truth or dare - readers' answers

1/Jan/97

Your answer to this question is false. True or false?

2/Jan/97

It is humanly wrong to spit on a face of another person. True or false?

False. It is in many cultures, but it is not in others.
Kenji

3/Jan/97

A dead body is not living. True or false?

False. A death is a continuous process, and at some point of which the dying person is announced dead by law. Typically, the brain and/or the heart are dead then but it doesn't mean every cell in his or her body is dead.
Kenji

4/Jan/97

Equal opportunity promotes discrimination. True or false?

True. Discrimination is a human nature, and equal opportunity enforces people from different background to get together, thereby causing discriminative activities.
Kenji

5/Jan/97

Sexuality is the basis of mortality. True or false?

True. Sexuality means the offsprings may have better chances of survival than their parents, and to give such chances the death of the parents has to be programmed.
Kenji

6/Jan/97

Being intellectual and being alive are independent from each other. True or false?

False. A human brain has a tendency of perceiving something which shows intelligence as alive.
Kenji

7/Jan/97

Your body is more like a phenomenon than an object. True or false?

True. My body keeps metabolizing and within two years the molecules that form my body will be completely replaced. My body is more like a hurricane than a stone.
Kenji

8/Jan/97

FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is humanly wrong. True or false?

False. Nothing is a problem in a society unless someone in the society perceive it as a problem.
Kenji

9/Jan/97

Every human behaviour was pathological in its beginning. True or false?

True. Think, for example, of speaking a language. It must have been strange if some people spoke when most members of the society did not utter a word.
Kenji

10/Jan/97

Language acquisition is analogous to dissection. True or false?

True. They both divide and name what nature presents in front of the person.
Kenji

11/Jan/97

Our bodies are analogies of available technologies. True or false?

True. We don't have a natural way of understanding our bodies. We can only infer using the working models we can build.
Kenji

12/Jan/97

Reality is more virtual than real. True or false?

True. Like virtual reality, our reality is an interpretation of information perceived through our sensual organs.
Kenji

13/Jan/97

The true winner of an election is mediocrity. True or false?

True, because most people are mediocre and candidates who attract most votes win.
Kenji

14/Jan/97

Love will destroy Earth. True or false?

True. Earth just cannot take happiness for everyone, which is very costly and resource consuming.
Kenji

15/Jan/97

Welfarism hastens the death of human race. True or false?

True. Welfarism removes survival-pressure, which makes human race weak for sudden environmental changes.
Kenji

16/Jan/97

Abusive language can physically injure a person. True or false?

True. If the hurt feeling is remembered, which probably means that neurological networking of the person is permanently altered.
Kenji

17/Jan/97

Environmentalism is human-centric. True or false?

True. No environmentalist seems to be worried about the environments for cockroaches.
Kenji

18/Jan/97

Cancer is never a problem for human race. True or false?

True. Most cancers cause problems after the patients had children, so that population is not affected by the disease.
Kenji

19/Jan/97

Violence is sincere. True or false?

True. It does not seem to be able to lie.
Kenji

20/Jan/97

Money is a physical entity for a vending machine. True or false?

False. Money is an abstract entity which the programmer programmed into the circuit of the machine. Coins are physical entity.
Kenji

21/Jan/97

Stoicism is more hedonistic than hedonism. True or false?

True. Stoicism is more concerend about pleasure than hedonism is, and probably gives in fact more pleasure to the practitioners.
Kenji

22/Jan/97

An exam is a natural enemy for a student. True or false?

True. It selects among students, which is exactly what a natural enemy is meant to do.
Kenji

23/Jan/97

TV is your mirror. True or false?

True. TV gives what people want. That's TV's business model.
Kenji

24/Jan/97

War makes people intelligent. True or false?

Probably true, because it raises the level of survival-pressure.
Kenji

25/Jan/97

Equalitarianism is a mediocre strategy. True or false?

True. Because equalitarianism is beneficial for mediocre people only.
Kenji

26/Jan/97

Nations are huge insurance systems. True or false?

True, and people can do away with them.
Kenji

27/Jan/97

Monetary gain is unreal. True or false?

True, because it's just a number.
Kenji

28/Jan/97

You think fairness is a stupid concept. True or false?

I sometimes do. I think of who takes the benefit from the concept.
Kenji

29/Jan/97

You think capitalism is shameless. True or false?

Definitely.
Kenji

30/Jan/97

You think miscarriage is sad. True or false?

I used to. But as I heard that it is so common, I now think it's a par for the course.
Kenji

31/Jan/97

A brain will not understand how the brain works. True or false?

That's what I want to discover.
Kenji