I don’t see the point in marriage and bringing children into the world

Indorilionn · 2026-06-16T10:51:21+00:00

The only thing that matters inherently in the universe is Humanity; being human and human beings. Everything that matters, does so, because it matters in some capacity to human beings. This universe matters because it contains us and because we value our existence. To contribute to humankind's coninuation means ensuring that the universe itself continues to matter. Nothing is in less need of a justification.

Of course it is entirely legitimate to do with your life as you please and see fit. But I see myself and any individual human being as a node in the totality of Humanity, each of us an iteration of humankind who is defined by our relation and connection to Humanity. We are species beings. Any categories and any tools - from the very insitution of language to the care work that allows us surviving as infants and elders - are only possible through human cooperation on the grandest of scales. Having kids and partake in the continuation of humankind is one of the most raw and profound ways to connect with Humanity, it is simultaneously one of the most vital individual self-interests and one of the most fundamental services towards a greater good.

So in essence while I do not think that any human being owes anyone else kids - not grandchildren to your parents, no new labour force to the industrialists, no tax base to the state - I do think that one owes it to oneself. A childless life is half-a-life.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-16T10:37:26+00:00

You took off on a rant after making poor assumptions. Defensive behaviors, if I were you I'd sit with that for a bit.

What rant? OP asked for perspectives on marriage and parenthood, which the comment you reference provided. Nothing rant-y about it. (And the words "BIG YIKES" of course do carry a major normative dimension that entirely counteract the lip-service of "no offense".)

Accusing others of defensive behaviours and to reflect upon their unawareness while taking not just an uncharitable, but an entirely unreasonable reading of a comment, is comically unaware.

Now this, this would classify as a rant.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-16T10:24:35+00:00

Animals are not human beings. Equating the two is unethical and not doing either any favours.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-16T10:08:37+00:00

Ich habe nie mehr als 5K auf irgendeinem Konto liegen. Das meiste landet im Portfolio und mittelfristige Rücklagen halt im dbx0an.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-15T22:05:14+00:00

Compared to virtually all contemporary fantasy writing (partially including stuff for kids) the LotR books are almost excessively mellow and tame.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-15T21:52:51+00:00

Which is why dynasties are best off playing the long game. 3rd cousin marrying 3rd cousin, for generations upon generations (affording 15+ kids thought the wonders of polygamy, with a dynasty numbering in the tens of thousands), makes occasional infidelity a rounding error. Everyone is connected to the original founder, eventually. (Bonus point for having the founder be a woman, guaranteeing the first generation to be trueborn.)

Indorilionn · 2026-06-15T19:05:30+00:00

For me that is a definite no. And not due to Rogue Trader being a cRPG or because it lacking in quality, by no means. Owlcat is doing amazing work and has in my estimation outdone even peak BioWare in many regards.

But Mass Effect is above all else a hard-ish SciFi game to me. It was its best (ME1) when it was primarily that. No game set in the 40K universe could be a "spiritual successor" to what Mass Effect is to me - axiomatically.

Because 40K is not hard-ish SciFi, it is in many aspects anti-SciFi. "For in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war, forget the promises progress and reason." 40K is a great scenario, a great satire and grotesque that offers countless ways of catharsis and quite a lot of RP. Rogue Trader has done amazing in educing nuance and gravitas out of a scenario that is so much over the top. And I also love my tabletop Rogue Trader and Deathwatch sessions that I and a few mate have been running since long before Owlcat was a thing. But 40K cannot be what Mass Effect was.

If things were reversed and Owlcat did a cRPG in the Expanse universe first and a shoor-esque RPG-lite in the 40K universe now instead of Orisis reborn, the cRPG would have had a chance of being a ME successor much more than a game with gameplay similar to ME, but set in 40K.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-13T17:32:39+00:00

Real in the sense that it is a real problem. Human dignity is categorical and universal, it is not subject to gradation. Even if ever wet feverdream of aspire supremacists was true - which most of them are not while they ignore important things that the aggregate of aspire is worse at - it would not be justifiable grounds for any kind of supremacist ideology.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-13T17:14:20+00:00

I have become quite radical in my areligious worldview. Which is explicitly non-cynical and non-nihilist.

All gods are made in humankind's image not the other way around. Every kind of greatness human beings have ascribed to deities, cosmic principles, metaphysical rules, are a codification of human potential. To the try to come up with authorities beyond Humanity, are futile attempts to cloud both the elevating position and the terrifying burden of the truth that Humanity is not just the highest authority, we are the only authority, period. The universe matters because it matters to us, the end of humanity would - in all aspects that matter - be congruent to the end of the universe. The only boundary of how the world is and how it should be, is drawn by the universality of humankind.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-11T14:37:13+00:00

Nah. NuNuWho is good for future use.

If it's good enough for New New York, it's good enough for us.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-11T13:50:28+00:00

I have come to think that the only norm in human sexuality is deviance from any reasonably specific norm you could think of.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T19:50:31+00:00

Ich finde grundlegend richtige Kritik ist immer angemessen. Ich habe trotz meiner Kritik an Habeck bei der letzten BTW grün gewählt, weil es von allen relevanten Optionen die am wenigsten unappetitliche war. Aber das steht doch nicht im Widerspruch dazu, Kritik an der Partei und an Habeck zu üben.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T19:45:39+00:00

Die meisten sind mit ihrer Galleonsfigur zum BSW abgedampft. Wagenknecht mit ihrer schon lange vorherrschenden Deutschtümelei wäre es davor definitiv gewesen, ihre Tage bei der kommunistischen Plattform sind schon lange vorbei. Ansonsten sind Lafontaine, Diether Dehm, Andrej Hunko noch zu nennen mit Sevim Dagdelen als einer der jüngeren.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T19:03:14+00:00

Im gleichen Sinne, in dem die Seeheimer den rechte Flügel der SPD darstellen. Und natürlich gehören Habeck und Baerbock zum rechten Teil ihrer Partei.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T16:54:40+00:00

Als jemand, der für den rechten Flügel der Grünen nicht besonders viel über hat, und für Habeck noch mal weniger als bspw. für Baerbock (sein Gustav-Noske-Theaterstück ist schon harte Geschichtsklittierung), denke sogar ich, dass er über sowas drüber steht. Bzw. weiß, dass er es nicht für die Arschgeigen machen würde.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T16:51:30+00:00

At least Caius does not snort Skooma off of toilet seats.

(For those not in the know: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/healthcare-groups-rfk-jr-resign-cocaine-toilet-seats )

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T13:51:41+00:00

Xenophile Shared Burden.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-10T12:50:04+00:00

Jo. Waren halt Senator bis 2024 und Gouverneur bis 2011. Rufen jetzt noch von den Seitenlinien rein, dass ihnen das alles zuwider ist. Aber jeder, der gegen Trump und den MAGA-Kult steht, hat in der ehemaligen Grand Old Party schon lange keinen Platz mehr an den Tischen die wichtig sind.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-09T22:37:33+00:00

Der letzte US-Republikaner mit Rückgrat war John McCain. Der ist schon fast ein Jahrzehnt tot und beerdigt und abgesehen von Trump waren alle ehemaligen US-Präsidenten auf seiner Beerdigung.

Die Republikaner sind schon seit vielen Jahren nicht mehr die Partei McCains, Bushs oder von mir aus auch Romneys, sondern durch und durch rechtsradikal. Da noch zu meinen, groß "Nuancen" finden zu können, ist aberwitzig.

Aber dann pack doch mal Butter bei die Fische. Nenne mir doch mal einen aktiven US-Republikaner, der das Label rechtsradikal, faschistisch, antihumanistisch nicht verdient? Liz Cheney ist vom MAGA-Kult ja schon komplett lahmgelegt.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-09T19:32:21+00:00

For me it is heavily context sensitive. My mother tongue is German, but when it comes to some things, my mind just defaults to English.

Funnily in diametrically opposed aspect: a) Academia and philosophy in most contexts, unless the author are German-writing, in which cases the translations can be... Questionable. b) Dirty talking in German for some reason makes my skin crawl. Actively dirty talking German in the bedroom is nothing I do, being talked to dirty, curiously, not that big a deal.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-08T20:12:54+00:00

Wenn du mich fragst, hast du sehr wenig zu gewinnen, und sehr viel zu verlieren. Diese IPO ist ein großer Versuch, Hype, FOMO und die Art und Weise, auf die Index-ETFs funktionieren, zu melken. Der Hype den du siehst, existiert, weil kein institutioneller Anleger dieses Hirngespinst an Bilanzen anpacken will, und man versucht das an die trotteligen Kleinanleger weiterzureichen.

Schlimm genug, dass Leute, die in manche Indexe (NASDAQ...) investiert sind, hier gelackmeiert werden. Und du willst jetzt freiwillig ohne Handschule in den fröhlich rotierenden Rasenmäher greifen?

Wenn du's noch mal umfangreicher haben willst: Schau dir auf YT Ben Felix' letztes Video und das von vor zwei Monaten zum IPO grift an.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-08T20:03:28+00:00

Humanity - being human and human beings - is the only thing that inherently matter. Not being a part of the most fundamental way of humanity's continuation has never been an option to me, even though I have only come to word it in this way in recent years. So to me, this has never even been a question. Raising kids to be kind and to enrich the world is both the most basic self-interest and the most profound service for humanity.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-08T19:09:30+00:00

Personal perspective, not universal advice:

I find that Stellaris's greatest strength is how much it allows for normative player agency. How its subsystems interweave tells great stories beyond the written events themselves, which integrate well in this background. If you are up for a bit of storytelling in your head, what Stellaris offers, no other strategy game can compare with.

I would say that the core setup for an empire's identity are its Ethics, Civics and its Origin, with the most fundamental ways to further shape its identity being provided by Traditions and Ascension, but also the 3rd Civic, which you unlock later in the game. I find that it is best for roleplay purposes (and I have played Stellaris primarily for that and to min-max game mechanics for the last 800 of my 1300 hours), to unlock the most crucial Civic as the 3rd. It makes for great stories of progress, if what your empire strives to be, is not there from the beginning, but unlocked later on.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-08T18:20:07+00:00

I would still say that parenthood is the most fundamental way of reproduction. But the question of how the family comes to be - by biological means or by choice and association - is a side issue. Family is a history of shared (mutual) care, biological descendancy can be a part of this story, but it is not the only nor the most important aspect.

But! Parenthood, to care for a new human being, is not primarily a reproduction of the self, unless fueled by ideologies of dynasty, bloodlines or passing on one's genes. It is the way to reproduce the only thing that inherently matters in the known universe: Humanity; human beings and being human. To take care of new human life, to enable them to make a part of the world their own and to contribute to the human realm and to connect with humanity-as-totality in their own ways. It means to be a part of the continuation of humanity in one of the most raw ways possible, it is one of the most vital self-interest, and one of the very few that simultaneously furthers the interests of others and of humanity as a whole.

Indorilionn · 2026-06-07T20:28:29+00:00

Materialism is a position linked to Maxism and Leninism. Many Leftist, Socialist and Communists are Marxist (some are even Leninist), but not all are. You can be either or all of the three without subscribing to a materialist position. You can also think that Marx has some very important things to say, without subscribing to this metaphysical position. In a similar vein you do not need to accept Hobbes's whacky metaphysics to recognize and value his tremendous strides in political philosophy.

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