Which is more true, to you?

[Christina Anikari]

It's dangerous because we would make the wrong assumptions Nikkou, especially with a reductionist angle such as will invariably neglect all the vast differences there are in the actual relationships out there. You have to look at the conditions under which people do become attracted and the entire history of who they become attracted to. And in order to establish any kinds of commonality you need to look at a significant amount of people from a large amount of cultures in order to establish a useful set of statistics and even so you can only speak about tendencies. Doing anything else is reckless behaviour that if you base any kind of actions on it will be sure to lead to problems. And not only that it will limit your ability to understand the world if you want to reduce it to a simple sentence like that. And finally you need to look into why it is one or the other, it could be that people tend to be attracted to others who are like themself simply because they spend more time together with people who are like themself, something which casual observance would have a very hard time showing.

[Mitera Nikkou]

You're failing to see what I mean. And I've ran out of ways to explain it. X_X

It's not reductionistic, though; that's for sure. I simply give three words a whole lot of meaning. Meanings that you fail to see, and thus think I'm being reductionistic. XD Maybe it's just me, but I see a lot in what I'm saying. Won't be the first time that no one receives the frequency that I transmit. ~.~ *Sighs*

[Christina Anikari]

How can saying things simply like that not be reductionistic? Being reductionistic is trying to reduce things to stemming from a simple set of rules and that is exactly what you say.

Also what you tried to say in your last post seem more like a way of describing how it would be for one specific person and not what is true in a generalized sense. If you meant what would be true to us as a person then it is something quite different. For me personally i think it is likes attract though only to a limited degree, i wouldn't be attracted to a complete clone of me. A healthy mix of traits i have and traits i don't would be the best.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Again, you didn't understand me, and I doubt I have the capacity to help you understand my language. You'll just have to trust that I mean: in general, but especially focusing on minutia; I find "abridge" to be much more accurate than "reduction", so I don't have to say all of the details and instead something that refers to it all (and if there's something wrong with making it easier to refer to, may lightning strike me out of the blue); it definitely applies to people, since I'm focusing on everything.

What it comes down to is if I'm right or wrong. Frankly, I don't care. I'll keep wondering for now, but at present these are my musings.

[Christina Anikari]

Then i did understand. It's just that that kind of summing up makes my inner historian twitch with anger over the methodical problems in such an approach, something i am reasonably sure most scientists would as well. After all what we have of science is based on empiricism and this goes directly against that ideal, even if you see the nuances you gloss them over in the way you express it and that is in many ways even worse from a scientific viewpoint.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Well, I already know that anything I say in this matter is not provable, so it'd be silly to put it seriously. This was just some passing musings that I had recently, and I wanted to see what others thought, as well as what they thought about what I thought. I tend to put things together depending on the circumstanes, much like how some of the stuff I post in Muffin may be thought out well but otherwise lacks any serious considerations ('cause it's just there for entertainment).

Besides, I still settle on the "everything is nothing" theory I mentioned some time ago. XD *Pet-pets your nettles*

[P-tan]

Please stick to the cute pictures..
You just lost that menacing charm and replaced it with badly drawn seals..