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Most people don't have the time to become "serious" philosophers (write a book, etc.); this site is an outlet for the straggling insights that they are able to share. Whether your thoughts are manicured or inchoate, if you want to impart your perspectives, perceptions, intuitions, or counter-intuitions on life, politics, nature, the color yellow, anything!- this is the place to do so. I’ll share insights that I've had, and continue to contribute as thoughts come to me.
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Why the random gender attribution? Does it not hold true for women as well or do you believe that women are a subset of "man"?
This is an interesting thought. I wish you'd worded it without the parenthetical, however. Kinda lazy, and inefficient. That said, keep 'em coming.
I hope you realize the irony of you commenting on this specific post. I suppose I now equate posting thoughts with getting criticized but I am a NYer and SHOULD be able to handle it ;)
I truly believe that people will be the way that they are met with the least resistance to be...hopefully they receive little opposition to their natural ways, but when others question them continually, they put up less of an effort knowing that they will have to justify themselves...become defensive. That said, I am HAPPY to dissect my post for you :P I think it is poetic/writing license to use 'man' for all people (i.e. yes, I am considering women a subset of man; however, this is without connoting a hierarchy laden with assumptions of inferiority). Parentheses are in general lazy, yes. However, I thought it sounded weird to include 'to him' without them, and to not have 'to him' mentioned at all would have been unclear, for you could comment on a man's/person's/woman's (:P) actions to another person that is not the person on whose actions you are commenting, and the post would potentially be construed in a way not intended nor make sense.
Ah yes, I am more deliberate than you thought!
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