Whatever you want it to be. If that’s nothing, cool. Trying to find some external thing to bestow a meaning upon you is religion.

Anything novel about it or just the usual logorrhoea?

Yeah, I’m fine with being reminded of our country’s past again and again if it means others don’t do the same bullshit.

complete waste of a life not to act your age

How does that connect in any way?

Believe it or not, we’d prefer no fascists anywhere.

Do you not hear the words in your head while reading?

lol fuck, I knew someone would call me out on my rusty Japanese. Thank you!

ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

Edit: Gawwwd don’t listen to me today. This isn’t exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to “k”. I need sleep.

First things that comes to mind: Japanese for “to laugh” is 笑う “warau”. The equivalent of “lol” then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter “wwwww”. Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 “kusa” - which means “grass” and now also “lol”.

Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several (“Want to hang out tonight after school?” - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese. (EDIT: See comment below about the quality of that Japanese sentence lol)

You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩　遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, “this evening” and “hang out”, are there so if you’re in a hurry that’ll do.

Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/02/spelling-words-using-numbers.html

By driving my car thoughtfully, the fuel lasts longer. It follows that more thoughtfulness will enlarge my car’s fuel tank.

oh boy oh boy <3

Bodily functions that should be automatic fail all the time, for bullshit reasons, why not that one? Not that I have any strong feelings about that story but I don’t think it’s entirely outrageous to imagine. I’m aware that I may lack vital information about human anatomy - but so do the people you’re talking about.

I have given an alternative explanation for the existence of morality which is in line with current science, such as our understanding of evolution. This, at the very least, disproves your notion that there is no other explanation for morality than religion and spirituality. It may not prove that religion and spirituality ISN’T the explanation, if that makes you happy. I refuse to go into broader topics such as the entirety of human behaviour.

I have made my point, you just don’t want to accept it.

You may want to answer my question “When did you learn that hurting was wrong and who taught you?” again considering you were a baby without definable consciousness.

People rarely learn stuff all at once but gradually and in stages.

You are free to provide examples if you want me to agree with you.

I guess I won’t provide any examples then.

I read that wrong, I apologise for the snark.

You’re human, you know examples.

Which means that spiritual and religious belief structures would have been required for us to advance to where we are today, which was my entire point, based on your idea of “inherent”. Even though again, nothing is “inherent” regarding moral belief.

That does not follow from what I said.

Yes I am sure the first time you were hurt as a baby, before conscious thought even kicked in, you suddenly knew what was “morally correct”.

I did not say that.

There is no such thing as “inherent” traits. If that were true no human would hurt another human because we all would be coded not to do that and wouldn’t need someone to tell you what is wrong and right.

There are, believe it or not, more things besides empathy that determine human behaviour. Weird, complicated creatures.

If all evidence suggests that groups of humans have all had a spiritual belief structure I think it is safe to assume that as a requirement for a consistent, and easy to communicate “moral code”.

That just means humans also have an inherent wish to understand and explain things, even when they don’t have the necessary means yet.

Edit: typo

When did you learn that hurting was wrong and who taught you?

The first time something hurt me and I didn’t like it.

My human, inherent empathy then led me to the conclusion that I don’t want other people to be hurt needlessly. Yes, empathy is indeed inherent and has evolutionary roots. I absolutely can’t explain that entire framework here, you could read The Selfish Gene for example.

And to determine that, “I won’t hurt you if you don’t hurt me” and “does this hurt someone?” isn’t enough as a starting point?

Define “morality”.

That’s already happening and people are very mad about it because they think the plants are going to eat them.