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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
(www.theguardian.com)
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If you think one gender needs to be subservient to another you’re either an evil person, a stupid person, or both.
Republican?
They’re both evil and stupid.
Willful Ignorance. Choosing to remain stupid despite access to information.
Got me remembering Badiou's Ethics and how part of evil involves "fidelity to the lie" and actively denying the shared truth of reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
https://youtube.com/shorts/gs1-ebayUIs
Some links you may find interesting. It took me a few sittings to finish it because there's so much information to process but I highly recommend watching that documentary.
https://bonpote.com/en/the-5-basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
Law 1: Everyone always and inevitably underestimates the number of stupid people in circulation
Law 2: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or group of people when he or she does not benefit and may even suffer losses.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the destructive power of stupid individuals.
Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
What if I estimate the number of stupid people in circulation to 10 trillion?
OOOOF. This is a gooder. Cuz like, technically being terrible at math is an independent characteristic, meaning that I can't categorize you as stupid, thus would adhering to the 4th law.
Congratulations. You solved stupidity.
Then you really know your people.
TIL of the godfather of the quadrant meme, is that the name?
Nolan Chart.
Not to be confused with Gartner Chart.
I feel like it's worth noting that anyone, including you, can be a stupid person, and acknowledging that fact does not exempt you from potentially being a stupid person
Yes that’s what rule 2 is for.
Just think it could stand to be more explicit. Some people, being stupid, wouldn't be able to figure out that they may themselves be stupid based only on those laws
It's a combination of both. Stupid people stuck in echo chambers being brainwashed and manipulate by the evil people.
At some point I’m not going to care if the punch you’re swinging at me is from ignorance or not. I’m still getting hit and I’d be stupid not to defend myself.
it's called having a belief.
Did you mean faith? People believe lots of stuff for good reasons.
no. just belief. people believe in all sort of arbitrary nonsense.
i dated a woman who thought eating breakfast was only for children, for example. she basically told me i was a man-child for wanting to eat food before noon. you could not argue with her and she could not accept that people eat breakfast. she thought eating breakfast as a man made me weak and pathetic and she told me i had to stop eating breakfast if i wanted to keep seeing her.
no idea why she believed this, but to her you can't be 'adult' if you eat food before noon. probably how she was raised and she never questioned it her entire life. she was 37.
I've also had people tell me that I organize 'wrong'. and a million other arbitrary things they were adamant were the 'only way' you could do something or eat something or whatever. the most common one is that I'm must be gay because I have a cat. a 'real straight man' can't own a cat.
Do you believe this to be true?
believe what? that i'm gay because I have a cat?
No. But lots of other people believe that.
No, that people believe in all sorts of arbitrary nonsense.
I believe it the same way I believe I need oxygen to breathe.
Most of those people tend to believe such things because of their religion.... Which they think is good, wise or both.
So then they fall under the “stupid” category if they actually believe and live their lives according to unprovable mythology and “evil” if they don’t actually believe and just use the religion as an excuse to oppress others.
even if that person is a woman who thinks it's natural/normal to be subservient to a dominate man, and calls herself a feminist/progressive/liberal/independent woman?
that opinion involves other women. they can make what ever choices about themselves but the belief that others are to be subservient is evil.
so it's evil only if she preaches it as a lifestyle?
and the latent belief that others should be subservient.
That woman thinks wrong and should think the way that I, a man, say she should.