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You kidding? When I was 17, I was conscripted into the military in a shitty country. There, I was forced to kill and prepare chickens. I couldn't eat chicken f

by dsign 4y ago

You kidding? When I was 17, I was conscripted into the military in a shitty country. There, I was forced to kill and prepare chickens. I couldn't eat chicken for a year afterwards. If my economic circumstances had forced me to take that as a paid job, my mental health would have gone to shit. Furthermore, if I had had to choose between doing that and prostituting myself, guess what hormonal me would have chosen? Thankfully, I could go to college instead. I think education and choices in ways of making a living are the important bit.

mantas 4y ago
Are you sure you wouldn't have changed your mind after a couple days in your job?
- dsign 4y ago
  I have a total of three days into forced labor killing chickens and 0.0000 days into gainfully having sex for money. I have 20 years into doing software for money, and 20 years into doing sex for free. During my (paid) professional life, I've worked for scores of people who saw and used me as a code-writing machine, including colleagues from a company I founded. My sexual life has included partners of both sexes, several nationalities, and quite a few body types. Things I regret, from most to least: killing chickens, writing code for a living. Things I enjoy, from most to least: having sex, writing code. Things that come to my mind in the shower when I want to let some steam off: having sex. No, neither killing chickens nor writing code pop up there. All in all, not getting paid to have sex is probably for the best, but I don't feel I should force that way of life onto others.
  - mantas 4y ago
    I’m not sure about you, but for me I don’t get same emotional responses when writing code. Of course, there must be few people who have mental issues and a) won’t get normal hormone response to sex b) already addicted to sex. But I see it same as vast majority of homeless people. When a choice is made because of mental issues… Its not really a choice. Similar to people putting in major overtime to run away from issues at home or inner daemons. Not as bad as alcohol or drug addicts and sometimes society even puts them on a pedestal as great achievers. But overall it’s a net loss to society. Because it normalizes and promotes behavior that is disadvantageous for majority of society. And underlining issues will bite back eventually. Both the person in question and society through his or her medical bills at old age.

by dsign 4y ago

mantas 4y ago

Are you sure you wouldn't have changed your mind after a couple days in your job?

dsign 4y ago
I have a total of three days into forced labor killing chickens and 0.0000 days into gainfully having sex for money. I have 20 years into doing software for money, and 20 years into doing sex for free. During my (paid) professional life, I've worked for scores of people who saw and used me as a code-writing machine, including colleagues from a company I founded. My sexual life has included partners of both sexes, several nationalities, and quite a few body types. Things I regret, from most to least: killing chickens, writing code for a living. Things I enjoy, from most to least: having sex, writing code. Things that come to my mind in the shower when I want to let some steam off: having sex. No, neither killing chickens nor writing code pop up there. All in all, not getting paid to have sex is probably for the best, but I don't feel I should force that way of life onto others.
- mantas 4y ago
  I’m not sure about you, but for me I don’t get same emotional responses when writing code. Of course, there must be few people who have mental issues and a) won’t get normal hormone response to sex b) already addicted to sex. But I see it same as vast majority of homeless people. When a choice is made because of mental issues… Its not really a choice. Similar to people putting in major overtime to run away from issues at home or inner daemons. Not as bad as alcohol or drug addicts and sometimes society even puts them on a pedestal as great achievers. But overall it’s a net loss to society. Because it normalizes and promotes behavior that is disadvantageous for majority of society. And underlining issues will bite back eventually. Both the person in question and society through his or her medical bills at old age.