Message from @Dr.Wol
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The problem is that Kant undermined the enlightenment, and the validity of reason, with the explicit purpose of justifying faith.
this paved the way for Christianity.
and then, later, Marx and Nietzsche.
yes, and thats what the left is doing today
yes
now you understand.
i always did
but its not just the left
the right considers altruism to be moral as well.
I agree with the end, just not your ideals of an "enligthenment"
they consider capitalism as a necessary evil at best, and still consider selfishness as immoral.
The way i see it, modern society just replaced God with Socialism
yes
because they are equally valid
they are not
they're both lies told to people to control them
because there is no place for reason in society.
we ultimately have just given up ourselves to faith somewhere along the line.
reason gimps control
If a leader can't have people removed on a whim, but instead be faced with "but theres no reason for it" they don't have power
right
this is why progressives only value "power", they consider facts to only be what the person in power declares to be true
yes, but it is only sanctioned because the intellectual elite fundamentally believe in altruism
If i say the sky is blue, but a person in power says its green, to post-moderninsts the sky is green
today, they just take it on faith that we have no free will.
no
the sky is a social construct
i like your thinking Ping 😛
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and no the intellectual elite don't believe in altruism, if they did they'd remove all forms of welfare, and only opt for a real "safety net" and pure capitalism
becausei n the long run that will eliminate leeching/weak people and only create a strong society that advances through competition
```Is math sexist? One Vanderbilt University professor believes that it is.
Writing in an academic journal last month, the professor complained about the masculinization of math and how it causes the oppression of women.
Describing mathematics as a “white and heteronormatively masculinized space,” professor Luis A. Leyva insists that factors including teacher expectations and cultural norms “serve as gendering mechanisms that give rise to sex-based achievement differences,” per Campus Reform.
Leyva argues that a “gender gap” exists in mathematical ability due to these social constructs, and that there isn’t any inherent difference in male and female cognitive abilities when it comes to the subject. The differences, he says, give rise to the “myth of male superiority.”
Female underachievement in the field is highlighted, he argues, by teachers who point it out and reinforce cultural expectations.
In the article titled “Unpacking the Male Superiority Myth and Masculinization of Mathematics at the Intersection,” Leyva says that teachers “contribute to the masculinization of the domain that unfairly holds students to men’s higher levels of achievement and participation as a measure of success.”
In other words, being held to a high standard keeps women down.```
no, you're wrong, welfare systems are the **embodiment** of altruism
hahaha read the first sentence then the last one.
because people will learn to survive and learn they are strong enough to survive without a "nanny state"
I though the elite believed in votes
no, they're the embodiment of "ooh look at how nice we are aren't we good?" its the Kind person al over again, they don't do it for the person being helped, tehy do it to make themselves feel good
the nature of altruism is **neccessary sacrifice**. It is a sacrifice of value that is done out of duty. By paying taxes you are giving up something you value, in return for ultimately something you likely do not value.
if you do the sacrifice because you want to, i.e. out of charity, it ceases to be a sacrifice.
it ceases to be altruistic.
Give a man a fish / teach a man to fish argument
Altruism is just gaining favor by showing how nice you are
a true form of Altruism would be to teach people to be independent and strong so they can live their life, find a good partner, and hopefully get children to continue the species as strong as possible
no