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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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0	It's a good idea for men to get practice girlfriends That's a dumb comparison. What is he just said "I refuse to actively use people, it's a standard I will die on." What would your response to that be? I have no large issue with passively using people, that is literally impossible to avoid without removing oneself from society entirely. I live in the heart of an empire that slaughters endless herds of cattle and exploits countless foreigners to sustain itself. But that only stains my soul a little. Proximity matters. The real weighty moral choice…	/r/PurplePillDebate	02/04/24 02:04 AM
0	It's a good idea for men to get practice girlfriends First of, I want to say, I don't agree with the OP but.. Wouldn't you like to not treat people terribly then? This is not a good argument. Of course in an optimal world, it would be great to not ever have to do bad things, but we don't live in an optimal world, no one does. The reality is that sometimes in life you may have a to navigate social groups that are locked in a "defect-defect" equilibrium, and in that case, you have to defect, if you don't you may not be able to participate at all. It…	/r/PurplePillDebate	02/04/24 01:53 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse You do live in the same reality as me, are you? With 70% of americans being overweight or obese? Those are the same kids and adults who go for cake or any other instant dopamine, instead of foregoing instant gratification for long term goals and happiness. "good parents" and "good kids" who don't go for cake are a minoritiy, a tiny minority, if they have the freedom and ability to also go for cake. Yeah clearly America has a weight problem. Thats also a problem that we should try to fix via soci…	/r/PurplePillDebate	05/02/24 03:38 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse Exactly, and if that cake comes from porn and games or from instagram and starbucks, or from career and childrearing doesn't make a lot of difference. It makes a lot of difference for the health of society - and as I've clearly said I think it makes a big difference for the genuine happiness of the person in question too. No matter how often you tell kids that only eating cake is not good for them, they will go for the cake. Only in the absence of good parents. With good parenting most children …	/r/PurplePillDebate	04/02/24 08:24 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse I appreciate you continuing to engage with this. I think your position is pretty dark, even for this community but I hope you'll continue to argue it because I'm interested. You posit a very dark world where the vast majority of people are deeply unhappy. Is that real? Maybe I am super privileged but the majority of people I know are not living lives of quiet desperation. The people I know are generally mostly happy and working on investing in their careers or forming families. Most people have …	/r/PurplePillDebate	03/02/24 09:06 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse I can't tell how serious you are being. Maybe you are being sarcastic but I'm not sure so I'll take you at face value. You can have you being needed by other people in your virtual world. The virtual world is still a world with people and roles each one fills in a community. Have you ever played an MMO? Yeah, I guess you can, and yeah I'm familiar with mmos. I played wow for a while and also spent way too much time on a minecraft multiplayer server that was essentially an mmo. Because of that I …	/r/PurplePillDebate	01/02/24 11:01 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse You're saying that in that situation women lose. Yeah they do, they won't be very happy. But just because women lose in that equilibrium doesn't mean that men win. Men and women can both lose. Bad outcomes for the opposite sex are not the goal of the societal game. In the situation described most men will be very unhappy. How exactly is it losing, if women are en route to take over the majority of the work, paying unmotivated men social security checks so they can keep playing videogames all day…	/r/PurplePillDebate	01/02/24 05:09 AM
1	Men have already lost the gender war and it's bound to get worse That's not a good argument. You're saying that in that situation women lose. Yeah they do, they won't be very happy. But just because women lose in that equilibrium doesn't mean that men win. Men and women can both lose. Bad outcomes for the opposite sex are not the goal of the societal game. In the situation described most men will be very unhappy. How exactly is it losing, if women are en route to take over the majority of the work, paying unmotivated men social security checks so they can kee…	/r/PurplePillDebate	01/02/24 05:08 AM
2	What does Red Pill mean? Women want nice men Of course women want nice men. But in a psychologically healthy person, nice is way down the personality hierarchy. For example, psychologically healthy people have "set safe boundaries with others" WAY higher than "be nice" on their list of priorities. Being nice is good. Healthy people are nice. But healthy people won't allow predatory people to take advantage of them because they are trying to be nice. Healthy people will sometimes choose to be not nice when needed to prot…	/r/PurplePillDebate	17/01/24 03:56 AM
2	What does Red Pill mean? Wouldn't 99% of people agree with this? I feel like RP must mean something moe than this, because this is akin to saying that exercise is good for you. Not controversial, and no one really disagrees. Sort of but apparently that reality was not expressed clearly enough for a pretty substantial amount of guys. The "red pill" concept largely formed around men who felt they weren't explicitly told that it was important to work on self improvement and being able to sell yourself. Particularly they fe…	/r/PurplePillDebate	17/01/24 03:02 AM