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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Paula Wright

    Especially when it comes to marriage which is now all about an emotional commitment to someone you love. Reason comes into it, of course.https://twitter.com/SexyIsntSexist/status/917474183625375744 …

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    Paula Wright @SexyIsntSexist
    Replying to @killbyte @HPluckrose
    Wisdom is listening to your emotions and rationality. Emotions are pretty good evolutionary heuristics. Like the senses
    12:40 PM - 9 Oct 2017
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

        I'm not sure how I'd pick a marriage partner using only reason. Go on personality traits, skills & knowledge I lack so he'd be useful?

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

        I seem to have done this rather well with my girls, actually. Looks like I'll have a political economist & a mathematician/techie.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

        This is incredibly useful to me for my writing because I am shit in these areas. However, it wasn't deliberate or particularly likely.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

        Given my genes (which only affects 1 of them) & my influence (which affects both) they weren't likely to be good at/interested in this stuff

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Oct 2017

        Of course, they don't know yet that they will be working for me free of charge in their evenings & weekends but they will.

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      2. Retrieval Cloud‏ @TonyChiaroscuro 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Respectfully I disagree. Marriage isn't all about emotion; its business. And as far as businesses go it's generally a raw deal for men.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TonyChiaroscuro

        You'd marry for a business partnership? What would be your product?

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      4. Retrieval Cloud‏ @TonyChiaroscuro 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You misunderstand. I'm saying marriage is a business; the merger of two distinct entities creating a new corporation. --

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TonyChiaroscuro

        But why? For what motivation? Why do people get married?

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      6. Retrieval Cloud‏ @TonyChiaroscuro 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Or are you asking me why other people consider/pursue marriage? If so it's because it's become a consumer-good. Neatly wrapped and shiny.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TonyChiaroscuro

        I don't know what that means. Conversation started around what marriage means and whether same sex marriage destroys that.

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      8. Retrieval Cloud‏ @TonyChiaroscuro 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        But to answer what I mean. Many see marriage as they party; the celebration/attention. The ritual of the union: not the union itself. Clear?

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      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017
        Replying to @TonyChiaroscuro

        You think people get married for a wedding party? That is what the institution of marriage means now?

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      1. Paula Wright‏ @SexyIsntSexist 9 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Dumb asses only listen to one or the other. IQ isn't correlated with wisdom. (Quoting Peterson)

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      1. Richard Sörman‏ @RichardSrman 9 Oct 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Seems rational to listen a bit to your emotions.

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      1. Tamara Brouwer‏ @TamaraBrouwer1 9 Oct 2017
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        Some ppl call those instincts. We still have those. Some..

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