dimreepr

Nope, it's evidence that you can't, proof is a very different question.

Can you though?

Indeed, but fundamentally, you had to suck teat first... 😣 How many times... Well, you would say that... 🙄 Every one that counts... 🤞

History is my evidence; for instance, Hitler loved his dog, a very human thing, even for a full blown monster... Every person, that's survived into adulthood, started out with only one capability, sucking on a teat. Just because you can't see your bias, doesn't mean it's not there; you'd have to travel a mile in my shoes to understand mine. Imagine the sort of horrible existance Hitler must have suffered, that made him love dog's more than human's. I'm more inclined to have pity for him, while thanking <insert deity of choice, including the scientific definition.> that I'm not him. I do this by assuming his humanity, because he's the right shape. It's not about intellect, how else do you explain why every supervilan has a doctorate.

I'm starting to run out of ways to say the same thing; let me have a think. 🤔

Well, we are all capable of caring for something other than ourselves, even the really evil barstewards. And as @TheVat alludes, our cultural bias is the most insidious and, I think, the most difficult to recognise; because, as we know, the box is notoriusly difficult to think outside of. Indeed, the waters are muddy enough...

The point of the metaphor is, we both start out the same shape, it's the enviroment that alters the shape; as I've mentioned before a bully is made not born. So what I'm saying is, given the right enviroment we're all capable of anything* a human is capable of both very, very good and very, very, very bad and however much you deny it, it's also true of you and me. * almost, there are caveats but that's for a different thread.

We are all human shaped, much like every snowflake is snowflake shaped; each is unique within that shape but ultimately the same. When/if we get it, then we can shape the future of both. I don't know about this. Indeed, https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm Religion is not about God/s, it's about us...

"We all have a price for turning a blind eye" I thought it's relevance is obvious, we care about the future in terms of that price. The wealthy don't really have a concept of price, if societies bin men doesn't take away their shit they go private, it's just a higher cost; but at least it's not a tax.

Would you put your deepest, darkest and most shameful secrets on Facebook? For fun perhaps, because you're drunk or likes etc. Now ask the same question, if it was illegal or if it would break the heart of a loved one. We all have a price for turning a blind eye; as pointed out by George Orwell in "1984".

That's the question, not an answer. It's a much more profound question, that most people aren't willing too ask or answer.

Sorry, but I don't think that will be an issue, because I've worked out a rout that's less (just) than 100mtrs. Do you think a switch is advisable at the terminus, or can I just plug in? Or this?

How many choices do you think you have? Can you be who you are, or are you who you have to be?

Not as many as you think you have...

Well, you could sit on a bus like Rosa.

Wow, you're quite the optimist... I'm an oldish man, so I'd be happy to swap my claim on a parachute for a bottle of whisky and a quiet seat to watch the in-flight film, until my oblivion; in the hope that (my) someone will avoid becoming tomorrow's bear shit.

In this context, this argument is akin to a plane full of people arguing about how fast to hit the mountain they can't avoid, rather than finding a way to divi out the limited number of parachutes, in the fairest way; the question of fairly is the burden of democracy. The question of our freedom, fundamentally, can not come at the cost of freedom for others.

What cat, what box???

Thanks for the advice guy's +1's all round.

More often than not, we are paralyzed because of our fear of it; in this case, we fear that any unilateral actions will make that guy more comfortable than us, or a future that is less comfortable than now, for us. Indeed, but it's also profoundly difficult to answer; our bias always gets in the way. A scientist can reduce, sometimes to zero, the effect of bias in themselves, but never in other's. The parable of the fisherman, explains the problem (for me at least).

Thanks, but I was hoping for a lower price... 🙏

And who decides the quality? It's always a question of number's...

My goal is, a good enough internet connection, in my caravan; I suspect the answer is hardwired...

Who doesn't feel better when validated? 🤔 I'm so proud of the number of "lil green one's" I got, and humbly suggest, it should be more...