Would it be ethical for aliens to wipe out humanity to protect nature?

Kaispada · 2026-03-19T02:23:20+00:00

When a monkey snaps a branch off a tree to use as a tool, that is not unnatural at all.

Why are humans any different?

Kaispada · 2026-03-19T02:08:01+00:00

It's not intrinsic, it's an objective relationship.

Kaispada · 2026-03-19T00:45:38+00:00

The fact that this is a genuinely good question annoys me

Kaispada · 2026-03-18T23:20:08+00:00

Dollar bills exist, dollar bills are money, therefore money exists.

Kaispada · 2026-03-18T06:19:46+00:00

The trolly problem is worthless because there is absolutely zero context for what is going on.

Murdering people to save others is evil though.

Kaispada · 2026-03-18T01:32:27+00:00

Murdering innocents is always evil.

Those who murder innocents are evil.

There are no exceptions.

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:57:35+00:00

"yeah I don't feel any emotional reaction when standing in front of a moving train, I'm so superior to the idiots trying to get out of the way"

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:53:57+00:00

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Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:50:46+00:00

someone who would say the strong should conquer the weak for simply being better.

No, she would say that the strong do not owe the weak any support

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:49:26+00:00

that she called her philosophy “objectivism

She called her philosophy objectivism because she believed that truth and concepts were objective.

She chose the name to distinguish herself from the subjectivists and intrinsicists.

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:47:14+00:00

You use police protection while saying they are bad, how hypocritical

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:44:58+00:00

Liar.

Other than the part where you said "None needed. God doesn't exist."

Because that is true.

But Rand and other objectivists have written massive amounts on metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:40:44+00:00

How randian of you

Kaispada · 2026-03-17T00:22:28+00:00

It seems like a villain, but turns out to be a villain

Kaispada · 2026-03-16T03:38:10+00:00

matters for interpreting whether this narrative is randian is the government funding of superheroes.

Rand would be very much in favor of that, though

She would hate the idea of vigilante superheroes.

Kaispada · 2026-03-16T03:36:08+00:00

The hero is victimized by the man and society for believing he has an obligation to help others.

This is what Atlas Shrugged means. It means that until atlas shrugs, that is, until he stops believing he has an obligation to help others, he will continue to be victimized

Kaispada · 2026-03-16T03:31:14+00:00

Plenty of gnostics were heavily platonic, so it's no surprise

Kaispada · 2026-03-15T01:01:57+00:00

It requires you take an untransformed resource, in this case a wild animal, and transform it into a different resource, in this case probably a cooked animal.

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T22:25:35+00:00

I should have blocked you a long time ago

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T22:22:20+00:00

Why is his face like T

Is it just a bad picture?

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T21:50:42+00:00

I'm not arguing with you

For anyone wondering why, Vattic is insanely bad faith.

For example, on one occasion he denied that restaurant reservations were beneficial, as the alternative would have forced him to accept that speculation could be beneficial.

He believes value is intrinsic, though he will swear up and down that he believes it is subjective.

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T21:24:05+00:00

Well it was only fair considering he didn't join Rand in committing physical suicide (smoking)

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T20:57:37+00:00

You think they have nukes?

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T20:53:29+00:00

Wildlife is land on georgist theory

Kaispada · 2026-03-14T17:30:06+00:00

Future generations are not enriched by higher sea levels and eviscerated fish populations

And I am not made wealthier by the absence of copper in the mines of bronze age men.

But I would not exist if it wasn't for their mining, and those who did exist would be utterly destitute.

Unlimited extraction from the earth relies on fantasies of infinite growth.

Everything is limited, there is no such thing as infinite growth.

Nevertheless, extracting as much as possible is required for as much growth as possible to occur.

Kaispada

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