ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
6d ago
X as well with Seymour wanting to become Sin so he could give everyone the sweet release of death
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Your comment here actually really got me thinking. My wife loves most bugs, and over the years we've found several struggling bugs that managed to find their way inside, usually cute ones like moths and box elder bugs (she has no qualms with killing pests like mosquitoes, flies, and wasps though). My wife will catch them, give them water and something to eat (like leaves or sugar water or whatever, depends on the bug), then release them in a nice place. Sometimes I think she goes a little overboard in making things nice for them, but her actions are driven by real love and compassion for the little critters. In fact just a week ago we found a vole trapped in one of our window wells so we caught him and brought him to a beautiful field a few miles away right next to a river.
In any case, my ooint is that for all of this abstract talk of bee consciousness and suffering, the idea of the weirdos writing this stuff having actual compassion and concern for these creatures doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's the virtue ethicist in me (and my utter contempt for utilitarianism as a guiding ethical framework) but all of these attempts to abstract moral and ethical behavior into quantifiable abstractions makes them seem like something an alien might come uo with. The human aspects of ethics are completely missing.
Almost makes me wonder if secret lizardmen aliens infiltrating human society conspiracy theories aren't true.
Computer scientists call their field computer science despite it being more about mathematics and logic than science, and despite the field having far less to do with computers than one might expect.
Normies have been calling computer opponents in video games "AI" since the 80's despite them knowing that they clearly aren't "intelligent"
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