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I already explained why posting on INTPforum controls the environment: "the forum accepts such eccentric intellectuals as he," whereas his peers may perceive eccentricity as idiocy. Hence my conclusion that if even we think him stupid, then his likely eccentricity is almost certainly not to...

Whether Bud's environment or nature causes this phenomenon can be decided empirically by controlling for the former: when he next feels the urge to debate here, he should note how he is received relative to comparable posters. If his nature is not the cause, then he would receive response like...

Happy Birthday! -Duxwing

That sounds like loneliness to me. :) I hope you find lots of snuggles and tenderness. -Duxwing

You seem so lonely as to focus more on 'finding friends' than on enjoying socialization and so hurt by previous failures as to repress your pain and focus on thoughts, which, unlike other people and how they make you feel moment-to-moment, you control. To remedy this situation, let yourself...

Far less than your previous claim. Then why did you mention the other companies' "capitalist" motivations? -Duxwing

Google is also running fiber "for capitalist reasons". -Duxwing

When will you reply? :) -Duxwing

Do it: you could make millions! -Duxwing

@Cog You seemingly assume the status quo is bad: do you, and why? If it is not bad, then sex is best left to the individual. -Duxwing

Dear INTPf, What do you seek in literature? What do you avoid in literature? My answer: -Duxwing

Let shining steel come down like rain! -Duxwing

@Polaris. Your pro-STEM argument should be generalized to "Societies should reduce undesirable cultural conditioning" lest it should unduly specify STEM; bigotry and abuse should be eradicated whatever female STEM participation ultimately becomes. Also, a trivium: gender correlation with...

Have you been watching weird porn, Pyro? -Duxwing

Thanks! -Duxwing

Awwww. :) I'm glad I seem healthy. -Duxwing

If my idea seems ideological to you, then you may have misunderstood it: would you please tell me what you believe my idea is? :) -Duxwing

Hail! What is your type? -Duxwing

Then stop acting like you have expertise. What is the healthcare system without research and development? -Duxwing

Strawman: I never suggested it was, and I was describing more than greed. I have been continuously saying "some" researchers and "more" participation and mentioning how drug investors must recoup their investment (sometimes with a tidy profit) to fund however-motivated labs. Indeed: he...

Will you be free sometime? I... miss you. -Duxwing

Monetary incentives in the form of revenue will and do motivate pro-social behavior; e.g., drug corporations make drugs to make money. They do giving people the financial resources they need for such things as research equipment and researchers' payroll. You're twisting my words: I never said...

Thanks for sticking up for me, old chum. -Duxwing

You're welcome. :) I am glad we have agreed thus far. Allow me to demonstrate the connection (I mean no insult by using a syllogism). Having more people work on finding a cure makes finding it quicker and likelier. The prospect of huge profits for finding a cure makes more people work on...

E.g., a cure for cancer. :) More money to be had -> More people trying to get it -> More attempts to make the drug. It is acceptable because they would die anyway without the drug, which is more likely to be invented and thereby save at least who can afford it. I tried to make my...

You were speaking in absolutes. Whatever you spoke, we will continue with the current argument. I was unclear before: I am not describing any drug but some method to cheaply make personalized caner treatments and asserting that this method could render the question of individual cancer...

You seem to have contradicted yourself: are you claiming the drug-inventing companies trying to price-gouge or that they must sell high enough to recover their research investment? One cannot prove that it will or will not because the question is empirical: someone might 'generally solve'...

Both profit and cost-effect motivations can produce cheap goods. A for-profit organization can produce cheap goods when they must compete with other other organizations producing them because consumers will buy the cheaper good, defunding the higher-priced organizations, which, seeking profit...

*hugs* :( Losing a parent sucks. If your father might kill himself, then commit him; if your grandmother hystericizes, then ignore her. -Duxwing

Not every cure is necessarily unprofitable: some diseases have been profitably cured. You seemingly assume that profit and "cost-effectiveness" mutually exclude, which they do not because some cheap cures and even prophylactics can be profitable; e.g., PeptoBismol and Trojan condoms...

*hugs* I worry for you: if you have any disquiet, my ears remain open. And if you're fine, then what's up? :) -Duxwing

Yay! Thanks! :) -Duxwing

Finding the definition is not my job because I never purported to understand conflict or believe it narratively necessary. My opening statement is unintentionally misleading because it implies that I wanted to argue rather than research. I never wanted a discussion, only to get some research...

Almost everyone depends on at least one other person; love makes this network of interdependency enjoyable and stable. :) -Duxwing

Thanks. I will wait to see if anyone has some sources just in case they know. :) -Duxwing

I'm not trying to get you to agree with me. :( I was just trying to get a question answered: "Has academic consensus defined conflict and demonstrated its narrative necessity?" Why will you not answer it? -Duxwing

Ok. Are we therefore agreed that academic consensus has neither defined conflict nor demonstrated its narrative necessity? You're arguing from tradition and asking me to prove a negative. You have provided closure to my query by saying that academic consensus has neither defined...

Hey, Introvert, you OK? :) -Duxwing

I'm not talking about agreement among us but about whether academics have defined "conflict" and demonstrated its narrative necessity and, if they have, where I can find their definition and demonstration. Your repeatedly demanding that I define conflict confuses me because I have...

Are we agreed that no academic consensus supports the literary necessity of conflict? The scene needs no conflict because it can be entirely enjoyable; e.g., depicting the aforementioned cuddling. -Duxwing

I care not what my character's orientation is if I need not execute unpleasant relationships; e.g., have a forced, gay sex mini-game. -Duxwing

What if the potential reward of cuddling is infinite? -Duxwing

Yeah. I know now. >_< The assertion "Stories must have conflict" has been so forcefully asserted to me that I began wondering whether some grand committee decided that they must. @Cherry What about such purely pleasant actions as cuddling? -Duxwing

@Jennywocky and Hawkeye I feel frustrated because you seem to misunderstand what I am saying. When I requested a definition of conflict, you requested one, seemingly unaware that anyone requesting a definition necessarily lacks it. And when I requested proof of conflict's narrative necessity...

To return the discussion to its course: What is conflict, and has anyone ever proved that stories must contain it? I want not a long-winded article that first assumes stories must and thereafter expatiates the assumption but some proof using first principles, clear definitions, and, where...

Oh my gosh, you wrote a ship-fic! :D Write on: it makes me melt! If you want a conflict-free story, then you would generally not want School of Combat, which would thus follow from where I left off: Essentially: -Andy leads (ENTJ) - No Andy, no mission. Action Guy, The Leader, and...

This conversation will never end because "true" compassion, like "true" anything, is subjective. Compassion is a tender care that exists because of another's suffering and motivates action to end it; e.g., if my friend cried, then I would hold him. -Duxwing

I'm asking for proof of the assertion. Nevertheless, my conflict-free story: some School of Combat: The Second Team written ad-hoc. The waves crashed and roared beneath the quiet, dusky bluffs whereupon Andy, Barry and Daniela sit. The warm summer wind blows through their clothes, and the...

I already read that article, which gives me that same rote answer: I want proof! >_< -Duxwing

Why must stories have conflict? I seek proof--even of the rote response "to be interesting"--that no story lacking conflict can interest anyone. I seek proof because each year I have attended school I have been assigned only stories more horrible than the ones I had been assigned the...