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The issue is that there are some people who physically can’t help but pour all their money into these skinner boxes. The insidious and unfair bit comes in when
by dartos 3y ago
The issue is that there are some people who physically can’t help but pour all their money into these skinner boxes.
The insidious and unfair bit comes in when you realize that these companies specifically engineer their apps to take advantage of people with that kind of addictive personality disorder.
Check out the talk “Let’s go whaling” to really see what I mean. He opens the talk with “let’s set ethics aside for an hour”
- partitioned 3y ago[flagged]
- beedeebeedee 3y agoImagine saying that about someone with any other disability- your sentiment is beyond crass
- tarheels100 3y agoAren't they referring to the person designing the addictive game, not the players? Justifying any methods by starting with "let's put ethics aside" is incredibly callous. Edit: Based on partitioned's later comments, it looks like I was probably wrong about their intent. Either way, it is certainly a crass comment.
- dartos 3y agoSetting aside how fucked up eugenics is for a second. If there was only one axis to a person, maybe. But just because someone has a gene that makes them more likely to be an addict doesn’t mean that they have no good traits. More generally, just because someone doesn’t have entirely perfect genes, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have offspring.
- partitioned 3y agoI don’t need to reply to all of these comments so I’ll just leave here that eugenics actually makes a lot of sense. The fact that we don’t sterilize people who have babies born that are addicted to meth etc. is mind boggling to me. It’s quite easy to sterilize people based on their evil intent and negligence and keep it separate from race/genocide stuff.
- partitioned 3y agoAfter looking up the specific definition of eugenics I don’t really agree with the concept of perfecting the human race through sterilization. I think that’s an entirely separate issue from sterilizing people who society can seem to not be fit to be parents. Most places still have the death penalty. Sort of crazy to me you can be put to death but we draw the line as snipping some meth addicts tubes so they don’t keep making meth addicted babies. Source: I live in an area where there are lots of meth addicted babies being born multiple times to the same mother
- i80and 3y agoCongratulations, you've made the worst and most thoughtless comment I've seen in 14 years on this site.
- partitioned 3y agoWhats your solution to meth addicted mothers? Lock them away in prison for their entire life so they can't reproduce? Or let them live but without being able to bring more meth addicted babies into the world
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoWe don’t actually know that addiction is genetic or that eugenics is effective in preventing mental illnesses like addiction. Recall that Germany killed all their schizophrenics in the holocaust, but just a generation or two later Germany has just as many schizophrenics as anyone else. Edited to add: addiction also generally shows up later in life. For example a mother of two is prescribed pain medication and becomes addicted. Should her children, who have no presentation of addiction, also be forcibly sterilized along with her? Or a grandmother, should all of her normally functioning adult children and grandchildren be forcibly sterilized since she’s already hit menopause? This is an ultimately shortsighted view garnered only by ignorant understandings of societal wide illnesses.
- AlexandrB 3y agoGood luck filtering out people who get addicted to dopamine hits from these games from those who get addicted to dopamine hits from things like debugging code. It's two sides of the same coin.
- mplewis 3y agoThink before you post, next time.