@Vermillion-Rx Sometimes one can feel down about one's experiences with women and then a guy like that comes along and shows you there are some living so much worse lives.

@MentORPHEUS Its a tough one. No man is an island, yet he has his own mind. Your personal ethics will never align exactly with any other man's and certainly not the state's.

So you will find there are times when you personally won't go along with a friend or with the state because its too much for you. Other times you may have to pick one over the other. One can hurt you more, one can love you more. Its tough.

But if you just cede all personal responsibility to the state and say "I will always report my friend cos the law is good, so he done bad" I fear you are losing part of your humanity. Man is the strength and joy of his fellow man.

@First-light

which and avoid ever considering the first (dishonourable) type as trustworthy. The think compliance is honour.

This slippery slope, however, leads to things like both the Neolib Biden Administration, and the Neocon Trump administration.

Putting a standard of group honor above individuals' own standards and ethics, isn't something I'm throwing my support behind.

@Durek_The_Bald

@First-light

If TRP is praxeology, then the state of a man's red pill journey can only be judged from where he's actually at in real, lived terms. If all his theoretical knowledge only brought him to a place of perpetual resentment, schadenfreude, victimhood, and a need to complain about everything under the sun, then either the theory is wrong, or he hasn't demonstrated that is has actionable value.

While that's an interesting idea, have you ever considered that the guys you've noticed who're completely unable to advance beyond the anger stage of grief after taking the red pill might simply be Gamma's?

#Gamma rage is real.

@adam-l I always think that a good way to separate the two types is to ask a question "Your friend in a moment of folly committed a small crime and the police ask you if he was responsible. What should you do?" One side say "I must report him, its the right /honourable thing to do" the other say "He is my friend, how could I report him?"

Its really good to find out which sort are which and avoid ever considering the first (dishonourable) type as trustworthy. The think compliance is honour.

Don't worry he's all yours. It would challenge my fragile masculinity too much to check he was well lubed.

Never named a gun after a girl but when I was head gardener for the religious foundation, we had 3 hoes in the tool shed. It was a pity there were only 3 hoes to name, some very strong candidates among the staff had to be left out.

@First-light I agree in the way you put it.

However, I. The personal sphere, honor still has a meaning. It's what makes a man able to have long-lasting, even lifelong, friendships.

This is so important that I'd say it defines two categories of men.

And however shining it may look sometimes, there something profoundly missing in the lives of men that are unable to have a true buddy.

@Chantfire Billy is an OK name but I think guns should have girls' names or else you are being it gay when you rub them over with an oily rag (particularly if you oil the butt of an old wooden stocked shotgun), push your rod up them or shoot your load.

One of the most amusing things an ex ever said to me was "That rifle gets taken out a lot more than I do"

I like guns but in a no homo way.

I can see its not a shit post but I still can't help myself -sorry. At least the bit about what my ex said is true.