Human Stupidity: Irrationality, Self Deception

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In order not to lose focus:

this site is about intellectual honesty, against blind dogmatic belief, against self deception. In favor of searching the unbiased truth. Saying things as they are.

This is the true focus.

* redefining fondling as rape,
* calling consensual sex rape,
* purposefully confusing things by equating sticking objects into 5 year old vagina and taking beach photos of 17 year old nudists

all this is just intellectual dishonesty in order to foster certain agendas.

Now discussing your issues is interesting and would require new posts here, maybe even a new site with new focus. Personal opinions are interesting, policy goals could be discussed. But as I said, this detracts from the true main issue of this site.

But I can not resist, so here are some personal devils’ advocate opinions. I plan to write a post about this later on.

12 year old girl, that sure is quite young. Even more for an uneducated powerless peasant girl. But look, this is a legalized marriage, by law no crime. A real problem.

Also, the real problem is not the sex act, it is the unprotected sex. Maybe only sex without condoms or without any birth control should be criminalized. And what if a girl fooled around with a 12 year old boy, out of curiosity? the problem would be the same. Life endangering pregnancy.

By the way I wrote a blog about the catholic church excommunicating a doctor who performed an abortion to save the life of a 12 year old pregnant girl.

It is also interesting that nature made the girl capable of becoming pregnant, even though she was not mature for pregnancy. Another problem. So maybe social control is needed so she does not do things that could get her pregnant.

Now I happen to be male. Males tend to be much more promiscuous then women. You are right, maybe this is not intelligent, not good for society. The same way as men are more risk takers, more fighters, risky drivers, etc. It is natural, it is biological, has been created by evolution. Maybe not good, not intelligent, not good for a good and peaceful society.

I hope you also worry about 12 year old boys being educated as warriors, risking their lives. But maybe this is necessary to guarantee the survival of the tribe in war. So many problems in life.

Population growth is a problem for the planet. Near zero birth rates is also a problem.

Democratic governments want to interfere with Chinese family planning policy. The policy is very intelligent, useful, necessary. It goes against our feel of individual freedom, but it helps to save the planet.

Many books need to be studied, but human stupidity probably will prevent us from doing the right thing. Be it the stupidity of the dogma (religion, human rights, etc) or of the stupidity simple uneducated masses. Or maybe selfishness. Or the tragedy of the commons.

Life is complex and solutions are difficult.