And I do! Hopefully soon, God willing. And why? I need someone to hear me yap about morals and competent screenwriting, my wife wants someone to dress up and pour her love into. Usual reasons, I guess. 😅
It should've always been a thing and in certain places of the world it was. Don't complain about your past cultural norms when I'm advocating for the mere social recognition/public announcement and acceptance of a couple of people of age and reason, which is what I'm talking about here when I say 'marriage'. Women used to be witches to be burned at the stake in the West not too long ago, I'm not at all surprised that women are disregarded and abused still...
I don't have any serious answers, but I do know that it's important not to let good be the enemy of 'perfect'. And it's also important to remember that we will always make choices with incomplete information, but our choices (like our lives) are time-constraint, so eventually we have to pick a path regardless. Are you sure you wanna do AI trading? It's basically gambling with more steps, right? Or at the very least a bit 'esoteric', certainly not a clear way into financial stability. Maybe a trade would be better? Idk. Good luck, friend. 🙏
Could I really know what you believe in and what flavour of upright (or immoral, but I believe people were made "good" so why expect differently?) you are by having a passing knowledge of your exes? I guess if I asked your exes everything about you, maybe, but that assumes they're unbiased sources of information and, c'mon, lol. Or what your political (a derivation of ethics) views are? Or what your triggers and coping mechanisms are? I mean, we could get along no matter what kind of music you listen to/fast food you order, but other stuff like being a violent neo Nazi would evidently bring some friction to our friendship!
I doubt you're as vacuous as you think (certainly more than a collection of products you consume, right?), don't sell yourself short. 😉
I think what you're picturing is way worse than what actually happened (although in all fairness he could've been chanting to Satan while f'ing the seagull, I'm just assuming it's how I picture it).
That's the kind of stuff I'm, today, mature and emotionally stable enough to force myself to lie about, lol. I'm good at yapping so I think that the one time I was asked that I just BSd my way out of it, what else would I do? Should I tell the company that consumerism is vacuous, stupid and immoral and as such they should also consider doing something prosocial instead of selling Nespresso machines?😅
Everyone makes choices for themselves. That's an attempt at a childish hedonistic argument ("bro, YOLO, why so serious?"). Marriage is nothing more and nothing less than publicly asserting your decision to be a couple and start a family unit, with the assent of your community. Today there are rites and legal documents to sign but it's the same at its core, which is why cohabitation laws making some sense. If you've met the in laws and take your partnership seriously, that's it. But many people today are pure unthinking hedonists and way past the age of discovery (+25, c'mon, even your brain is fully formed!), or too fearful to start a relationship with another human being in earnest, and that's it I guess.
I have a feeling that signing a whole legal document/ screaming to the four winds (both families included) you will be having sex with this person did a lot for consent. But I understand, marital rape. Divorce is a thing though, and always should have been, but some cultures have been historically more brutally misogynistic than others...
I was replying with the "what would you do with the information?" with that "I don't take personally etc etc"! 😅 As in, I won't take offence to 'weird' and seemingly antisocial behaviour, because I understand there's some differences in personality between tribes (meaning whatever they're giving me I need to reprocess accordingly). Perhaps, they have the tiniest bit of a genetic component (and are even harder/impossible to fully change, and hence why some of these differences and characteristics have been there seemingly forever). I mean, would that be that bad? Or does it really seem that far fetched?
I don't think the request is valid.
And I do! Hopefully soon, God willing. And why? I need someone to hear me yap about morals and competent screenwriting, my wife wants someone to dress up and pour her love into. Usual reasons, I guess. 😅