Re:What Is a Minimally Good Life?
by globular-toast on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:04AM
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> fault
This is where you begin to introduce your own ideas rather than talk about mine. I didn't use that word and certainly didn't imply that anybody is at fault here. Sometimes things are just true. It doesn't mean anybody is to blame or that anybody is "better" than anybody else.
Re:What Is a Minimally Good Life?
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:46AM
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> the people with the power to change the never-ending hamster wheel situation are primarly women
Why have they singled out women here if not to place blame? Women are a product of selection pressures just as much as men are. Moreover, it isn't like women are not on the same hamster wheel as everyone else.
Re:What Is a Minimally Good Life?
by globular-toast on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:31AM
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For a start, you can't "single out" half of the population. Women aren't a minority.
I disagree with anyone who wants to pin the blame on current individuals or groups for things which were caused by evolution. Check the comment I was replying to here.
Let me see if I have this straight: selection processes have favored those with the ability to provide for their offspring because it ensures the survival of their lineage. Consequently women tend to consider competitive men who have high wealth and status more attractive, therefore it is the fault of women that men are so competitive?
In your reasoning, men do not have the agency to choose not to be competitive, women do have the agency to choose who they are attracted to, and natural selection pressures are blameless. That's a pretty arbitrary place to draw the line don't you think?