I wouldn't change a thing. If we did, the ramifications would be astronomical. I'd rather keep the society we have now. It may be flawed, but it's fine the way it is.
If You Could Change Human Nature
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Sexual attraction, probably. Oh, platonic and romantic love can still happen, but it'd be nice to see relationships based on personality, rather than looks, and procreation based on the weighing of positives and negatives, rather than lust. Sure, it's done us good for the last several hundred million years of life, but we've advanced enough as a society to approach the problem from an academic standpoint, if the instinctual one wasn't already present.
You think I'm talking about pregnancy? Birth control does not prevent rape. For serious! Go ahead and try it! Go to prison with a case of birth control pills and see if it prevents rape. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.Btheking said:
uncontrolable phsycic empathy.
aka if someone around you feels pain you will feel a part of it too, you have no control over this. However it would also scale on how responsible you where for that pain eg. kicking someone you feel a lot, standing by while someone get's kicked would be a little.
aka if someone around you feels pain you will feel a part of it too, you have no control over this. However it would also scale on how responsible you where for that pain eg. kicking someone you feel a lot, standing by while someone get's kicked would be a little.
I agree. We always find way to makes things worse for everything around us. sometimes its for the better.. but its getting uncommon. We are victims of our own success as a species.fluffybacon said:
Power to give to humans = Anti-stupidity vaccine. 50% Chances are it will provoke a catastrophic paradox and implode the whole universe. 10% chance we turn into an utopia where we are part of it. 40% of the same utopia .. but without us.
Or perhaps.. cure Apathy. People will care.
Paksenarrion said:
Although the majority of reported perpetrators are male, (97 to 98%), women can, and do, also sexually assault men but is seldom reported... not that many males feel safe reporting rape anyway.
An estimated 91% of victims of rape are female, 9% are male and 99% of offenders are male. (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999)
Authors A.W. Burgess and R.R. Hazelwood observe that "little is published which addresses the issue and concept of false allegation." The classification of "false reporting" makes no distinction between women who wilfully misreport and women who mistakenly identify innocent men. Figures on false reporting used by journalists have ranged from 2% to 50%.
Males dont feel safe reporting rape they do feel weak and think less of them selfs, just like women. However men can not let them selfs be seen as weak. where as it is alot easier for women as they my not see it as weaking them. The strenght of a man is all that matters to him most of all if he values it openly unlike meany. Who my I ask do you think has it worst the person who can report the crime and truma and get help or the person that has to live with it on there own forever for the sake of strenght that no longer matters in the modern world!?!
P.S.
Do you believe men can't be raped?
P.P.S.
Also the stats are old
Women also don't feel safe reporting rape; they go through a range of emotions: rage, despair, fear...and how is rape easier on women? How do women not see rape as weakening them? At least a man has his vaunted strength...women are left with nothing (barring self-defense devices, which, I'll admit, men would be embarrassed to carry aroundBtheking said:SNIP
Although the majority of reported perpetrators are male, (97 to 98%), women can, and do, also sexually assault men but is seldom reported... not that many males feel safe reporting rape anyway.
An estimated 91% of victims of rape are female, 9% are male and 99% of offenders are male. (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999)
Authors A.W. Burgess and R.R. Hazelwood observe that "little is published which addresses the issue and concept of false allegation." The classification of "false reporting" makes no distinction between women who wilfully misreport and women who mistakenly identify innocent men. Figures on false reporting used by journalists have ranged from 2% to 50%.
Males dont feel safe reporting rape they do feel weak and think less of them selfs, just like women. However men can not let them selfs be seen as weak. where as it is alot easier for women as they my not see it as weaking them. The strenght of a man is all that matters to him most of all if he values it openly unlike meany. Who my I ask do you think has it worst the person who can report the crime and truma and get help or the person that has to live with it on there own forever for the sake of strenght that no longer matters in the modern world!?!
P.S.
Do you believe men can't be raped?
P.P.S.
Also the stats are old
).I agree that more women than men statistically report rape, but there are countless more cases which aren't reported by women. Lots of women who've had this experience have to live with it on their own, forever.
How does strength no longer matter in the modern world? It's the one virtue trumpeted by the media, the government, the military, by contemporary society in general.
P.S. I believe men can be raped by men, and rarely by women.
P.P.S. This is fun. ^_^
P.P.S. also, well trolled.
All human progress has occurred due to both our positive traits and... less likable traits.
To take away any part of our humanity would strip us of the very things that make us the dominate species on Earth.
To take away any part of our humanity would strip us of the very things that make us the dominate species on Earth.
You'd be surprised.Paksenarrion said:
First of all strenght in the military dose not matter now because we can just nuke / boomb anywhere in the world , and you say media values srenght no they value good looks and in some cases strenght is part of that. In most other cases suck as most of the movies made now the weedy weak looking guys the hero and the strong looking guys evil, stupid or both.Paksenarrion said:Women also don't feel safe reporting rape; they go through a range of emotions: rage, despair, fear...and how is rape easier on women? How do women not see rape as weakening them? At least a man has his vaunted strength...women are left with nothing (barring self-defense devices, which, I'll admit, men would be embarrassed to carry aroundBtheking said:SNIP
Although the majority of reported perpetrators are male, (97 to 98%), women can, and do, also sexually assault men but is seldom reported... not that many males feel safe reporting rape anyway.
An estimated 91% of victims of rape are female, 9% are male and 99% of offenders are male. (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1999)
Authors A.W. Burgess and R.R. Hazelwood observe that "little is published which addresses the issue and concept of false allegation." The classification of "false reporting" makes no distinction between women who wilfully misreport and women who mistakenly identify innocent men. Figures on false reporting used by journalists have ranged from 2% to 50%.
Males dont feel safe reporting rape they do feel weak and think less of them selfs, just like women. However men can not let them selfs be seen as weak. where as it is alot easier for women as they my not see it as weaking them. The strenght of a man is all that matters to him most of all if he values it openly unlike meany. Who my I ask do you think has it worst the person who can report the crime and truma and get help or the person that has to live with it on there own forever for the sake of strenght that no longer matters in the modern world!?!
P.S.
Do you believe men can't be raped?
P.P.S.
Also the stats are old
I agree that more women than men statistically report rape, but there are countless more cases which aren't reported by women. Lots of women who've had this experience have to live with it on their own, forever.
How does strength no longer matter in the modern world? It's the one virtue trumpeted by the media, the government, the military, by contemporary society in general.
P.S. I believe men can be raped by men, and rarely by women.
P.P.S. This is fun. ^_^
P.P.S. also, well trolled.
Secondly women have far more protection in the work place and the world in genral. In fact in the UK male rape has only recently been accepted as a separate crime in UK law.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/oct/12/ukcrime
--Male rape is still not recognised under Scottish law. The definition of rape, set out in 1844, states it is an offence that can only be carried out by a man against a woman.
The date will tell you everything men where not even able to clame they had been raped in 2003 where as women had the right to clame they had been raped from medevil times.
Until the late 20th Century, a husband forcing sex on his wife or a wife forcing sex on her husband was not considered "rape". What many people don't know is that it coverd women that forced men to have sex. You can't just say well men are always willing I've done biology I know any penal stimulas will give a man an erection!
Now I'm off to watch some pron WOOO!
Strength in the military doesn't matter? Might want to check your facts with a recruiter.Btheking said:
Weak looking guys in movies are the hero? IRON MAN, KARATE KID, THE LOSERS, KICK-ASS, AVATAR, etc.
You could argue that in Kick-Ass and Avatar, the main character is "weak-looking", but Kick-Ass, who do you think people cheer for the most? The Father-Daughter team who are as strong or stronger than their opponents. In Avatar, the main character is in a wheelchair, but it's his avatar that does all of the fighting. Even in the end, he
transfers his consciousness to his avatar body permanently
The fact that women need more protection in the workplace is saying something, and that's just in the *civilized world* in general. There are still plenty of countries where women aren't treated equally.
...aw, you edited your original post. I was gonna high five you. Here, I'll include it:
FUCK YEAH! HIGH FIVE!!!
I would change that dick-headed "I'm right" aspect. Petty problems escalate into violence because of this aspect of human nature.
Removing predetermined bias. Making people decide what they thought of people after being given the evidence to work on.
This would help all of those religious wars, because they'd have to understand one anothers' point of views (though I do admit it wouldn't outright prevent them), eliminate racism and generally have a positive effect on all aspects of societal workings.
Anything more specific usually has drawbacks as well.
Can anyone think of any issues with this idea?
This would help all of those religious wars, because they'd have to understand one anothers' point of views (though I do admit it wouldn't outright prevent them), eliminate racism and generally have a positive effect on all aspects of societal workings.
Anything more specific usually has drawbacks as well.
Can anyone think of any issues with this idea?
Bah, it's easy to look around and blame greed, or the devil or original sin or religion or bias or ambition or selflessness or a bazilion other things.
But really, if you get to know them, the huge majority of people really want to do the right thing.
So if I could change something basic about human nature, it would be to make us all very, very aware of all the consequences of our actions. Because that's what truly causes almost everything wrong with the world. Good people not realizing what will actually happen because of what they've done.
Sometimes people just don't think, sometimes they're willfully ignorant, and sometimes they like to pretend that their victims aren't really people. I would remove those excuses. Everyone would have to really understand what they're doing and who they're doing it to before they could take an action. Sure, there'd still be a few crazies out there, but people would lose patience with that real quick if they actually understood what was happening.
But really, if you get to know them, the huge majority of people really want to do the right thing.
So if I could change something basic about human nature, it would be to make us all very, very aware of all the consequences of our actions. Because that's what truly causes almost everything wrong with the world. Good people not realizing what will actually happen because of what they've done.
Sometimes people just don't think, sometimes they're willfully ignorant, and sometimes they like to pretend that their victims aren't really people. I would remove those excuses. Everyone would have to really understand what they're doing and who they're doing it to before they could take an action. Sure, there'd still be a few crazies out there, but people would lose patience with that real quick if they actually understood what was happening.
You did not touch on the fact that men in the UK could not clame they had been raped till 2003 I use the UK as and example as that is where I am now I'm sure I could find more examples in the so called 'civilized world' but I can't be arssed.Paksenarrion said:
Yha I thought the whole me geting raped and liking it thing would have got me band by now normaly when I insult female gamers they report me after the first overly insulting statement