Sarabet Chang Yuye
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- chronological posts, most recently:
- The Human Allergy to Feedback
- The Bashing Drive
- Dinner party rating Trader Joe's frozen meals
- My stupid model of why US healthcare sucks
- What If I Am Cleaning Forever, a Monologue
- My brief attempt to use nicotine gum to jog
- Dude. Jogging just started feeling easy.
- Not a Review: Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
- Competitive Socializing: Tourney
- Stop trying to make stay at home parenting high status
- The Last Echo
- Gutting trout
Good and Evil
7 items with this tag.
The Bashing Drive
I recently saw someone online tell an egregious lie about my friend, who met her now-spouse in a somewhat sensational way at an orgy and subsequently had a child with him. This person falsely claimed the friend had gotten pregnant at the orgy (the pregnancy came later, and was planned) and was raising the child alone (they live together and are engaged).The best character arc in The Stand (King)
Stephen King novels tend to have very Manichean cosmologies and The Stand is no exception: the survivors of a society-ruining plague have dreams of both an old woman who is clearly Very Good and a man who is A Demon, and have a choice of which one to make their way towards in post-apocalyptic America ...Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
People used to have kids regardless of whether they wanted them; now there is selection for wanting children, which is correlated with being loving parents.Jobs that make you evil
I do not think I have the moral fortitude to be a good person if I were a doctor, a cop, a teacher, a judge, or a prison guard. These all fall under a category I think of as "jobs that make you evil", and the commonality of these jobs is that...Review: Severance (TV show), S1 and S2
Why set up a universe where everyone takes this bizarre-to-us premise as granted, that severed individuals are different people whom we can treat badly? The only way it makes sense to me is as a metaphor for open individualism.The relief of deserving the medium bad things that happen to me
I recently had a frustrating experience with the contractor in charge of renovating the house we’re moving into next month. I asked him whether the date for a several thousand dollar appliances delivery was still good, and he failed to inform me until the truck was out for delivery that no one was at the house.Notes: The Bonobo and the Atheist (de Waal)
Morality is primatological.