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Kirk Durston
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Kirk Durston writes Quest, a personal blog at kirkdurston.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ever Thought”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the 'unwin' post, which argues that sexual morality shapes how societies rise and decline, as a reference in threads on marriage, religion, LGBT+ laws and civilizational collapse.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts about God, truth, and beauty
Most-linked posts?
- Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ever Thought5 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Related: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Under the skin of OnlyFans”Submitted Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ever Thought as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis ties into an interesting article I read today. Goes deep on the idea: “some moral laws might limit pleasure and enjoyment in the short term but in the long term minimize suffering and maximize human fulfillment.” Like a meta analysis on the societal level. Not an exact science, but an interesting concept in light of the depressing second order effects we see in how our current society operates sexually. https:/…
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Under the skin of OnlyFans”Homosexual marriage is not straight forward: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines”Religion can be gotten rid off and nothing bad happens? I take it you haven't seen what the likes of Mao, Stalin, Lenin, and Hitler did. No, we're here today because of religion. You owe many of the luxuries of modern life because of the Golden Age of Islam. Your definition of "criminal" just happens to follow the latest fad of the day. Read https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin for a very brief overview.
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Ghana’s anti-LGBT+ bill seeks 10-year jail term for activists”Hurting others: spreading homosexuality and lgbt agenda hurts society and will cause its decline and collapse: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Ghana’s anti-LGBT+ bill seeks 10-year jail term for activists”> anti-same-sex-marriage (which has since become legal without the world collapsing). It doesn't happen overnight: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin I'm not a Christian either.
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves”Five points: i. I heard Thom Hartmann mention "societies usually last only 250 years or 10 generations, on average" [0]. This would put the epicenter of US'es collapse at roughly 2026 if it were to go that way. Here's another article on previous one [1]. ii. America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges (2018, book) iii. Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought (2019) https://www.kirkdurston.…
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “ This is how A Society Dies”According to Sir John Glubb in The Fate of Empires [0], the average civilization descends into chaos at about 250 years / 10 generations. For the US, that would be roughly 2026. On another measuring stick about the unmooring of sexual relationship conventions, a society declines around 50 years later, according to a recent post [1]. That would suppose about now, around 2020. Furthermore, "fall" of empire maybe too d…
Comment linking /blog/unwin
on “I Almost Lost My Career Because I Had the Wrong Passport”This is just a copy and paste of this: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin It was posted not long ago, with quite a bit of discussion, but was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21715664
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on “Why Sexual Morality May Be Far More Important Than You Ever Thought”