Creda Graeves

I had a very upsetting experience recently. My mom was terminally ill, unable to care for herself, and I had to call the cops out because of an aggressive family member. The aggressive family member then complained to the cops that I am not caring for my mom. Which the cops took an issue with, despite that being none of their business, as I have no legal responsiblity to be my mother's carer. One of the cops just couldn't let it go - he brought it up over and over again. He was very upset. I didn't react to it at first because there is no point in arguing with them, just when they were going away, and again the cop said that children should care for their parents, I curiously asked: "why do you think that?" He replied: "Because that's the norm". He was this upset because of a view he literally has not thought about for a second. This philosophy of his just sat there, never examined, and he is taking it seriously. I have said to him, "I have an opinion too" and he replied with: "I am not interested in your opinion!". So, he is just happy with this unexamined belief, and is not even thinking about having an argument about it. And I should care about his opinion, for some reason. Long story short, the situation was insanely ironic and I still can't believe this happened to me: the cops falsely accused me with a false report, no doubt at least partly because of me having a different view to them. It quickly got dismissed in court because I had evidence that my report was correct and justified, but the cops genuinely tried to punish me for not sharing their view. My point, and the thing I have been thinking about lately: most people don't have a high need for cognition. They use logic when it is necessary, and then put it down as soon as possible. They use consensus and their feelings as the decider of what to think. And the maddening thing is that despite this, they hold their views in high regard. They should understand that you don't get to have your opinon matter if you have not thought about it for even a second. That opinion is literally worth zero. You should never communicate opinions like that, and obviously you should not try to enforce them.

I should really do something with these... And I will. There are gonna be two, maybe even three posts coming from this!

The logical thing to do would be is to treat no free will as the default position.

Hit me up if you think coming into existence is bad and free will is a silly idea. :) I am drunk btw so I don't care if this post is cringe I don't think it's very cringe though, the nihilists among us have to talk to people too okay

Always floors me when people say that men can't have an opinion on abortion because they "don't have a uterus". They just openly admit they do not believe people are capable of empathizing, and that they think the validity of reasoning of what someone is saying depends on who they are..? It's funny by the way, if a man says they support abortion, people rarely tell him he can't have an opinion. To be clear, I am a woman and literally pro-abortion. :) And bad logic pisses me off.