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Got convicted of a fairly serious crime I didn't do. Will be going to prison. Feels surreal tbh.

No need to straw man, we were having a sensible discussion.

The abstract is all I was referring to.

Our closest primate relatives exhibit the same behaviours that primitive patriarchal human societies exhibited. I offer that as evidence that part of this terrible behaviour is biologically based.

Evidence is required if one wants to assert it is all cultural.

That's what I used to be able to do. It was pressing the back and cancel buttons in some combination brought up a hidden menu where you could reset the toner levels. You can still bring the menu up on mine but now it ignores any reset you do.

With Apple it's just sunk cost fallacy / Stockholm syndrome. Maybe you like apple products, that's fine. But when you're later confronted with almost £1000 for a monitor stand the mind needs to choose between i) I'm a mug and these people have clearly taken advantage of me or ii) no, this is a superior product, I'm a superior consumer, those poor chumps just can't see it.

There isn't really an in-between.

Brother invalidates its laser cartridges after a certain number of revolutions irrespective of how much toner is left. You used to be able to override this manually but they removed that in a software update recently. Am livid. If you know different do you mind sharing what model you have?

In context, obviously primates are more relevant to what I'm saying. Esp chimpanzees.

Yale if you are interested..

https://oyc.yale.edu/molecular-cellular-and-developmental-biology/mcdb-150/lecture-2

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I'm not a feminist (in the context of this discussion) and even I would say men are far more inclined biologically and culturally to engage in rapey behaviour. To the extent that rapey behaviour goes against our other human values (that men also hold and fight to protect) then that IS something you could say is "bad" about maleness. Same as aggression. It's self evident the males of species are more inclined to physical violence. But such inclinations are overcome by good parenting and good society. But they very much exist. Look at pretty much every other mammal species to see how biology operates.

Devils advocate answer - not my view

It reduces to whether or not one has faith that there is a (Jewish/Christian) god that wants to make their views known. If one believes that, it's reasonable to believe such a god preserved the act of inspiring writers in such a way that their message is intelligible and trustworthy, man's sinfulness notwithstanding. Else why would god entrust the spreading of the gospel to faulty mankind at all? He might as well broadcast it from the sky and sidestep sinful mankind altogether. But the whole point of the gospel is that god partners with mankind and makes what they do good and holy through the holy spirit. Writing gods "truths" in the bible writings falls into this category.

This was the view of the early (second century) church. They maintained that they were passed the knowledge of Christ mouth to mouth from first witnesses and that god helped them preserve that knowledge through writings that make up the new testament.

Professionally, I identify with the guy whose code's not working and he takes a spike to the face