Recent content by Terminal Blue

What does efficiency mean in this context? No. It's a very real incentive governing the behavior of sellers in a market, which is why we have laws prohibiting the formation of cartels (because otherwise, every industry would be dominated by cartels). Competition between sellers is only...

Self-correcting towards what?

That's one possible explanation, but it's considered a fairly weak one. The more likely reason is fire. But if this is wrong and meat did allow for increased human intelligence, then all that prooves is that meat was an integral part of the diet of earlier hominids like homo erectus. Homo...

The number they'll usually give is around 30/70. It is an offshoot of the whole red pill ideology where the world is divided into alphas and betas. Like most of the red pill spectrum, incels generally believe that women only experience sexual desire towards a small minority of men and only...

Why would that matter? Incels are an online community. Participating in that online community and buying into its conventions makes you an incel. There are certainly people who are drawn to incel communities because of genuine feelings of isolation or alienation, but a far bigger contributor is...

The "body positivity movement" is just an organic online trend. The average American is overweight, it's only natural that when the majority of people don't fit a societal standard there will be some pushback against that standard. That said, most fat acceptance stuff I see isn't really about...

If we go from the moment of conception, it is actually much, much higher. How much higher seems to be debated to some degree as most spontaneous abortions occur before the point they become detectable. In total, somewhere between 50% and 75% of embryos don't survive. None of what you are...

Being unable to understand stupidity is not the read you think it is. In order for me to understand you, I need to know your reasoning. If there is no reasoning then it's pointless to try and understand. If you're just going to repeat that fetuses are obviously people while getting increasingly...

I have mixed feelings on Jack Saint sometimes, but this is genuinely one of his better videos and made me realize I probably need to read those books again. Honestly though, those takes are so hilariously shit that it actually makes it really, transparently obvious how much of right wing...

The thing you need to understand is that, to me, everything you believe is pointless. My mind does not distinguish between the things you actually believe and these "stupid" questions because to me they are the same thing. Your job, as someone who wants to tell me and everyone else how to live...

Nothing so obvious. Which means that the answer is arbitrary, because you don't actually know. You don't actually know whether monozygotic twins have one soul or two. You don't know whether the unborn are people. You don't know any of it. You just believe, and have somehow deluded yourself...

If they're dumb questions, you should be able to answer them. You want to avoid arbitrary judgements because you believe your beliefs are grounded in something real. The point of these questions is to show that you are still making arbitrary judgements. Refusing to make any judgement at all is...

Yes, it is. A single cell is not a multicellular organism. That is about as definitively true as it's possible to get. Therefore, the life of a multicellular organism like a human being does not begin at the point it is a single cell because at that point it is not a multicellular organism at...

And why is that bad? Says the person who claims that a zygote has a soul.. Here's a fun question. Do monozygotic twins only have one soul between them? If not, then at what point in the process does the second soul arrive? Has modern science measured that, do you think? Fun aside, the basis...

Who cares if it's a sin? Human existence is a sin. The medieval Catholic doctrinal and legal position was that a fetus was not a person until animated by a human soul at some point after conception. The Catholic position, still generally held today is that souls are immortal and that human...