Quote:Samseau Wrote:
GREAT handle Kantian. I almost gave you a rep point for your name alone.
Anyhow, the problem with telling the truth to women is that they'll just use it against you.
Why tell the truth to a hostile person? Shouldn't truth be reserved for friends only?
I assume when you talk about truth you are talking about personal facts? If you're talking about personal facts, then you shouldn't tell personal facts unless you are ok with them getting out. For instance, if you banged a midget prostitute while singing show tunes and you don't want anyone to know it, don't tell anyone.
If you're talking about truth in general as in giving an argument for a position, well then you have to pick your battles. If you only converse with those who agree with you, then you really don't grow at all. However, some that disagree with you are extremely irrational and cannot be reasoned with, i.e. they don't try to engage arguments but instead introduce informal fallacies every time. If that's the case, then don't engage them.
Quote:Samseau Wrote:
Additionally, romantic love is completely irrational. Why try to have rational, normative ethics, for creatures we have no real reason to be conversing with other than the fact that they get our dicks hard?
I have no reason to be talking to a lot of people, e.g. a siberian farmer, but that doesn't mean that codes and rules of ethics don't apply to them.
I also generally agree that men have nothing to converse with women about. Women in general are vacuous. There's really no incentive for them to have hobbies or develop a personality. Which is why it makes me cringe when I hear some poor fool claiming he wants a girl that he can have intellectual conversations with. Chances are good when he does find his "intellectual" she'll be a boner killer anyways.
Quote:WestIndianArchie Wrote:
How did the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Sanskrits, Taoists, etc treat their women? What did they say about their women?
Generally not that well by modern standards, but not all viewed them as dismals. Socrates and Plato, if I remember right, thought more of women than others.
Quote:WestIndianArchie Wrote:
Many of these ideals were, imo, never contemplated to pertain to women. That's the lesson of history at least, that's what the feminists teach us as well.
I don't know what feminists teach, not particularly interested too much either.
Quote:WestIndianArchie Wrote:
If these ideas truly applied to women, there would never have been a need for feminism in the 1st place, I would argue.
WIA
Not really.