Re:How to Drop Out (2004)
by SnorkelTan on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:02AM
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I'm curious if this person has a partner or is sexually active. It seems like the biggest sacrifice required for this lifestyle, more than material, would be being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attracted to. It doesn't seem like any of writings I've read praising the rejection of material living have ever really touched on that topic. Are the adherents to these philosophies really just loaners?
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Re:How to Drop Out (2004)
by Biologist123 on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:13AM
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Good insight. In parallel, I wonder how efforts to decarbonise can ever be delinked from competition for sex in more than niche communities.
Re:How to Drop Out (2004)
by tonyedgecombe on Monday January 01, 2024 @09:09AM
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I'd guess the pool of people that think the same way is smaller but the competition is as well.
Re:How to Drop Out (2004)
by dirtyhippiefree on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:12PM
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> being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attracted to.
There was an episode of the radio show This American Life that ran the numbers on finding someone compatible in a large city.
It’s time to face facts.
The vast majority of us are undesirable to the vast majority of people we're sexually attracted to…by the numbers…