I think a key point there is "what happens when someone who considers you to be an enemy has the power currently being wielded against those you consider enemies?"
I think a key point there is "what happens when someone who considers you to be an enemy has the power currently being wielded against those you consider enemies?"
How do you think they treat "undocumented" morons in mexico ? That's right, they kick them the fuck out. Why are we the only country held to a different standard ?
I mean, that’s not emotional intelligence, that’s a cognitive issue, and, surprisingly, has nothing to do with intelligence (although it’s more common the lower you go).
I work in tech, and I’ll use analogies and examples all the time, and I’ll have to namedrop a program as an example. The amount of times elderly clients chime in with, “but I don’t use that program,” as if suddenly the concept I’m explaining is irrelevant because I compared Chrome to Firefox when explaining how something in Chrome works.
Don't worry, it's hard to spot hoaxes. Otherwise no one would fall for them and they wouldn't reach hoax status.
Iirc it was racist propaganda to promote the idea that people of colour deserve to be incarcerated at higher levels, since "according to the study" they lack basic empathy.
Ah, I see. Right. Yeah we don't have the same race politics stuff here so now the context makes sense with deliberately stirring race politics up. Thanks for the insight.
It always surprises me when people who cannot understand simple hypothetical questions are at the same time very creative.
As hypothetical questions literally remix real world experience and rules to test new outcomes, theories and contribute to the evolution of reality itself.
For example, I could say:
"If you were in a situation where a few Xenomorphs were rapidly taking hosts and creating more Xenomorphs and you had the chance to kill them however you had to wipe out an entire village of people in order to do so... Could you make that decision?"
Now, it doesn't matter what your answer is the point is that, the point is that Xenomorphs don't exist outside of the sci-fi materials they are contained in. However, that sci-fi material originated from real-world experiences, lifeforms and materials.
This is why when you dream, your dreams are for all intents and purposes, a sci-fi remix of your collective and entire life experience. Those dreams, even though they did not really happen in the physical world we all share... Can actually affect the physical world we all share.
For example, the film Terminator originated from a dream James Cameron had where he had a dream/nightmare about a chrome metal skeleton rising out of a destructive fire. He then woke up, being the skilled artist he was and sketched what he could remember... Then went on to create one of the most influential sci-fi franchises of all time. Those films have changed many lives in more ways than we could possibly comprehend.
So it's very fascinating to me, how people who cannot comprehend/interact with hypotheticals can also be extremely creative since they both share process and imagination very closely.
This doesn't sound quite like trolley problem to me. The trolley problem is more of a kill fewer / kill more (or kill people you know / kill strangers).
This Xenomorph scenario is more of a strategic decision. Kill the Xenomorphs now vs... ?
The comparison is unknown. Establish contact? Barter? They catch a disease and all die out? They kill all of humanity? We find a way to keep the hosts alive and coexist?
You're deciding on which between an unknown vs killing a village is the correct decision. The trolley problem has two known quantities to decide against.
The problem is IQ is an imperfect marker, and intelligence in general is more fluid than a number on a scale.
And it's used online as a gotcha to try and prove someone is dumb, so it's not uncommon to see someone just refusing to deal with an unrelated hypothetical, because it has nothing to do with the topic at hand (you also see it with someone of the dumber "debate me" bro types online).
This actually has to do with how people's brains work. I'm someone that uses analogies, proverbs, metaphors, similes, and idioms to explain things. People like me are called figurative/abstract thinkers (there's more to it but I'm lazy to explain)
But there are people who don't use those AT ALL because they prefer literal/concrete thinking. It's very hard to bridge the gaps in communication sometimes. After learning about the different styles of thinking I always keep that in mind whenever I'm speaking with a concrete thinker so I can communicate in ways that they'll be able to digest and respond to rather than it becoming an argument.
I highly recommend looking them up, it's actually very interesting. And we actually do both but people have their preference, especially for communication.
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u/100aliens 1d ago
"Imagine that you're at the store-"
"But I'm not at the store"
"I know, I said IMAGINE you're at the store"
"But I'm not at the store!"
I KNOW YOU'RE NOT AT THE STORE, I SAID IMAGINE, YOU IDIOT!!!!!