Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!

[wilson]

'Strictly vinyl' conjures up the image of someone with a cd in one hand wagging their finger at it.

[Genevieve]

Sad, the original wobbler.

[rockonin]

Where's nowaysj?

[BonerJams04]

crazy bad weather here. tornadoes in my area. prventing me from going to the gym

[Sheff]

Would you say that females act more on emotion and males act more on logic?

[RKM]

are you ron burgundy

[Sheff]

im just tryna earn a living

[rockonin]

Would you say that females act more on emotion and males act more on logic?

Women act on selfishness.

[RKM]

stumbled upon this




yeeep, this is what they meant

[rockonin]

^ Explain. What the significance of that mug?

[RKM]

i don't think they planned this to allow them to make a novelty mug

[DrGatineau]

Would you say that females act more on emotion and males act more on logic?

Women act on selfishness.

All act on selfishness

Even if selfishness sometimes looks like being nice. Selfishness is not always a bad thing

[Harkat]

If you say everything is motivated by selfishness, you're using a very useless definition of "selfishness"

[DrGatineau]

If you say everything is motivated by selfishness, you're using a very useless definition of "selfishness"

selfishness = take whatever action results in their highest amount of self-interest.



classic example of altruism is soldier falling on a bomb to save his bros. but you could argue that's selfish because he values the reputation of doing such a brave thing, putting his life on the line, saving his bros, being given a medal of honor, etc as being higher for his self-interest than watching his bros die.

[RKM]

did you just watch this episode or something

[Harkat]

If you say everything is motivated by selfishness, you're using a very useless definition of "selfishness"

selfishness = take whatever action results in their highest amount of self-interest.



classic example of altruism is soldier falling on a bomb to save his bros. but you could argue that's selfish because he values the reputation of doing such a brave thing, putting his life on the line, saving his bros, being given a medal of honor, etc as being higher for his self-interest than watching his bros die.

...or he has some notion of it as intrinsically virtuous, and he wants to be virtuous, so yeah, it's in his self-interest. But that's a reductive definition.

"selfish" vs "non selfish"/"altruistic" is still a useful distinction to have in language. I wouldn't really call your example "selfish", while when someone eats all the cakes or whatever, it's useful to call them selfish.

[m8son666]

or hungry

[sigbowls]

I wonder if there's a strip club here in medford. Only one way to find out.

Counts money then goes down town

[rockonin]

I wonder if there's a strip club here in medford. Only one way to find out.

Counts money then goes down town

Yoy going to ask to see if they do 'extras'?

[DrGatineau]

If you say everything is motivated by selfishness, you're using a very useless definition of "selfishness"

selfishness = take whatever action results in their highest amount of self-interest.



classic example of altruism is soldier falling on a bomb to save his bros. but you could argue that's selfish because he values the reputation of doing such a brave thing, putting his life on the line, saving his bros, being given a medal of honor, etc as being higher for his self-interest than watching his bros die.

...or he has some notion of it as intrinsically virtuous, and he wants to be virtuous, so yeah, it's in his self-interest. But that's a reductive definition.

"selfish" vs "non selfish"/"altruistic" is still a useful distinction to have in language. I wouldn't really call your example "selfish", while when someone eats all the cakes or whatever, it's useful to call them selfish.

i guess linguistically it might be useful to make a false dichotomy for the use of differentiating situations where selfishness harms others and situations where it helps others, but at the end of the day, it's still the same thing on a fundamental level. all products of natural selection act in and only in a way that maximizes their own self-interest, no matter what.