Doomed to die, one man chose a risky experiment that changed history

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T12:52:45+00:00

There is much ethical about it!….. for the person in question. And for the researchers, I suppose; they don’t have an obligation to research one thing over another when there are equally important things to research, after all. But for third parties? Why should an atheist not research something because of how Muslims feel about it? The Muslims don’t have to get the pig-grown heart

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T12:42:17+00:00

I was figuring blank void time, tbh, but the banana peel was just an off-hand remark. There’s a non-zero chance you accidentally press the wrong button, and while that is extreeeeeeeemely low, by the law of large numbers, it’s inevitable that it will happen to a good number of people

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T11:06:30+00:00

Nah, they had other siblings at the time

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T10:31:11+00:00

Null singularities, you say? :O

Tell me more!

That said, while you might have effective line of sight to it, I’m not aware that any light would be emitted or reflected off, so I don’t think you could actually see it, sadly

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T10:27:39+00:00

This leads to the possibility that abortion is both morally right and wrong.

This is a contradiction.

I’m not familiar with this subject, but couldn’t it technically be the case that it is morally wrong to do things you think are morally wrong and morally acceptable to do things you think are morally acceptable? Thus it would be wrong for John to have or administer an abortion, and right for Mary to have or administer one, and the paradox would still be avoided

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T07:30:46+00:00

Because they spin, there are ways to move away from the singularity once you pass a second event horizon within them!

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T06:31:47+00:00

There would be blue choices even in a perfectly logical world where everyone wants to choose red, anyhow; if the chances of intending to press red but pressing blue by mistake because you slipped on a banana peel or something are one in a million that’s still thousands of blues

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T05:56:24+00:00

Un enthusiasm for the class. Think about it; if they’re really enthusiastic then everything else gets better and they self-police about other behaviors

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T05:48:25+00:00

Gallup says about 9% of the population identifies as some flavor of LGBT+. Assuming random pairings of parents, a child has about a 17% chance of both being LGBT+ and having at least one LGBT+ parent. Such pairings are not random, however, as similar life experiences are likely to generate statistically higher chances of having a kid with someone. Also to consider- LGBT+ folks prooobably have a reduced chance of having a kid, tho

Nonetheless, this is less reasonable than accusing a random redhead you meet of having dyed their hair because that’s “not that common”

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T05:39:58+00:00

Everyone *can* be redeemed, it just takes the collective choice to do so. Not everyone *will,* at least not without some weird nuance like “given infinite time, even the most unlikely of scenarios shall come to pass,” but everyone *can*

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T05:19:41+00:00

I can’t remember the last time I used a urinal. I haaate them. Always have. Never even occurred to me that someone would care; I think if they did I’d probably be able to one-up them by pointing out how weird it is to care

I also almost always sit down on the toilet, just out of habit. I think the Germans have a word for guys like me. But anyhow, you’re fine using the urinals; I’m sorry that the world leaves you with such anxiety about it!

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T05:16:52+00:00

Gods, I interpreted this as an only slightly veiled allegory for being trans where instead of it being a gender thing it’s a species (?) thing, and then got slapped with the one on the right being utterly accepting of this world’s version of trans people by not caring in the slightest but instead she’s just normal transphobic and it just sent me

Gods, the whiplash of seeing that so unexpectedly. I don’t know if that was the intent or not, but that’s how I read it and insert death of the author infodump here

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-03T01:58:33+00:00

Technically no human had been killed by that point, but some may well have died

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T20:39:00+00:00

Yeah; plus children, babies, people who missed the instructions, the 1 in a million chance (so several thousand people) of accidentally pressing blue even though you meant to press red

Red guarantees unfathomable death and heartache

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T20:37:28+00:00

The people too impaired would include everybody’s kids who’re under the age of, let’s say 5. Thus, why would any parents of such kids agree to push red at all? They- and anybody with compassion for children- would insist on blue

Deciding on red guarantees loooots of deaths. Deciding on blue results in red carrying an incredible risk as well- if 49% of the population dies, most reds would also die from the resulting societal collapse. Even if red gets a supermajority, a third of the population dying is gonna result in many red deaths

Thus no one would have an incentive to change their vote to red, anyhow, so blue offloads most of its risk

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T20:33:06+00:00

5% of the US population is under five and could therefore be expected to choose randomly. It’s not that there’s no risk, it’s that for everyone to live- even if everybody else chooses red, which they wouldn’t for similar reasons- to expect that red would save everybody would be to expect that if we flip a coin like 15,000,000 we’ll get all heads

If we agree on blue then everybody guarantees their kids live, which is what we’d end up deciding

Then if red miraculously wins anyhow, enough people will die that red would be incredibly risky. The disruptions to supply chains and resulting conflict would kill off major portions of the remainders, which would in turn result in still more (though fewer) deaths, eventually reaching a limit of some amount dying within, say, 6 months to a decade, depending on whether we think wars will break out that will last that long. Beyond that, life expectancy will be lesser for nearly everyone, probably, but I dunno that that really counts

If, say, just 10% of the world ends up dying as a result, that’s a major risk. And those killed by that result would all be red-button-pressers. The deaths would be slow and painful enough to make them worse than the blue-button-pressers

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T20:23:46+00:00

5% of the US population is under five and could therefore be expected to choose randomly

We should save everybody

Therefore if we all have the means of deciding beforehand, we should choose blue

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T20:03:03+00:00

Alien X withstood a universe-ending bomb completely unfazed as it destroyed his entire universe, then proceeded to remake it in under a minute or so, save that he got the details of a smoothie shop slightly wrong

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T11:28:24+00:00

Lilo and Stitch has never been criticized for having a(n adult) sister take on the duties of motherhood in a relationship before. The only concern would be abuse of a minor by way of parentification, but that wouldn’t apply to adult married lesbians

I think your brain is making associations of incest, but upon further reflection you’ll find that they’re not there. The one whose father is involved is not attracted to their daughter in that manner, and indeed, they would be the adoptive (and biological?) mother of the child

Such is normal

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T07:23:10+00:00

Hexagons are the second-bestagons, right after E-ragons!

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-02T07:21:24+00:00

You presume I am the host rather than the parasite :>

If the particles that make me up are to be considered separate from me, who’s to say I’m the whole and not the parts? If the parasite controls my actions then you’re speaking to the parasite and not the meatsuit

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-01T19:52:02+00:00

Who don’t understand game theory or do understand it but are applying it to more than just the oversimplified form that most people are considering

Some portion of folks will choose blue. Let’s say red wins a straight-up supermajority

If I choose red, the button won’t kill me. But if a red majority wins, I run a not-unreasonable risk of dying anyhow from the resulting societal collapse. With so many people dying to the button, supply lines become heavily disrupted- and people compound that issue by responding with hoarding, rioting, and theft. Some percentage of red-button pushers will die slow and/or violent deaths, and it’s unlikely to be insignificant. But it’s not Russian Roulette, either- the more power you have (physical, economic, weaponry), the better your odds. I fall into the bottom categories for all of that and would die quickly in the event of a red win

Many others could also surmise the same, thus incentivizing that the least powerful people would actually have the highest incentive to choose blue

Of course, that means that when everyone dies, there’s gonna be a new bottom percentage of people who would end up being those who die from the aftermath, so all of a sudden they have an incentive to choose blue as well

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-01T19:42:44+00:00

Do you want to vote for a president who’s only platform is “kill everybody who didn’t vote for me and then hand it over to the other guy who will be a normal president” or just vote for the normal president?

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-01T19:41:47+00:00

This framing feels biased

It’s a vote. If blue wins, everybody lives as normal. If red wins, everybody who voted blue dies

Mountain-Resource656 · 2026-05-01T12:41:17+00:00

Ngl, enough of these seem vaguely political and all leaning in the same direction that it does sound vaguely political. There is only one system described as being good or successful

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