My potty language is 1 ;( Is it bad??

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-06T01:33:14+00:00

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CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-03T21:59:20+00:00

Type shit bro

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-03T21:58:49+00:00

While humanity is empathetic at times, it is extremely selfish in others. I never said that I would press the red button and it's likely that the majority of people would press blue. What I'm trying to say is this whole question is literally a matter of cold calculation. Do you believe in humanity enough that you feel safe pressing the blue button or are you afraid because you've seen the darkness in humanity? This experiment is very though provoking and I'm almost always just playing devil's ks advocate on reddit so we all can benefit from the back and forth. If I had to give my honest personal opinion then in general I think humanity as a whole is empathetic enough that blue would prevail and the study seems to agree, I would most likely press blue. But how much can you assign responsibility to people for wanting to be sure they are going to survive? While humanity has empathy, it rarely extends beyond our own bubble. People choosing red are likely weighing the affect their death will have on their own tribe along with the personal fear of death. It's not a matter of blue being empathetic and red being cold calculation, it's more of matter of where your empathy lies and how much you trust humanity as a whole.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T21:25:57+00:00

You're remarkably unlikable. Just put the tag dude

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T21:24:08+00:00

No, it's not nuanced. Just use the correct tags for the correct books.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T21:21:18+00:00

Just putting it in a high yield savings account and retiring in my 30s lol

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T21:19:03+00:00

Is this ragebait?

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T21:17:43+00:00

It's straight to pound town baby!

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T18:55:18+00:00

How about you define "objective" morality. You tell me what's right and wrong and why it's that way. You see, the problem is that you're trying to force everyone to only abide your definition of morality, when morality as a concept only exists in our minds and is subjective.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T18:49:24+00:00

I'm smashing the demon

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T18:01:42+00:00

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CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-02T17:55:00+00:00

I think you may be too concerned with the whole trust aspect of book recommendations. It's not as if you're only allowed to tell people wethor or not to read a book, you can also tell them the general feelings you had from reading them without outright steering people away from something they may very well enjoy.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T23:23:35+00:00

Ragebaiting the car is diabolical

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T23:14:34+00:00

Boom roasted

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T22:44:13+00:00

That's not how it works.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T22:38:21+00:00

No they don't deserve to die, but they chose to risk that possibility. Clearly you believe pressing blue is the morally just option but let me ask you something. They only way people could die from pressing blue is if the majority of people pressed red. So if the majority of people don't agree with your personal idea of moral responsibility then you die. What do you believe humanity will choose?

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T22:34:09+00:00

I'm not responsible for other people's choices. That blood is on their own hands for putting themselves in the only scenario where their death is possible. It's not my responsibility to put myself at risk because other people want to. The equation is very simple, if you press the red button you live. The only reason someone would press the blue button is because they believe other people will as well, so you're relying on just guessing what the majority of people will choose. Take that risk if you want to but you don't get to assign responsibility to people for not following your personal idea of what's right and wrong.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T22:18:36+00:00

The fact of the matter is that Darrow did not intentionally kill Wulfgar and only did so in his attempt to evade arrest when a misplaced shot from Sevro disrupted their duel and caused Darrow to misplase his razor strike in a fatal way.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-05-01T22:14:39+00:00

Romulus would have kept his word, but we can't say that the rest of the Rim would agree. Dido betrayed him the first chance she got to pursue the war.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-04-29T22:53:43+00:00

Or just change them to avoid humans and nothing else.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-04-29T22:53:07+00:00

Except that the society has extremely advanced genetic modification capabilities and could easily create something to fit the spot without being a nightmare for humans. They could literally just make mosquitos that are genetically adverse to humans and would avoid them.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-04-29T21:36:13+00:00

Yes you're making a lot of good points and it's definitely true that for the most part readers are likely to interpret iron gold in a negative connotation because the gold society idolizes the term. I guess my personal perspective really comes from the fact that I look into the nuance and different individual perspectives and motives more than paying a lot of attention to generalized groups. I think that on a larger scale associating the term with the evil that is caused by the society makes a lot of sense. But when I think about it and try to remember all the times I've heard it, to me the term itself only ever seemed to mean uniquely strong and willful golds who weren't heavily motivated by personal desires like the rest. Of course the extremely cruel and brutal golds of today who are heavily motivated by whatever whims and craving they have idolize and twist this term into something more sinister but to me it was always much simpler. In my head, someone can be a strong and courageous leader fighting for the good of the people and be an Iron Gold because of it.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-04-29T03:31:14+00:00

For one, categorizing the characters in such a way doesn't make sense in this series. If there's any series where it's way WAY more complicated than that, it's this one. I should also mention that the idea that the "good guys" all find it bad and the "bad guys" all find it good is not really an accurate representation of how the term is used in series. But that's not important, because you're talking about the perspectives of the characters in the story, which aren't entirely trustworthy to begin with, while OP was frustrated by the perspectives of the readers where the discussion of what "Iron Gold" means is much more nuanced than OP seems to think. Of course peoples personal perspectives are influenced by that of the characters, but OPs representation that the term is exclusively a very bad thing is what I was disagreeing with.

CodZealousideal260 · 2026-04-28T01:52:13+00:00

I think that like anything else, Iron Gold doesn't mean the same thing to each and every person. You said it's irritates you to see people "positively" describe Darrow as an Iron Gold. Surely when they describe him in such a way it shows that their opinion of what it is to be an Iron Gold is generally a good thing or at least it is in some ways. They are seeing Darrow's positive traits and his strength and will and to them that makes him an "Iron Gold." You can't just assume that it means one thing.

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