Theme: Agency

  • Demarcation between animal and human is agency, not consciousness. Consciousness

    Demarcation between animal and human is agency, not consciousness. Consciousness provides the possibility of agency, but not its achievement. So either one raises one’s children from animal, to domesticated animal, to human, or one fails. One can fail genetically or parentally.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 12:58:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188802323113545729

    Reply addressees: @thanos_pope

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  • ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON SOFT EUGENICS – THE AUTISTIC CHILD EXAMPLE —“[“Demarcat

    ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON SOFT EUGENICS – THE AUTISTIC CHILD EXAMPLE

    —“[“Demarcation between animal and human is agency, not…”] Interesting. So this would make all children non human by this logic.”— @thanos_pope

    —“So let’s hypothetically say I have a child with a more severe form of autism. It is unlikely he will ever have full agency. Would P reclassify him as animal? What would happen to him in this hypothetical structure?”—

    I have no idea. I’m not making a political or moral statement, I’m simply stating that we use conflation for deception. either one has agency or not. If one has agency one is certainly fully human. If one does not then evolution and parenting failed the transition to fully human.

    —Fascinating. Obviously I was not trying to be conflating in my questions. I was asking to better understand where my real life son would fit in. I found you thru the videos of

    @JohnMarkSays and liked what he had to say. I am a little concerned with how we would treat my son.”—

    The context is in discussing the point at which one has the agency to make decisions in a polity. Would you want him lead a polity? Body or soldiers? A family? Make decisions for himself?

    —“You understand my worry Mr Doolittle. Using the demarcation “human” has been done before. And lead to tragedies. No I wouldn’t want him to do those things in his current condition. Neither would i like him to be treated badly as subhuman. T4 program started similar to this talk”—

    I understand completely. Although, we have deal with the reality that the reason we are talking about this subject is the utility of soft eugenics(one child, no child policy), and not hard eugenics(euthanasia). Hard eugenics breaks reciprocity. Not having soft eugenics does too.

    —“Now that makes more sense. But I wouldn’t remove humanity from them. There has to be a better way. Certainly no citizenship (under your system). But residency and policy on not allowing (though I don’t see this happening for him regardless) procreation.”—

    Well, you’re an in-group member, speaking truthfully, not trying to engage in parasitism, but wanting ‘insurance’ from the rest of us. Now what if you’re an immigrant, you want free money, education, but you don’t want pay by giving up your manners, customs, language, religion?

    And by doing so you want to impose costs on our civilization’s money, education, markets, manners, customs, language, religion, law, government? Is that reciprocity or theft?

    Take it a step farther. You don’t wait until you have sufficient assets, nor do you wait to choose a mate, to pay for your offspring, and because of your bad judgement you place the burden of your failures on the polity? Is that reciprocity or theft?

    Take it a step farther. You don’t wait until you have sufficient assets, nor do you wait to choose a mate, to pay for your offspring, and because of your bad judgement you place the burden of your failures on the polity? Is that reciprocity or theft?

    Take it a step farther. You and your family are unable to produce your own income, and are dependent upon the rest of us to provide for you. Should you have the right to reproduce, or are you, by reproducing given the unproductivity of your genes – making reciprocity or theft?

    Take it a step farther. Your family has a record of not only inability to produce income, but criminal behavior, anti social behavior (alcohol, drugs, violence, promiscuity), or mental illness. Do you have the right to reproduce, or are you, by reproducing, engaging in theft?

    Now flip it around. Your family has a record of self sufficiency, achievement, pro-social behavior, and not only mental health, but mental achievement. It’s not-reproducing a loss? No. But it is lowering the talent pool of the polity. Is failing to reproduce an irreciprocity?

    Next look to a world where the genetic inventory of western civilization and east asian civilization that we both produced over thousands of years of ‘soft’ eugenics under agrarianism, and capital punishment for anti-social behavior, has been reversed by dysgenic reproduction.

    And it is no longer possible to organize majority genetic middle class polities, because the rates of reproduction of the underclasses have reversed our eugenic selection, and ‘economic growth’ making that reversal, is no longer possible.

    So what is ‘moral’ when we have through pretense of morality, reduced the developed world to south america, india, and africa – except for the east asians who are not so ‘affected’ by ‘feminine’ preoccupation in political matters.

    Nature does not let us have our cake and eat it too.

    Unless we stay ahead of her, the red queen always wins, if for no other reason than human genes regress to the mean, and the mean of human genetics is barely able to manage literacy.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 11:13:00 UTC

  • ARE CHILDREN HUMAN OR POTENTIALLY HUMAN? —“Interesting. So this would make all

    ARE CHILDREN HUMAN OR POTENTIALLY HUMAN?

    —“Interesting. So this would make all children non human by this logic.”—@thanos_pope

    Demarcation between animal and human is agency, not consciousness. Consciousness provides the possibility of agency, but not its achievement. So either one raises one’s children from animal, to domesticated animal, to human, or one fails. One can fail genetically or parentally.

    Parent’s want to avoid responsibility for their genetic and parental decisions, and to export their losses on the rest of society. What if we made parents *really* responsible again?


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 09:12:00 UTC

  • There is no such thing as selflessness. There is no human action that I know of

    There is no such thing as selflessness. There is no human action that I know of that isn’t buying something. All human action can be reduced to economic statements. That doesn’t mean doing good doesn’t feel good. Its’ a good thing


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 02:35:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188645394781298688

    Reply addressees: @OfSalamis

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188645033668481024


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    @curtdoolittle Haha, I just had to address that little point at the very start of your tweet about no evidence of altruism or selflessness. I want it known that there’s realistically two options for anonymous acts of charity: it’s either real selflessness, or selfishness just to get to heaven.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188645033668481024

  • There is no evidence of selflessness or altruism that I know of. As far as I kno

    There is no evidence of selflessness or altruism that I know of. As far as I know we are buying evidence of non-threatening status, options on futures, self doubt reduction, or virtue signaling. We are buying something every time. But yes, Forbearance(Tolerance) and charity wins.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 02:05:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188637921458438144

    Reply addressees: @OfSalamis

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    @curtdoolittle Selfishness vs selflessness.

    One is violent and/or parasitic, whereas the other can build relationships and communities simply and efficiently, if given a little bit of sense and restraint on just how altruistic one can be. Can’t build if you give all away.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188579984283176960

  • What threatens islam is low status, b/c the terms by which one finds value in th

    What threatens islam is low status, b/c the terms by which one finds value in the self(obedience), and pretense of value to others(conformity), and means of advocacy (lying) is destructive, vs the value of western rule of law, truth before face, real productivity for reputation.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 20:36:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188555186115088385

    Reply addressees: @Imamofpeace @NoahRevoy

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  • RT @NoahRevoy: This is why I focus on helping our people improve their SMV and l

    RT @NoahRevoy: This is why I focus on helping our people improve their SMV and learn Agency. It’s where I can make my strongest contributio…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 20:33:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188554357349978112

  • RT @NoahRevoy: The gamma male, lacking the intellectual ability to attack an arg

    RT @NoahRevoy: The gamma male, lacking the intellectual ability to attack an argument directly attempts to undermine the person making the…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 20:33:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188554234196905987

  • RT @NoahRevoy: Most human development is the result of improvements in the sexua

    RT @NoahRevoy: Most human development is the result of improvements in the sexual market and parenting which are made possible by the incre…


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 20:32:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188554165557104641

  • THE CHOICE – AND OUR CIVILIZATION’S CHOICES Life separates plant from mineral. C

    THE CHOICE – AND OUR CIVILIZATION’S CHOICES

    Life separates plant from mineral.
    Consciousness separates animals from plants.
    Agency separates man from animals.
    And not everyone has agency…. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=494039801192915&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 18:35:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188524685169958914