ChickenOverlord

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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026

ChickenOverlord 3d ago

Here's a decent article about it I read recently: https://kirkcenter.org/essays/a-cause-lost-and-forgotten/

"It is likely that you have come up with rebuttals to these anti-suffrage arguments as you have been reading along. That’s fine—I have a dozen myself. The important thing to know is that, whatever enlightened counterarguments you have in mind, they were almost certainly espoused by none of the suffragettes at the time. For women who were not terribly political themselves, that was the decisive argument against suffrage: half the women arguing in favor of it seemed to be utterly daft."

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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026

ChickenOverlord 3d ago

I don't think I know a single person who would choose losing their memories and identity and becoming a drooling vegetable instead of a dignified death should they start to suffer from significant dementia etc.

Hi, would you like to get to know me? This is a ridiculous claim, along the lines of "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" or Scott Alexander's example of how he doesn't know any creationists. It's a very strong sign that you live in a filter bubble. I (and billions of others) believe human life inherently has value, and should not be intentionally ended outside of some very specific circumstances (i.e. self defense, capital punishment, etc.). Would a part of me prefer to die if I started declining into dementia? Of course, I saw my own grandpa suffer from Alzheimer's and become a shell of who he used to be, it's horrifying. But I will not take intentional steps to cause my own death there, let alone be such a massive mewling pussy that I make someone else kill me.

As a side note, I've always found statements like "dignified death" and "dying with dignity" concerning, because to me dignity has very little to do with what happens to me and far more to do with how I handle it. Once again, for billions of people, this is one of the most dignified moments in all of human history: https://www.artatberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/images/ARTatBerlin-Die-Kreuzigung-Christi-Hans-Baldung-Grien/ARTatBerlin-Die-Kreuzigung-Christi-Hans-Baldung-Grien-1869810459.jpg