club vraifaux - truth or dare

truth or dare - readers' answers

1/Feb/97

Your body does not exist. True or false?

False, although we do act as if our bodies do not exist, or rather as if we would like to forget about them. For example, we hide our bodies by wearing clothing, and train our muscles to put our bodies under control of our brains.
Kenji

2/Feb/97

You think, therefore you are. True or false?

False. My thinking process alone is not a sufficient condition for my existence. The thinking process is so familiar to me that I tend to think it's real, but I cannot prove it is.
Kenji

3/Feb/97

Entrance exams enforce double standard. True or false?

True. Entrance exams are so designed that their results get regularly distributed. The standard usage of such distribution is to remove abnormality by taking the center part only. However, in the case of entrance exams, the distribution is used to pick abnormality by taking the edge only.
Kenji

4/Feb/97

Feminism is futile. True or false?

False unless its objective is to create alpha males out of women.
Kenji

5/Feb/97

Sexuality is a basis of immunity. True or false?

True. Sex variates identities of individuals within the same species so that identification makes sense, which is the prime function of immunity.
Kenji

6/Feb/97

The Internet is the third sexuality. True or false?

It can be true, if machines aren't the third. Also, the Internet can be the third because the human race is the only species involved. Some of other species already have more than two sexualities.
Kenji

7/Feb/97

Environmentalists are control freaks. True or false?

True. Every animal has effects on its surroundings, but human only seem that they want to take control of the effects.
I wouldn't blame the environmentalists if they know that what they are doing is a negative feedback for the whole human race, instead of protecting the Earth and/or the biosphere.
Kenji

8/Feb/97

Animals should be given rights. True or false?

False. Human should only give rights to other human. Other animals should not be involved in human business and should be left alone.
Kenji

9/Feb/97

The objective of evolution is not to change. True or false?

True. Life is like the Red Queen and has to move on in order to stay in one place in relative to the competitors.
Kenji

10/Feb/97

Politics is a show business for ugly people. True or false?

True. Politics is for people who in their mind are suited for show business but not quite gifted in other areas. Whether they run a country or not is irrelevant as far as they themselves are concerned. It is about power.
Kenji

11/Feb/97

Beauty has much to do with survival. True or false?

True. The sense of beauty has been important to make vital decisions - who the spouse will be. If you look at it the other way around, people seem to be programmed to see beauty in persons with better chances of survival so that their offsprings will prosper.
Kenji

12/Feb/97

Self-consciousness propagates. True or false?

True. Consciousness about me is inevitable to be in my mind, but it is also in the minds of those who know me, albeit every such consciousness tells different things about me from others. And as I meet new people, the instances of the consciousness will propagate.
Kenji

13/Feb/97

Genetically engineered foods are safe. True or false?

False. We cannot say they are safe unless the protein produced using the engineered genetic information are proven to be harmless to people.
Kenji

14/Feb/97

Sex is there for economical reasons. True or false?

True. Sex is an efficient way to mingle genes and have variety of individuals, so that immune system can develop.
Kenji

15/Feb/97

Animals do not usually sacrifice oneselves for the survival of others. True or false?

True. Animals would only sacrifice oneselves in ways historically proven to be beneficial for the survival of copies of the genes inside their cells.
Kenji

16/Feb/97

Rose is not a rose. True or false?

False unless it is spoken in a meta language.
Kenji

17/Feb/97

Meritocracy should be a class society. True or false?

True. The most efficient form of meritocracy that I can think of is a flexible class society in which a superior person can be transferred to the upper class constantly and vice versa. Democracy cannot implement meritocracy because it is beneficial for middle class majority only.
Kenji

18/Feb/97

Planet Saturn would float on water. True or false?

It will float! There is nothing which won't float on water (translated from the original japanese text).
kanaya

False. The planet would disintegrate because of the gravity of the body of water.
Kenji

19/Feb/97

Individuals do not want their species to be preserved. True or false?

True. Tendency to want to preserve one's species does not necessarily support survival of the individual, and such tendency is easy to get lost in the course of evolution if it has existed at all.
Kenji

20/Feb/97

Sports are simulated wars. True or false?

True, and sport games can actually substitute wars.
Kenji

21/Feb/97

A cellular phone is a self-replicating device. True or false?

True. My carrier, at least, charges much less to call from a cellular phone to another cellular phone than to call from a regular phone to a cellular phone. Which makes that if a friend of yours have a cellular phone, it is more economic for you to have one as well. And if you have one, your friends have to have ones too.
Using human brain as a catalyst, cellular phones self-replicate.
Kenji

22/Feb/97

White horse is not white. True or false?

True. A colour is not a property of an object, but a product of the object and the light.
Kenji

23/Feb/97

A brain has evolved for the sake of itself. True or false?

True. If it hasn't been beneficial for its own existence, the brain wouldn't have evolved this far. This is true for any organs in our bodies.
Kenji

24/Feb/97

Death has a lot to do with the beginning of your life. True or false?

True. My body was sculpted as many of my cells died, otherwise the shape of my body would be spherical.
Kenji

25/Feb/97

Telepathy is against liberty. True or false?

True. Telepathy means that you may be interrupted at any time by someone trying to communicate with you. Your private life will be ruined as you will be afraid of being caught doing something that you don't want others to know.
Kenji

26/Feb/97

Marriage is a device. True or false?

True. It is a social device to divide the population into two: married, domestic resources and single, tradable resources.
Kenji

27/Feb/97

Special education for gifted children should be encouraged. True or false?

False. Children should not be pushed to learn anything as emotional development should have higher priority than that of special skills. If the children really are gifted, there is nothing to stop them from becoming eminent later in their lives.
Kenji

28/Feb/97

You are getting better. True or false?

I believe so.
Kenji

the same world, a new reality
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