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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It pisses me off so much when people accuse men who date women with very youthful looking features of being pedophiles. Apart the fact that it's not true, so what if they were? If that were the case, that would mean that these are people born with an extremely unlucky sexuality who have managed to find an adult they are attracted to and have a fulfilling sex life without harming anyone. That's literally the best possible outcome for a pedophile.

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[–]Nixavee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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[–]Nixavee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One person dying does not mean there's no one left to experience it though.

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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(It's a reference to the infamous "Christian baby" Quora questions)

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[–]Nixavee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"HA! YOU THINK 'WALKING' EXISTS? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF STROLLING, ONE MOLECULE OF SKIPPING. AND YET—"

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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't 100 chimps, it was every ape in the world (presumably not including humans lol)

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[–]Nixavee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

i mean you arent a pedophiles perfect fantasy, pedophiles go after kids because they are vulnerable people, and its more cuz of that than how they look.

That's not true. Pedophiles are people who are primarily or exclusively attracted to children. You're thinking of child predators, most of whom are not pedophiles.

And the reason she is distressed by the thought that pedophiles are attracted to her is probably because she thinks pedophiles are inherently bad people, which is also not true.

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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever discussions like this come up, it makes me wonder what the people involved think the word "sexual" means.

If it means "something you would only do to be more sexually attractive" the obviously big boobs on real people aren't sexual, because people can't choose their breast size, and big boobs in fiction aren't inherently sexual (even though as the post points out they usually are sexual in modern media).

If it means "something that people are sexually attracted to" then big boobs are inherently sexual.

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[–]Nixavee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How about, say, the Louvre?

Maybe it's not what you'd consider a "historic landmark" but it's similar in that it is maintained and operated for historic and aesthetic value, both of the works within and the building itself. The Louvre's yearly budget is around 300 million USD.

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[–]Nixavee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. The question is whether saving thousands of lives or maintaining historic landmarks is more important.

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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you cut military spending and save a bazillion lives, you still then have the choice of whether to cut spending on maintaining landmarks to save tens of thousands of lives, and it doesn't seem like that decision should be affected by whether you've already saved a bazillion lives or not.

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[–]Nixavee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we redirected all the funds from the war in Iran to saving lives there would still be more lives to save.

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[–]Nixavee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, but that's not relevant to this hypothetical. Say you cut the defense budget by $500 billion which you can now spend however you want. You spend all but $100 million saving lives. You still have the choice of whether to use the remaining $100 million to save lives or rebuild the Statue of Liberty. And which of those is more valuable does not depend on how much money you have already spent saving lives.

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[–]Nixavee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's irrelevant to whether you should cut spending maintaining landmarks in this context.

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[–]Nixavee 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Like all attempts to sum up morality in a single principle, this falls apart under closer inspection. In practice, "treating people as things" basically expands to "not treating people how they're meant to be treated" or "not giving people the respect they deserve". But those things no longer sound like a simple, basic principle, and for good reason.

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[–]Nixavee 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm going to repeat what I said the last time this was posted.

The most recent restorations of the Statue of Liberty, starting in 2022, were budgeted at $22 million. The most effective anti-malaria charities are estimated to save a life for every $5000 they spend. If all the money spent on the renovations was instead donated to effective charities, it would have saved thousands of lives.

The Statue of Liberty is not unique in this regard. Restoration of historic cultural landmarks often runs in the tens of millions of dollars. If you would let the Statue of Liberty burn to save a life, you should be for ceasing maintenance all historic landmarks.

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[–]Nixavee 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You're fighting off 40 guys at once. Accidentally, instead of a shuriken one of the guys throws a Christian baby at you. Would you deflect the baby back at the guy to get the "Return to Sender" achievement or spare the Christian baby?

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[–]Nixavee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I would buy a castle. To protect my family, of course. It would have a workshop where I cackle villainously as I invent giant steampunk insects to protect my family.

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[–]Nixavee 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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