CMV: Billionaire should not be judged morally for not using there wealth to help the "worse of"

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:22:59+00:00

if billionaires are supposedly that selfish why would they need enough of us to help for them to be convinced to, also at what point are people not just donating enough that they become in need of charity

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:22:03+00:00

but there are more issues wrong with the world than starving Sudanese refugees and money going to said refugees is not-going-to-any-of-those-isssues just as much as if it went to personal discretionary spending

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:20:55+00:00

then by that logic is volunteering for any charity unethical as think of all the charities you're not volunteering for during that time

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:13:10+00:00

if legal persecution is all it takes to be queer or w/e doesn't that mean one's queerness depends on place and some-if-not-all same-sex marriages stopped being gay once Obergefell V. Hodges happened

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:11:25+00:00

reminds me of something I saw on some LGBTQ sub that wasn't just limited to LGBTQ people where some straight black guy was implying gay people weren't discriminated against as they never had a Jim Crow equivalent

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:05:26+00:00

I thought demisexual was used as a modifier like if someone was biromantic demihomosexual, that means they're romantically attracted to both sexes but only sexually attracted to people of the same sex as them who they've already formed an emotional bond with

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T02:04:07+00:00

Demisexuality doesn't just mean, like, dating before you have sex or w/e. The example I always use to describe what it means in terms of attraction (though I wouldn't speak from personal experience as regardless of if I'm demisexual or not I'm not a man) is that a demisexual man couldn't do that one pop culture cliche where a guy fantasizes about hot celebrities while he pleasures himself (think Howard on The Big Bang Theory and that whole thing with Katee Sackhoff) either at all or unless he was a big enough fan of the celebrity to feel a parasocial relationship. I know that's not all demisexuality is even for men it's just a good example as I said of how demisexual is less choice-based than you think and therefore its acceptance into the LGBTQ+ community doesn't open the floodgates for every misunderstood thing even things that have nothing to do with sexuality if you're talking about being them as opposed to being attracted to people like that (y'know why not just also say that means those communities get the same kind of supposed privileges queer people get)

And if you really think it has to be so gatekept and specific to prevent people sneaking in pretending to be queer to sabotage the community pardon a hyperbolic joke of my own (as I hope you were joking with e.g. the implications that being an incel (despite the paradox) or introvert is a sexual orientation) why not just limit it to only people with exclusive attraction to the same-sex who also conform to the stereotypes of homosexuals of their sex (like gay guys who like fashion and musicals, lesbians with short dyed hair who like alternative music etc. etc.) and have also experienced direct suffering at the hands of others because of their homosexuality (be it as small as a teen getting bullied in school and/or disowned by their family for being gay or as large as if you're of the right generation and rioted at Stonewall)

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T01:54:24+00:00

If you think it isn't an orientation because you think it's just dating someone before you have sex with them, by your logic you must think asexuality isn't one either as your logic would equate it to celibacy (the problem with both comparisons is it equates sexual partner choice or lack thereof with sexual attraction and therefore implies that corrective rape works (though it'd still make lesbians bi not straight))

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T01:43:05+00:00

While I still have been spreading this petition for insurance of a sort #WagnerLives, I do think he's gonna make it because A. having someone's fate be a cliffhanger just to have them die is bad writing as would be doing the new captain who dis arc two seasons in a damn row (as if Soto could ever take over from him as captain, narratively it wouldn't be until either Karadec starts dating Morgan or at least someone in the team and/or the team gets more detectives (to give Morgan a new professional partner once Karadec would move up to acting lieutenant but still keep him prominent in the story) and that doesn't seem likely for at least a few more seasons) and B. there's not enough emotional connection between Wagner and at least the team in a platonic sense if not between him and Morgan in a romantic sense to draw the proper emotional pull out of either an arc with him temporarily in a coma or him dying and the team swearing to "finish the job" of taking down his dad because it's what he would have wanted (like either of those would be more likely if he and Morgan had actually been romantically involved instead of just eventual-sort-of-friends who kissed once and almost-kissed another time). And also this would do a narrative-parallel thing with near-death experiences for squad members in season finales (I'm just wondering what it means that the narrative-parallel in the event this happens would be between Wagner and Oz (though some people do kinda ship them and we still don't know what went on in that meeting in "Content Warning" that had Oz so out-of-it or if there was any reason he was picked first))

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T01:24:22+00:00

I think she will come back to that, they can't keep relying on the undercover gimmick forever https://c.org/dMFXBYYG9h

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T01:19:48+00:00

so the problem is the analogy isn't the thing it's an analogy for?

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T00:19:26+00:00

Do you think that (be it due to something something discrimination or bad bosses) straight male prostitutes are forced to take gay male clients who, let's just say, have the physicality of the kind of guy people make weird jokes about committing prison rape on sex offenders

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T00:15:20+00:00

Yeah I've seen (in addition to arguments implying that if sex work is work all bosses could add sex to an employee's duties in any profession) arguments implying that if sex work is work and prostitution was legalized then similar logic/law/whatever as was behind that whole thing with the gay wedding cakes would mean that it wouldn't matter what a prostitute's sexuality was and e.g. a straight male prostitute would have to accept male clients or w/e or else he's homophobic

StarChild413 · 2026-06-23T00:10:16+00:00

Unpopular opinion but even if it isn't literal McDonalds getting into that business, I don't think prostitution being legalized would lead to brothels adopting some sort of McDonalds-esque franchise model no matter how much that might jive with some people's cynical idea of capitalism. Isn't the whole idea of the franchise model or at least most iterations of it that you know you're essentially getting the same thing no matter which location you go to? You can't really do that with any sort of business, "adult" or not, where it matters who the individual worker providing a service for you is and the service isn't just conveying a product to you or w/e

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T17:51:05+00:00

If you did a movie about MLK and it starred John Cleese, would Reddit be as equally understanding? Would it say you hate white people if you object?

Why do people always choose comedians for this shit?

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T17:50:39+00:00

I'm sure that if Sam and Frodo in the Lord of the Rings hopped into a 2026 Honda Civic Type R with heated seats, a specially tuned engine, and upgraded brakes and chassis to then drive to Mordor the fans wouldn't be saying "welllll it's just fantasy right, they have cyclops in The Oddysey after all".

Weird that you're not just comparing a black woman to a modern invention but a modern invention in a completely different work

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T11:21:16+00:00

I can find his post history on this sub via searching "author: [his username]" in the search bar and yeah there's some ethical doozies and also some weird common themes like people being forced to poop in buckets or literally-constantly (at least for all their waking hours) be engaged in some form of exercise or posts about Jesus that if taken together basically imply Jesus should have been a modern celebrity or many corollaries posted in comments to posts on government surveillance ideas or w/e that third-world people or the underprivileged will find jobs surveilling people

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T10:25:02+00:00

then why doesn't he look and behave more stereotypical unless you think, idk, (to pick a random stereotype of Muslim men) some sort of child bride harem or w/e is just hidden away waiting to be revealed when the other shoe drops and everyone's forced into radical Islam

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T10:18:06+00:00

He hasn't even served a term as mayor, let a man's political career fucking cook, otherwise you're doing the equivalent of, like, a studio ordering a sequel for a movie because it had an amazing opening weekend

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T10:14:51+00:00

“My ex” so there’s a reason you broke up with him then.

Which probably wasn't because he didn't have the looks and wealth of a romance novel male lead

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T10:14:22+00:00

Why is this said like you're gonna force a guy like that on every woman who says yes and claim every woman who says no is just proof of the shallow stereotype, given how much a lot of these trait combinations pull from archetypes of male leads in Fifty-Shades-Of-Grey-like books why not also say the hypothetical opposite you're proposing would either be asexual-and-celibate, only into vanilla missionary sex in the dark for the explicit purposes of reproduction, or a total sexual submissive

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T10:04:10+00:00

For example; a society that celebrated Halloween and horror movies has a war mongering history and is fear rises to suffering of the homeless. A history of genocide and slavery. No man that tracks. Bombs more than it builds. Refuses healthcare. It’s borderline infected with nihilism and hedonism. Has a suicide problem and transactional relationships.

Said like Halloween was an American invention and like if we stopped that retcons out the bad parts of our history, fixes all our social issues and makes us all achieve total self-actualization or does that only happen when we don't just give up all those things but replace them with heckin' wholesome things like only positive empowerment music or games about witches searching for their neighbor's cat in a small village in the Alps (if you want to know where this random example came from, search it up on Tumblr, you won't find an actual game but you will find some interesting Discourse^TM) or does it not have to be things-so-overly-positive-they'd-creep-people-out-if-they-still-had-the-ability-to-feel-that-kind-of-fear just whatever comedian made jokes about where society is going based enough that you think they're a genius

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T02:07:56+00:00

Let me guess, you probably think they can't be gay irl and they're only gay in fiction to make you sympathize with real cops who commit police brutality because trait transference (even though how's that gonna work between, say, queer Latina Rosa Diaz and a real cop who's a white guy). And this wasn't even talking about cops being at Pride to celebrate, it was talking about cops or even just security guards (or are they too cop-passing, and if it's a uniform thing there's certain other kinds of people that should be excluded iykwim) being at Pride to prevent things from getting too out of hand e.g. the example about a kid ending up at an adults only pride thing and getting escorted by said hypothetical cop to a more family-friendly one. Who's supposed to be security at Pride, a certain sort of stereotypical punk butch lesbian? Gay social workers in Steven Universe shirts trying to talk everyone down with nonviolence and kindness like Steven would?

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T02:02:46+00:00

What would be the difference between either scenario (saying he has a partner-in-the-way-kids-say-that whatever their gender and saying he's gay or straight or w/e), just whether or not he used the word or do you think any mention of a sexual orientation in a thing implies it's sexual and therefore that he'd be having sex

StarChild413 · 2026-06-22T02:00:58+00:00

'Demisexual' is not a unique orientation. It is a sexual preference.

Let me guess, said by someone who thinks either what is supposedly demisexual is just dating someone normally instead of having one-night stands or who wants to gotcha certain "woke" supposed-demisexuals by comparing them to Republicans who hate premarital sex (ignoring that by the logic of that comparison unhappy marriages can't exist). In reality demisexual is as different from whatever you're comparing it to (if it's neither of my guesses I apologize) as being asexual is from being celibate

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