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We perceive reality through illusions, like stereotypes and morality, to categorise information and from there create the narratives necessary for our living function.

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• A reply on Conversation: Let's create a sport men and women are equally good at so they can compete together.

  Mar 16 2013: To specify, I've rarely seen a man sit on his perineum. :P
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  A comment on Conversation: Let's create a sport men and women are equally good at so they can compete together.

  Mar 3 2013: Perhaps a sport where both genders' advantages (male strength vs. female flexibility) somehow have equal worth?

• A reply on Conversation: Do right and wrong exist?

  Mar 3 2013: I gather you believe that morality should be concerned with forming universal rules for human propagation and wellbeing? If so, how do we define a universal wellbeing?

• A comment on Conversation: Is capitalism sustainable?

  Mar 3 2013: We live in societies and a physical realm of change and strife (inc. the necessity of chemical reactions; death and morbido/libido); therefore, no economic system is -ultimately- sustainable on an indefinite time-scale. OP (that is, Luke Hutchinson), what time-scale are you considering? Forgive me if you've already indicated this elsewhere; it's a question with many answers despite my poverty of time.

• A reply on Conversation: Do right and wrong exist?

  Mar 3 2013: If the exploration of the universe (or 'physical realm') is known as science, is the empirical method our prayer? :P
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  A comment on Conversation: Do right and wrong exist?

  Mar 3 2013: We perceive reality through illusions and stereotypes born from our living necessity of the processing and resultant categorisation of information: hence, because our experience of reality is wholly subjective, morality is intrinsically subjective. However, as we are generally social beings, we attempt to create an inclusive, universal morality to establish a suitable moral paradigm for our interaction and societies: no matter morality's innate subjectivity.