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htss2013
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
My furnace broke after 15 years. I called a business to fix it. They replaced the dead pump motor and it worked again. The repair guy was paid well and I was happy to pay. What exactly is inherently unethical about this?
htss2013
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If we discovered alien planets filled with different "countries" and had some constraints on the time we could spend visiting each one for observation, wouldn't we likely choose the most militarily and economically powerful one to focus on? It wouldn't be 100% but it's plausible that it would be the main subject.
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·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That's a difference in kind, not degree. People find watching movies interesting, not making them. They're two completely different experiences.
htss2013
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
"What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for."

I'm trying to make sense of this question. Usually people think about boredom as a matter of kind, not degree. X subject is either boring or not to most people, to any degree, small or large.

Conceiving of boredom as a matter of degree is counter intuitive. Is this meant to be an insightful nuanced point or am I just high?