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Does Money Make You Mean?

mike23w said:
morality is the distinction between right or wrong.

don't apes have some base morals similar to humans? (eg wrong/bad to kill)

if they do, then it's not strictly speaking a human invention.
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No, they do not.

Abyss said:
If you're sensitive to other people's needs but you don't do anything about it, you're mean. If you're insensitive, you don't give a fuck in the first place, which is also pretty mean.
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So you are saying a person who quietly minds their own business, never bothers anyone, is acutely aware of what is happening around them, but chooses to be calm, pleasant and never get involved is mean? I think you and I have different definitions of the word. I think of mean as being someone who actively participates in or at least on some level enjoys bad shit happening to others.

Elmer Gantry said:
That is false. The idea that morality is a human invention is a philosophical opinion. In this case, it's used to further your own personal political opinions which is consistently explicitly fascist. If there is no right and wrong, then oppressing large swaths of people can be justified simply telling a lie and representing it as truth since there is no right and wrong. If there is no such thing as right and wrong, then people can be used up and thrown away for the benefit of a few while the very rich lie and blame the poor for doing it to themselves; when it fact, the rich engineered the system to benefit themselves.
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Complete and utter bullshit. Anyone with any common sense knows that god is a lie, so if humans do not invent morality, who does? Morality is merely a psychological construct design to fit the needs of contemporary culture. This is a fact, not an opinion.
 
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pretty sure chimps do some really fucked up shit pretty regularly
your link doesn't work
 
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carries an axe said:
pretty sure chimps do some really fucked up shit pretty regularly
your link doesn't work
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Chimps commit rape, murder, And actually have wars with other tribes.


My guess is that other mamilla have some sense of morality based on their emotional capabilities. It's just not as specified as humans, as we appear to have the most complex emotions
 
kevin 714 said:
Chimps commit rape, murder, And actually have wars with other tribes.


My guess is that other mamilla have some sense of morality based on their emotional capabilities. It's just not as specified as humans, as we appear to have the most complex emotions
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Granted and so I suppose there is a certain grey area in the definition of morality, but I would define it as clearly defined rules of behavior made by creatures with self awareness that is limited at best amongst primates. All thoughts, all feelings, all behavior, everything that makes a person is just a gobbeldygook of binary electrical impulses and hormonal/chemical responses. I mean, amongst even single cell organisms, if certain cells begin to emit certain chemical byproducts in the same eco-environment, the other organisms will escape or attack the offending organism, but no one try to call THAT morality.
 
Eldritch said:
Granted and so I suppose there is a certain grey area in the definition of morality, but I would define it as clearly defined rules of behavior made by creatures with self awareness that is limited at best amongst primates. All thoughts, all feelings, all behavior, everything that makes a person is just a gobbeldygook of binary electrical impulses and hormonal/chemical responses. I mean, amongst even single cell organisms, if certain cells begin to emit certain chemical byproducts in the same eco-environment, the other organisms will escape or attack the offending organism, but no one try to call THAT morality.
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the biological imperative. In the *ay Area, it's called 'rent'.
 
I always used to get laid when I would sit in a bar and pound Jack Black.
Guess it made me more attractive...:laughing
back in the day, 'coyote ugly' meant you would chew your arm off to get away from it, once you sobered up, like a coyote caught in a spring trap.:laughing:laughing
got a CW song title I need to get to one of these days...
"Drinkin' 'em pretty made me a dog, too"

Money can make you comfortable. Never finding satisfaction in anything, no matter how big or small, makes you mean.
 
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channelcat said:
Money can make you comfortable. Never finding satisfaction in anything, no matter how big or small, makes you mean.
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I'd agree with this

once you find out that money can't buy you happiness and you've ruined a lot of yourself trying to attain it... you probably become pretty bitter.
 
Yakoo752 said:
I'd agree with this

once you find out that money can't buy you happiness and you've ruined a lot of yourself trying to attain it... you probably become pretty bitter.
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yep. you start to taste like Jack Black...
 
to be honest, you seem a lot more controled with the sauce of late.
good for you bro
 
yeah, trying to work thru some shit here, and still have a little fun. thanks.
 
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