/lit/ - Literature

>>20952518
Yeah, then why doesn't god give you a girlfriend

And why don't you go manifest some friends while you're at it

>>20930043
Racism is perfectly natural, it's part of our evolutionary mechanisms to view our race as in-group and other races as out-group. No need to beat yourself up. Just be casual and treat them like anyone else when the context requires it

>"I went there because you know they have the best chicken in town"
Is this a grammatical sentence?

>>20693172
>Having resolved to have breakfast, I create additional demand for the plants and animals that died so I could have this meal, but they didn't wish to die. The technology I use converts energy into heat, and makes the planet less hospitable for everyone. Even when I do good deeds such as helping a woman in danger, I cannot help but step on the toes of others, either those I didn't help because I directed my efforts in another direction, or those who will later be harmed by whoever benefits from my charity. By the light of these and other conflicts, we can see how the ongoing existence of beings who are compelled to maintain their livelihood presents an obstacle to ethics.

>Such that

If you had better time perception, you wouldn't need all of that.

Productivity =

Correct Actions Taken
____

Time

(correct actions taken over time)

If you timed 10 minutes right now, to complete a highly specific task, you would focus all of your effort into completing that task. If you did this consistently, you would improve your ability to perform new tasks and keep track of how much time passes during it. In short, this is how non-ADHD people (generally) function by default. You can get very good at this and schedule every task you do as well. That's how highly productive people function. They break everything down into smaller tasks. They are acutely aware of time passing.

Taking any action is better than taking no action

>From the moment I wake up, every action I perform is done in defiance of the minimal ethical principle I spoke of: in order to survive, I have to consume food and water, but not everyone in the world has enough food and water, so I must already disrespect the hungry and thirsty by not surrendering my breakfast. Having resolved to have breakfast, I create additional demand for the plants and animals that died so I could have this meal, but they didn't wish to die. The technology I use converts energy into heat, and makes the planet less hospitable for everyone. Even when I do good deeds such as helping a woman in danger, I cannot help but step on the toes of others, either those I didn't help because I directed my efforts in another direction, or those who will later be harmed by whoever benefits from my charity. By the light of these and other conflicts, we can see how the ongoing existence of beings who are compelled to maintain their livelihood presents an obstacle to ethics.
>Someone who is under torture or suffering from wasting disease, in agony, has no ethical obligations. For all our philosophizing about living a moral life and being charitable to others, we concede that an exception is always permissible if we will be hurt too badly. Even though what we hold up as the paragon of a moral act involves sacrificing self-interest, there is no sense in which someone enduring unbearable pain is expected to put the interests of others before stopping the pain. This kind of pain might never happen to us (or it might be waiting for us all as we near decrepitude), but as an avenue of moral escape it remains a permanent possibility. I can never say with full confidence that I will always shelter you from evil, because I know that there is a threshold of physical discomfort beyond which I will intentionally flee from that promise.

>>20435833
>The horse raced past the barn fell.

>In short

>That which

>book is a marketing campaign for the book industry