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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1636 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 10, 2025

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The whole thing makes me rather worried about the state of western society/mental health, in the same way that OnlyFans "chat to the creator" feature does.

I've arrived to the stage of "the less I know about it the better I feel" concerning this topic. The previous stage was "wtf is wrong with you people?!" and I couldn't stay there anymore.

We need government enforced grass-touching or something.

No we don't. The government is the same people, only with high sociopathy, high egotism and low self-reflection. Realizing this is a major part of what made me a libertarian. I mean I could be a philosopher-king-monarchist, but I'm too cynical for that.

Government enforced grass touching was tongue in cheek

Although trying to imagine how that would be enforced is really funny

I end up a philosopher-king-monarchist because I don't think most people have an impulse to liberty.

That may or may not be true, but the history shows the people who end up being kings rarely behave like philosopher-kings and frequently behave like psychopathic serial killers. Today's kings are only relatively nice because they know if they aren't their head is quickly going to be on the chopping block. Where it's not the case (like African dictators or communist dictators) the picture is rather bleak.

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