Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "TED" channel.

  1. I simply cannot listen to someone who is not in danger of, say, ending up homeless at some point spouting this stuff. I'd have more respect if she regretted spending money on the tattoo instead of giving it to the local homeless shelter, or putting it away for her retirement.
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  2. Never happens.
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  3.  @nicofelie  School has enough hoops. Craziness. Miss Grundy takes over college. Etc. LOL
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  4. Well, look on the bright side. If you regret being born, that won't last.
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  5. Recommend some books! 😊
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  6. You have never read Rawls, I'm guessing.
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  7.  Aberdonian DotCom  Ha ha ha. Wrong.
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  8.  @zawyehtike3089  I am very serious when I say, go back to Plato. The central question of education is: how do you know what you need to learn, until after you've learned it? This is not a trivial question. For example, I did not know until recently that I have some talent for acting, and that not learning how to memorize lines as a young person is a huge handicap for me now. In the US, we do not learn poems by heart as children. Many, many places teach children to recite poems by heart. How did they know to do that? Did the kids ask to do that? No. Purely a matter of culture. We often criticize school for teaching memorization. Only now do I know that is wrong. Some things should be learned by heart. I think "educational freedom" is a talking point more than anything else. I think those sorts of schemes create greater inequality, not greater opportunity. I think you might make money for yourself with the idea.
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  9.  @MP-ut6eb  I'd switch Talent and Hard Work, but otherwise, ^^^
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  10. He doesn't disagree. That's why he mentioned Rawls.
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  11. I guessed all 5 -- it was an educated guess.
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  12. EXACTLY
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  13. ❤
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  14. Same for me.
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  15.  @screwtape1848  But look, you know that spiel by heart and in your sleep. It's the rot you're supposed to believe, and you do. So, what's the problem? What would you need a new video for?
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  16. Offloading responsibility is how business is done. That is why people incorporate: to limit liability. This is why a corporation can declare bankruptcy without putting at risk the owners' personal assets that are not included in the corporate's financial structure. The owner is protected from having to be personally responsible. As for Wall Street, when they structure transactions to "minimize risk and maximize rewards," that's the very same thing. The idea is to avoid having to be responsible for losses, while benefiting from gains. That's called being a success. But preach the gospel of "personal responsibility" to the hoi polloi, ha ha. Good one.
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  17.  @screwtape1848  But then we would have to modify the corporate form quite drastically. Cool. :)
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  18. You can.
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  19.  @arleneshanley9889  I'm so sorry.
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  20. @Nicholas Olesen "Survival of the fittest" may be the only mentality you know from directly experiencing its effects, but it has not been with mankind for millennia. Social Darwinism is typically Anglo-Saxon, and relatively recent.
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  21.  @ForumArcade  I have an idea. Find out how the world actually works: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/
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  22. Read the 2015 Guardian article about him. He did some really strange things to other people using fake identities on social media.
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  23. Teaching to the test has only gotten worse. Top-down directives have only become more massive.
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  24. What if your regrets have to do with someone else's actions? For example, I regret that my mother worked as much as she did, and as hard, starting when I was 3. Then there are people who regret much bigger things -- that their parents were abusive, for example, or alcoholic.
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  25. We've been doing that for two solid generations. How do you think we got here??
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