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Good for Each, Bad for All. This guy provides a clear and concise argument for why the modern conservative mindset is detrimental to society. |
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Part of me felt like laughing my ass off at all the stupid people who just now are realizing, hey, in a few years, there won't be enough girls for the all the boys to marry, and our families will die off. D'oh! Then the show talked about how young girls and women are kidnapped and forced to marry strangers/old men. They interviewed a woman who had fled from her kidnapper husband and had been forced to leave her young son with him. And then it mentioned the boom in prostitution, forced and otherwise. And then I didn't find the situation funny. |
Also interesting, and on a different note: has anyone read "Adam's Curse," about the corruption of the Y chromosome? Sykes' theory is that eventually men will become "endangered" because the Y chromosome is very unstable. Here's the book blurb, courtesy of amazon Male reproductive fragility has been the subject of much highly publicized recent research. Is it possible, asked the New York Times, that men face extinction? Bryan Sykes examines the validity of these shocking reports, focusing on the defining characteristic of men: the Y chromosome in their DNA. Guiding his readers through chapters like "The Blood of Vikings" and "Ribbons of Life," Sykes masterfully blends natural history with scientific fact, elucidating the biology of sexual reproduction, modern genetics, and evolutionary biology. He reveals that, while the Y chromosome makes man's existence possible, it also carries within it the seeds of his destruction. Timely and fascinating, this major work covers a wealth of controversial topics, including whether there is a genetic cause for male greed, aggression, and promiscuity; the possible existence of a male homosexual gene; and what, if anything, can be done to save men from a slow, but certain, extinction. Personally I find it kind of ironic that these families are selecting for the genetically weaker sex. |
Y: The Descent of Men |
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"The error of the right resides in its embrace of the principle 'good for each, good for all' as dogma, applied a priori to society and the economy, virtually without exception." It is not dogma, it's only a rhetorical tool used when there is political advantage for the right. None of the social conservative ideology relies on "good for each, good for all," and the economic ideology uses it when a policy needs to be sold to the poor. They simply want to shift where the "cost" of behavior is "paid" from the government to corporate and faith based "creditors." (both of which are fundamentally undemocratic entities) |
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