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by deertick1 5y ago
I think that reasoning about morality without an irrational, faith-based approach leads to a "slippery slope" if you will of reasoning. Essentially, I believe that the fundamental utility of religion is that it provides a framewor
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by deertick1 5y ago
Interesting points. Personally, not sure I agree with 1. Lots of scenarios where creating a sentient being would be bad - like if that being can only experience endless pain. On point 2 : well you got me there. Let me be more precise : its
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by deertick1 5y ago
Are trans folks immoral : No I don't care what someone choses to do with their own body, that's their business. Organ transplants : No, this is a life saving (or condition improving) medical procedure. Same for prosthetics. I am
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by deertick1 5y ago
Eh like I said I was not as concise as I would like to have been in my comment : IVF is not creating a completely new, engineered organism. Not really what I am talking about. And man, the idea that religion has no place in the modern world
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by deertick1 5y ago
Wow what a ridiculously asinine and misleading comment (the qouted comment, not the HN comment). The moral reprehensibility of such an experiment is not the result of humans treating any other species as lesser, morally- rather, it is becau
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by deertick1 5y ago
Sorry for the typos. On mobile and this app sucks, trying to correct the typos is a massive pain.
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by deertick1 5y ago
eye roll ugh I am SO sick of this bizarre prevailing narrative that religiousness and spirituality is like some sort of unintellectual defect present only in inferior humans. Step off your high horse for a second a realize that you have a
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by deertick1 6y ago
From someone who grew up with parents that owned a hand full of rental houses and did all repair work themselves (quite competently, father is a tradesman anyway) : I am not at all surprised that individual owners tend to keep deposits at a
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by deertick1 6y ago
Lori Gardi, widely believed to be a crackpot, in my opinion has made a breakthrough in our interpretation od quantum mechanics. If I understand her correctly, she proposes that the reason waves behave like particles is because they transfer
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by deertick1 7y ago
Could you cite this? I'm not finding any evidence that this is the case
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by deertick1 7y ago
Lol tell that to my dad who is still painting houses at 63. Or his competition who is still painting at 70. that is preposterous. In fact most laborors I know are well above 45. Yeah it takes a toll on your health but most of the health iss
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by deertick1 7y ago
I don't believe trump is racist.
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by deertick1 7y ago
I actually don't remember that. What was the deal with that?
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by deertick1 7y ago
let me rephrase. Yes, you can. But you absolutely shouldn't, because once you start controlling peoples exposure to ideas, things go off the rails.
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by deertick1 7y ago
Forced labor camps? you mean prisons? I'm sorry but please back this up with evidence. And sure black men experience this at a far higher rate. This is because black men commit crimes at a far higher rate. Men in general commit crimes
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by deertick1 7y ago
I think he means that this is really, really stupid.
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by deertick1 7y ago
Excuse me but do you live in the US? That is such a preposterous claim. I don't understand why this idea is being so aggressively perpetuated. What makes you say that? There are not statistjcs to support this. Nor have I encountered an
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by deertick1 7y ago
This is so frustrating to me. First of all who is to say what constitutes toxic? For instance, a drug related subreddit I know of was banned. There, people discussed harm reduction and chemistry of novel compounds. It was amazing and very
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by deertick1 8y ago
Im sorry but what are "they" trying to do to Joshua Clover? And who is "they?" As far as I can tell, UC davis just said they don't agree with him. Honestly I would be fine with more punitive action for him. Calling