Shila

The good hygiene portion of the hygiene hypothesis should be expected to have a greater impact than very young children staying at home which is most of what they do anyway.  Seems like the age group where the hygiene hypothesis comes into play is generally much younger than school age.  I suppose there were many children who would normally have gone to daycare for that year and gotten more exposure to diseases but children that young in daycare is also a relatively new phenomenon with unknown impacts.  I would guess the advantages of very young children spending more time with their families accrued more psychological survival advantages than immunological disadvantages.  I expect that if the most virulent generations of COVID had hit more children earlier, the long term impacts to some of those children would have far outweighed any  long-term immunological or psychological effects of quarantine.

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Most of your exchanges are with Polytheist _Witch.

Unfortunately, most of my exchanges are with YOU. So your magnet theory has some validity after all.

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The laws were only named after Jim Crow, some of the laws existed before then and all were merely racist and not motivated by any one depiction of blackface.

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healthy and mentally stable boys do not make great soldiers

Also mentally unstable soldiers don’t make great armies. Eg. The American military. Lost every war and had to withdraw in disgrace from Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia.

all armies are primarily composed of impressionable teenagers who replace their father figure with their commanding officer

this is a well known psychological exploit that subverts our familial instincts

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So, how much damage do you think has been done? 

To children?  Not much and almost all that harm is in the past now.

Do you think that people went way too overboard with the lockdowns? 

No.

Do you think that lockdowns, mask, and/or other policies should continue to exist?

For COVID?  No.  I think we are past the point where COVID will overwhelm our medical system again.  Certainly, we should refine and be prepared to implement lockdown and/or masking strategies as appropriate for new disease outbreaks.

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Are you a magnet for stupid people?

I don't think so, but feel free to let me know if you find out anything on the matter.

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I'd be willing to bet the cows are.

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Have you looked at your reflection, yet?

No, but I have a twin >:)

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Are you saying objective people don’t understand RELATIVE DIRECTIONS - - up, down, left, right which are subjective.

Similarly subjective people don’t understand ABSOLUTE DIRECTIONS - - north, south, east, west, altitude, latitude, longitude which are objective.

i am saying that

when someone claims that their right and left and up and down are the ONLY TRUE left and right and up and down

they are clearly making a CATEGORY ERROR

in the exact same way

when someone claims that their sense of right and wrong are the ONLY TRUE sense of right and wrong

they are clearly making a CATEGORY ERROR

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RationalMadman: Are you avery?

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Calling DArt a haven implies that there is a larger concentration of stupid people here than the general population. As someone who has worked in retail and is currently attending college, I can assure you that there is plenty of stupid to go around. DArt is possibly more vocal about its beliefs, but is decidedly not less stupid.

Vitamin B12 is much more readily available in animal products than plants. If I recall correctly, most vegans either take supplements or use yeast-derived products.

I think that cutting down on meat consumption would be better overall for people, the environment, and unquestionably the animals.

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Jim Crow is a fictional character developed and popularized by Thomas Rice, and was most likely based on a black performer.

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Would your opinions change if you did have a wife?

After your exchange with Polytheist-Witch are you convinced Dart is some special haven for stupid people?

No to both

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

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Avery is convinced only rape can turn her fantasies into reality. The evolutionary advantage Rape brings has convinced her to solicit such pioneers.

I've explicitly said, throughout the entire thread, that rape is not an evolutionary advantage.

Here are some examples that took me two minutes to find:

"It's not evolutionarily advantageous." ... "Rape may help the ugly, hopeless loser, but that doesn't help the gene pool in the long-run (hence, isn't evolutionarily advantageous)." Religion is an evolutionary advantage (debateart.com)

"In the plainest English: rape is an evolutionary disadvantage."  Religion is an evolutionary advantage (debateart.com) 

"Nope. I've argued that it's disgusting **because** it's evolutionarily disadvantageous."  Religion is an evolutionary advantage (debateart.com) 

You are simply not reading what I say.

So now you are against rape being an evolutionary disadvantage. You find that disgusting.

But your links say religion is an evolutionary advantage, which too would be disgusting to an atheist.

You just need more time to decide which disgusts you more.

The feelings are a result of whether it's evolutionarily advantageous. Rape is not, so that explains why there are a lot of hard, negative feelings towards it.

Religion is an evolutionary advantage. It's Atheism that is the disadvantage. Firm Atheistic beliefs will never capture human emotion like religious ones did/do. Also, religious tribes could whether the harshness of evolution better through their beliefs, even if those beliefs were total bs. That's the point of the thread.

It's hard to keep track of all of Trump's legal entaglements, maybe this will help.

Tracking Trump's ongoing investigations, civil suits and countersuits | CNN Politics

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Added 09.22.22 10:09AM

Opinion: How Trump's terrible day went from bad to worse - CNN

If Trump goes bankrupt with all these charges against him and somehow manages to bounce back. He deserves to be re-elected as President to lead a bankrupted America back to MAGA.

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I’ll admit we’re somewhat limited in our capacity to do so, but we do have our ways.

"Getting less than an "A" in college is a waste of everyone's time"  Anonymous

Added 09.22.22 10:09AM

Opinion: How Trump's terrible day went from bad to worse - CNN

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We actually do investigate potential instances of multiaccounting. If Novice was doing it, we would have already intervened.

Blackwashing versus whitewashing, just what does this mean? - VOX ATL

Blackwashing – The Burning Platform

Instead of being creative, corporations like Disney are "blackwashing" traditional white characters, to be black like the Little Mermaid. Naturally it is causing backlash. The same as it has been for changing well-established characters like Superman and even 007, James Bond, to be "blackwashed" instead of the obvious solution: create your own new characters and stop ripping off well-established white (or other races) characters. All they are doing is causing further division. It's senseless and unneccesary. 

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healthy and mentally stable boys do not make great soldiers

I Kant believe it.

subjectivity is like - - RELATIVE DIRECTIONS - - up, down, left, right

your "up" is not my "up"

your "left" is not my "left"

these terms are still useful, as long as they are understood to be RELATIVE TO THE INDIVIDUAL

"objectivity" is like - - ABSOLUTE DIRECTIONS - - north, south, east, west, altitude, latitude, longitude

these are much more specific

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1. I don't have a wife.

2. My SO doesn't like any old music so they would not care.

3. My point was that DArt isn't some special haven of "stupid" people, not that humanity is awful.

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You are welcome!

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You are welcome!

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You are welcome!

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You blew the metaphor.

Would you go to a surgeon for constipation?

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I still don't find your overall case of hardcore skepticism and sky-high bar setting to be reasonable. There are certainly limitations to the poll, of which you've covered, but they're not debilitating enough to render the poll results as merely an expression of perceptions. The poll needs a few reasonable assumptions and a unique interpretation of the results in order to be made valid.

I think I could defend this poll against you in this debate, and thereby show it has more value than merely collecting "perceptions".

When are you available?

Can you provide more information  about yourself so we know you are qualified to debate?

Based on the information you provided wouldn’t even qualify you as a female. No education, no income, no country, no language listed.

Classic hypocrisy to ask another to provide information that they themselves have been unwilling to provide (in their profile). *facepalm* 

I am not debating anyone. So there is less reason to know.

Every single time you reply to someone, and consistently respond to them, yes, you ARE debating/discussing with them. Hypocrite.

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@TWS1405

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The military will see a dramatic drop in rape cases as transgenders and LGBT fill the ranks.

TWS1405: Transgenders are less than 0.5-0.8% of the population, and LGBQ are less than 5-8% of the population. Most wouldn’t pass initial medical and psych screenings. So no, there wouldn’t be enough to “fill the ranks.”

Just shows how little you know about the military.

Really? Hmmm...guess my 5 years of active duty service in the US Army Military Police Corps (Airborne), service in Desert Shield/Storm, two tours to Gitmo and stationed at Fort Bragg "shows how little (I) know about the military." *rolling eyes*

The current transgender and LBTQ population could more than fill every position in the military.

Shows hot little YOU know about the military and what it takes to qualify for military service. 

Assuming that the U.S population number published online only takes into account those with a valid U.S citizenship and that there is no exception to the rule that you must be an American to serve in the military, the percent of American citizens who serve in the military is also 0.727%.

Blah blah blah ... your usual word salad nonsense.

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I still don't find your overall case of hardcore skepticism and sky-high bar setting to be reasonable. There are certainly limitations to the poll, of which you've covered, but they're not debilitating enough to render the poll results as merely an expression of perceptions. The poll needs a few reasonable assumptions and a unique interpretation of the results in order to be made valid.

I think I could defend this poll against you in this debate, and thereby show it has more value than merely collecting "perceptions".

When are you available?

Can you provide more information  about yourself so we know you are qualified to debate?

Based on the information you provided wouldn’t even qualify you as a female. No education, no income, no country, no language listed.

Classic hypocrisy to ask another to provide information that they themselves have been unwilling to provide (in their profile). *facepalm* 

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You are welcome!

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You are welcome!

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You are welcome!

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A little shaking from you in the right places could lighten the situation.

Then I rather it stays as dark as modern Europe.

Twerking in the dark won’t help Europe either.

Yeah but seeing you in the dark is the only way to stomach you.

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You are welcome!

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A little shaking from you in the right places could lighten the situation.

Then I rather it stays as dark as modern Europe.

Benatar argues that bringing someone into existence generates both good and bad experiences, pain and pleasure, whereas not doing so generates neither pain nor pleasure. The absence of pain is good, the absence of pleasure is not bad. Therefore, the ethical choice is weighed in favor of non-procreation.

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RationalMadman: Still waiting for you to accept or suggest tweaks to the settings.

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Thank you!

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You are most welcome.