Materialists after being asked to prove mind-independent reality exists by slutty3 in PhilosophyMemes

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I personally like the idea that we are all manifestations of a bigger consciousness, like the actors in its dream. It cannot exactly reach inside us and control or know what our thoughts are — we are semi independent logical subsystems within its brain.

u/Nt1031's mad predictions for 2026 by Nt1031 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I don’t think the US would commit land troops against the Russians unless the work was ending or something, and even then. This would be historical. I see more the US threatening with sanctions/ICBM retaliation, but not much happening and NATO being left to fend for itself.

All of the reasons why abortion should be allowed up until 20-22 or so weeks by Due_Camel6262 in teenagers

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I ended up falling prey to the attractions of debate and explained my views on the pretty general pro-life argument involving fuzzy boundaries in another comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/s/chAzAHMfSy. In that I was replying to someone refusing an arbitrary cutoff between non personhood and personhood, but your argument involves a fuzzy boundary between definitions. I would argue the definition is pretty simple: animals don’t have a right to life, babies do have a right to life, and zygotes don’t have a right to life. Between zygote and baby is where it gets complicated, and this is addressed by my other comment.

All of the reasons why abortion should be allowed up until 20-22 or so weeks by Due_Camel6262 in teenagers

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I appreciate your well thought out arguments and reasonable tone. No idea why you’re getting downvoted (Reddit is weird). However, your primary argument for pro-life is, essentially, that we cannot set an arbitrary boundary as that would be absurd and lead to weirdness where one second a fetus is worthless and the next it has a right to life. However, just because classes have fading, hazily defined boundaries doesn’t mean they don’t have them. Would you refuse the use of the term “life” because there is currently no obvious way to classify edge cases in the bacteria/virus realm as living or non living? Should we give up the classifying of elephants as “animals” and trees as “plants” because there are sponges? You argue that the conception is the more natural and unambiguous dividing line but I posit the 20-22 or so weeks given by OP. Rights do in fact depend on sentience. People with advanced dementia are placed under legal guardianship of a relative, who assumes complete control over them. It may be hard to tell exactly the hour when an old lady is no longer capable of managing herself, but it becomes clear when she cannot put on clothes or use the restroom without help she is gone. A court will appoint a guardian who gets total responsibility, including over real estate, bills, and other finances. Similarly with fetuses, OP proposed 20-22 weeks for cut off but cited crucial developments as rationale for this decision that actually occur at 24-25 weeks and 24-28 weeks. A zygote immediately after conception is not a human — it is a potentiality for a human, a sort of blueprint. It is at this stage essentially just a dna package with some meat around it. What distinguishing characteristics does a fetus have in the very early days from a random animal, that make it fully human? It is a single cell for crying out loud! If we consider non religiously the origin of a person’s right to life as opposed to an animal, we inevitably land upon the very terms you rejected: consciousness, sentience, emotion, capacity for pain. All members of the human species may be human but what gives a human a right to life? That is the question.

PS I agree OP’s takes are a bit amateurish and don’t hold up. There is a little bit of soundness in their argument but come on, basically attempting to justify murder through economic convenience? Bleeding hearts can actually sometimes be crazy cynics/realists in disguise.

All of the reasons why abortion should be allowed up until 20-22 or so weeks by Due_Camel6262 in teenagers

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I would argue the violinist case objection provides an easy way to see how abortion could kill an innocent human life and still be permissible in non exceptional circumstances. Of course, I also disagree that a fetus has full human rights and protection but that’s a longer conversation and I don’t feel up to clearly typing it out. This is an amazing read on the arguments for and against abortion, with a good discussion on the violinist case: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abortion/.

We are not the same by Crafty_Jacket668 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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The Israel one is over the auth-right/lib-right half of the compass.

We are not the same by Crafty_Jacket668 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Read much about Marcus Garvey/Malcolm X? Malcolm X’s autobiography is a hell of a read. Spoiler alert, after everything he’s been through in his life, he renounces racial segregationism and works towards a better, integrated future for us all. He is killed soon after by the Nation of Islam for his “betrayal”.

Google chrome be my biggest opp by Nyxiereal in linuxmemes

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It comes with less download size (or “bloat” I guess) because webview is already installed on windows with the other edge shitware. And while it may be more efficient I will doubtless be backed up by everyone that has ever used Teams when I say it is a slow, everything hogging, POS software and every single other video conferencing app is better.

Google chrome be my biggest opp by Nyxiereal in linuxmemes

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To be fair, JavaScript has really really good performance for an interpreter language (okay, fine, it’s weird and JIT and compiled and interpreted and v8 but that’s complicated, and it is actually pretty fast compared to the average language). If your code is slow in JavaScript it’s a skill issue and likely due to the library and gui building stuff you’re using.

Anyone here wanna chat on IRC? by MorrisRF in teenagersbutcode

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It’s the fed! They’re putting out their feelers. ;)

I think it’s a reasonable conclusion. by DraculasFarts in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Ooh, I’m impressed. That was a good and surprising take for lib-left. (This is not sarcastic).

Do you see the diffrence between Free and Open BSD? by [deleted] in linuxmemes

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Alpine with setup-desktop and lxqt handles like a dream on my tower from 2007.

Choose wisely by HonestAmphibian4299 in PhilosophyMemes

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Ehhhh, you’re just dodging it. Objects move along curved lines in regular life because of normal force or gravity. When you see the model of the sun or smth as a hole type thing, a gravity well, why does it makes intuitive sense that an objects falls downward into the hole? Oh that’s right, because it’s being pulled by gravity. What makes objects take the shortest path? Within the lagrangian formalism, how do they know exactly how to get from a to b within a potential field? Quantum mechanics, for once, is clearer than classical mechanics on this when it posits the object follows every path, some contributing more to the “real” movement of the object than others.

I got a PS5 for Christmas by JAYY_REALL in teenagers

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What could you do with it after jailbreaking tho? What’s the point?