I cite reality.

They are. If they weren't we would not be having this discussion.

How big and secure does a country have to be before we can go, "you know what, don't worry if you accidentally piss a bit in our pool, it's big enough for everyone and we have plenty of chlorine."

Try Norway, which is Europe's largest domestic oil producer (and thus should have the lowest gas prices) but is instead pushing $10/gallon (highest gas price in the world btw) due to taxes because the government wants to "encourage" people to rely more on public transportation and/or to buy electric cars (so far it…

About 60% of the crude oil processed by U.S. refineries in 2011 was imported, with most transported by ocean tankers.

No, I don't really need to.

Here's what I think will happen. Either rape will continue to be a problem even after we get completely rid of "prevalent attitudes that excuse and rationalize rape", rape will continue to be a problem and those attitudes will persist, or (most likely) we'll get something in between those two extremes. I think the…

No disagreement. My main point is that further efforts to get rid of the "rape culture" in western countries will yield marginally diminishing returns unless the underlying genetic underpinnings of rape stop being ignored.

First of all, desiring a high number of sexual partners is not the same as objectifying those people. Maybe you see the people you want to fuck as objects, but not all of us do.

First of all I didn't say that all men are naturally rapists or that there is a "rape gene". However, study after study has consistently shown that men tend to sexually objectify women more than women sexually objectify men and that men are far more willing to have more sexual partners and more sex than women:

No, you just took 100% of that out of your ass. Did I say anything about "rape rates being the same in every human population and never changing over time"?

So misogyny/male entitlement to women disproves evolutionary psychology and proves the SSSM? I don't get it.

Can you please tell me what's with Jezebel's hatred of evolutionary psychology and infatuation with the SSSM?

It's going to take a large cultural shift that this is just a part of.

Okay, thanks.

Do you have a link to that by any chance? Would be much appreciated.

I'm tempted to blather on about why I agree, but I'll just say this kind of language is part of what subliminally turns women off STEM fields.

Thanks. The obvious differences in elementary mathematical notation between the USA and my parent's country (Poland) is the comma instead of the decimal point and the different orientation of the dividend/divisor/quotient in long division.

Once we see what are the things such technology can and cannot do, once the appropriate studies are done, then and only then can we get into our beloved ethical shenanigans. Otherwise it's just speculation about a hypothetical technology which obviously won't get us very far.

I mean, it kind of is obscure.