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    Everyone who's scratching his/her head at this PC madness, MUST read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" - this provides historical context and countless examples of significant waves within society that blew up in some people's faces just as this craziness will. Because it goes deep into history, it will make you feel good to realize that this nonsense is nothing new. There were always huge groups of madmen willing to embrace loony ideas.

    https://www.amazon.com/Intellect…

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    • it's an overcompensation for the human condition. we need a baseline approach to how people treat eachother, something a child can understand - and go from therSteveJobs
    • a child understands already, everyone tries to teach that child how to live and that causes confusions throughout generations.uan
    • As someone who has young kids and see other parents strange ways, I'm not sure there is such a thing as "baseline".pr2
    • Things that appear immediately good, blow up in people's faces in "long run," and vice versa. I have countless first-hand accounts of that.pr2
    • i'd classify baseline as things that lead to the mutual happiness of self and others. being selfless, considerate, honest, compassionate, etc. - all easy to do.SteveJobs
    • it's what we know deep down to be right as it resonates with us. do your best and assume the best of others in spite of our imperfections. rinse, repeat.SteveJobs
    • holy shit... Sowell's already 90 :(PonyBoy
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