Hello and welcome. This is Philosophy 320, Deductive Logic, and I'm Professor Matthew J. Brown. Today I'm going to tell you a little bit about the class and how it's going to work, give you some ideas about what the class is about and the mechanics of it. I like to start class off often with a little logic puzzle to get us thinking. So let's look at this one. There are 100 senators. Every senator is either honest or crooked. At least one senator is honest, and given any two senators, at least one of them is crooked. How many senators are honest and how many are crooked? So it's a hypothetical scenario, and what I want you to do is think about all the possibilities that are compatible with these statements and figure out the answer to the puzzle. You can write down your answer now. We'll come back to the puzzle at the end of the lecture. I want to start by talking about what logic is. In everyday language, we use the term logic in a few different ways. We say something is logical to mean that it's reasonable or commonsensical, maybe. We might also talk about logic in the sense of the logic of some system or activity, the logic of this business or the logic of capitalism, the logic of war. Those aren't quite the senses of logic we mean. Logic in our sense means the investigation and evaluation of arguments and inferences. If we make an argument or we make an inference, what makes that a good or bad one? By argument, by the way, I don't mean a fight, yelling and hair pulling and stuff. I mean presenting reasons or ideas to try to convince someone of something. Now, deductive logic, which is our main focus in this class, concerns those particularly strong kinds of arguments or inferences where the truth of the premises that you start with guarantees the truth of your conclusion. We'll talk more about that in a minute. Let's look at some examples of arguments. Here's one. So premise one, if God does not exist, then life is meaningless. Premise two, if chocolate exists, then life is not meaningless. Premise three, chocolate exists. Conclusion four, therefore God exists. Now we can ask, is this a good argument? And we can evaluate that in different ways. The logical way of evaluating it tells us that yes, it is a good argument. If premises one through three were true, then conclusion four would also have to be true. Maybe you disagree with one of the premises, right? Maybe you think premise one or premise two is false. Maybe you think premises like one and two cannot be true or false because they deal with concepts that don't have that kind of meaning. But those are not logical issues. Those are issues of content, right? If you think, on the other hand, that the premises are true, then you're obligated to believe the conclusion, right? That's what formal logic tells. That's what logical reasoning general, deductive logical reasoning in general tells us. Here's another example. All whales are mammals. All mammals are hairy. So all whales are hairy. Again, this argument is a good one, logically speaking. Now you might object, whales, dolphins aren't hairy, but they're mammals. So the argument must be bad. Well, in what sense might you say it's bad? You could deny premise one, say that whales are fish. Herman Melville seems to believe that. Or you could deny premise two, say some mammals are hairy, right? But if you accept premise one and two, it seems like premise three must or conclusion number three must be right, must be true. Actually, I think the argument is right. Even whales and dolphins have hair, although sometimes just in utero before they're born and they lose it. Depends, I guess, on what you mean by hairy. Here's the third argument. All students carry a backpack. The professor carries a backpack. Therefore, the professor is a student. Now, this is a bad argument, not because the premises are false, suppose the premises are true. Suppose it's true that all students and the professor carry a backpack. Can you see why? Even if all students carry a backpack, that isn't the same as saying that all backpack carriers are students. The order matters in this kind of statement, and the order in these cases makes it such that the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. One of the tools of formal logic is representing or translating claims in ordinary language into what we call a formal language that makes more clear the form or structure of the claim. We'll learn what the symbols I'm about to show you mean and future units, but we can translate claims like if God does not exist, then life is meaningless into a kind of schematic form. Here, I'm using G to represent God, and God exists, and M to represent life is meaningless, and then the arrow indicates the if-then structure of the statement. All students carry a backpack. We might represent with a slightly more complicated set of formal tools like this. For all X, if X is a student, then X carries a backpack. It would be how we would read that formal statement. Consider another statement like this, the person who knows the combination to the safe is not a spy. We'll learn much later in the class that the probably best way to represent this formally is a formula like this. That's complicated and maybe a little intimidating, but by the time we get to it, it will be clear to you what it means and you'll learn to do this translation work pretty easily. That's just a very quick introduction into the basic ideas that we're going to be working with in this class. Now, I want to get into some of the mechanics of it, how you're going to work your way through this class. It's an online class. We're not going to have meetings face-to-face, and so it's actually going to work a little bit more in a self-paced way, independent way, as follows. The class is divided into several units based on the core learning outcomes that we're going to focus on. To get more information about the learning outcomes, you should consult the syllabus and you'll see both the learning outcomes that you'll achieve if you make the way through the course and how they are tied to each of the units. For each unit, you need to do the readings, watch the video lecture like this one, and complete at least one practice problem set, with the exception of this unit zero has no practice problems. It's just the introduction. So for this unit, just read the syllabus, watch this lecture, and that's what you do. And this will unlock the exam for that unit. In unit one, there'll be a reading from the textbook, there'll be another video lecture, there'll be a set of practice problems. I think we've got four practice problem sets for the first unit, and then once you do that, you'll be able to take the exam. If you get a satisfactory score on the exam, and it differs per exam, but most of them it's an 80% or better score, that will unlock the next unit, and then you can start on the next unit. If you don't get that score, it doesn't mean you're done. You can retake the exam many times if you need to, although you do need to wait 48 hours and complete additional problem sets in order to unlock the next retake of the exam. So you can take all of the time you need to master each of the units, which corresponds to different learning outcomes for the course, and however far you make it indicates your level of mastery in the class. Your grade in the class is a function of how many units, and so how many learning outcomes, you gain mastery over. For example, an A in the course means that you get a satisfactory grade on all seven exams. You made it through all seven units in a satisfactory level. That's a level of mastery. An A minus is exams one through six. A B plus is exams one through five plus giving a good try on exam number six. You tried once, it was more than just a click on it and open it and submit whatever. It's a genuine attempt. The syllabus will give the full breakdown of grades and what you have to do to achieve that grade. Satisfactory, as I said, depends on the assignment, but is typically about 80% correctness. That might seem low, but the exams are not easy. And to get to that level really shows that you have basically mastered that set of concepts. Completion of an assignment, and this is most relevant for exams, but also for the practice exercises means making a reasonable effort to complete it, which could consider the number of questions answered, the amount of time taken, and the final score that you get, even though it's not satisfactory, it's better than random chance, let's say. So I'll look at your attempts closely to determine whether they meet this criterion whenever it's potentially at issue. So what do you need to do next to move through the class? You should spend some time poking around the course on D2L. Make sure you understand how it works. You should make sure to get the textbook. It's free, open access textbook, so you can download it as a PDF. You could print it. There's a print on demand. You can buy a copy of it. It's about $7 or $8 plus shipping to get the textbook. That way, it's nice because it comes bound, but that may not be important to you. If you have a good way of reading PDFs on a tablet or something, you could do that. That's okay. I don't recommend reading the textbook on your phone. I don't think the layout is very good for that. Or even on your computer screen, I think it's going to be hard to take notes and work your way carefully through the text. So I do recommend you get a hard copy or you use a dedicated sort of reader for it. You should read the syllabus carefully. Again, make sure you understand how everything works and what we're going to work through in the class. If you're interested, you should join the class Discord server. I've set this up just so there's a place where we can substitute for class discussion or conversation with your peers that you would have in an in-person class. So there's a link to join the server in D2L. If you're not super familiar with Discord, it's a pretty easy program to use. And I'd be happy to talk to you more about it in office hours if you struggle with it. And then take the practice exam that will review some of the introductory materials and unlock the first unit for you. So those are the things you need to do next. Once you've done all of those things, Unit 1 will open up. There'll be new readings, new lectures, and you'll be off to the races. I'm going to come back real quick to our logic puzzle. So let's look at that carefully. There are 100 senators. Every senator is either honest or crooked. At least one senator is honest. Given any two senators, at least one of them is crooked. How many senators are honest and how many are crooked? What do you think? What's the answer? I'm not actually going to tell you right here in the video. I want to leave it open to you to discuss on Discord and come up with your own answer. I will answer it there once enough people have weighed in. So I look forward to to seeing you in the class. I will be available during office hours that are posted on D2L. You can come see me in person, but I'll also be available on email, phone, teams. We could set up a Zoom call if that's better for you. Whatever is going to work, we can do that in office hours. I'll also answer email and other things. Of course, Discord. You can message me on Discord during my office hours. I'll also be responsive to email and Discord and so on outside of my office hours, but probably a little bit more slowly, less real time. All right. Well, I look forward to getting to know you all and good luck with the course.


Hey there lovers and friends. So one day at two in the morning I was up breast pumping and I was scrolling on YouTube looking for something to watch while my boobs emptied out. And in that time I saw a video by my friends, the roommates featuring Candace Owens and this video was going up. First and foremost, I was happy for my friends because their incredible content creators have been at it for a long time and I was like, oh, let me go watch this. Now the caveat is I'm not somebody who would usually click on Candace Owens content. It's just not in my wheelhouse of joy. I appreciate the work that she has and the space that she occupies and understand that many people find a lot of what she says great thought starters or true to them. I just don't personally find it all that palatable. Nonetheless, I'm still watching with an open mind because it's around a topic that I adore and I think every perspective in the intimacy space is valid because we all experience love in unique ways. So I'm like, let me watch and just see what she has to say. And I didn't enjoy it. I didn't, and I didn't enjoy it. And then I scrolled to the comments and saw that people were super enjoying this content. Now mind you again, it was two in the morning when I watched this. So I thought to myself, I wanted to do a response video to this, which I rarely do just actually watching the video with you and then reacting as I see it. Maybe now that I've had some rest, I'll see things differently. Let's go. You know what I always say? Experiment with both and tell me what makes you feel better. And that is the truth when it comes to young women because I dedicated my first episode to young women and really talking to them about these are the options that are being presented to you. This right here was the truest part of the video and the part that I would like to amplify and uplift. Try both out for yourself. I think this notion that there is a one-size fits all way to be happy, to mate, to exist in a relationship that I see increasingly happen online is a farce. In essence, what I believe is happening for a lot of people is that they are dissatisfied with their love life and with their romantic options. And instead of looking at themselves and saying, well, am I marketing myself to the right group number one or two? Is there some self work that I have to do? Or three, do I have to work harder to find my people? They're just saying the whole system is corrupt and the whole system is wrong. Truth of the matter is there are lots of people who exist in a modern way and find tons of joy and happiness and connection. Just like there are tons of people who prefer a more traditional route and prefer women or people who identify as women to take on a more traditional role. And that's what brings them joy and happiness. So the truth of the matter is do try out both for yourself, see what feels right and what feels best for you, and then own that lane. The problem is though, is that she continued to speak. These are the options that are being presented to you. Less, less, less, take off more clothes, you know, do the most to get attention, right? If you think that that's freedom, the idea that you have to wear less and the idea that you have to get naked to be heard, you really think that's a form of freedom because that's not, that's slavery, that's bondage. I didn't have to take off my clothes to be heard in society.  You're no different. So if there are women who are taking off their clothes to get attention, you are doing a emotional or proverbial thirst trap to get attention. You are saying highly provocative things. They are dressing provocatively. You are speaking provocatively to get attention. Now you are correct. There is various different ways to get people's eyeballs and to get people's ears. You are choosing one way and they are choosing one way. Your way isn't better than anyone's way though. It is just a successful way. And I feel like if you can relate that and say, look, I totally get it.   Again, if we went back to that original sentiment, that might work for you. This is what works for me. I think what's important is for women to know that there's options out there. Again, that would be the great end to this video, but unfortunately she keeps talking. His women will realize that when you follow these people that are self-imposed feminists, I'm a feminist. I do this. I'm a feminist. You hear that word over and over and over again. You'll find the majority of them are miserable. Where will you find the majority of them are miserable? The term feminism is a catch-all term. There's various different reasons that people tap into it or feel connected to that term. Some people just genuinely believe that there should be equality amongst the sexes. Some people use feminism as a way of showing pride for their identity as a woman. Some people genuinely do believe that women are superior to men and are fighting for that. Again, there's pockets and sub-pockets in different regions of the world. Where did you get this catch-all bit of information that majority of them are miserable? Furthermore, what are you defining as a feminist? Let's explore. Look at their lives and ask yourself a question. Do you think they are happy? Do you feel good when you do what they do?  And you want someone in your comments going, oh, slay, bae. You slayed the day, bae. Hashtag Tuesdays, am I right? And you do the stuff for attention and you're devaluing yourself and at the end of the day. How are you devaluing yourself? If you're doing something that is cause and effect, you know, you're getting a result from it, the result that you actually achieved. You're growing your fan base in your market, you're achieving more romantic options. How in the process of this are you devaluing yourself? Potentially you're devaluing yourself if we're trying to swim in your particular lane. So if they wanted to enter into the realm of political commentary, maybe taking off their clothes is not the best way to get where you are today. But most people that you're trying to preach to one, don't know who you are. And two, have no interest in the lifestyle that you've chosen for yourself. Have no interest in the kind of DMs that you probably get. Have no interest in opening their Instagram up and seeing the things that people say to you in the comment section. So that to be said, again, going back to the original point, there's various different ways, but why are you focusing any negative energy towards assuming that these people's lives are specifically and tragically miserable? Because I can tell you as somebody who works in this field and has worked in this field for 15 years and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at this point and had access to millions of different stories to the various projects that I've been a part of, the people who are struggling to date and make the ones who are having the most challenges finding partners are not the ones who subscribe to this formula. And the problem with that, I think, and where I would wish that you would have gone with this conversation is that we are not offering more options for ways to get attention or for ways for women to market themselves to be looked at as desirable. But the people who are utilizing their sex appeal and utilizing seduction, they aren't the ones who are complaining. Possibly they are complaining about not refining the right partners. Possibly they are complaining about not having long term options out of all the short term bits of attention that they get. But again, that's just a matter of a lapse in skill set. They haven't yet learned how to sift through all the options to pick the right one for themselves. And furthermore, they haven't had the benefit of intimacy education. So a lot of attention without like informed education behind it is going to put people at a high rate of choosing the wrong partners. But these people at least have options for choosing partners. The people who actually need help and who needs guidance and scaffolding are the ones who are not opting into this lifestyle. The same way that you found him is the same way he's going to find somebody else, because we are increasingly becoming a part of a society that's ADHD. You want to know why our grandparents stayed together because they weren't looking at ass cheeks all day on Instagram and refreshing it and going, Oh, that girl looks younger, that girl looks better, that girl's face tuned. I'm going to do something I probably shouldn't do. So please join me in the comment section. I'm going to answer personally why my grandparents stayed together.  On my one side, my grandma stayed with a man who was physically abusive to herself and to her children, who was an alcoholic. And in addition, who was a womanizer who had several children outside of their marriage. And she stayed with him for as long as she possibly could because she knew if she tried to leave that marriage, there was nowhere else for her and her children to go that her family would disown her and that she didn't have a lot of options for work and for making money by herself. Now my grandma actually did eventually leave my grandfather and she fled to another country and started a new life. And it was just every bit as difficult as she thought it would be. On the other side of my family, my grandma did stay with somebody that she was married to for 30 years or 50 years, whatever number would get people to like stand up and clap at a brunch. And she stayed with this person is still with this person. So I will refrain from sharing full details on how despicable the things that I even know of that went on in that marriage. But a lot of it had to do with cheating. A lot of it had to do with interests in women that would now be deemed as illegal. And they stayed regardless. So possibly some of your grandparents stayed together because there wasn't Instagram. But probably a lot of your grandparents stayed together because divorce was extremely taboo for women in particular. There was very little they could do on the legal side to protect themselves against abusive partners. And then in terms of finding a livelihood outside of marriage, options were very sparse. You've got 13 year olds getting lip injections, right? Because they want to look like Kylie Jenner. Again, not a shot to Kylie Jenner. But what society have we created that ever made Kylie Jenner feel like she had to go out and buy those lips that she had to contour her entire face and change her entire body. She was already a beautiful little girl. So the society is ill. It's not normal, right? Don't let these people convince you that that's normal. That's cancer and it will that cancer will become contagious to you. Now who can argue with this? It is unfortunate that we live in a world where there's so much pressure, especially on young girls to try to appeal to the current beauty standard. But I would argue that the pressure isn't new and the preferential treatment given to those who fit within the beauty standard isn't new. But now the options to be included in the standard, that's what's new. The ability for people to say, Hey, maybe I wasn't dealt the genetic cards, you know, to fit into this group who has more mates is treated kinder by people and gets more attention online. There's something I can do about that. I actually believe that this problem is correcting itself by way of Instagram because of the fact in back in the day, for example, the less media mediums that you have, the more that the media has an impact on what you think what you feel and what you believe is beautiful or not beautiful. But now that we've got all these different pockets and various different mediums that people can be looking at the bubbles, there's actually a lot more beauty standards. So in one community, Kylie Jenner could be the beauty standard, but in another community, there are is her complete opposite that is the beauty standard. I'll never forget this. When I was working on my book, The Game of Desire, one of the people that I was working with was a pansexual woman and I got her a haircut by like my favorite curly hair stylist because she had curly hair.  And she looked in the mirror and said, I hate it. I don't feel pretty. I don't think that this is going to get me what I want. And then she proceeded to ask for a mullet within her given community. That's what was attractive. That's what the trends were. Now 50 years ago, she wouldn't have an option to see people who looked like that uplifted and amplified as beautiful and she would have chosen the like, you know, the mainstream lane of what attractiveness is. So I actually disagree with this. I do think yes, that there is pressure to get attention, but I do think now there's so many different ways that we can define beauty depending on where it is that you look.  You know, there was a time when there was a need for feminism, first wave feminism, right? But first wave feminists would want nothing to do with third wave feminists, which is where we're at today, right? Women that think that actually first wave feminists, you could argue envied men, right? They wanted to be able to go to work. They wanted to have that option to be something outside of the home, right? There's a lot that was said there and a lot that was said is not within my wheelhouse of expertise. And I would hope that a lot of you who are very intelligent when it comes to race relations and it comes to gender studies would be able to spark up and inform where the problem areas are in this commentary. What I will say is I do agree that there is a throwing the baby out with the bathwater approach when it comes to illustrating for women how they can successfully and happily exist within a relationship. It is very true that a lot of people will find joy in the traditional value system that a lot of people will find more joy being a stay-at-home mom. They will find more joy being a support system to their husband rather than trying to create an empire for themselves. That is not untrue. I personally am not a part of this bucket. I would never find joy in that style of lifestyle. I would never find fulfillment in that, but I do acknowledge that many people would. I think that if there is a stay-at-home mom and a traditional person in your life, we should look at that person with as much awe and admiration as we do look at the person who builds it all and does it all and creates an empire for themselves because both of those individuals have been honest with themselves. They have reflected in what their truth is and they have aligned themselves with the best life for them. I agree with that. We do need to do more work in uplifting women who have traditional values and looking at them as goals because they are goals for many people. And it also goes against biology. There is a reason biological underpinning to everything that we have in the society. People keep trying to outthink biology. It doesn't work that way. There is a reason women can carry children and men can't. So that instantly allows a man to have different goals in terms of the workforce than women because that means we have to make a decision. Do we have children or continue working in our career or try to juggle both? Men don't have that same pressure and it's not their fault. They didn't design this. Men weren't like, well, I have an idea. Let's not be able to carry children and only let women be able to do that. And so there is the biological reality of that and increasingly you see women that go for it in terms of their career because they have the societal pressure. And then it's too late. And then they realize, wow, this job is not making me happy. But my gosh, can I just tell you as a new mom what you feel like when your son smiles at you? Now, I don't know how old Candace Owens is. Maybe I should have looked that up. How old she was when she first had her kid. I know she had her kid recently, but I'll speak for myself. I am 36 years old and I have a five month old baby right now. And I completely relate to what she said. There is nothing that makes me happier than having time with my daughter, getting to look in her eyes, seeing the small changes in development that she's having. I find tons of joy. I'm so grateful for the pandemic, which I know is a very controversial thing to say, but I am very grateful because it has allowed me to work from home in a way that I would have never have gotten to prior to the pandemic. About 80% of my job was traveling. I have traveled once in the past year for work and that is only because of the current times that we're in. So I attest to being at home with your baby is a wonderful thing. It is a privilege thing, but it is a wonderful thing. But I can also attest the fact that I only feel this way because I waited as long as I did. It feels like Candace Owens is ignoring that reality for herself that she did have a baby later in life than a traditional than her grandparents probably did. And that she is a career woman who has achieved a hell of a lot of success and obviously enjoys it. She talked about on another video I saw of her how happy she is to be able to go back to work. She has gone back to work within a year of her child being born. So clearly you find a lot of fulfillment and joy in pursuing your potential. So then again, if you went back to the beginning of the video and you said we have to provide both options, that's where the truth is. But like you're saying one thing and your life is a complete contradiction to all of the rest of it. Meaning that there are crappy men in the world, right? But men are crappy because we've created a system where manhood has become obsolete. You keep increasingly telling men more and more they can't matter.  When we're saying masculinity is wrong, this is wrong. This is backwards. You don't need a man. You can just have a baby without a man. You're starting to see that sort of programming happening with young women. When you're telling women to act like men, you should aspire to the things that men naturally might aspire to when you remove the more natural feeling of men being providers and women being nurturers, which is a beautiful yin and yang that just works, right? So you're creating men to feel obsolete and then women are complaining because men aren't being men. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't work that way, right? And not only that, then increasingly you're telling women to be the opposite of what I think men want. I can't follow this train of thought. I can see the train. I have an idea where the train is going, but the train is, it is just doing a couple of loops that I just, I can't, I can't watch this train of thought. Men are being encouraged to be more feminized. And in that, I mean like attributing an assembly themselves to more feminine characteristics because of technology, a lot of overt masculine qualities that used to have a place in society no longer do because of technology and human advancement in my personal opinion. So we're asking for men to be more vulnerable, more cooperative, to be better communicators, to be better fathers, because the way that things are changing, the traditional masculine, stereotypical man doesn't have as many logical applications in the world that we now live in. I don't think, I think that we're asking women to be more masculinized, I think in a sense of like looking for equality, but we haven't quite found the equilibrium yet, but I believe that we're probably closer than ever. And I do agree that there is a lot of misplaced cynicism towards men. And I do think that we are asking for a lot of changes from men in a short amount of time. And a lot of the things that men have been told will make them attractive and popular and desirable are not actually coming to fruition as they come into adulthood. And there's a confusion that's happening in all of that. I don't think that the answer though is to go back. I just don't know what the value is in going back. So I understand what she's saying and I agree that there are some kinks that need to be worked out and there needs to be a lot more patience from both sides as we do and compassion as we do work those things out. But I don't everything the answer is to go back. History isn't recorded so that we have like a save on video games like oh the checkpoint, we can always go back if things go bad. History is recorded so that we can learn from the mistakes and not repeat them and take the good from that and carry forward and leave the bad in the past. So I never subscribe to anybody's thinking where it's like things were better the way they were before. I just can't think of another period of time that I would prefer to live in. I think that there's a fantasy that exists for a lot of us that the people who have rejected us are ultimately like unhappy and will never get what they want or the people who do things that we aren't willing to do who get the things that we want through the things that we aren't willing to do ultimately are going to be miserable. So for example Candice obviously looks at herself as better than people who use their bodies for attention where again she uses provocative language for attention but maybe because she ends up at the same place as women who use their bodies and she feels better than them they're part of her wants to like appease that by saying well they're not truly happy even if we're at the same place I'm here because I worked hard and I belong here and I didn't go the cheap route and I'm actually happy and they're here sure we're level to level but they're actually miserable underneath it all. I don't even know how happy you are. I get negative comments sometimes and they can tend to throw off my day but maybe you're better than me but that just to say that this fantasy that the people who you resent are actually miserable I don't know how much truth there is to that.  Again as somebody who works in this field and has worked in this field for a very long time I can tell you the people who are struggling and complaining about men who have a lack of options are the ones that you probably are saying everyone should model themselves like the ones who are more conservative the ones who are not willing to go the route of getting attention in that form those are the ones who are struggling for partnership I think they are struggling because we're not teaching them other ways that they can put themselves in front of the right partners for them and we're not making space for those women to be amplified for not doing provocative things saying provocative things or dressing provocatively so I think that again you're like pinpointing women who are doing fine and using them as a case study for what's wrong with society. Candace I like this and that and that to me is a direction where I was trying to get to today because the first part that I was thinking about was that it appears to me that a lot of the critiques that can appear to be personal is not really an attack on an individual right and we're none of us are perfect sometimes I say it's the wrong way sometimes you say things the wrong way none of us are perfect but one thing that I think you're passionate about is that you're seeing that some of these ideas that are being projected in society how they're negatively affecting the next generation especially as it pertains to our children especially your child and so I think that's something in which I definitely agree with you that unfortunately in today's society there's such an unhealthy culture especially amongst men and women especially amongst men that's why we do what we do at the roommate is trying to uplift and build better men because we see that society creates so many unhealthy messages and and it's funny that you mentioned that point where when you think about how women were once soft society has always created unhealthy messages because there's no one-size-fits-all approach and if you try to create a facade that there is one you're going to find a lot of people forcing square pegs into round holes and that's the same thing that you guys are doing here you're trying to pretend that you have the answers for everybody to how to live a healthy and happy life but a lot of people like myself who are doing all the things that you think are wrong with society who have copious amounts of joy and connection and love and options and respect from others and are surrounded by people who are in healthy relationships I wouldn't be happy in your world but I don't want to discredit your world I think that your world would work for lots of people and I do again believe that it should be amplified and it should be looked at as goals because a lot of people would find themselves in really meaningful happy connections as a result of your recipe but there's no recipe that's going to satisfy everybody's taste I think I've made my point what was the point I don't know but I think it's been made


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What's up everybody, I'm EvilRabbit and today we are on Forza Horizon 4 staring at my S-15 Rocket Bunny, Vape Tasia, Forest Wang, painted car just chilling there in the snow on the side of the road by one of my other houses that I own up by the city So today we're going to get into something that I've been wanting to get into for a while here on Horizon 4 but first I want to touch on a comment here from Wow! Do I know you? Dang, dude! Just straight up clearing the fence, give me a nice view of my Vape Tasia car, but So that was a little interesting, so back to what we were planning on doing for today I want to touch base on a comment from a subscriber the blue 028 saying just a quick tip If you want more realistic alignment forces for your force, you should put force feedback under stair to 100 This setting controls mechanical caster tail alignment torque and it is actually inverted from what the description says So lowering to zero and move some of the physics Accurate aligning forces that are important for drifting So huge thank you to this man who is actually a part of a Forza Driving like Forza hardcore driving group that I actually got invited to thank you to big shout out to cruise driving for the Invite on one of my videos inviting me into that group. So a big thank you to them. They are a big hardcore Sim racing, you know sim steering sim racing gas break clutch h-pattern shifters no cysts cockpit and cockpit view no hood like hardcore hardcore racers definitely a big thank you you guys for letting me into your group and Looking forward excited to getting to either slide or race with a cup of you guys here in the near future So we are going to go change up some settings for today because we are going to take this man's advice and You know see if we can't get sideways with some different settings.  We are on sim steering. So we have no assists We are manual with clutch. I am running my sequential gearbox, but that doesn't mean I cannot Shift without my clutch.  So quick reference on gear ratios That because also I can run seven gears on cars that are seven speeds because a lot of six shifter doesn't give me the ability to be seven speeds So we are on some steering. We have no assists. No traction sensibility. No ABS.  I'm gonna put my force feedback up to 50 So we are going to be rocking these settings for today so we're gonna have to get the wheel cam turned on and We're gonna get into this and take this vape Tasia as 15 for a rip All right, so we are on our Logitech G920 with our energy innovations 350 millimeter wheel hydraulic handbrake custom NRG handle and our sequential gearbox, which I already explained on why so, uh well sim steering adjusted force feedback understeer settings and See if we can't rip this. This is a fully built S15 Full horsepower on a stock motor. So we're pretty much just going to come into the city and well Have a little fun do a little city drifting, which is one thing. I haven't really done much of yet so definitely So I'd see how this wheel feels the handbrake this in and that feels quite well the snapback of something I do have to get used to because of Not used to so much snapback, but The wheel does feel pretty good Definitely just have to make sure we're uh quick on our response, but uh, I Think there's you know a big. Thank you to this guy for throwing me the comment about the force feedback because You know, it's definitely uh, it's nice to get some feedback from some Subscribers and definitely some other hardcore sim drivers. So big. Thank you to you big. Thank you to the forza hardcore group for allowing me into their group and This car handles pretty well actually and these settings This guy's definitely got a point. That was a really long ebra grab But uh Yeah, we give it a try So we got a lot of other people here right now in the city. So people were just cruising It's kind of cool to see other drive atars and not drivers or other drivers in the game One big thing that I like here on forza more sports Seven is a drive atars, but I'm for some reason for I like the fact that we have the ability to have everybody else in The game. Yeah, they're ghosting less than a convoy But you know it is Definitely fun to see other drivers because they do interact with you and I just kind of just wrecked hardcore into that so These settings are something I'm definitely gonna have to probably get a little bit used to because they are a little bit different Than what I've been running before but I feel like just playing around with the settings and Are playing around the car a little bit will be something I'll be able to get used to really quickly Doesn't help that we are in the atrocious winter season But I feel like it doesn't make a difference here on the cobblestone although it might But as soon as you touch snow as you notice it just likes to go around so These settings are definitely not for the faint of heart these uh, if you're if you're big into sim driving and sim racing these settings are definitely Where you want to be because this does feel very very accurate To close to a real car and now it there's a lot more hand movement involved with these settings due to the fact of You have that quick snapback once you get off power as soon as you grip with the rear Front's gonna snap back the way your wheels are pointed so you do have that you have to be ready for it But if you do do drifting in real life or if you're a sim driver, it's something you'll be used to definitely something I'm still getting used to in this game because My audio decides to cut out for a quick. It's definitely something getting used to in this game because I have not really played a horizon that much With these settings, so it's definitely a new experience for me But it's definitely a good experience and a fun experience definitely be rocking these settings for a while Gonna do some racing with it and just have a little fun and you know Do something out of my element to make this game a little bit different Man, if that guy wasn't in my way that would have been perfect We are definitely ripping this vape Tasia S15 a little bit too much on the brakes for that that came made me come to basically a complete A complete Snapback stops so these settings are definitely very good now Like I said, it's definitely Not for the faint of heart if you are You know in not into full sim Racing I mean if you're running a sim rig you probably do like the real feel of it, so I will switch it back to normal steering for to see how it feels just for the sake of people that are But normal steering, but I think we're gonna immerse ourselves in almost a full Full sim aspect right now here Little first person. I Was gonna go that way, but then I realized I Did that's not the way I wanted to go and This is not the way I want to go either so I'm trying to remember which way I want to go because there's some really cool sections in the city, but I Think we're just kind of Freestyling a little bit the city. Oh If you notice there was that change of pitch in the tires. It's because we must have hit some snow So now we are just getting some Full sim sliding going on here in the city.  We are discovering roads though as we do this. So this is definitely not just a Sliding around we're actually discovering roads, too So I know people probably like you're drifting is crap right now, but these settings are not for the faint of heart It's not for you know, the average just like a wheel gamer that wants to just play on a wheel because it's fun like these are Some these are pretty intense settings These are very simulated settings and here on horizon 4 with not being a full sim sim being an arcade sim I feel it's a little different. I mean it takes a Takes a minute to get used to But once you get used to it, it's it's satisfying Because once you can get it and you get it right it's very satisfying When you get it right so Did please tell me you saw that that man just turned into me he literally just turned into me I need that man's number. I need his insurance. He's wrecked my car I feel like I'm wrecking my car worse than he is though Down the street. That's just snow a little bit. So like I said, this is a This does feel good until you do that Did not catch myself on that one. So I'm gonna switch this the steering back to normal and For everybody else that is running a wheel that doesn't want to run sim steering Sim steering is definitely a lot of fun and I'm gonna keep myself on there. So on Normal steering you have the dampening of fours of that dampens it a little bit But this minimum force feedback so before when it was at 50 it made the wheel feel very heavy on transition But from what I'm noticing when I was on sim It doesn't really feel heavy at all. So This maybe I would say not that holy grail setting but a very Very good setting to mess with because Putting it on the opposite end of the scale. It does have a huge impact and a big change on a big change so I'm definitely a Impressed with How it changes and I was able to transition there with no problem. No really heavy weight feel on the wheel so these are definitely a Definitely settings that you should try I Know recently there's been a lot of setting videos out but everybody's trying to find that that holy grail setting in the game and I think this this bit of change Is actually a good change so we got a blizzard coming in now, so it's making it a Little bit difficult now to see But we're still just ripping through the city I'm gonna run it this way break it transition it. I could throw the wheel doesn't really get heavy And we're able to get in there and get sliding so Putting the minimum force feedback to 100 definitely a good change definitely recommend doing it giving a shot because it's definitely a setting that uh I'm finding is working out pretty well Of course, you know, we got to rip this a little roundabout Bang it off red line. Why are my front brakes blowing? I'm not holding the brakes. I mean, I thought I was but my front brakes were just glowing. Please tell me you saw that so Just having a little fun little laid-back video for today some setting changes that I've made things too big. Thank you, too You know the Forza hardcore group and all the members are there for giving me the little feedback that they've been giving me it's definitely made a big difference and Okay, I'm definitely gonna set before I'm definitely excited to get online and get racing with some of these guys and do some true sim racing Definitely bringing that content to the channel for sure probably get rekt every so often or all the time But you know, it'll be a definitely a big learning experience for me that guy keeps turning in front of me There'll be definitely a big learning experience for me because the sim the actual full sim Racing with against other sim drivers is something I've been wanting to get big into as well as drifting So I am hopefully luck looking to be upgrading the wheel setup soon, hopefully changing to a Little bit more of an expensive wheel Hopefully I'll be doing a full fanatic wheel setup But that's probably in the future due to funds soon, but it will be worth every penny I spend on it for sure I'm not gonna make that. I thought I could make it. I thought it could be slick Maybe I'll notice when you hit a car.  But like I said Just a few setting changes that I found are working very well Big thank you to them for bringing those out to me and To address some of the other comments about people asking about the wheel rotation It is only a PC thing. You cannot see where rotation on PC It's weird why it's like that, but that's just how it is So if you're asking me where you'll wear rotation setting is it's probably because you're on PC. So Just tap So as always you guys know follow me on Facebook switch Twitter and Instagram all the trial in the scripture box below and if you guys like these Videos and you guys want to be part of some open lobbies that I'll be doing here soon Let me know down in the comment section about looking forward to getting some open lobbies some open cruises Maybe some cruises some drift events and stuff like that. Just Have a little fun here on horizon for I miss my gear So like I said, I Appreciate all the support from everybody appreciate Subscribers all is climbing up. So big thank you to all the new subscribers and welcome to all the new subscribers to the channel I know I did not make a big thank you and a welcome to all the new ones So here is a big welcome to all the new subscribers that are Subscribers to the channel appreciate all every single one of you guys and all your comments and feedback So keep it coming. I will keep the videos coming to you guys as well. Keep bringing you more content You'll be doing some fours of seven Here very soon. So as always Until next time, I'm evil rabbit and I'll see you guys In a storefront. I'll see you guys next time