parthianshotgun

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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
This is an interesting observation. However, it speaks more to the overall education level of the Chinese citizenry
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
That episode with the reformed murderer was especially hard...what a brilliant show
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
The hands and feet on some of them are downright disturbing. I would not want my child coloring in AI generated slop, there's something fundamentally disconcerting about that.
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Wouldn't stoicism be at odds with political action? Why protest if it's all out of our hands?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
How?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Can you explain the intention behind your post?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
It matters for me to understand you, the other. I'm trying :p
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Yes, I'm more in the continental mindset myself. To paraphrase Gene Wolfe, the meaning of life is life itself, not as a means to an end, but an end unto itself. Which is why I was originally curious about the why, assuming OP didn&#x27
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Why? Is it because it's esoteric, not meant for all?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
where did I say circumstances excuse bad behaviour? Morality exists I agree, and personally yes, I don't think there's a transfiguration of what morality is based entirely on circumstance. One wouldn't affect the other, and m
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
The law does have mitigations though, like if someone has suffered severe trauma or was in an otherwise uncontrollable position that led them to make so and so actions. Same reason why children aren't morally culpable for certain thing
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
I should have added a necessary 'necessarily' to my assertion lol. Power corrupting gives you a template or heuristic to base some assumptions from. There are obviously exceptions, but we know that it's prudent to be skeptica
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Maybe we're getting lost in the weeds. I'm not arguing for determinism, though Robert Sapolsky certainly is if you're keen on learning more. Also my perspective doesn't justify or make a murderer moral, it just leaves ro
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
I feel that it's a fairly notable distinction. See the Manson trials. An individual exerting will to 'corrupt' someone helpless is markedly different than someone, through mostly their own free will, doing something terrible.
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
So do you think then that power doesn't corrupt?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
What's your basis for cutting? What's the underlying principle here?
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
I don't think you understood what I was trying to express
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
I have a bridge to sell you then
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self destructive.
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
Why be so precious? If it's good it's good
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by parthianshotgun 2y ago
We aren't mind readers, tell us the context, is it a regional spelling?
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Yes, it's hard, I agree. I suppose this is why we venerate Socrates. For our part though, we need to be alive, to understand this unity of being and, to paraphrase Forster, live in fragments no longer.
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Is art imitating reality or the other way round?
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Maybe you can start by asking the right questions
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
The transhumanist/effective altruism types really do a great service in making me chuckle. I wonder where that attitude comes from, lack of community?
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
I think when dealing with 'the other side' so to speak, a good many of us (me included) are against the forces of shear ignorance, scientific illiteracy, undo/thinly veiled racism, and a general disunion amongst men (a war of
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
What's the alternative? To do nothing? You my friend are a cynic, but your existence proves that you're probably less of a cynic than you let on
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Ok good, keep up the fight and I shall too, it only dies in silence
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Don't worry Thomas, you just need to "get older" as our patronizing interlocutor suggests
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by parthianshotgun 3y ago
Ah yes, the "don't talk about politics" approach. The one fundamental/procedural union of all with all, the thing that wretches all of us out from tribal/segregated animal existence. The biggest decision tree impact

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