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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Will Eren and Mikasa end up together?

    But they were raised as siblings, and both of them have stated that they see each other as family, so.

    Mar 13, 2016
  • Official Polls Re: Are you right or left handed?

    I'm ambi, though I prefer to do things with one hand over the other depending on the task. I shoot almost exclusively left-handed (because I'm also left-eye dominant), for example, ...

    Feb 19, 2016
  • Lounge, The Re: Ask The Mods

    Pretzels are okay (especially when flavored with dill and ranch), but I love my meat snacks.

    Feb 11, 2016
  • Lounge, The Re: Join NationStates!

    I used to play NationStates, it was my obsession before I joined YWS. My nation is Sovereign Republic of Arcadia (yeah, I'm Ithaca here, Arcadia there.) Initially I was an ...

    Feb 2, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should Diversity be Celebrated at the Cost of Good Lit.?

    Re: Ishiguro The setting of his earlier novels was not a factor in my asserting that his themes are quite Japanese in nature. It's hard for me to pin down ...

    Feb 1, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should Diversity be Celebrated at the Cost of Good Lit.?

    @Sweater How would you explain writers like Kazuo Ishiguro who’s as English as Ian McEwan or Martin Amis and the only thing Asian about him is his face and his ...

    Jan 30, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    And now that begs the questions of how are you using "evil", and how do you think society makes people such? Also, what do you mean by society?

    Jan 28, 2016
  • Lounge, The Re: Favorite calculator?

    I have a Casio FX-300ES that's lasted me all the way from middle school through college-level calculus. It's pretty much invincible, though I have currently misplaced it. I had a ...

    Jan 26, 2016
  • Lounge, The Re: Help me come up with a review goal

    Moved this to The Lounge where it will probably get more attention. In my opinion though, how many works you should review depends entirely on how many works you are ...

    Jan 25, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    I don't believe you understand what languages purpose really is; it enables people to express concepts, ideas and thinking. You are trying to make it define the criteria of evil ...

    Jan 22, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    So hypothetically I can argue that your definition includes a field of requirements that are too broad and that a different definition, persay, that instincts are visceral feeling we subconsciously ...

    Jan 22, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    You did however acknowledge that good and evil exist as criteria and then go on to claim that some people are evil at a genetic level. By inference, that is ...

    Jan 21, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Should Diversity be Celebrated at the Cost of Good Lit.?

    I agree with Surreal on the question being misleading and loaded. The way you have it set up, diversity is directly opposed to quality, which is a false dichotomy. There ...

    Jan 21, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    @15253 What you classify as feelings versus visceral instincts versus physical instincts seems a bit arbitrary to me, particularly the distinctions between complex instincts and feelings. Instincts ar

    Jan 21, 2016
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Human nature? Or society?

    Why wouldn't we? I don't know about you, but I didn't have to learn how to breathe. It was instinctual, and many processes essential to life are. Things like hunger, ...

    Jan 21, 2016


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