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The earnestness of youth.

You failed the course because you were being graded on how well you completed the coursework, which you admit to largely ignoring. Thompsons job wasn’t to critique your poetry. On that basis if you appeal you will lose.

I was curious why you think being married to a woman is queer or even revolutionary? It may have been in the past but nowadays its just ordinary. Likewise I’m amused why you put so much effort into trying to distance yourself from woke. I suspect its because woke is synonymous with being very uncool?...and you appear deeply anxious to not to be uncool.

Your support for trans identity ideology is also mainstream, conventionally woke. The genuine revolutionaries are the ones opposing it.

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It is funny how you claim D is for dick and end with Satan's quote fro the inferno. I just got finished about writing about evil yesterday. The D I found defined was for dark, a person with a dark personality. Evil is one of those things not defined well in philosophy. Ardent wrote of the banality of evil. People working in an evil system trying to do good. Or Radical Evil by Kant which is intentionally doing wrong to others for self gain.

Pure evil is taking pleasure in purposely harming others. The pure evil person is thought to be a myth. A measurement of belief in pure evil (BPE) was created. The heart of the belief is evil people are born evil there is no ability to change. The judgement on not changing is believed to be: 1) evil people are incapable of rehabilitation, and 2) the extermination of evil requires the extermination of all the evil people. I believe, evil can be learned by reading literature that tears society down. But that is another story. (1)

There is the General dark personality factor the D factor studied in Germany and Denmark who are people that will try to win at any cost with indifference to others. They blame others for failure, all-or-nothing thinking, inability to manage emotions, and last extremes of behavior. 10% of the people in the general population have personality issues. The g factor is the general public that do not have these problems The strongest correlations were found among measures of Egoism, Machiavellianism, Moral Disengagement, Psychopathy, Sadism and Spitefulness. Another flaw related to the D-factor related to aspects of their theoretical model: utility maximization ("I'll say anything to get what I want" ), inflicting dis-utility on others ("There have been times when I was willing to suffer some small harm so that I could punish someone else who deserved it" ), and justifying malevolent beliefs ("I honestly feel I'm just more deserving than others" ). (2,3)

Evil may be ingrained as "pure evil", working in an evil system complying with evil laws "banal evil", or being good and internationally doing harm to others to help your self or to pleasure yourself "radical evil" But evil was never really defined.

Bringsjord's worked on a definition of evil, the E factor. Bringsjord is a logician, philosopher, and chairman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Cognitive Science here. He has developed a sort of checklist for determining whether someone is demonic. Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab (RAIR) gound that Tobe evil, someone seeks to harm by planning a morally wrong action without prompting from others (success of the plan does not matter). The evil person must have tried to carry out this plan with the hope of "causing considerable harm to others," The evil person does this because doing evil is a good thing. He researched several papers and one book in particular by M. Scott Peck in his 1983 book, People of the Lie, The Hope for Healing Human Evil was used in his research.(4)

Bringsjord's software now helps writers create stories by simulating human behavior. Te Feds had an interest in it to profile terrorists. Bringjord says I wouldn't release E or anything like it, even in purely virtual environments, without engineered safeguards. These safeguards would be a set of ethics written into the software, something akin to author Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" They are rules that robots should not 1. harm humans,2. obey humans and 3. protect itself as long as the first two rules are obeyed.(4)

(1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychological-power-satan/

(2) https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/new-theory-of-dark-personality-reveals-the-9-traits-of-the-evil-people-in-your-life/

(3) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-dark-core-of-personality/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&utm_content&utm_term=mind_blog_

(4) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/defining-evil/

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