Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "TED-Ed"
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there's a variety of reasons... in my case:
1. we were financially dependent on each other
2. i didn't want to feel like i had wasted part of my life by undoing a relationship i had worked so hard for
3. i didn't want to disappoint or hurt them... it might not make sense from the outside, but sometimes in an unhealthy relationship, the submissive partner can feel like they owe their dominant partner a debt they can never repay
4. i was afraid of what might happen to me if i tried to leave... not so much physical violence, but more so a lack of other options... i had nowhere else to stay at the time
5. they had control over when and how i was able to contact people, so they essentially could make anyone they wanted believe whatever they said about me and i couldn't stop them
6. i felt like i needed their approval to live, even though i rarely, if ever, got it.
i'm not a women, but i've been in an unhealthy, controlling relationship before. as a matter of fact, i'm still living with that same person, although we are no longer "together." perhaps this is an interesting bit of insight into your question?
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intelligent life itself is an over-complicated von-neuman machine with an annoying tendency to get sidetracked
we should be using the resources in our solar system (the asteroid belt is a good first stop since we don't have to pull the materials from a gravity well first) to build a dyson sphere, which would be used to harvest the sun for it's metals and fuseable materials. we should then start launching nuclear pulse drive powered space craft (several orders of magnitude faster than any modern spacecraft and buildable with modern technology) to explore and colonize other star systems, and do the same to those stars.
within somewhere between 100,000 years and 1,000,000 years, we could have colonized the majority of the galaxy, with most of humanity (and it's descendants,) living in dyson sphere colony stations with spin gravity.
we could start on the first steps of this project today, with modern technology. the problem is that there is not enough interest in the long term future of humanity, and too much fear and distrust of technology and futurism.
the vast majority of people spend more time on t.v. shows, gossip and non-constructive small talk (mostly via social media) rather than productive work that may one day help humanity's future. the few who do dedicate their lives to the betterment of humanity often have skewed ideas of what an ideal humanity is, and form into extremist groups.
most people have little interest in technology and futurism, and an inherent distrust and fear of such technologies as "active support structures" and "nuclear pulse drives," and this is assuming that they have even heard of such technology in the first place, which is rare.
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