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Is actually a good response, what is she actually getting at with this question? It’s just a hard question and no clear lesson at the end of it. Shit, can my disgust reaction of child sex come into conflict with my desire for a child to be happy before death? woah dude that’s wild.
I really don’t see what moral discovery she’s made. How about you ask me what I would do if this story happened to someone else and how I would react to hearing about it? The answer is “I would feel sad for their difficult situation in which I am epistemically paralyzed to help or judge”. That’s my answer, Aella, this isn’t philosophy, this is “would you rather fuck your dad or your mom”, and casually throwing this on twitter is probably inspiring a bunch of similar behaviour amongst impressionable young adults.
I suppose she could be trying to get a dig in at Hanania with his "is it okay to fuck a 14 year old if you pay them really well?", but since I think he's an idiot anyway, why even bother with the likes of this? It's pure rage bait.
Oh no, she's openly saying she was inspired by his question and seems to be hinting towards being supportive of that question:
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1721239422849470898
Again the normie responses below hers are absolute howlers. This is turning into a new form of entertainment for me, it's like throwing peanuts at monkeys and then watching them fight and dance over them (something I used to do as a child back home, it brings back fond memories).
You’re not that Indian guy who moved to London and then had a lengthy post about noblesse oblige are you?
I don't feel any noblesse oblige towards lower class westerners, my taxes already go a long long way towards funding their bad habits, and then they have zero respect for their betters, freely biting the hand that feeds them and openly talking about biting it even more.
Noblesse Oblige is one part of a two way system. I am willing to forgive and forget, but the other end of the bargain requiring a certain amuont of obeiscance from those who take out more than they put in is also necessary before we can return to that point.
Ok, was that you though?
Yes, he is precisely the one you’re thinking about. He is being intentionally obtuse for some inexplicable reason.
Simple: The noblesse oblige speech was always anachronistic bullshit( whether it came from him, cima or any other reactionary), but it is especially bullshit from Count, who not only does not feel obliged towards, but actively hates and resents the lower classes of his western host country.
Hate and resentment are strong words. I give freely to those I consider beneath me, conditional on them accepting their place in life. These are not the actions of someone who hates the lower classes. Indeed it is said that it is better to give than to recieve.
(Ok, I don't actually give very much to lower classes of the UK, but this is not because of resentment or anything, it's because the same amount of money can be much more effectively spent on lower classes in the third world, which is where I sent my chairtable donations instead, what would you rather do, have a veteran put up in a hotel in London for the night or cure 1 person of river blindness in DRC?)
I don't even think western lower classes are all that bad, especially the white lower classes. They have some of the best stock of all lower classes in the world. The problem is pretty much 100% cultural.
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