How Privileged Are You?

[civver_764]

Because I believe in survival of the fittest. Nature intended for us to be this way for a reason. Don't mess with nature I say.

Nature isn't really capable of intending things.

Do you think it'd be immoral for me to kill weaker people?

 

[Disgustipated]

Nature isn't really capable of intending things.

Do you think it'd be immoral for me to kill weaker people?

We're starting to get off the subject of the thread now. Killing is a tough thing to rationalize since most animals can't do it in the way we humans can. Humans are capable of killing for any reason at all, not just dominance or protection. And in order to maintain a civilization we must have laws, otherwise there is just anarchy. And I'm not an anarchist.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Because I believe in survival of the fittest. Nature intended for us to be this way for a reason. Don't mess with nature I say.

I don't think you understand what survival of the fittest means, and I think you're advocating for social Darwinism.

 

[civver_764]

We're starting to get off the subject of the thread now.

Oh well.

Killing is a tough thing to rationalize since most animals can't do it in the way we humans can. Humans are capable of killing for any reason at all, not just dominance or protection. And in order to maintain a civilization we must have laws, otherwise there is just anarchy. And I'm not an anarchist.

But who needs civilization if we want survival of the fittest?

 

[ace99]

Well, I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.

 

[Disgustipated]

I don't think you understand what survival of the fittest means, and I think you're advocating for social Darwinism.

I don't like being called a nazi. Nazi's were nothing about survival of the fittest. They rounded up everyone not like them and killed them. My ideal is for everyone to have an equal chance (and an equal education- so yes I do believe in things like improving inner city schools) to sink or swim on their own. Nazis never gave people the opportunity to thrive, they just killed them. I believe everyone should have an equal chance to make something of themselves. I do not favor giving one race the advantage over others.

But who needs civilization if we want survival of the fittest?

Yes you are correct that true survival of the fittest doesn't fit into our definition of civilization, it would be best for a hunter-gatherer society. But who really wants to live in a hunter-gatherer society. We have to bend the definitions somewhat to achieve civilization.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I don't like being called a nazi. Nazi's were nothing about survival of the fittest. They rounded up everyone not like them and killed them. My ideal is for everyone to have an equal chance (and an equal education- so yes I do believe in things like improving inner city schools) to sink or swim on their own. Nazis never gave people the opportunity to thrive, they just killed them. I believe everyone should have an equal chance to make something of themselves. I do not favor giving one race the advantage over others.

Never said you were a Nazi. Survival of the fittest does not mean "who's better gets ahead in life". Its a massive misunderstanding a lot of people have. Survival of the fittest means the organism that reproduces the most, and those offspring go on to reproduce themselves, will be the ones who survive. Its entirely hinged on the idea of reproduction, which is what fitness means in Darwinian terms.

And although I understand your ideal society (and I agree with most of it, actually), it has jack to do with survival of the fittest, which would imply social darwinsim to an extent.

 

[civver_764]

Yes you are correct that true survival of the fittest doesn't fit into our definition of civilization, it would be best for a hunter-gatherer society. But who really wants to live in a hunter-gatherer society. We have to bend the definitions somewhat to achieve civilization.

The question I'd usually ask is who wants to live with survival of the fittest at all, but apparently you do.

 

[Borachio]

But capitalism is such a recent cultural invention, how can you think it's evolutionary?

edit: Good grief, the thread galloped on a bit there. I don't know where I am anymore.

Who am I answering now? What? Where?

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Borachio]

Well, thanks.

But that's no help.

 

[Leonel]

+95! Eat it, peasants!

 

[Loppan Torkel]

What? So you say 51+ when you mean -15?

That seems a bit strange. But workable I suppose.

Right... I'm sure points should be deducted somewhere for this.

Anyway. +95 but doing this on a saturday evening really should weigh in more...

 

[Borachio]

I'm still puzzling over Dodger under the height metric.

From the urban dictionary.

A dodger is someone who becomes incredibly cocky with him/her self that they feel they have the right to be the boss. Originating when a community theatre company produced the musical "Oliver!" in which one of the lead character's name is Jack Dawkins a.k.a "The Artful Dodger". The actor playing Dodger...seeing as he held a high role, saw himself better than most of the cast members and felt he could boss them around.

Then there's a lot of stuff about blow jobs.

Or is it someone who can dodge under the radar? Hmmm. And Manly Tears is for someone who...what?....drowns if someone cries on him?

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I just figured out that a rich Arab guy would be less privileged according to this test than most people on this forum.

 

[Borachio]

Skip to the end of the post if you don't want to read this.

The clue to this is the "(/v/)" next to the disability social autist (the joke is people who go to /v/ are social outcasts/have autism) manly tears is a specific poster on the imageboard who went out of his way to troll people (by assuming a name so he wasn't anonymous anymore and just being a dick). He posted one picture too many and people pointed out he looked short, then whenever he posted everyone turned up with short jokes, once he stopped getting the reaction he wanted he stopped turning up.

It's just an injoke, that was why I said I was surprised it had turned up here.

Oh right. Thanks. That's that mystery sorted. I'm glad you told me.

And Dodger? Another poster?

 

[GhostWriter16]

I just figured out that a rich Arab guy would be less privileged according to this test than most people on this forum.

I bet Obama is less privleged than I am on this test too

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[cardgame]

A pretty stupid test, beyond arbitrary... didn't bother to add up my score after seeing some metrics.