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<blockquote data-quote="Paracelsus" data-source="post: 1154969" data-attributes="member: 8098">RE: NYT: &quot;If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers &amp; Sleep Wit...I wouldn't call it the right answer.&nbsp; He says culture, not morality, will save us.&nbsp; Anyone who thinks that, looking at our present culture, is insane.&nbsp; Absolutely insane.Remember your Taleb: all it takes to convert a vast mass of indifferent, tolerant, bored people is a small minority of intolerant, virtuous people.&nbsp; All it took to ditch Bertrand Russell -- deep thinker but certified degenerate -- from his university position was a few intolerant right wing women.&nbsp; But that sort of change takes the conviction of morality, not the anchorless, loose idea of culture; individual morality in that scenario is against culture.And anyone who thinks he is a monster has self-hatred issues that our present culture will not cure in a thousand years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paracelsus, post: 1154969, member: 8098"] [b]RE: NYT: "If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers & Sleep Wit...[/b] I wouldn't call it the right answer. He says culture, [b]not[/b] morality, will save us. Anyone who thinks that, looking at our present culture, is insane. Absolutely insane. Remember your Taleb: all it takes to convert a vast mass of indifferent, tolerant, bored people is a small minority of intolerant, virtuous people. All it took to ditch Bertrand Russell -- deep thinker but certified degenerate -- from his university position was a few intolerant right wing women. But that sort of change takes the conviction of morality, not the anchorless, loose idea of culture; individual morality in that scenario is [i]against[/i] culture. And anyone who thinks he is a monster has self-hatred issues that our present culture will not cure in a thousand years. [/QUOTE]

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