Culture

"Check your privilege!"

The woke idea that white skin color renders an unearned or unfair advantage in life while ignoring the eminent and obvious successes of nonwhites in every aspect of popular culture and society.

legalized assisted dying

"British MPs passed a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales. After a heated debate, 330 MPs voted in favour of the reform and 275 voted against it" -- The Economist.

pop culture

Calibration of what is both popular and what is widely agreed to be "culture."

owning a car and driving it

Priority request: Amish communities reject owning automobiles, believing that cars can weaken communal ties.

pacifist

Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.

Amish lifestyle in US

"The Amish are best known for their plain clothing, most of it self-made, and nonconformist lifestyle" -- britannica.

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. "The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems" -- goodreads.

The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Priority request: There is something about him that people like. Rogan's peaceful argumentative style and vulnerability seems to captivate a very large audience as he hosts the most popular podcasts in the world.

marijuana legalization effect

Cost-benefit analysis.

Halloween (tradition)

Request: "Is the essence of the Halloween day beneficial to humankind? It's a well known day of celebration, but the 'theme' is horror."

statement: there is objectively bad taste

Request: People often say that there isn't, and that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". But that kinda sounds like relativism and an excuse to not feel bad about liking something really tasteless. Or is it being judgmental, and people are right?

solitary confinement

a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people -- wikipedia.

raising a family

Priority request: Using this statement might bring more clarity to having kids or not.

marriage

The institution of marriage.

childfree / voluntary childlessness

"the voluntary choice not to have children" -- wikipedia.