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Klassischer statistischer Fehlschluss. Sehr niedriges Niveau.
Twitter. Both first use protected tweets without following each other, then make the tweets visible.
Should kids be saved from electrocution? Ofc
More interesting questions IMO: should kids be force fed broccoli? Forced to do homework? Forced to exercise? Forced not to smoke? Forced to go to bed?
~All parents respond ‘yes’ to at least some of these and it’s tragic.
Given a lack of knowledge and time in an emergency, some absolute minimum of coercion may sometimes be required (but not desirable compared to voluntary alternatives). It seems we agree that heavily reducing coercion in parenting would be good overall:
If a scenario you describe really is a bad idea, it shouldn’t be too hard to persuade the child of that (unless the trust has been broken from previous coercion, then it gets a lot harder).
It’s a bit unfair to expect an interlocutor to come up with solutions to all kinds of problems on the spot. I don’t need to show a solution to every problem for the claim that problems are soluble to be valid.
“black peoples are the largest growing group of vegans”
Are you citing some specific statistic?
I’m not saying not to act or not to address large errors.
Right and isn’t that usually difficult and takes time?
That’s my point. Oftentimes when trying to remove evil by some form of revolution it just gets replaced with another form of evil.
Knowledge takes time to grow, it doesn’t just generate spontaneously.
Easy, go with them and take winter clothes with you just in case.
In the other scenario, child proof your sockets.
And I mean nasty, break-your-spirit-over-years kind of coercion, not the lemme-save-your-life-in-this-emergency-situation kind of coercion.
Pulling someone away from danger is something I would hardly call coercion. But we can call it that.
It gets interesting around things like bedtimes and diets. Parents employ coercion FAR more than the kind of ‘coercion’ that is absolutely necessary as in your scenario.
Aggressive coercion is initiation of coercion in an otherwise peaceful situation (as opposed to defensive coercion which is preceded by aggressive coercion and meant to counteract it).
Eg shooting someone out of the blue is aggressive coercion.
Shooting back is defensive.
That could be achieved, for example, by letting Russia steamroll over Ukraine, which has conscription, ie slavery. But would Ukrainians be any better off?
Rewriting a word because there’s a typo in it: fine.
Rewriting a book because there’s a typo in it: bad idea.
Even if the book is littered with typos you’re almost always better off fixing the typos instead of rewriting it. twitter.com/normaldenizen/…
After re-reading this thread so far, it seems to me you’ve said several things about when coercion is not only okay but required (or else parenting would be negligent, in your opinion).
When did the switch happen?
So you don’t mind coercion, including violence, as long as the perpetrator has good intentions?
Are you also thinking of the parents and teachers who (mostly used to but some still do) beat their children out of genuine concern for their wellbeing?
The ones who say ‘this hurts me more than it hurts you’?
So, if parents ‘endorse’ the rape of their children, the associated coercion is defensive and legitimate and in the long-term interest of the child?
Surely that can’t be what you mean.
Any time?
Parents never use coercion for the parents’ benefit?
And, even if true, how does ‘benefit’ mean ‘defensive’?
RT @FischerKing64:
Removal of standards at professional schools is going to increase subtle racism. If Harvard MD doesn’t mean guy had grea…
RT @realchrisrufo:
It's a sign of immense progress that, in the search for racism, publications like the New York Times have to invent incr…
They could make the helmets they say they need.
Maybe I misunderstood, I thought by “opposed to all parental coercion” you meant all aggressive parental coercion.
is another
And there are others but I don’t wanna spam too many ppl :)
Like, it seems to me that the reasons you give for parental coercion of kids are more or less the same reasons people give for all kinds of coercion between all kinds of people, even those kinds you’d disagree with.
But if it weren’t, wouldn’t there be a parallel to parenting there?
‘non-negligent governing requires willingness to coerce (e.g. conscription). this coercion will truthfully signal to citizens that they are not trusted, in this case, to decide and behave adequately. this is fine.’
The WiFi issue affects so many people, including in the latest product lineup for computers, that I’m surprised @Apple hasn’t even acknowledged it. twitter.com/silver_x86/sta…
Wenn es nur ein deutsches Wort für „lunch“ gäbe …
Does that extend to matters beyond defensive coercion, in your opinion?
Isn’t the Popperian argument that destruction and revolution usually lead to worse outcomes than the status quo?
That’s a fair point, but why aren’t Ukrainians free to leave?
“Draft-subject men employed in nationally-important manufacturing, government support activities may be exempted”
Translates to: ‘my master is kind’
When we last discussed this, IIRC, you claimed Ukraine was doing this for their subjects’ freedom, then I pointed out the contradiction in not letting them leave. Then you stopped discussing. Whose argument is bad?
The US has a draft in place, discriminatory on top. I as a man have to register for a draft in case it's reinsta…
RT @TechnophobiaOrg:
PSA: The more fear ‘alignment’ non-profit leaders can whip up, the more money they can raise pic.twitter.com/C8sMqPhNfp
Haben die Kinder um diesen Schutz geboten? Nein? Ist es dann nicht eigentlich Bevormundung?
‚Wahlen sind super, es sei denn, sie führen zum falschen Ergebnis.‘ 🤡
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Interesting. Would men date younger and would women date older if they could?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
So it seems to be a bit of both: close in age but also skews toward older men with younger women.
RT @sentientist:
Women on internet forums are constantly encouraging one another to escalate small or nonexistent misdeeds into existential…
RT @monitoringbias:
Question: Where are the Mexicans (our largest immigrant group by far) in all of this?
Answer: Almost nowhere to be fou…
I don’t think that answers my question. Or are you saying you look at least as good now as you did when you were 20?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
What statistics are you citing?
Don’t women typically claim they look for ‘emotionally mature’ men?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Btw it’d help legibility if you made your tweets on top of each other instead of next to each other.
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
But isn’t it true that women typically prefer to date older men?
Surely this time it wasn’t about superstition and witchcraft?
@Sad_Strawberry8 @algs1185 @ElijahSchaffer
Those obvious reasons being?
@MyProNounIsDude @ElijahSchaffer
18 is not a prime number. But 19 is.
Don’t they say that men always value beauty?
How much would an average 50 yo have to take care of herself to look as good as an average 20 yo?
Early 30s is still prime for childbirth?! 🤔
How many men do you think agree with you on that?
What makes you think you’ll be able to find someone younger/fitter when you’re past your prime? Shouldn’t your expectations go down over time, not up?
RT @Jclearfield2:
@FischerKing64 @theistinthought
It was probably this article:
newrepublic.com/article/100566…
RT @a_nnaschneider:
Die Zuckerwerbeverbotsfantasien der Grünen fallen bei den Kollegen von "Die Zeit" jedenfalls auf fruchtbarsten Boden. h…
Problem is, he’d love to force Americans into the meat grinder too, if he could.
RT @mtracey:
If the New York Times or anyone else thinks "liberty" needs to be "saved" in Ukraine, have they noticed Ukraine itself has imp…
RT @frantzfries:
Steve Jobs would be so pissed at the Siri team about ChatGPT
RT @monitoringbias:
Why doesn't The Guardian ever express the same enthusiasm for reducing the non-white population of London, or the Chine…
Crypto-Fallibilism: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/crypto-f…
RT @monitoringbias:
A city that didn't enslave African-Americans ponders whether a payment of $5 million to each black resident (not one of…
Yes. Good is stronger than evil.
Bostrom et al are wrong to think that AI is guaranteed to lead to destruction. But thinking it’s guaranteed not to would be the same mistake.
Hitler was a general intelligence. Why didn’t he have doubts about annihilating humans?
‘We already oppress teenagers when it comes to smoking, so let’s also oppress them when it comes to social-media use.’ twitter.com/vivekgramaswam…
Can’t we leave it to the teens themselves, Gene? twitter.com/genesohoforum/…
For a very long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asi…
Read the beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.
Oh and you get to keep your plasmids too. Then it’s really not that hard. Starting completely from scratch on impossible should be orders of magnitude harder!
Played it many times on previous difficulties to practice. You also get to keep your weapons that way.
You learn which plasmids and which weapons to use where. For example, Enrage is good for Fontaine Fisheries where all your weapons are taken. Use security cameras. Etc.
Finished BioShock on impossible with zero deaths the other day :)
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Couldn’t the chart be going down because fewer people are getting married while more of those few marriages end up in divorce than before?
If so, wouldn’t that be misleading?
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Also, shouldn’t it be divorces among married people? Maybe fewer people are getting married.
@PostAp0calyptik @monitoringbias
Nice but that’s 20 years not 50.
Don't take Github contributions hottakes from someone's GitHub looks like this? github.com/ManuelFrigerio https:…
Are you referencing a specific statistic on divorce rates?
Years ago I was with friends (married couple with two teenage boys at the time) for dinner when the dad said the boys HAVE to get at least a master’s degree.
I still kick myself for not asking them if that’s what THEY wanted.
RT @MrsMThatcher:
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. pic.twitter.com/dUZz2q14od
RT @RonPaul:
While economically suffering at home, we're being plundered to finance Ukraine's war to the tune of over $100+ BILLION so far.…
Would you take never being catcalled again if it meant never getting attention from men again?
RT @TCSparents:
How rare is it that someone takes a child seriously even when it involves ignoring or potentially annoying the child’s pare…
Minefeld, a Seinfeld-themed minesweeper: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/minefeld
RT @monitoringbias:
Question: What happened after the top-ranked high school in the country removed its admissions test in order to increas…
RT @joshuakrohn:
Apple 2023, now with more 1993. pic.twitter.com/pAKJW7l70a
If he’s right that divorce means death, that’s evidence that the US political system is not based on the consent of the governed, even though that’s arguably its entire official reason for existing. twitter.com/leadpacer/stat…