I'm Mad Vlad, Ask Me Anything

1) There was an element of dramatics in my comment.
2) We are the most intelligent and highly evolved species by a considerable margin
3) The point is, we're designed to eat meat. We've been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years. 4.There isn't a valid reason why it should be forbidden. 5.Some people exercise their right to choose, and fair enough to them but I strongly disagree with them.
6) Primarily the latter. I prefer eating animal products that come from animals that have been well looked after.

Ex Mod. I left the team over a year ago.

Uni was hard graft for me. I don't miss it. I never got to have the normal uni experience. For a life without responsibilities I'd have to go back half of my lifetime... It's been so long that I've forgotten what it feels like

oh. id ask why but maybe a personal reason, even though this is an ama haha.

im sorry for that, you got a first iirc so you took it more seriously than a lot of people around me, who are mollycoddled by their parents even in final year uni.

if you could go back half your life, so 15-16ish? what is the one main thing youd have done differently, or the one thing youd have told yourself?

1. OK.

2. I am assuming we = humans. No one knows what intelligence is. Scientists are still arguing about what it means. I am going to assume that by intelligence you mean whatever an IQ test measures. You are said to be more intelligent than me if your IQ score is higher than mine. Now, put a 5 year old chimp and a 5 year old child to do an IQ test and let's see how different their scores are. My bet is that there will be a difference but what do we conclude from that? Brain-damaged individuals will also score low. Fact is: some life forms (both human and non-human) will score high and other life forms (both human and non-human) low. Should we then give rights on the basis on IQ?


3. Are we? We certainly do have teeth and can process meat but it does not follow that we were designed for x. Eating meat is an evolutionary trait that we have. But I would not say that we are designed for x. Let me give you an example. Rape and infanticide can be found in many species and one could think that it is an evolutionary advantage to do these things but I would not say that we are designed for that. And even if we were, I would not say that rape/eating-meat/infanticide is okay just because it gave an evolutionary edge to my ancestors. This was just to put your "we were designed for x. We've been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years" in a wider context.

4. "There isn't a valid reason why it should be forbidden." That depends on what mean by a valid reason. Similarly, many people would say that "There isn't a valid reason why x should be forbidden." where x could be something of benefit to someone (for example: slavery for slavers).

5. "Some people exercise their right to choose" I would not call it right. I would call it power. It does not have the metaphysical connotations of the word "right" and is more physicalist. "and fair enough to them but I strongly disagree with them." Why?

6. Assuming there is no negative effect in the safety/taste of the meat that comes out, I am curious as to why do you so care so much for their suffering if you are going to kill them for your pleasure?

Sorry if I wrote too much.

What sort of responsibilities do you have? Family-related, job-related?

I thought you uni life was good when you did your DigForensic degree.

Shao Kahn or Sauron?

Why is so much race hatred allowing on TSR?

Is it because it'd be a nightmare deleting all the posts?

Is there a meme I'm missing here?

No I just wanted your opinion

Oh no, I was sick of it. It was a horrendous chore and constantly having to bite my tongue when my predictions came true became dull and boring. I had better ways to spend my free time.

Yeah, I'm what you'd call self-made. I am where I am today through hard work, not charity. I went from working a minimum wage job to doing what I do now without the help of welfare or assistance from my family. That I can be proud of.

I tend not to think about what I would have done differently. There are few choices I have made that I'd make differently. These few I'll keep for myself.

Oh, ok.

I don't know tbh.

What was your worst game of 2014 and current worst game of this year?

Mad vlad, hi, big fan.

Whats your fave toothpaste brand?


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Thanks.

I'm an Oral-B Complete user, personally.

Ah, so you are a fan of oral?


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Very much so.

Thanks for your answers.

Other than oral i see from previous posts you enjoy video games?

Do you like borderlands and what system do you play on?


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