Topic: Why whine? It's more effective than the Jenny Craig diet.
Daniel Butler
I'm a Singapore where is my boat
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I didn't mean all of them, I meant the ones that have. You haven't heard of these people? There are groups dedicated to the idea that anorexia is a personal choice, that it's not a disease, and that people that skinny are attractive. They have websites, meetings, advocacy groups...
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Oh yeah, I know. But you can't choose to be anorexic, anymore than you can chose to be allergic to nuts.
People being idiots makes it even harder for people who are genuinely ill.
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Teh PW
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but why do idiots breed more often? I mean, all dwarwinian here, shouldn't there be LESS idiots?
Saltah'na
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Unfortunately the laws that be demand that idiots be given the same rights as non-idiots. It's that discrimination thing.
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Daniel Butler
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I think there are fewer idiots now than in antiquity, but that may just be an artifact of continued scientific progress (in fact, it probably is, but it helps me to retain hope for humanity to believe otherwise). Maybe one day there will be very few left...
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Unless you're the kind of stupid that makes you walk off a cliff or stick your head out of a moving train or something, just being an idiot doesn't stop you from having babies. (Hell, if anything, it probably makes you more likely.)
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There's only more idiots now than in antiquity because the population has exploded so vastly since then. All of populace of entire the Greek Golden Age would likely fit in today's New York at any given time. Go read the amazing Pessimist's Guide To History and witness all the times nature tried very hard to limit our numbers, to no avail.
Medical Science is largely smart people being used by large corperation to keep sheep alive and sickly to buy more medicine.
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Daniel Butler
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No, I said, I think there are fewer idiots now, not more. (Proportionally, of course.) But it's mainly just a wishful thinking type self-delusion.
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I know what you said, but I disagree: the adverage person back then had to grow up a lot quicker and be more shrewd. Consider that by fifteen, a person was an adult- the adverage fifiteen year old can barely tie his shoes without mommy's help, much less manage his own money, earn a living and defend himself.
Most people from antiquity, despite a general lack of undersatanding of sciences we take for granted would consider us a nation of idiots- if only for the slights we allow to go unanswered.
Plus, in spite of feely available knowledge and conpulsory education, most people are worthless tools. Really- how many surveys show that many people think the sun revolves around the Earth? Fuck sakes.
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Daniel Butler
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Meh, I misread you. My bad.
Well, depends on if by idiot you mean 'has no common sense' or 'has no scientific and/or academic knowledge.' I prefer the latter definition, reserving 'fool' for the former. In which case I agree, most old peasants would call us a nation of fools.
Funny, I was just talking about that sun-round-the-earth bit with a friend of mine from the UK about an hour ago. I suggested we change the word 'sunrise,' for example, to 'earthrotatesintothesunlight.' Maybe it's just the language that confuses weak minds (joke, of course).
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