Basman

It's not really corruption because the purpose of religious institutions isn't charity. They sometimes do charity but they are not charities.

People need to learn an actual useful skill. The degree bubble has come and gone.

I'm not sure I understand what this proves. Churches are tax exempt to protect religious freedom first and foremost. Their main purpose is to host a religious community. Charity is in of itself a religious activity for many religions. The sampling is also tiny.

Thoughts aren't actually real, which is the point, but they do drive you into action and create your reality. You don't really need to "respect" thoughts in my opinion in any kind of sense. Just change what you focus on. You can literally talk yourself out of a thought pattern like your talking to ChatGPT, to use a modern day example. Being suicidal is when you are run by negative thought patterns that interpret reality in such a way that you feel suicide is the only option. Suicide in of itself is a natural response to the sense of a helpless situation. The issue is that thoughts may or may not correspond with reality. At least to a certain degree, you are free to interpret reality however you want, which is especially true in first world countries where we have the free time to ponder while at the same time being socially isolate. Granted, I'm not a mentally ill person, so mileage may vary, but in my experience you have a lot of power to change your mind by changing what you focus on, thereby changing your reality. That is the power of mind. If you are seriously mentally ill then you probably would benefit from professional treatment. My perspective is not meant to belittle or undermine the difficulty of a sick mind, but I do believe that you have more power over your situation than you tend to think you do in most situations.

I'm speaking from my own personal experience with dealing with suicidal ideation. It's all in your head. Yes, as you gain more experience and understanding you learn to manage and you learn to take your thoughts less seriously. What suicidal people don't tend to admit is that they actually sort of enjoy thinking about suicide because it is cathartic and gives them a sense of control. It's an escape they are giving into. The mind is very powerful. You can create your own personal hell if you want to. A lot of suicidal people is due to people being emotionally immature and not understanding their own situation fully.

You should preface that in your video so people aren't confused.

Still poorer than Mansa Musa.

Well, it is a property of the mind. It disappears like with any kind of thought pattern if you stop feeding it your attention. That's why my advice for dealing with suicidal ideation is to not focus on it. It is symptom of how you interpret reality and use your mind.

This is just a kind of post-modern style of ethics, where moral intuitions are presented as both relative and inherently valid regardless of how they compare to various measure. Much of the same criticism that applies to post-modernism applies here as well, namely that just because you can have a moral intuition doesn't automatically mean it's true, and if its not true its not grounded in any sense of realness. Then it's literally fantasy. Also, if you are going to assume a relativistic stance, you have to acknowledge that anti-natalism is merely one possible perspective and that pro-natalism is equally correct as a perspective. Ultimately, you are not really saying anything substantial besides "this perspective exists". For anti-natalism to be a valid perspective it has to be true, at least by my standard (or at least parts of it). If it is not based in reality then its just hot air. What is missing is substantial proof that life disavows itself which doesn't rely on speculation and whataboutism. It's impossible to make a serious logical deduction based on for example the after life because it is impossible for us to know what it even really is. It's philosophically a dead end.

The "usual suspects" you mean, who would take a break from celebrating Charlie Kirk's death and bashing US hegemony to call you "weird" and "problematic" for wanting a hot chick an accuse you of being some phrase which ends with -ist or -phobe. They'll somehow make it about women's rights and being trans.

I didn't know how to swim till I was a teenager in high-school in a country where it is common to swim from a young age. One semester my class had swim lessons and I was literally the only one who couldn't swim. I was splashing in the kiddie pool while the rest of the class where doing exercises in the deep pool. However, I could remember one lesson from when I was very little that swimming is just doing the same motion as a frog. So I started practicing trying to float and swimming like a frog and I eventually figured out how to swim. At the end of the class I told the teacher that I can swim now so he told me to swim to the other end of the deep pool. So I dove down and swam towards the other end. The girls who sat and watched along the edge audibly "wowed", including the girl I had a crush on at the time. The teacher later that day complimented me for pushing through despite it being embarrassing to be the only one splashing in the kiddie pool for a high-schooler. He noted I could've just skipped class if I wanted to. It's actually a proven fact, no cap, that people will like you more for overcoming a deficiency than if you are perfect from the get go. They will at least respect you for it. What will make people, women especially, dislike you is cowardice, not trying, etc.

What stopping you from staying genuine, for a lack of better phrasing?

People got upset over this?.... That's funnier than the post itself.

You can't rape somebody without it being a consent question by definition. Consent is a material factor when the conspiracy to rape you does materialize unlike being born, which is not possible to consent for or against. The subtle logic here in relative to natalism is that being concieved is something that happens to you (in the negative sense), but for something to happen to you technically requires a past self which is changed negatively by being concieved. You don't exist prior to conception therefor conception can't be an infringement in of itself since you have nothing to compare it to.

I'd be very careful with characterizing ethical beliefs as instrumentalizing as it can quickly become a kind of charicature. They might be influenced by certain factors, but that doesn't mean that their values aren't genuine necessarilly. Its more important to look at the validity of their arguments.