sun_the_second
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Refer to the other comment. Things made by men for some particular purpose are not of the same kind as things that are men.
That in addition to the fact that there are no such things as objective purposes.
Buying a car to just let it sit is a waste. There's a lot of economic value and enjoyment that could have been had out of driving that car, in fulfillment of it's intended purpose.
Who are you to say that the owner would enjoy driving it more than he enjoys letting it sit? Or that you would? Intended by whom?
Car dealerships are based around buying cars and then not driving them - so they can be sold for mint value.
I would not argue that the half-eaten baloney sandwich isn't "food waste" in its technical definition. I would argue that by not eating it completely, you have not committed some higher order of waste. You didn't feel like it. It will look like waste to the hungry bum who watched you toss it, but that's not philosophy, that's just hunger and jealousy.
Purpose comes before the tool. If you want to avoid waste, you don't start eating sandwiches despite being full. You avoid buying them in the first place.
Do you think a pig would agree that its purpose is to become the baloney sandwich?
Who is to set the purpose of any particular person but themself? There is no one else to hypothetically live their life in their place. No one who could have eaten that sandwich, or driven that car.
sun_the_second
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17hr ago
If you believe in a maximally simple monadic God, then from my perspective any Church will do (or even if you don't believe in a God). All it takes is swallowing the distaste of pretending to believe.
Personally I'm partial to the conclusion that Churches are sociopolitical institutions first and philosophical institutions... somewhere very close to the end of the list. You don't choose a Church by its philosophy. The temples of men are not the temples of ideas.
sun_the_second
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17hr ago
I don't shame women who choose to bear children or men who choose to work in the mines. It is simply a fact that such things place a wear on the body that many find undesirable and some do not know about, being affected by the overly romanticized picture of childbirth or working trades. If you'd rather experience grandfatherhood as a pained physical wreck after proudly using your body for all it's worth rather than taking a more measured approach, you're welcome to.
Addendum: if bodies are tools they are tools of a very different kind than a knife or a car. Purpose comes first in all acts where a tool might be used, and then comes the tool. A man would be regarded as unwise if he acquired a hammer for no particular reason and then came looking for nails to pound. (There is an entire proverb about that.) A body on the other hand is acquired before any purpose can be conceived, not to mention being instrumental in conceiving its, or any, purposes in the first place.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
17hr ago
Again, I didn't ask you, or anyone, what to use my knife for, and neither so for the body. Non-theoretically, people do all manner of things with their tools, such as collecting nice cars (or knives) to set them up in a viewing stand, or using them in specific occasions that do not match up to your imagined, monadically perfect telos. So it is with bodies.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
17hr ago
The purposes of tools are what people use them for. Theoretically, if I needed my car for other things than driving, I wouldn't want to destroy it, especially if I do not really need to actually drive anywhere.
If there was someone else who wanted to use my body for some purpose of theirs, I regret to say I didn't ask.
You said you don't understand "the concept of a pregnancy ruining the woman's body". How complicated is it? Empirically we see that the body is worse off, like a man's body is worse off after (literally) backbreaking work.
"God designed it for that purpose" doesn't demonstrate that it's not ruining, not all purposes engineered by God are meant to be good for the body. As you seem to agree w.r.t. Christian sacrifice and self-mortifying.
Perhaps you think that women should be glad to ruin their bodies with pregnancies, or men with labor, because it's overall a good thing, then say so instead of feigning ignorance about "what ever does ruining mean".
(why would some wizards not just use their overwhelming strength to rob muggle banks, for example?).
How do you know they don't? It's not like the Harry Potter novels would catalogue every type of wizard-on-muggle crime that sometimes happens. If you're asking why it's not a thing that's known to happen among muggles: the criminals erase their memories, and if they don't then the Ministry finds out, erases everyone's memories and then cracks down extra hard on the criminals for breaking secrecy. CCTV was in a larval state in the beginning of the 1990s, if my google-fu is correct.
And it's a rare kind of wizard who would not only bother stealing muggle money but know where to look for it in a muggle bank.
As for the general magical realism question: the way J. McCrae's Pact does it is that there is an ancient magical working that defines most of humanity as Innocent and therefore actively shields them from seeing anything magical or comprehending it as magical, unless they opt in or get exposed too much (and in return they get protected from most Othersidely meddling).
sun_the_second
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1d ago
The comment was pointing out cause and effect which you seemed to ignore (that Finland joining NATO came after Russia proved to be a belligerent neighbour).
sun_the_second
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1d ago
What is your definition of "invade" that Russia didn't meet in 2022?
sun_the_second
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2d ago
I don't think that kind of gigs is meant to be enjoyed without a few grams of substances I don't know much about inside you.
God literally designed much of childbearing's effects (as well as the sweat of the man's brow when he toils and the fact that both men and women wither and die) as a punishment. It is not a positively colored feature.
When the devs refuse to patch blatant bugs, modders will step in, e.g. Skyrim.
But of course I don't actually believe that, I just humored you. Evolution literally designed the woman's body. Evolution is a retarded vibecoder that doesn't have "make no mistakes, revise your work" in the prompt. If it works, it works. Once it stops working, then it will either get fixed, slowly, based on whichever iterations work the best, or the whole project gets canceled.
sun_the_second
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4d ago
When I (male) go out for coffee it's typically a cappuccino or latte (I still can't tell the difference in taste), with a pastry alongside so I don't put any sugar in.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
They're the same picture. The greedy company in a market where things change yearly is the one that survives, unlike the one that tried to do sustainability on a trend that turned out to be going nowhere.
sun_the_second
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4d ago
I'm unaware of any successful examples of tech companies making apps thinking 18 years into the future. The smartphone boom itself is barely 18 years old.
sun_the_second
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4d ago
Not true because of what married couples make
How do you propose that would affect the app's revenue stream - if you get married, then you owe the app money for the rest of your marriage?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
The point that follows is that it is not a mismatch caused by a white projecting reasonable norms onto nonwhites. It is a white (a subset really) projecting unreasonable norms onto everyone.
sun_the_second
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5d ago
Which demographic are the ones reading the sordid headlines and demanding that the state Does Something About It?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
I think the protocols are set by using helicopter parents as the baseline (and probably the opinion makers) and the bathtub parents as scaremongering. In practice, that means a plurality of less-than-helicopter parents get raked by CPS because of a few bathtub parents, who are outliers and should not be counted.
If the nonwhite underclass is used by the state as an example to set the policies for regular people, it is a problem with the state.
sun_the_second
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5d ago
I suppose this is only natural when instead of a 5 minute walk to the nearest grocery or drugstore, it takes a driving license. The notion some express that it's the peak form of living (because you get a backyard) continues to baffle me, though.
sun_the_second
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5d ago
A rare case of marrying the princess and slaying the dragon being one and the same act.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5d ago
Which race do you think supports helicopter parenting and infantilization the most and which the least?
sun_the_second
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5d ago
I don't live in a car-mandatory country.
sun_the_second
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6d ago
I don't see how this is a problem caused by the family's race rather than state policy.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
6d ago
At 9 years old I'm pretty sure I'd be trusted to stay at home alone for a few days, maybe with a family member on call. I don't recall if it actually happened.
Yes, X == X, but what difference does it make for which building to go to, which language to take your Mass in and whether or not to listen to the Pope?
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