I asked AI to give me a dozen of controversial questions that would get me CANCELED. Some refused, others produced some lamest shit possible. I will answer anyway.

1. Why do some people still defend colonialism today?

All kinds of reasons. Some reinforce their contrarian identity. Some believe colonialism would benefit them personally. Some calculated colonialism would bring more good than bad to the world.

2. How should society treat parents who reject their transgender children?

The same way it should treat parents who reject their non-transgender children.

As none of its business.

There are already fairly adequate laws regarding parents' obligations in place. If "society" really wants to do good and not just lose their shit in public for social credit score, they should keep an eye out for the signs that the rule of law is undermined.

Questions here are distinctly American.

The answer to all the "How should society treat" questions would be the same. I don't think "society" (in practice—the loudest group) should monitor and react to thoughtcrimes and rise above law or trespass on individual liberties to control everything down to the person's underwear. Perhaps this thought is controversial for some countries.

3. When does immigration become harmful to a nation’s identity?

When the nation's identity doesn't account for it.

4. Why do people excuse sexual misconduct by powerful celebrities?

I care about it too little to think about it too deeply. The most prevalent reason is probably that they don't give a damn. The next thing is that they may love or respect them. 

5. How far should religious beliefs influence laws governing everyone?

Real laws enforced from outside? To no extent.
Personal laws an individual chooses to follow? However far, eir choice.

6. When does cultural appropriation become outright theft?

Never.

However, this loaded and emotive "outright theft" is bearing a lot of weight here, and I believe the real question being asked is one of the following, or all of them at once:

A) "When does cultural appropriation infuriate people?"

It can happen anytime.

B) "When does cultural appropriation become morally wrong?"

Morality isn't some rigid framework independent from human emotions. Whenever humans are infuriated, that's probably when it's morally wrong.

C) "When does cultural appropriation constitute a legally prosecuted theft?"

I'm not a lawyer, but I assume never.

D) "When should cultural appropriation be legally prosecuted?"

Rarely if ever. Perhaps, the best course of action is that the high courts and governments estimate the damage. In other words, if an instance of cultural appropriation is about to start a race war, outlaw it. Not ideal, but better than the alternative.

7. Why do some voters support politicians accused of serious crimes?

They think it's in their interest.

8. How should society respond to people who openly reject interracial marriage?

It shouldn't.

9. When does criticizing Israel cross into antisemitism?

It's for the Jews to decide.

10. Why do people defend celebrities accused of abusing minors?

Same as 4. Then, some people may still believe in the "innocent until proven guilty" thing. Additionally, in the context of the U.S., "abusing minors" can mean absolutely anything, from raping a newborn to talking to a 17-year-old. Some retards there call it abuse and imprison a mother when she lets her child skip school, a school for producing even more retards. The reasons, thus, can include absolutely anything, from being the mentally afflicted to fighting the mentally afflicted.

11. How should society judge women who publicly support misogynistic movements?

It shouldn't.

12. When does opposing affirmative action become opposition to racial equality?

Never.

We need a word to describe a feeling when you want something, but not really. Or you want it, but you don't want to live with it having been done even more. 

The feeling of a woman loving her man too much and wanting him to strike her, the feeling of a man seeing an inept little kitten and wanting to yeet it off a wide bridge into a river, the feeling of looking over a lofty precipice and wanting to topple over and embrace the fall.

(Apparently, there is something, called "velleity," "a mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it." Thank you, AI.)

Some people say English is so wonderful not because it has many overall words, but because it has many everyday words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVT2btZjYlM

And it well may be true, but I still see the gaps all the time (fine—sometimes), and wish to fill them fervently.

There is some magic in naming things. It's like when the thing gets *really* born. It's like having a superpower to see ghosts.

Narrator's tiny summarizing-emphasizing tail sentences-addendums are cringe.

"All patients but her had visitors regularly: relatives, friends, even work colleagues. They all had *someone.*"

"Even when the odds are impossible, a cowardly but decent fellow would still try to help. He'd run for a backup. Call the police. Yell for attention. *Something.*"

"As soon as he saw the suspect, he just had to call the Bureau. That was all he had to do. No more than that."

Modern bestselling trash is full of them. But it prolly does mirror modern speech patterns. The pattern's called I need to prove something to these feeble-minded on social media, but in anticipation of scattered attention, doubt, and confrontation I must reinforce it, as with "Period," Trust me" and "No cap on god bro."

Aug 2

I don't say that's all there's to it. 'Twas a random thought. I recognize some other contributors. The author's trying to convey the feelings of the POV characters: brooding, agitated, pacing an idea like one would pace a room, trying to convince themselves more than the reader. But it's still bleh. Don't.

Unattractive humans scare me. It's exceedingly difficult for me to picture them intelligent. And if they are not intelligent, they are not rational. And if they are not rational, they can try to hurt you—even when they gain nothing from it, even at the cost of their own life. And even if they try to act in your best interest, they don't understand how; they end up hurting you regardless.

I know, I know... Saying this is *extremely* racist.

I'm trying to do better.

But it sits deep.

Did you know, for example, that infants, exempt from any cultural bias, display preference for the same faces? All those evil people who were telling you beauty was subjective were lying to your face.

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Okay, I have to come clean with you. I opened it with a little clickbait. It is mostly humans unaware of their unattractiveness who scare me. They who proudly display their tumorous injected lips, patchworks of dumbass teeny tattoos, and flabs of morbid obesity—I run away from those like from a wildfire. But as soon as a human puts on an exquisite mask of their choosing, I don't care much what's behind it. I feel better. I see they are sensible enough.

Imma Kitty!
Me pussy yummy~ yummy~
Cuzamma sweetie~ sweetie~
𝒮𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝓅𝓊𝓈𝓈𝓎 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓏𝓏𝒶
𝓈𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝑔𝒾𝓇𝓁 𝓅𝓊𝓈𝓈𝓎
Yay yay!

A quick question. How often should people take a shower?

Think about it. Take a moment.

Here's what your answer tells about you.

> "As often as it is necessary to always be clean."
  — You're an Authoritarian. You want might to prevail. You want to kick aside the weak and frail.

> "As often as they want, as long as their stink doesn't assault my nostrils."
  — You're a Libertarian. Congratulations, you've displayed some rudimentary signs of sanity. 

> "As fucking often as they fucking want!!"
  — You're an Anarchist! (Put the bazooka down!)

> "[Number] times a [period]."
  — You're an NPC. Without much cognitive effort, you spit some magic number your cultural bubble installed upon you. To a non-NPC, your answer sounds as ridiculous as the magic number of peeing sessions one should stick to. I can't even be sure you understand the meaning of the words presented. You may well be a "Chinese room," wired to react to certain words with certain other words.

I dreamed of a reincarnation of Tolkien. A small crowd gathered round this young lad in the middle of a cobbled street, as he gave an overly passionate speech in his elevated register about some lore point of his universe.

"Yes, Grothengorgh was chosen to lead the folk of the Boundless Valley to war! But his peculiar bloodline was not the chief reason! He was the Glistering Star of Trimaerors! He bore the sigils weaved by Faelinara the Fifth herself!" Not that, but something like that.

The crowd dismissed him as some embarrassing cuckoo, but I was enchanted. I saw it clearly then: it is impossible not to gain a great following, as Tolkien did, when you are *this* passionate about something.

We weren't in Middle-earth necessarily, but I knew it was some sort of recursion. The author became a character inside a world he created.

The crowd wafted to the blacksmith's, and I wanted to, too, and I tried to join them, but I couldn't. It was beyond my reach. I then understood why: Tolkien never described what's there.

I collapsed and cried in high-pitched wails, like an old lady who surfaced from the cloudy waters of Alzheimer's just to realize all her children are dead. This woke me up.

There's some profound sadness in the inability to zoom in to certain parts of a fictional universe—I have a better grasp of this sadness now. But immediately after I woke up I thought to myself: my dream narrator made me overreact.

Among other things, if the body of works is big enough, your dedication is strong enough, and your intelligence isn't very far behind, with a high level of fidelity you can imagine that which authors never described.

Cold showers become surprisingly easy when you realize they are *supposed* to hurt.

Okay, cool little sentence aside, I'm not hinting at masochism here. In fact, I don't recommend overrated cold showers unless the discomfort serves you directly. For instance, I use it, among other things, to alleviate brain fog, cure midday drowsiness, and enter a certain mood.

Instead of "My gosh, I gotta do it for some reason, but how on earth do I make it less painful?" it became "Bring it on, I gotta wake up and stuff!" and then it clicked. In one day, it switched from too hurtful to not hurtful enough. Fascinating.