🤷‍♀️🧙‍♂️ True or false? 🙄❓

Merci beaucoup @Lianshen!! I think both statements are TRUE. And about 1 i understand what you mean. With some vacations we normally have a test week after it. So you get a lot of exams immediately when you go back to school. And that way i think it is not really vacation bc you still have to do a lot. 🙁 BUTTTT this Easter vacation it is not really so bad so we have almost every day that you can relax like today!!!! And it was not super stressy today outside and with some friends who are back from their holiday!!!!! 🌞🌈🌞 I hope that you also had a nice day @Lianshen!!! 😊😊

I remember for my bachelor, we had 2 weeks of vacations for Christmas, and then a week of exam right after (January 3). We didn't really have time to get ourselves back from New Year that we were already on the exam table 😂

It's much more appreciable when you have your exams first, and then your vacations, free from all constraint

Thank you very much @Lianshen!! Merci beaucoup!!! 🙏🙏

For today i used the things i mentioned in this forum: Today Facts (look at 3 May if you read it on a later day). So i have TWO statements:

1️⃣ Today is World Press Freedom Day and a free press is less certain than for example 10 or 20 or maybe 50 years ago.

2️⃣ Today is International drone day and the statement is that drones can do good things but do even more harm (like killing a kit of people in wars).

About the first statement: i know that several persons on the forum already said that they think free press is more and more a problem. And i think that is right depending on which press you read bc it can vary A LOTTT of course.

About the second statement: i think that drones could be super useful in a lot of ways. Like making super nice photos from above or to maybe even deliver packages. But they are also used in war and i dont know how many people were killed in a year but i guess MANYYY. Also a lot of innocent people.

What do YOU think about the statements? Do you think the statements are true ✅ or false ❌

Hello everybody! 🙋‍♀️ I did not post in this forum the last weeks bc i think everybody is too busy with other things to respond so i will not bother everybody. But i will give two new statements and if anybody wants to react to the new statements or the older statements that is also possible of course. 🙂

So the new statement of today is:

1️⃣ Violent games and movies make people more violent.

2️⃣ Human cloning should NEVER be allowed.

I dont want to tell yet what i think about both statements bc i want to read first what others think and also bc it is already super late now!! 😛

But what do YOU think about the statements? Do you think the statements are true ✅ or false ❌

1️⃣ Violent games and movies make people more violent.

This popular claim that has never been proven. Besides, video games tend to be a form of catharsis to channel violence into a game rather than in the physical world. If somebody becomes violent after playing games, the problem typically comes from their mental health rather than the game itself (same reason why cars don't kill people; drivers do)

2️⃣ Human cloning should NEVER be allowed.

I think we instinctively want to be against the cloning of humans. We are first and foremost our physical body, so it's like getting robbed of our very soul. There would be great benefits to cloning though, especially in the medical field, or in terms of eugenics, and I wouldn't be surprised if in the far future we start going down that path in some form or another. For the time being I'll say no to cloning 😛

This popular claim that has never been proven. Besides, video games tend to be a form of catharsis to channel violence into a game rather than in the physical world. If somebody becomes violent after playing games, the problem typically comes from their mental health rather than the game itself (same reason why cars don't kill people; drivers do)

thanksss for writing a reply monsieur @Etienne! i agree that the video games dont make persons more violent. bc for example in our school i think maybe ALL guys like video games and many act cool BUTTTT are not violent. so maybe they just like to play the games and if they are violent it can also be other things like THEIR group or hanging with others or bc they ARE that way and not bc of the video games.

I think we instinctively want to be against the cloning of humans. We are first and foremost our physical body, so it's like getting robbed of our very soul. There would be great benefits to cloning though, especially in the medical field, or in terms of eugenics, and I wouldn't be surprised if in the far future we start going down that path in some form or another. For the time being I'll say no to cloning 😛

I agree that cloning should not be done and i think my dad agrees with the statement THE MOSTTT!!! I think if my mom or I am cloned that my dad gets CRAZYYY bc he says that now we already talk too much. But if they really clone a person than maybe a week later they clone 1000 persons and after that even more. So i think you should not start with the first one and every person is special and with clones you try to make it the same but i think it is never exactly the same.

Hello everybody!! 😊 I have two new statements that i want to write and i am curious what others think:

1️⃣ Some superstitious things that people believe are actually REAL!!!!! Examples are walking under a ladder, a black cat, broken glass brings luck, knocking wood, Friday the 13th etc.

2️⃣ Technology makes people lazy (sometimes smarter but often also more lazy)!

I am not telling yet what i think about both statements bc i want to read first what others think about them. 😛 😛 So i hope people will write what THEY think about the statements? Do YOU think the statements are true ✅ or false ❌

1️⃣ Some superstitious things that people believe are actually REAL!!!!! Examples are walking under a ladder, a black cat, broken glass brings luck, knocking wood, Friday the 13th etc.

No 😛

2️⃣ Technology makes people lazy (sometimes smarter but often also more lazy)!

Mostly true. Anything that makes your life easier will also tend to make you weaker, just like a muscle that isn't used much will gradually shrink. However you can definitely use new technology to learn even more things, or to stimulate creativity. Just like any other tool, its outcome can be good or bad depending on how it's used.

Thank you very much @Etienne for your answers!!! This time i agree with BOTH what you said. I am also not superstitious. BUTTTT i do believe in stuff that you cant see like certain spirits and things that can be haunting. But that is something different bc that is supranatural and not superstitious. 🙂

And with technology i think it is also true for the most. And the BESTTT example is ChatGPT. In our school a LOTTTTT of others use it but i really dont like it. Bc if you trust that and you make the exam you fail it. So i think it is not really smart UNLESS you understand everything already. And i think if you just copy it can even be wrong bc how can ChatGPT know what is really right or they just copy stuff from websites. And you can see if somebody writes or if ChatGPT writes. 😬😬 BUTTT it can also be useful if you dont use it for homework. But then it is more like google and i dont think that is a problem except that maybe you cant ALWAYS trust it.

Hello everybody!! 🙋‍♀️💁‍♀️ I have two new statements for this forum today and i am curious what people think about them:

1️⃣ In school you should be able to choose yourself when you have vacation and not only when everybody else has vacation at the same time!

2️⃣ In the future you can download things from the computer in your brain (like 20 books in 1 minute).

For the first statement i think it is nice if not EVERYBODY goes at the same time and you should be allowed to choose more than now. BUTTTT our school also has for example topics in classes for everybody at the same time and exams and tests at the same time. So it cant be really completely free but maybe a bit more than now.

For the second statement i think it can be true in the future that you can download things in your head. And in that way it is like AI but not AI in digital stuff but AI in your head!!! And it is artificial because you did not learn it yourself but it comes from a computer.

But i hope others want to write what they think bc i think they are interesting and nice statements. So do YOU think the statements are true ✅ or false ❌

Up until recently I was in favor of abortion in pretty much all situations. My opinion has shifted for the following reasons.

1) the first argument "my body my choice" is fallacious, as it's not about the mother's body but the baby's body which happens to be inside of the woman:

- You don't abort because you don't want to be pregnant, you abort because you don't want to have to take care of the baby after it's born

- I don't believe a mother should have exclusive ownership over this new person's existence, just like if you have me over at your house you can't do whatever you want with my body, or just like you wouldn't dispose of your own pet.

2) the second argument "you can't kill someone who was never born": there is truth to this, but the main concern behind this is when do we draw the line? We know that a 8 month old fetus is viable and has everything necessary to live a normal life. Is it 4 months? Is it 3 weeks? Is it 7.5 months? If we collectively consider abortion to be morally acceptable, then I think this limit should be very low out of caution.

3) there is something fundamentally morbid about mothers wanting to dispose of their own offspring, this breaks the circle of life with a dark celebration of the end of our own legacy. I know today is all about individual freedom and choices, that everyone is a unique gem in this world and shouldn't bear the burden of responsibility in life because it's an oppressing pattern or whatever, but this seems very short sighted and quite childish to be honest.

4) Limiting babies isn't not just a personal choice without consequences: demography is sharply dropping in developed countries and we are facing very serious problems For instance, the birth rate in South Korea is currently 0.78 and keeps on dropping. In just 3 generations, we can expect the population to decline by... 94%. Obviously this issue goes way beyond the abortion topic, but developed nations need to have more babies if they don't want to completely disappear soon. It is a very real and imminent threat, I would argue even more so than global warming.

In conclusion, I'm technically not opposed to abortion but it should not be celebrated and should be under very strict rules.

I'll keep it much shorter for this one 😃 : If you're about to die and you're suffering (serious accident, terminal cancer, etc...) I guess so

Murder is never acceptable. I've explained everything here https://penpal-gate.net/forum/1-politics-and-governments/5636-abortion/8 starting on page 8

Murder is never acceptable. I've explained everything here https://penpal-gate.net/forum/1-politics-and-governments/5636-abortion/8 starting on page 8

Thank u that u wrote abt the statement. But i dont agree in every case that it is murder like what u said. For example if smb forced it and u are a VICTIM then i think it SHOULD be allowed. Or if there are other very important reasons like u can die urself too then i think it is also allowed. But i dont think it is fair if u would do abortion just bc u dont do other things to not get pregnant. So i think it depends. 🙄🙄

Thank u that u wrote abt the statement. But i dont agree in every case that it is murder like what u said. For example if smb forced it and u are a VICTIM then i think it SHOULD be allowed. Or if there are other very important reasons like u can die urself too then i think it is also allowed. But i dont think it is fair if u would do abortion just bc u dont do other things to not get pregnant. So i think it depends. 🙄🙄

How can it be murder in some case and not murder in other case? The process is the same in both cases and it's a murder because life begins at the moment of conception. I understand that rape is big trauma but murder can't cancel the rape.

Please don't hijack multiple topics over the same subject. There's already one dedicated to it