sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
1yr ago
Is writing work?
Is writing erotica work?
Is writing erotica prostitution?
Can you force a prisoner to write erotica?
then why not just admit 'yes actually we want to screw your kids' or at the very least 'if somebody else did we're okay with it'?
Loaded question, they don't.
Anti-progressives keep acting as if "adults having sex with children is okay" must follow from "adults providing children with info about sex is okay" even as all trends point to high-and-increasing discomfort with the former idea among the modal progressive. It's motivated thinking. Meanwhile the most conservative societies on Earth generally appear to be very comfortable with adults fucking minors (child marriage in the open, child prostitution on the down low).
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Do you account for how many horses are no longer required to carry people long distances when working out the economics of cars?
No, because I'm not a horse.
Aren't Friend and Family something like the biggest class of people that abuse children?
When adjusted for the total amount of time the child spends in their company (I won't count the inherent trust of the relationship since trust is what we're debating in the first place)? Doubt it would be significant. 77% divided by ~10 years, compared to however many% are relative strangers divided by however much time they spend in the company of a given relative stranger.
Also, if I understand correctly that website counts neglect as abuse. Surely "withdrawal of care" is the optimistic baseline in the dog-eat-dog world framework, when we compare it to active abuse, let alone killing?
Re: traffic in the third world, in the literal example of traffic it's still neglect, not the desire to murder everyone around you. Even most criminals and organized gangsters have end-goals that aren't "kill everyone I see".
The fact that it's you endorsing that speaks against it.
edit: I will expand on this comment because, while it is in line with your expressed worldview, petty snips are not in vogue here. Here's why I think your idea is stupid. I assume you don't act like a hyper-paranoid schizo in daily life (if you do, disregard the rest of the paragraph and my condolences). I assume you have numerous concessions and allowances for your "friends" and "family" and "law-abiding fellow citizens" whose "brain chemicals" "rob them of the ability" to kill you.
Given that, your categories don't cut reality at the seams and are thus useless, amateur nihilist-esque mental masturbation.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
The benefit of a cynical worldly framework is that when it is inevitably exploited in a cynical and worldly way, it is still working exactly as advertised.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
FWIW I don't believe Klaus Schwab wants the proles to eat the bugs for the sake of humiliation. More like he's of the kind of people who are completely detached from a) what the average person finds humiliating and b) the idea of personally acting on one's ecological beliefs. He hears that people are starving and his response is "let them eat cake bugs".
This attitude seems to extend to most genuinely high-up elites. Humiliation of proles is what the grunts of the system get a kick out of. The actual rulers are so far up there they don't notice the prole, if they do want to humiliate anyone it's their lowers within their class.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
According to the chart, the lion's share of this modern energy expense on food is storage, services, transportation and processing. But do we not save energy on the convenience? It makes some sense that we spend more calories on growing food because we use few people and many machines, as opposed to 90% of people plowing their own (or not exactly their own, but details) share of a field. But is the freed manpower accounted for?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
"People use force unless they don't want to" is not a very enlightening or useful statement.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Apparently they patched the boss fights so they're beatable even when you didn't spec into "apply gun to enemy in open combat".
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I am in discord servers with exorbitant proportions of trans people and I never hear about drag queen story hour there.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
"Integration" is inherently give-and-take. Unlike your example with the house, you don't own your culture alone, it is shared, and so the extent to which it demands conformism is shared too.
It is kind of ironic that you referred negatively to communism, yet are coming off as if you would ideally want every newborn and new arrival to sync into lockstep with one snapshot of native culture, forever. If I'm incorrect, please explain: how does your model of respect towards native culture allow for any sort of change and evolution? Is it that one "earns" the right to deviate by becoming/being fully native? Would it be fine to start dressing and talking differently after being born there?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
just given how thoroughly Americanized I am compared to the median American
I do not believe this makes sense. If being Americanized does not refer to being most like the median American, then what is it exactly?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
The argument is that all "natives" were immigrants once. At the very least anti-immigrationists should then clarify that they want the specific current shade of "native".
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Only if you believe there's a finite supply of "racial purity" (when did it appear, by the way? The Neanderthals?) and brown immigrants permanently dilute it. Otherwise, it's just cultural change. That is no less reversible than communism.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
I was calling standing up for the anthem a symbolic gesture.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
They don’t enforce basic civic norms, like standing for the national anthem.
People who fail the shopping cart test are unfit to live in civilized society; this trait is inherently overrepresented by those in any moral majority.
Since when is a symbolic gesture the same as leaving the world around you as convenient for others as it was for you?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
What I'm saying is, it would be prudent for Mao to say "eh the bomb is no big deal, they won't dare use it, and if they do they won't kill all of us and if they do then in any case socialism will win" whether it was true or not. That's what I mean by chest-beating.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
It's tempting to read this Mao quote as chest-beating propaganda, not real doctrine. Was there any evidence he intended to follow through?
sun_the_second
1yr ago
If it is, you can express the phenomenon in the feminists' own words, instead of having to "extrapolate" or "safely assume".
sun_the_second
1yr ago
The Satan is a documented feature of christianity, unlike ones you ascribe to feminism and other doctrines you dislike.
sun_the_second
1yr ago
In practice one can ascribe mostly arbitrary beliefs to people with this "maybe they also believe, it's in the realm of possibility" neat trick, while also sneaking it through as "just stating what people literally believe".
sun_the_second
1yr ago
Once again, dissident right hammering on "optimal fertility age" and "men consistently pick 18 when 18 is the lowest age on the poll" is conspicuously ignored, while Janet showing your teens sterile corporate memphis tab A into slot B material is evidence of them wokes laying the spadework. Never mind that the groupie rockstar culture is dead since the 90s and today is more like "you're not adult nor ready to have sex with adults until 25, and even then more than 5 years of age gap is ew".
I cannot agree. Artificial wombs presumably don't pop children out automatically: you have to intend to have a child, unlike many a case with natural wombs. I would assume fewer people would back out of children they intended to have and raise than currently do out of whatever the distribution is between planned babies, surprise babies and oops babies.
Why would it be any easier to get the state to raise your kid just because it wasn't gestated inside your body?
I can see the scenario where hard-of-hearing children were previously beaten down on, presumed to be slow and inattentive while they're actually just worse at perceiving speech than others. Indeed, that appears to be the experience of at least 1 person I've read about. In that world, I think it would be better if teachers tried to identify children who might be hard of hearing and encourage them to explore "deafness identity" such as sign language, hearing aids and potential cochlear implants in the future. Not to "prevent deafness from going extinct", but to help those children live in society. If parents started to block this and insist their child is perfectly normal without any medical examination to confirm it, I would assume it's the common instinct of trying to look normal which is harmful when you're actually not normal.
I trust you have quotes, at least, from teachers who claim they encourage children to explore transness for the sake of it not going extinct?
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