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Showerthoughts
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
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Why do you think that asking questions, making a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis and writing down the results is unethical?
Why do you think the context of the testing doesn't matter?
You said "science", not any specific type or category of study, so if you mean a specific school of science is unethical you should make that distinction.
Yes, because context matters. Exceptions don't make the rule, and speaking generally about things is allowed when they are related.
If you want to get into the semantics feel free. My statement is broad because it is a "shower thought".
This isn't debate club.
If people aren't suppose to discuss and possibly disagree, why post? What do you think is the purpose of the showerthoughts community?
I am open to discussion and disagreement. Look around the thread and tell me how many opening comments you see promoting discussion or civil disagreement.
To share "Shower thoughts".
Crazy concept I know.
I see a bunch of people posting civil and reasonable issues with the thinking behind your shower thought, and then you replying in an immature and disingenuous manner. I think the contrasting upvotes / downvotes in your comments vs everyone elses suggests that my interpretation is shared by the wider community.
I almost didn't comment because I thought from your behaviour it was obvious trolling, and there's no point reasoning with trolls. But looking through your post history, you seem like you're generally posting on good faith, so I thought I'd try and explain that you do not need to react so defensively to legitamate discussion and disagreement.
A shower thought doesn't need to be factually correct to be interesting, but when you post a pretty extreme take on a serious and sensitive subject, it isn't surprising that people are going to clarify where you've gone wrong.
This isn't a serious or sensitive topic, and I engaged people as they engaged me. If you actually looked at the thread you would see me engage like a jerk when people engaged me in bad faith, and engaged in good faith conversation with those who engaged in good faith.
Go police someone else. I never asked for your opinion.
So what is the exception here? You said, and I quote, "science is by nature unethical". So you're saying any experimental methodology in any school of science exploring any number of completely benign things is somehow unethical.
I see you're new to the internet.
Yes. Poking and prodding everything with no mind for repercussion is unethical, and that is where "Science" is rooted.
Now jog on.