Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

that's a sign that it is good

your mom is hot

― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map)

the true conservative belief is "your 12 year old daughter is hot"

rolling explaining conservatism however, is bad

that's a sign that it is good

― flopson, Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:52 PM (thirty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reflexive counterintuition is the most conservative thing itt

nothing conservative about challops

Flopsotm

this thread is good but it's bad for you like eclairs

some foods are just better with butter, and attempts to equate "contemporary" culinary attempts using butter substitutes to the deliciousness of the butter-y versions feel like a misuse of affirmative action

insert "cultured" butter pun

people who are critical of capitalism are often just bad at it

― the late great, Monday, December 11, 2017 7:54 PM

bro didn't you have a trust fund

a trust fund is for sure the best way to be good at capitalism

So if I'm "bad" at "Capitalism" I'm just SOL basically?

lol i have no trust fund, not sure where you got that idea

you’re not SOL brimstead, have a growth mindset, get better at it

There's other things you can do but whinging that capitalism doesn't suit u is prob not one of the most constructive of those things

god will you stop advocating armed insurrection?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6dje_kMZZJc/Vk3v8TsBJlI/AAAAAAABBps/3X6psYJn4Uw/s400/vikingkittens.JPG

v few ppl really take part in capitalism in a way which cld be assessed, unless you count that itself as being bad at capitalism, which is imo unsound

I aM bAd at cApiTaliSM

I prefer being bad at basketball to being bad at capitalism cos then all that happens is I miss wide open jumpers instead of winding up bankrupt

b-b-b-but what about yr jump shot!?!?!

I'll just be an enforcer and foul Durant 6 times a game

cool, here's 3.7 mill per year for you

that's it? fuck it I'm going into hedge funds

into hedge funds vs into geodes

I hate the word empathy. Especially when it is used by social justice oriented k-12 educators, as in, “schools should teach kids empathy,” as if this alone would be enough to teach them moral reasoning. Empathy is a totally subjective and even narcissistic basis for morality. The idea is that you should care about someone because you also can understand and feel their pain, not because they just are a person with equal rights and dignity.

The general principle of trying to see things from other people’s perspectives is A+ classic, but the term “empathy” has taken on a weird sanctimoniousness. I also think it shouldn’t be conflated with morality because it doesn’t necedsarily lead one to make better decisions.

Also rightly or wrongly I associate the term with teachers who idly speculate that disruptive students are sociopaths.

This made me remember that I had a teacher in HS that gave us 5 extra points on any test as long as we wrong the definition of empathy at the bottom of it. He was big into the empathy.

it's weird how quickly empathy for people who annoy us evaporates

Yeah it appeals to a certain kind of soft authoritarian teacher. It’s not enough for the kids to do the right things; they have to feel the right way about it.

n.b. I couldn’t cut it as an educator in a high needs school and left the profession so my ideas on this topic shouldn’t be yaken too seriously.

xp Jeffrey

ha I would go the other way and say morality is the more troubling sanctimonious term and empathy is all you need, but I get what you're saying & writing ppl off as sociopaths is ofc not all that empathetic

imho people should be taught morality and empathy as concepts in the same way they are taught logic and the water cycle. the social contract, government and economics, and basic games stem from that, history is the evidence base, and by age 19 people should be able to explain in multiple ways why mutually assured destruction didn’t come to pass

tbf have u ever truly have an h.o.? i say this as someone who similarly never has so no judgement.

h.o.?

why is teaching morality and empathy an uncool conservative opinion?

those are good things to teach children

Toms had lots of h.oes iirv

Iirc

if I rephrase vulgarly

U say tom@hoes

luv2tom8hoes

Empathy is a totally subjective and even narcissistic basis for morality. The idea is that you should care about someone because you also can understand and feel their pain, not because they just are a person with equal rights and dignity.

― treeship 2, Friday, December 29, 2017 8:29 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry but this is so fucking dumb i can't even

or maybe you just need a dictionary

wow that's extremely harsh that someone has a slightly different opinion from your superficial ad hoc social media mediated opinions on life

like he's just arguing deontology there over intimate affective association but i guess he needs a dictionary bc clearly he's a moron

Conflating sympathy with empathy is sloppy.

Wanting others not to suffer is part of basic decency and kindness. Feeling concerned or sad about another's suffering is sympathy (feeling for, as opposed to feeling with).

Empathy means to suffer along with them, to literally feel their pain.

i'm seeing a guy about my deontology next week, gotta get a cavity filled

pause

I share treeship’s discomfort with the notion of teaching empathy. Not because it’s not valuable but because I’m not sure it can be taught. The move in education toward teaching it seems ill-grounded to me.

I don’t know any teachers who believe it is important to teach empathy who idly speculate that their disruptive students are sociopaths. I don’t think I recognize the kind of teacher you’re talking about there, treeship.