was that he thought almost all others are pretty much robots then, and compared to us he is "godlike" (although he only slightly overvalues his own skills, which is not...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 05:10 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

[ QUOTE ]
This guy isn't a logical thinker. His premises are probably so far gone that a psychological approach is superior to a logical approach.

[/ QUOTE ]

How can you say that he isn't a...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 03:23 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

Now it seems to me that the big logical problem here is, that he only thought he had achieved this "master morality", when truely he had not and was really thinking like he...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 08:16 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

He thought current society is too [censored] up, unnatural and enslaves people, so he wouldn't want to live in it, and that anything better isn't realistic to be achieved any more, so he wanted to...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 06:32 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

dragonystic,

how about any trait having to be very widely accepted to be valued?

tarhee,

how does it isolate it? And I don't think moral issues are worth discussing in the same thread (at...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 06:22 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

Well, he seemed to value philosophical and rational thinking very highly, and see himself as part of an elite group that thinks deeply and is intelligent, while also being "strong-minded" and having...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 05:32 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

I think the vast majority would agree about some desirable traits.

It's defined as social philosophy, not science in wikipedia.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 05:14 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 258
Posted By lucksack
Social Darwinism and Morals

Here in Finland we had this guy that went to shoot 8 people in the name of natural selection, and then himself. It went like this:

He decided he had abandoned slave morality and created himself a...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 11:51 PM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

StayHungry,
are you drunk?

What do you mean by "erasing people"?
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 11:16 PM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

vhawk,

I'm not only talking about intelligence, empathy is important too (I don't know how much genes have to do with that though, or how it would be detected well).

What are you basing your...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 10:22 PM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

[ QUOTE ]


[ QUOTE ]
Eugenics could solve the problem that stupid people reproduce more

[/ QUOTE ]

Why is that a problem?
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 09:18 PM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

[ QUOTE ]
You obviously are pretty ignorant to many things about humanity and history.

[/ QUOTE ]

You obviously are pretty ignorant about future and what humanity could be.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 08:35 PM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

[ QUOTE ]

2.) It is illogical. It is based on assumptions that are at best misguided.

[/ QUOTE ]

Care to explain?

[ QUOTE ]
3.) It is impractical. Because enforcing it means...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 02:37 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

[ QUOTE ]
the mouse/snake/mongoose/gorilla problem.

[/ QUOTE ]

And what is this problem?
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 02:21 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

foal,
how about just criminalizing making a second own child? I don't see need for forced sterilization. Forced abortion, maybe, depending on how early it is (I don't have an opinion on abortion...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 02:12 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Re: Eugenics

I don't know how big the gene pool would need to be, but with 6 billion people on this planet, I think it probably wouldn't be a big problem.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-14-2007, 12:56 AM
Replies: 104
Views: 597
Posted By lucksack
Eugenics

What are the problems with eugenics (other than possible moral problems)? Don't genes matter enough? Sounds like a reasonable idea to me, that we would try to increase the amount of positive traits...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-07-2007, 07:48 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 441
Posted By lucksack
Re: Finnish High School Massacre

most of what this guy wrote that i've read made sense, and while it's a rare and probably quite inefficient way to try to achive his goals, in the end it's only a matter of taste whether you for some...
Forum: BBV4Life 11-01-2007, 04:10 PM
Replies: 466
Views: 3,015
Posted By lucksack
Re: Post pictures of people unnecessarily saying imo

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1846/13047058757e690627a3xv0.jpg
Forum: EDF 10-17-2007, 08:19 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 862
Posted By lucksack
Re: Suggest a new name for EDF

Current name is best imo. The idea of using just EDF sounds ok too.
Forum: Books and Publications 10-14-2007, 10:25 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 46
Posted By lucksack
Re: Lawyers Poker

lol nice post garcia
Forum: Beginners Questions 10-14-2007, 10:00 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 184
Posted By lucksack
Re: Every once and a while... are they 12? nope full grown men

[ ] thread delivers

Seriously, wtf? BBV4life type discussions are just so totally standard male (especially teenage) behaviour, that I don't understand you at all. There's kind of social pressure...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 10-13-2007, 08:18 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 165
Posted By lucksack
Re: Does selfishness ever bother you?

If I can ALWAYS see evidence of something, then isn't there good reason to suspect that that something is true?

In such an extreme, rare cases as the grenade guy, the soldier can still do it...
Showing results 1 to 25 of 500

 
Forum Jump

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 05:26 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.