Quote Originally Posted by GAMEchief View Post
People can be trained to obey, and choice is an illusion.

There is an entire field of psychology dedicated to making people behave how you want them to. It's very successful. FTW.
Prove choice is an illusion. Operant conditioning is rewarding behavior you want via giving people things they want/ stimulating them. Is that controlling behavior or truly manipulative? I mean if you say if you wear a red shirt every other day, I'll give you money I'd be on board. I don't think that's you controlling my behavior, even if you don't inform me of the deal.
Obviously people can be influenced but I doubt that choice does not exist.
There is no point arguing with me. I'm a duelist, I'll a appeal to "mysticism", you'll pull occam's razor, I counter with the reason argument nd a essay about quantum mechanics and the effects observers have on reality, you'll disagree, we'll go back and forth, and everyone will go away aggravated.

Quote Originally Posted by Stormie View Post
They're simple because you can train them to obey, unlike people.
New studies show they aren't so much trained as learning to communicate. Evidence indicates that they could be taught like apes to understand sign language. Also they apparently have emotions and have an understanding of and feel love.

Quote Originally Posted by Stormie View Post
I think if any retail employee called out 3 days in a row before going to the doctor, they'd be terminated.
Maybe her worries about her job are clouding her judgment.
She sent me a picture of her knee its obviously fucked up. I had a retail jobs in the past and I'm pretty sure that if you're actually inured or ill you ought to be able to get sick days.