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Quoting the bible now are we? Do you have a rational argument for the existence of good an<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">d evil?</span><br><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Here is a simplistic moral theory, which like the Golden Rule, has exceptions: assumption: human beings are a good thing; fact: we evolved in tribes; moral: anything that hurts the tribe is bad (I don't have to use the word evil) and if it helps, it's good. When it's tribe versus tribe it gets stickier. </span>><br>what of the little evils like someone whoring out <br>
their nine-old daughter to make rent? Do you truly not see Spike's <br>
point that poverty is the cause of much suffering in the world?</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have no quarrel with poverty being really bad. Possibly the very worst thing.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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In psychology, reproducibility seems less important than simply <br>
publishing results of wishful one-offs. </blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">No one is a bigger critic of psychology than me. Here is a short version of my story: I started teaching because I had to have income. As time went one I went to conferences and symposia, where I was very critical of the level of the research being presented (far worse: conferences on educational research). All of it was bad. All. It was a stage for people to present things designed for promotion and tenure. I quit going because I got tired of criticizing every session article I heard. Depressing. Any real good research went in the good journals (which are a small minority). So I decided not to play the game. I never published one thing after grad school. I did get a paper into a conference just to have something on my resume. My chair was lazy and in a sinecure and didn't care what I did or didn't do. I devoted my time to teaching and I was pretty good at it and am proud of it. I am also proud that I did not contribute to the bullshit that was what most psychologists put out (how to stop that game? I just dunno). I made full professor and got emeritus status. I also never tried to move! I was happy there. Clinical psych is even worse than the experimental areas as far as the importance of the studies and the reproducability of them.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sex is generally the purpose <br>
of power, at least in terms of primate hierarchies. Strange how <br>
evolutionary biology gives such explanatory power in psychology.<br>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I regard myself as an evolutionary psychologist. A local school has a dept of psychology and neuroscience. I think that is the near future of our discipline. Getting harder and harder science. I lean far more towards biology than towards sociology (those people are really nuts).</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope I have answered your questions. bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br> Stuart LaForge<br>
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