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  1. Eloi

    Personality: growth v. discovery

    Well, considering I postulate literal platonic realism as true, I would say discovery. People just recollect themselves as life goes on, and have the free will to act on it or not. I wish more people did act on themselves and not on their environment.
  2. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    I know, I was just talking generally, not in specific to that. Yeah, I often kinda skim legal jargon text too a lot. That has unsurprisingly led to bad stuff. x3 If enough people want it to be. And who said anything about banning? It'd just not be able to be held in government-owned...
  3. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    "[It won't be subject to this if its] used in a context that [is] to talk about the words as a political issue." would put To Kill A Mockingbird as exempt from the law. And I also don't understand the concept of "classics" anyway. I'll quote Mark Twain by saying: "Classic." A book which people...
  4. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    "Ban"? It wouldn't be banning, it would just mean you couldn't get them from a state-funded library, have them read aloud on national television, or do radio drama adaptations of those without those words being replaced. You could still, y'know, buy them, or crawl the deepweb and download them...
  5. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Well, they can just be specific, like: "Works with the words 'nigger', 'fag', 'trannie'/'tranny, 'poof', 'chink', (extended long list), used in a context that isn't to define the words or talk about the words as a political issue, will not be permitted to be held in state-funded facilities, and...
  6. Eloi

    Smoking

    Ban smoking even for personal use, because personal use may spread to others via peer pressure or affect other people in the home (most people don't live alone), and I don't think this whole "solitary smoking/drinking/doing-drugs-in-otherways-besides-smoking in moderation while never having it...
  7. Eloi

    Academic discipline of choice

    I like philosophy because religions don't make sense with enough thought (Confirmation bias, anyone?), and physical-monist universe doesn't make sense with enough thought either (Explanatory gap in the hard problems of consciousness (e.g. the existence of qualia), highlighted by the China Brain...
  8. Eloi

    Racism & Other Prejudices

    Why? I don't get what rights are being taken away by specifically censoring slurs.
  9. Eloi

    Pokémon Improvement Thread

    Re: Pokémon Improvement Thread Having every single Pokemon available on the cartridge itself. Event-legendaries do not add to the fun of the game for the majority of Pokemon fans, because the majority of Pokemon fans can't go to an event. Pokemon that are version-exclusives just requires...
  10. Eloi

    Why can unregistered members view the Coughing Cupboard

    But, 'What was Butterfree's reasoning for this?', was the question. The spirit of it, anyway, not the letter of it.
  11. Eloi

    What could be, or what is

    You already live in the world like that, but I can't wait to live in a world that has found solutions to those problems, which isn't now!
  12. Eloi

    What could be, or what is

    Pick any year in the past, and it will have less inventions and ideas than the present/near-future. Most inventions and ideas are positive and benefit humanity overall, by comparing whole centuries. Ergo, this trend will continue, and the future will always be better than the past.
  13. Eloi

    What could be, or what is

    Yes it does, as I am arguing for the future, and you thus arguing for the past if the present doesn't exist. Its just huge and interesting, not say, "nice to life in" or "full of good people", for instance.
  14. Eloi

    What could be, or what is

    What do you mean what is? The world you were talking about doesn't exist anymore. Its the world of 19 minutes later. I like the world of 19 minutes later because the world of 19 minutes later is better than the world you were talking about, and the world of 20 minutes later will be better still.
  15. Eloi

    What could be, or what is

    If I only looked at what is, I'd kill myself. The only nice thing about the present is that it will be superseded by the future. =P
  16. Eloi

    Howdy!

    Hiii Leo! =D -waves- Do you have a favorite game? =)
  17. Eloi

    Behind the Avatar, Redux

    One needs not a reason to be shirtless. A better question would be "Why aren't you shirtless all of the time, assuming you aren't already?"
  18. Eloi

    Tell Me Something That's...

    The answer is also religion. Er, how about MS Paint? x3 What is something that is cute?
  19. Eloi

    Moral Relativism

    Well, no, because rape is a victimizing behavior and is thus immoral by my secular standards. Your argument would be more applicable with Divine Command Theory. Abstain from victimizing behaviors. People would probably say the same (abit less concisely.) Yes, but what I said was claimed to...
  20. Eloi

    Moral Relativism

    Ooor, by rational deduction from sociological observations! I like that answer better, personally. =D Well, not directly, yes, but one can parse a sense of personal morals that may have a lot in common with other peoples parsed personal morals if from the same text, thus establishing a moral...
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