Generations After You Will Not Perceive Life As You Do

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

How do you feel knowing that any kids or grand kids you have will not have the same frame of reference you have and won't think about things in the same way you do?

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Seriously though, I'd be more interested in what issues you foresee with your own potential children/grandchildren. Once those are established, people are able to consider them, given your background, or whatever elements you provide as context, and then add their own examples or expand on yours.

While the societal and cultural setting for my children will be somewhat different than my own (at least compared to people of another culture/time/part of the US), they will also have me as parent. It's quite practical to consider how you would influence and raise your child knowing how their social perspective will differ from yours. So really, I don't feel anything knowing my (hypothetical) children will be different than I; I expect it. It's really hard to say what I would do about it, though.

What's fun is to consider what you'd do raising a child in social setting that was, for all practical purposes, as new to you as them (e.g. zombie apocalypse).

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Originally Posted by dog$

This is also shitting on me.

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I haven't treated you any differently than anyone has treated me.

Pointing out that you are shifting the argument and providing a source is not shitting on you.


Holy fuck, am I being accused of treating someone badly for actually sourcing something? You people. Shit.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Relaxing, having a good time. Talking about shit like TV, movies, music, sports, etc. ]You know shit that doesn't even massive arguments and huge polarizations of people.

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This is fucking hilarious coming from anyone on TNL. Really? Have you seen a thread here? People get super polarized about this stuff too.

besides, are you really not mature enough to talk about politics and other shit with people you disagree with and the whole thing go to shit?

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I haven't treated you any differently than anyone has treated me.

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So because some people give you shit here, you're allowed to give anyone shit any time you feel like it, even if that person didn't do anything to deserve being shit upon.

OK.

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providing a source is not shitting on you

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Providing a link to a definition of a word to a 31 year old person is condescending.

I used the word "patriotism" because the sentiment which you described seemed similar to "patriotism" as used in Democracy In America.

I'm very sorry if my use of the word "patriotism" was not acceptable to you, but your response doesn't have to provide the link to the word "nationalism" as if I'm a child.

It was not an attempt to shift the conversation in any particular way, regardless.

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Originally Posted by FuryFox

Seriously though, I'd be more interested in what issues you foresee with your own potential children/grandchildren. Once those are established, people are able to consider them, given your background, or whatever elements you provide as context, and then add their own examples or expand on yours.

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Its hard to say. For one thing, it would depend on where I live. Like for me, I'm out of sink with most of the people I live around. I'm completely ok with people being atheist, gay, whatever. I'm also ok with people taking plastic surgery and body mods to their logical conclusion. I won't be surprised if one day our kids or grand kids will be able to go to a surgeon and get "designer" body parts be them genetic or robotic to acheive whatever results. Maybe they want to be stronger, or play better baseball. Maybe you will be able to get a new arm with certain muscle memory already in it. Maybe it will have some martial arts or guitar playing built into it.

Stuff like that doesn't bother me, but i see it bothering groups of people. People will probably react to it much like they have reacted to breast implants and abortions. If my kids go that route I will probably be the supportive Dad in much the same way kids are now gay and if they are lucky they have parents who understand.

thats just one example.

And at first it seems kind of harmless. But eventually it will change how people perceive "self"

other stuff I see changing are:

privacy. There will be less of it. How will this impact them? Will they roll with it? Will it increase the suicide rate? Will it increase their stress levels? Will we have more cases like the girl who killed herself because of a mother tormenting her over facebook?

Masculinity in society. As the genders become more equal, what will "men" define themselves with? Traditionally many men define themselves by what they are not. What will they do when they can no longer do this, when it is no longer acceptable to treat those things you've defined yourself against as inferior?

Male sex. Men have not had a sexual revaluation yet. Will this happen? What will they fight for?

The idea of physical and digital property. We've done this one to death in other threads. You already know the basic of it.


I'll think up some later.

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Originally Posted by dog$

So because some people give you shit here, you're allowed to give anyone shit any time you feel like it, even if that person didn't do anything to deserve being shit upon.

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I don't know man. I've commented on it and time again and again I've been told that I'm just paranoid and people aren't really giving me shit.


So either they're right and neither of us have been shit on, or some people have really been dishonest with me.

what the hell is going on here

I won't care what generations after me do as I will be dead.

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Originally Posted by FuryFox

What technology was perfected in WW2?

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Nuclear destruction.