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  • Dice

    [edge of pic] …your game

    Determination

    With enough tries, you will eventually roll a twenty

    Cognitive Dissonance

    He has a degree in statistics. But he will still roll a d20 five times at the game store and declare, “This rolls high. I’ll take it!”

    Randomness

    Trust in the oracular power of the dice

    Sometimes in Life

    You don’t know if you rolled the dice nicely













  • I’ve never seen this line of thinking as useful. For practical things-- the actions you take and the beliefs you express-- their effect is not connected to whether you’re a conscious, free-willed entity, or whether you’re a collection of chemical and physical processes that emulates the first option.

    It’s the same argument as “I have no free will, so it’s not my fault I’m committing this crime.” Ok, well then it’s also not my fault that I’m arresting you.

    In short, just because you can explain why a certain action is taken, that doesn’t mean that the action is justified.




  • We have a long way to go in 2024 haha… and sorry, but you didn’t refute it being modern, you simply listed things about it that you didn’t like, and called those not being modern. That wasn’t a strawman, I was literally just responding to what you said. If your beliefs are different then you should have chosen your words more carefully. This response is a great step up because it actually asserts something about the age of the constitution and its beliefs.

    And that assertion is actually correct-- the US is over 200 years old when the rest of the existing democracies are mostly around 50. That’s still a short timescale when we’re talking about nations, but when referring to democracies in particular… yeah, it could use some updating.