/lit/ - Literature

>>14695043
Belief that you're a retard can be rational and justified even without arguments or evidence.

But your post gave me all the evidence I needed.

>>14644533
If anything crime data shows that incarceration rates aren't high enough you gigantic faggot

Literally no one is going to jail because they smoked some pot or jaywalked. Anti-incarceration activists will look at a dude who robbed a fucking store and happened to have weed in his pocket as a "drug-related offense".

>>14589649
>isn't exactly a resounding success

How fucking scientifically illiterate do you have to be to actually believe this? The sciences of the mind have given us insights in the last 50 years alone that are more mind-boggling than the entire history of philosophy

Moral psychology shows us our avariciousness, acquisitiveness and massive capacity for self-deception, evolutionary psychology lays bare differences in sexual psychology between the sexes, neuroscience shows us the limits (and amazing capabilities) of our mental hardware, psychometrics explains so many of the insane outcome disparities in the world, fuck, if the findings from twin studies alone doesn't make you go offline for a week to chew on the ramifications I don't know what to tell you

It's not even like the great minds in these fields are philosophically illiterate; many take a great interest and will be happy to tell you where current findings do and don't line up with the great thinkers

Just... how? How do you convince yourself that philosophy poses some kind of threat to all this and not the other way around?

>>14560799
They don't give a shit about being "dark" anon; it is always about artificially inflating sexual market value by being part of a scene / subculture where the M:F ratio is higher

A girl who would be a 7 at best if she had to dress like a normie basic bitch can become an 8.5 by just looking a little witchy or by repping some obscure band's black T shirt

These girls are 100% guaranteed to be more validation / attention seeking than a comparably hot girl who just dresses normie; they're worse GF / tradwife material in every way

>>13933580
He doesn’t mean it explains everything in the world but it relates specifically to this thread. Authors who include symbolism and allegory in their writing are more on the mentalist end of that spectrum. Mechanists don’t see that and they digest everything at face value and they can’t figure out the very simple theme inherent in a sentence like “the curtains were blue”. In short, if you can’t deduce the deeper meaning of a book by the words and imagery an author uses then you are tremendously autistic.

>>13732958
>randomly select book from collection
>open it
Problem solved

>>13607356
Always smile for photographs