It's hard to make the argument for the harmlessness of porn when the sight of an attractive woman triggers the thought "I need to ask about their subscription content".
I don’t think I made that argument and I didn't mention porn, streamers and content creators have to be interesting
To me it’s no different than guessing who was approached about joining a sorority
Or who orders pumpkin spice lattes
In this reality it doesnt preclude them from doing anything else professionally, simultaneously or in the future. It is true that some people will try to exclude them, it is also true that it becomes more benign the more that other people have potentially revealing content out there
I find that reconcilable, and reinforcing that any performer or consumer affects from this kind of labor should be addressed as any other kind of labor
> They're just jealous you can travel and play video games whenever you want. =)
To infantilize people like this is more hurtful really. We both know your allotted time with a Nintendo isn't a source of envy. It's a problem, it needs addressing. If you've successfully overridden one of your most primal biological instincts then good for you, you don't need to read all this. However, I suspect most people who say they are just as happy single are not entirely truthful (to themselves).
I'm honestly very surprised at this entire thread.
Clearly the smiley face at the end didn't convey that I was half speaking in jest. But people seemed to have taken my position as an assault on their entire world view.
Let me ask you this though:
> overridden one of your most primal biological instincts
Have you considered the existence of individuals that are gay, lesbian, or asexual? How do these individuals fit into your apparently biological-reproductive-imperative based view of happiness?
Or would you go further to say that those individuals also cannot be happy, since they can't be truly fulfilling their biological instincts either?
If it turns out left handed people are significantly overrepresented in crime statistics, then yes, that would be interesting to know. Either something is wrong with the system or with left handed people. This notion of withholding information from voting adults just because it doesn't further a particular social engineering agenda is repulsive to be honest.
Oh come on, your argument is self defeating. If doxxing individuals would be the only way for a voter to learn "if left handed people are significantly overrepresented", you would need to make all properties of everyone public, because there could be significant overrepresentation for any property.
And if you already know that "left handed people are significantly overrepresented" from some other source, you don't have to make the information public for these cases -- you know it already. Probably from a proper statistic made by the government. Not by counting a media-reported incident also reported the person to be left-handed.
And your argument is a mix of a strawman and taking GP’s point ad absurdum. Not withholding information doesn’t equate to doxxing, and just because you can’t find out all the correlations doesn’t mean you shouldn’t even try to find any in the first place.
Seems rather convenient to focus only on a positive exception and look away when the news paints a less rosy picture of the aggregate. For instance, a majority of Turks in Germany voted for Erdogan.
Rest assured that there is also a large fraction of Turks in Germany who have a fiery hate for Erdogan. I personally know some of them. But yeah, it's troubling whenever wanna-be dictators get so many votes. Do you know if this percentage is "of all Turks" or "of all who voted"? I could image that those who don't like him simply didn't vote.
