Replying to Avatar Laser

Here's what they miss:

- Life is really really brutal alone; a family is the best chance you have at contentment. Gender roles are the ancient playbook for reserved rights and responsibilities uniquely suited to everyone's inherint properties. They are priveleges more than anything.

- In peacetime men can seem like a frivolous tyranny but in wartime the memory of intertribal chaos returns.

- The children serve the parents. The wife serves the husband. The husband serves his community, his own mission, and Jesus Christ. Everyone works. Everyone serves.

- Life isn't about pleasure, it's about harvesting enough meaning and growth so that you can be a positive example and ultimately die with courage.

- Absolute freedom doesn't exist.
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Mindaugas 2y ago

What you describe is an option, but absolute freedom (from other humans) is also an option. Not many people want it, though. Well, they want the cake (freedom), just don't want to work to cook it nor deal with the extra calories and other side effects that come with it :).

What you describe as pleasure vs. meaning, Buddha described one level up in the Four Noble Truths. There is suffering, but there is also a path to ending suffering.

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Mindaugas 2y ago

Btw, there are different types of animals that prefer absolute freedom much more than humans do, e.g. the felidae family.