>>106050
To clarify, that doesn't make having sex with children OVER that age ok, but the "17 year old can't consent to someone 3 years older" is illogical.

>>106045
Lol no
I swear, 90% of the internet doesn't know what the word "pedophilia" means

>>106062
Care to define it then? Because that is the definition.

>>106063
Pedophilia means attraction to the prepubescent. A 17 year old is not prepubescent and therefore the 20 year old dating her, by definition, isn't engaging in pedophilia.

Basically, what >>106050 said here about 10 and under.

>>106065
Yes I know, I was the one who posted that. I just didn't understand why she was disagreeing with me, I was curious what her definition would be.

anywho here is a related video :)

https://youtu.be/W0eViyOf_S0

>>106003
why are you citing examples of horrible conditions from civilization, you are arguing in favor of civilization?
Before modern technology =! before civilization. Modern technology is just one of the main evils of civilization.
Even ancient civilization is not something good.

>>106007
>it proves I'm downright wrong
>m-maybe if I say it's not "magical" my point will stand!
Again, do you have any source, or it's just a subjective, unacademic, antiempiricist, irrational rambling?
>when that animal is removed from its natural environment, it very quickly becomes depressed
That's truth only if the animal was created in the nature. Humans, just like animals, are a tabula rasa. If the average human moves to the forest, it will become depressed.
>The medical advancements are just leading to overpopulation and the death of the planet,
That wasn't your point. You said life now is worse than it used to be. It isn't, since most people would die before they could even think for themselves. It was refuted so now you changed the subject. In any way, you're still wrong. Technological advancement leads to less use of natural resources, not more.
>Human life is overvalued toda
It is more important than the lives of any other lifeform.
>>106009
Fine, so what are you doing on the Internet. You can larp as the guy from Into the Wild if you want to. Though you'll probably very quick die just like he did.
>>106012
Just read my post again. I'm talking about the entire history of mankind, including long before civilization, when things were even worse than 200 years ago.

>No property. So much freedom
Oxymoron. Property IS freedom. It's not even like one can't exist without the other, they are almost the same thing.

>>106003
>I litterally say that abstract indicators of economic wealth and the magical happiness index are speculative hocus pocus which do not actually directly correlate to mental well-being, and things like litteracy and knowing which is the tallest mountain in the world are un-essential to happiness in life
>she goes onto post exactly those abstract actuarian stats that do not correlate the slightest to mental well-being

As I said, the only factually relevant advancements (and for now, seemingly positive ones) are the ones in medicine, whose net effect we will be only able to judge in decades, as they are now leading to over-population which is a catalyst for catastrophes. Not one of the other factors can be directly linked to an increase in "happiness".

Just looking at some indexes,
>basic education
>literacy
By and large irrelevant to human happiness
>democracy
Western democracy is rule by corporation and special interest group aka aristocracy with a more polite facade
>colonialism
Barely changed things, for most people living within or outside colonies life was the same as before and after, which man sits in the presidential office is hardly relevant to your life
>continent
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>>106013
>not-free countries
>sources: World bank, UN
Oh God, it's one of these people.

>>106017

They are retarded teen scrotes who are getting inspired by american retarded teen scrotes. They want attention and they want to be edgy

>>105990
What does #1 #2 and #3 mean in this context? Is she freemealmaxxing?

>>106017
he wasn't an incel (he had gf) but he was a deadinside 2chfag rightist retard, the edgy "anti-sjw" kind

>>106028
So he just had an incel mindset, then. I just saw a rus incel community defending him, which isn't surprising at all.

>>106017
Looks about 16

>>106008
nta but
>People should be judged by merit not social status
office org structures are literal hierarchies and symbols of merit
>improving your reading comprehension before implying someone else is retarded
you're that autistic anon right? you are literally retarded. it's not a bad thing but like you obviously are going to have a warped view on the world lol

>>106010
No one said about offices, please stop pulling things out of your ass. You are naive to think that positions of power correlate with moral superiority, usually its the opportunists and schemers who rise to the top. You call me retarded, but from my perspective you're the retarded one and i would be pleasantly surprised if you were able to tie your own shoes, because being retarded IS a bad thing.

>>106014
>No one said about offices, please stop pulling things out of your ass.
except it's literally how this argument began, read again >>105784
>You are naive to think that positions of power correlate with moral superiority
I said merit not morality, you're the one pulling shit out of your ass girl can you read?
>You call me retarded, but from my perspective you're the retarded one
you also think showing people basic respect is retarded lol. this means nothing to me girl

>>106016
>except it's literally how this argument began, read again
Well, i'm reading and i see no office work mentioned, are you actually implying that hierarchies only exist in offices?
>I said merit not morality
Morality is a merit, both apply.
>you also think showing people basic respect is retarded
I don't, where did i said that?

When i said that from my perspective you're the retarded one, i only said that to insult you and i feel like insulting you some more, but it looks like nature has already done that enough.

>>106024
>are you actually implying that hierarchies only exist in offices?
yeah cause I clearly claimed hierarchies literally only exist in offices because that makes a lot of sense you mongo
>Morality is a merit, both apply.
what kind of logic is this lmao
>When i said that from my perspective you're the retarded one, i only said that to insult you
you failed, I don't give a shit if a retard thinks I'm retarded
>i feel like insulting you some more, but it looks like nature has already done that enough.
fuck…. you should've spoilered this burn… how will I ever recover….

the only person I know on the fediverse is a tranny. at this point I think it requires a level of technical interest that attracts more mtfs than women. then again I don't know much about it

I signed up on mastodon.social, but I honestly don't really vibe with the concept of Twitter-style social media. I don't know who to follow and what to post there, so yeah… It's not for me.
Maybe a different instance would be better than the generic one, but most of them are either inactive or hyper-woke.

I haven't looked much into the other frontends. Any recommendations?

>>105870
I hate that there are so few women in technology. Whenever I hear of a women involved in a tech project, I have the sudden urge to check whether they are trans - more often than not, they are, and it always ruins my mood. I am not even against trans people the same way many users here are, but there are always 10 times more MtF than bio women in every single tech community I follow.
I'm active in a few programming and Linux related communities on Reddit. The topic of female users is occasionally brought up there, and if you check the accounts of those proclaiming to be female, almost every single one will have some kind of activity in trans subreddits.
I know that sounds really dumb, but I pretend to be male on my Reddit account because I just feel embarassed and as if I'm not supposed to be in the communities for my interests.

>>105883
>I haven't looked much into the other frontends. Any recommendations?
Spinster.xyz seems to be right up crystal.cafe's alley, I'd suggest making an account there for your first go.

>>105521
I tried using mastodon instances but I don't see the point. What am I even supposed to post there? There are no communities and people don't really talk or discuss anything. I have art but I don't see the point in posting it there since it seems like no one sees or bothers to look at it.
I have a mstdn.jp account I post random lyrics on when I remember to…and I almost never do. I checked out misskey.io too. But like all JP language SNS the users just post random shit like "I'm hungry" and I don't care about that.

I was invisible in high school. I didn't know who was popular and nobody knew who I was. At least I wasn't actively bullied.

>>40992
No.
>the cheerleaders and the football players ofc
>divorced and single moms
>did not care then and do not care now

>>40999
>I was an invisible loser.
Same.

>>57302
Same but I was bullied.

>>40992
>Were you popular in high school?
No
>Who was the most popular?
Is this unironically how it works in America? Here social hierarchies were much more complicated. We didn't have clear "alphas" and "most populars", it's more like we had several cliques with 2-10 members in them, and those cliques had their own leader(s). They would still interact with eachother normally, but in general, you could clearly see the outline of the groups as they always interacted with eachother when given the chance to.
Some "cliques" contained more popular people than others, but there was no clear "most popular"
Male social hierarchies were even more complicated than female ones tbh, and i didn't interact much with men, so i don't know how exactly they worked..

>>40992
Wasn't popular, don't know who was because I didn't care enough to pay attention to other students' social dynamics. I would dress like a boy and intentionally look for isolated parts of the school during lunch because I didn't like being around most people. I didn't have any friends during all of high school but I was mostly okay with that.
Ironically there were several girls who liked me and tried to get to know me, and a suspiciously high number of them were known to be lesbians, but I didn't particularly like any of them and preferred to just be on my own. Looking back it seems like I was generally well-respected by most classmates despite being a loner, though I'm not really sure where the positive opinion came from.

>>40992
I went to two schools and I was unpopular in both lol. I went to small schools so everyone knew other to a degree but it was pretty obvious who was well liked and who wasn't. About half of the popular kids are doing pretty well and the other half is living a meh life. Honestly, I never really cared that they were popular nor did I resent them for it. Caring about who was popular and who wasn't always seemed like the dumbest fucking thing to me. I remember I had a friend who would always talk shit about the popular girls and I all I could think was how pathetic she was.

>>53319
>sardines
You can't control your mercury levels

>>48140
Lots of great guys who are tall and handsome too. Why should I settle for some short ugly loser with a "great personality" that consists of saying good morning and night?

>>58405
I think that advice was for fat/ugly people.

I have a fantasy of finding a fat social reject man so we can go to the gym as a couple and encourage eachother to get healthier. But I know what will happen is we just both get lazier and have disgusting sex while watching and eating. Fuck.

>>105975
I have the exact same fantasy too, and I think it's just an excuse to not go to the gym or keep not exercising.
>Weeeeell, why would I go by myself when there's a cute more knowledgeable person right around the corner? I'd just be wasting my time, it's best to just wait until I find this person and we can work on it together as a cute gym couple :)
I really should just go already, but motivation sure is hard to find these days lol

Yellow feverers, not even once.

>whether she had sexually transmitted diseases
at least he practiced safe sex kek

>>105937
>Saxony-Anhalt
Not even suprised. German here, if I were black or Asian I wouldn't set a foot in that part of the country.

>>105951
Pretty sure in this case it's less yellow fever and more being an absolute psychopath

>The perpetrator, who has meanwhile been convicted, is Sebastian F. (born 1996) from Dessau, the only son of the Dessau police officer Ramona S. He was treated as a teenager in the Merseburg child psychiatry. He broke off training; At the time of the offense he was receiving ALG II. With Xenia I. (born 1997) he has two children, Xenia I. has another from another man. Xenia I. reported that Sebastian F. felt pleasure when he inflicted pain on his sexual partners. [12]

>Sebastian F. is also charged with two other rape cases that became known in the course of the investigation. [34]

Moved to >>>/x/4422.

>>104965
This isn't the golden rule. The golden rule is "do unto your neighbors as you would have done unto you". At best you could argue the silver rule applies "do not do unto others as you would not have do unto you", but even then, both of these rules imply a level of intentionality on the part of the "responsible" party as far as behavior goes, it does not in any fashion or form cover the concepts such as the consequences of actions that lack intentionality.

>>104965
>>104969
And to clarify, we are talking about negligence, not intentional harm or deceit. We're not talking about a company intentionally putting snails in soda bottles with the intent to harm (if such a situation is even conceivable), but a situation where a company has processes where a snail can possibly enter into a soda bottle and how and why the company should be responsible in such an instance.

>>104994
They're not. For instance one might think it's reasonable for their hands to get cut off if they steal. They would have that done onto them. That's completely different from loving a thief

If you aren't Christian, take this perspective:
Religion is created to fit the needs of society, to help it flourish and to keep order. You need to have some sort of incentive to keep all parts of the society working, and religion is a great tool for that. Gives people purpose when society makes them feel purposeless, keeps order, and can rally nations to attack one another in the name of God.
So, you could then say the rules of the Bible were crafted to help civilization to flourish, so whether or not you are Christian, its a good rule. Imagine if everyone treated eachother like shit all the time, neglected their kids, committed murder etc. Not a way to run a complex society, it would fall apart.
That is why morals are so similar in religions, even if beliefs about actually spirituality differ.

Does this actually bug you? How would you rather live? You can't have freedom and civilization at once, the more complex the society, the more it does for its people, the less freedom can be had.

>>105929
not the same but as a kid I loved going to costco because the free food samples gave me such a greedy high… and since I was a little girl I could ask for 2-5 samples and they'd usually be cool with it
There aren't samples anymore because of covid grr

>one day I'll be hot enough to get free stuff that aren't trash… one day.
He gave you a free flower bc you insisted to pay for the first one, it wasn't that bad