StringJunky

What's to stop a gay person reproducing; it's not all or nothing. My niece is a lesbian but she has a child.

A needs to be in the vicinity of B for C to happen. You need exposure. Try a dating text site to start so you can compose yourself before each response then try Whatsapping or Skyping calls then go onto video. At any stage of those different media, if they are local, meet them for a coffee or whatever. The point is to gradually increase your exposure to people as your confidence grows.

Ethics is subjective: it's defined by the prevailing culture what is morally correct behaviour.

Yes, I see what you mean: they have made the choice to hold back on their homosexuality. Personally, I have not held back on the idea but don't feel drawn to express myself sexually with men and don't think that way despite opening myself to the idea; it's just not there. From this I assume I'm not gay. I don't think it's a choice fundamentally what one feels although one can choose to suppress it and outwardly appear to be hetero'.

Probably better to say " Is being gay genetically or environmentally initiated or both?" I don't think there's much evidence for it being a simple choice.

That is such precision ( 1/9th of a Kangaroo ) that it somewhat bemuses me why Michel so stubbornly refutes what relativity predicts; he's really got the blinkers on.

OK, who's dug up grandma?

IIRC I pointed not long ago to a clock experiment that proposed centimetre altitude accuracy and currently it's at 20-30cm I think Swansont mentioned at the time.

Yes, that's a useful extension to the teapot analogy for me; The 3D image is invariant but the 2D isn't. Markus actually put into that way of thinking a bit ago; I found it useful.

It's not really much different to ten people spaced around a teapot describing the shape of it from their position. There's only one teapot but it has ten different shapes; which one's the 'true' shape?

Imagine you are sitting on a rock in featureless space, with no external reference points, and in the distance you see me on a rock moving towards you.; I experience the same from my position. Am I moving towards you or are you moving towards me? Which/whose frame is the true reality? We can't both be stationary but we each feel stationary in our own frames. You should be able to see that there is no preferred frame and this includes time dilation.

That's the conclusion I've come to reading about science: the measurement is the closest you can get to conceiving reality ontologically.

Affirmative action, as I understand it, is choosing a minority candidate when everything else is equal between candidates capability and experience-wise e.g. on the final list of equally candidates, after whittling out the rest, a black, etc candidate is chosen. Positions like the POTUS would exception I would think. I was thinking more of the lower echelons of public life - town, city and corporate level Yes. These things are of national concern and too important for individual states to decide imo. These things define a country's character and doesn't seem right to have a hotch-potch of different attitudes expressed across the nation by different governing bodies. These things define what a country is as a collective identity.

ISIS are Sunni... if you didn't know.

I can only think he thinks there's only one reality.

Your understanding is closer to my intent in this post; the conditions need to be made more hospitable for the groups where the problems persist. A period of positive discrimination in favour of the discriminated for a decade or two would probably help. The UK did, in favour of minority groups back in the 70's and 80's IIRC. This policy is not something that should be permanent because it, understandably, causes resentment when the policy has achieved its goal.but it does set up positive role models for those coming after in the disadvantaged groups. If youngsters don't see role models from their own demographic in positions of skill, responsibility, power and influence etc, they may deem it an unrealistic goal and not worth aspiring to. This needs to be controlled at the federal level not just state to work; It's to be about AMERICA and not just individual states. Talking of which: the biggest impediment to progress in the US is the excessive autonomy of member states to make their own laws on matters that should be decided federally, like this one I mentioned..

Yeah, it's not hard to understand; it only takes a few years to sink in. I think he is considering his own frame as the sole reference frame and all the others are an illusion. It's also made more difficult because which part of your body is in the position with the correct time: your head stomach or feet?

They are all correct in their frames. The accuracy of SR is exquisite; no other word for it. Can you dumb that down for me; the difference?

Yes, I remember reading somewhere diet only adds a minor portion of the total cholesterol load.

All frames are correct because there is no absolute frame. Are you saying that the Hafele-Keating experiment is wrong or the adjustments made in the GPS clocks are wrong? That time dilation doesn't truly happen?

Right. I suppose it's a case of trying to fit people to formulas instead of fitting formulas to people.

I do believe that was compulsory reading in my English class but I can't remember it.

Those as well.

Yes, there is no, or very little, company culture anymore where people invested themselves and companies in inested in them for a long term relationship. Analogously, Instead of a looking to get married, employers and employees are treating each other like punters and hookers; exploitatively and transiently.