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2019-04-21 at 2:53 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator No you're really incredibly stupid.
That fact that you can make this statement in a single sentence supports my claim, not the idiotic notion of relativity you are presenting: you can know the speed of the tortoise and the hare, and the object moving at intermediate speed, and translate from one to the other without any problem.
Who denied that you can measure the speeds of the tortoise and the hare? Measuring their speeds doesn't change that what is quick for the tortoise can be slow for the hare, or that what is good for the lion can be bad for the gazelle. The tortoise is travelling at 0.63 miles per hour - whether or not this is quick or slow is relative. -
2019-04-21 at 2:37 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Moral good and bad are objective just like how 5 mph from one reference frame can be translated to any other reference frame.
Moral good and bad are relative just like how what is good for the lion can be bad for the gazelle or what is quick for the tortoise can be slow for the hare. -
2019-04-21 at 2:33 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator You don't want to answer the question because you are an idiot and your only game is to substitute retarded sophistry for any intellectual work.
I've already made all the statements I need to make, now all I need to do is demonstrate how your only repartee is demonstrably retarded.
I'm not a genius but I'm not an idiot. Why do you have this grudge against me? -
2019-04-21 at 2:24 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meatGood and bad are relative just like quick and slow are relative.
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2019-04-21 at 2:19 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2019-04-21 at 12:32 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator You are avoiding the question by responding with an asinine non sequitur. Do you believe a term like "5 miles per hour" is meaningful?
What the lion or I believe is morally good is irrelevant to what is morally good.
Do you believe terms like quick or slow are meaningless?
What is morally good is relative. -
2019-04-21 at 11:42 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Do you believe a metric such as "5 miles per hour" makes sense for someone moving at the speed of either a tortoise or a hare?
What benefits the lion is not necessary what is morally good for the lion, and vice versa.
Do you believe 5 miles an hour is quick or slow?
What you believe is morally good for the lion is not necessarily what the lion believes is morally good for the lion. -
2019-04-20 at 11:32 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Common De-mominator I'm not the one claiming relativity is equal to not being real or epistemically objective.
Speed is relative. Do you believe in speed as a concept?
What is quick for the tortoise can be slow for the hare. Morality is like that. What is good for the lion can be bad for the gazelle. -
2019-04-20 at 8:07 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2019-04-20 at 3:13 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2019-04-19 at 4:25 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and Think
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2019-04-18 at 12:40 PM UTC in How Plants Communicate and ThinkIncreasing numbers of researchers, in a multiplicity of fields, are beginning to acknowledge that intelligence is an inevitable aspect of all self-organized systems—that sophisticated neural networks are a hallmark of life. Some researchers are becoming quite vocal in attacking what they call the “brain chauvinism.” Kevin Warwick, a cyberneticist, observes succinctly that, “Comparisons (in intelligence) are usually made between characteristics that humans consider important; such a stance is of course biased and subjective in terms of the groups for whom it is being used.” In other words, rationalists, who have long attacked the concept of plant intelligence and consciousness and awareness in nature as antirational romantic projection, have themselves been merely looking at and for their own reflection in the world around them—and, of course, finding the world wanting. But what especially activates their antirational subjectivity is whenever the organism in question appears to not have a brain, such as with bacteria, viruses, and most especially plants.
Plants and Perception
The old paradigm about plants, which is very common and (unfortunately) still believed by most people, is that plants are unconscious, “passive entities subject to environmental forces and organisms that are designed solely for accumulation of photosynthetic products.” But as Baluska et al. note:
The new view, by contrast, is that plants are dynamic and highly sensitive organisms, actively and competitively foraging for limited resources both above and below ground, and that they are also organisms which accurately compute their circumstances, use sophisticated cost-benefit analysis, and that take defined actions to mitigate and control diffuse environmental conditions. Moreover, plants are also capable of a refined recognition of self and non-self and this leads to territorial behavior. This new view considers plants as conscious, information-processing organisms with complex communication throughout the individual plant, including feelings and perception of pain, among other things. Plants are as intelligent and sophisticated in behavior as animals but their potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many orders of magnitude longer than that operation in animals… Owing to this lifestyle, the only long-term response to rapidly changing environments is an equally rapid adaptation; therefore, plants have developed a very robust communication, signaling and information-processing apparatus… Besides abundant interactions with the environment, plants communicate and interact with other living systems such as other plants, fungi, nematodes, bacteria, viruses, insects, and predatory animals.
https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/plant-consciousness-intelligence-feeling/ -
2019-04-17 at 4:31 PM UTC in KR0Z Dogs for the NEShttps://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/be8rdo/thanks_for_the_support_everyone_just_released_gb/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Alright, somebody make this into a gameboy game. -
2019-04-16 at 10:36 PM UTC in The Odroid GoShameless bump, I'm going to be building a freeplay cm3 soonish but I still love this console.
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2019-04-12 at 6:48 PM UTC in I payed off my mortgage!
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2019-04-11 at 11:58 PM UTC in I payed off my mortgage!
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2019-04-11 at 11:57 PM UTC in I payed off my mortgage!
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Renovation is actually easy if you are prepared to fuck up a bit. Obviously you don't want to do any framing, electrical, plumbing etc (unless you have that skill professionally) but as far as basic renovations go, just get your hands dirty.
I'm planning on it. I can do the electrical myself. I will be hiring people to do the plumbing, doors and windows.
Couple years ago I put new shingles on the garage with family members and saved a few grand. -
2019-04-11 at 11:53 PM UTC in I payed off my mortgage!Getting quotes for the renovations now. Need to do the bathroom. That will probably cost 10 grand. Want to replace the doors and windows too this year.
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2019-04-11 at 10:27 PM UTC in I payed off my mortgage!
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2019-04-11 at 10:21 PM UTC in ASSANGE TO GET FUCKED LIVESTREAM
