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My theory: they're either trying to avoid hiring libruls; or trying to avoid hiring conservatives. Is prostitution more evil than torture? This might be a very

My theory: they're either trying to avoid hiring libruls; or trying to avoid hiring conservatives. Is prostitution more evil than torture? This might be a very good way to test for liberal/conservative values. <attempting to be sarcastic, but not so sure I'm wrong now that I typed it out>

NemoNobody 2y ago
The world is divided almost exactly 50/50 rn - I'll bet a far more benign question would work even but I'm not being sarcastic by agreeing with your sarcasm - that one could work quite well Maybe the age old divide of our species is wether we fundamentally prefer sex or violence
- klyrs 2y ago
  It's not so black and white, though. A friend of mine is paid quite well to torture people, and this is broadly considered sex work. You wouldn't catch me espousing such nuance in a job interview, though.
serf 2y ago
i've shifted between political 'sides' in my life, but my opinions on prostitution (and torture, I suppose) haven't really changed. tl;dr : I think that's a bad yard-stick.
- NemoNobody 2y ago
  OK, but a good yardstick to measure where people are at - like your comment. I can't say I would never torture someone but the only reason I can see myself actually doing so would be for movie reasons, like where the super virus was hidden but I've read toouch data on how tortured people essentially just anything and everything they think you want to hear, I could never outright trust answers I got via torture - the virus is a bad example, I couldn't trust a person I tortured to honestly give me the names of people that are against me, for a better example. Prostitution tho - that's a whole different thing. Ever wonder why it's the world's oldest profession?? Bc most men didnt have families like we think of families now, like lots came from families but didn't start one - were single their whole lives. The military is a great example. Was a lifelong guard, living in the castle barracks keeping his wife and kids there? They didn't really get time off... or choices in general. Women were also valuable to their Fathers as virgins but a burden as an unwed mother - Mediaval Fathers did not allow their daughters to just hang out with young men. For lots of men, sex with a prostitute was the only sex, with a women, they would ever have.

NemoNobody 2y ago

The world is divided almost exactly 50/50 rn - I'll bet a far more benign question would work even but I'm not being sarcastic by agreeing with your sarcasm - that one could work quite well Maybe the age old divide of our species is wether we fundamentally prefer sex or violence

klyrs 2y ago
It's not so black and white, though. A friend of mine is paid quite well to torture people, and this is broadly considered sex work. You wouldn't catch me espousing such nuance in a job interview, though.

serf 2y ago

i've shifted between political 'sides' in my life, but my opinions on prostitution (and torture, I suppose) haven't really changed. tl;dr : I think that's a bad yard-stick.

NemoNobody 2y ago
OK, but a good yardstick to measure where people are at - like your comment. I can't say I would never torture someone but the only reason I can see myself actually doing so would be for movie reasons, like where the super virus was hidden but I've read toouch data on how tortured people essentially just anything and everything they think you want to hear, I could never outright trust answers I got via torture - the virus is a bad example, I couldn't trust a person I tortured to honestly give me the names of people that are against me, for a better example. Prostitution tho - that's a whole different thing. Ever wonder why it's the world's oldest profession?? Bc most men didnt have families like we think of families now, like lots came from families but didn't start one - were single their whole lives. The military is a great example. Was a lifelong guard, living in the castle barracks keeping his wife and kids there? They didn't really get time off... or choices in general. Women were also valuable to their Fathers as virgins but a burden as an unwed mother - Mediaval Fathers did not allow their daughters to just hang out with young men. For lots of men, sex with a prostitute was the only sex, with a women, they would ever have.