dimreepr

Depends on the teacher, none of which were God's... Being an atheist, doesn't have to mean that you don't believe in Jesus, Mohamed etc... 😉

Then I'm not sure why we are talking about it, in the first place. Perhaps it's like a posh person serving caviar at a very expensive dinner party, just for the chance to say "it's an aquired taste, my dear", because they know you won't like it, because they didn't when they heard about it, and therefore I am so much less nieve than you, ergo more sophisticated. I don't like any sex scene, especially with dolby, because I hate the sound of kissing 😝; I've never felt the need to find out why, I just put my fingers in my ear and pretend it's not happening. I don't rewind the tape in order to collect data/evidence of why I should be outraged Why not? Any prejudice, will automatically lead to an assumption of some sort...

The definition of tolerate automatically means that you don't like it, you don't have to look. It's not your likes that are important, everyone's happy with their likes, it's the attitude towards your dislikes that should change.

Yep, that's how...

If that were true of every human, then how did Hitler raise an army?

Rito, boss...

Think about it...

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.