Recent content by alice144

thank you so much for the recommendations. I will definitely check those out.

Maybe we can consider 'evil' something which is, statistically speaking, detrimental to most people most of the time. This seems to me like an 'objective' way to understand morality, and doesn't have much to do with personal beliefs at all. Kinda like that.

here's one: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/virginia-senate-passes-revised-ultrasound-bill.html?pagewanted=all that's not what I said.

I hear that argument a lot. Probably, if mimimum wage jobs paid a living wage then people could work one job instead of two. When folks quit their second job, there will be more work available. I mean, theoretically. It seems like right now many people are over-employed, but still having a...

You don't get it because you're not a woman. Which is not to say that you can't get it, but rather that you're less motivated to get it. It seems like feminists get a lot of bad press these days. I was telling my friend about Simone de Beauvoir, and encouraging her to read The Second Sex, and...

I think I asked this question before, but I can't remember. Did any of you see that movie Bad Lieutenant? Nicolas Cage does a lot of awful things, but then it turns out okay. But then, it seems that, compared to his environment, he's quite an ethical guy. It's the 'do the ends justify the...

I don't know, but it doesn't seem like there's any evolutionary incentive for it to go away. Probably the guys are okay, it's just my shitty hormones. Did you read the blog or the link? I didn't read the paper so much myself, but, whatever the motivation, the tone seemed sufficently academic.

Oh, hey, I gave you the wrong one. I was trying to direct you to the Baumeister paper, here. Oh wow, I totally didn't read that page at all. :der:

Yeah, sex was definitely a commodity back in the day. It probably still is now, but with all the emphasis on equality between the sexes a lot of us don't want to admit that there's a supply-demand dynamic at work here (baumeister talks about this in greater detail). So since their material...

Dear infjs, What are your views on premarital sex and 'hookup culture'? Is it good? Is it bad? If you can be bothered, take a look at this article. I realize this is a controversial topic, but all the same I hope that everyone can remain respectful in responding. Thanks.

hey thanks for the link. there's also utegrity and edx.org and the saylor intitute, if anyone's interested. Anyone taken those MIT edx courses? I took an electrical engineering course from them and it was HARD!!! Just like real engineering school, except without my nerdy friends around to...

Well, you semi-agree. Management tends to bully employees subtly and not-so-subtly into accepting lower wages. Most of the work I've done has been semi-unskilled labor, and even with several years of experience under my belt and certifications and whatnot, I still get a lot of shit for asking...

I'm pretty sure that the vilification of the unions is mostly a right wing media propaganda thing...

How do you put a sticker tag on a worker's value? And eventually the third world will unionize. Big corporations are just taking advantage of poor, uneducated people in other countries, and it sucks. Eventually service jobs over here will unionize, too, because this Walmart stuff is bulllshit.

Is minimum wage labor exploitation? Should employers be obligated to pay a living wage? For the sake of this discussion, let's define 'minimum wage labor' as $8.50 or below, as many low-paying employers will pay slighly above minimum wage, and yet below a living wage.