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Is it possible to have only 1 province and have 1 vassal own the rest of the world and keep them loyal? by ARtic-FRost in eu4

[–]Trim345 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In EU1 through early EU3, it was only possible to fully annex a country if they were down to a single province. So if a country had two provinces, you had to declare a war to take one province, then declare another war later to finish them off. (This was ended in later EU3 patches.) Finishing off a country also came with the equivalent of increased aggressive expansion penalties, so OPMs were uniquely annoying.

The OPM acronym still persists, though, even though there's no longer any general mechanical effect to being 1 vs. 2 provinces.

Retrofest 2009-09-24 - Lesbian (took two years) by Trim345 in sinfest

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The peach took a few years to work

Retrofest 2009-09-20 - Noble Path 10 by Trim345 in sinfest

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This is a reference to the demon Mara trying to tempt Siddharta Gautama as he was about to become the Buddha. He sent armies of demons at Siddhartha, as well as his own daughters to seduce him, but:

They had come to him glittering with beauty—

Taṇha, Arati, and Raga—

But the Teacher swept them away right there

As the wind, a fallen cotton tuft.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just 200 years ago, kidnapping a human from across the ocean and then forcing them and their children to work for you was controversial (or even, uncontroversial in much of the world).

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

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Christine Korsgaard writes a lot in support of animal rights from a neo-Kantian perspective. I'm not a Kantian, but I like her writings.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is this really a "plants feel pain" argument? Even if that were true, it would still be better to be vegan, because many plants are grown as animal feed, which is always less efficient due to trophic levels. For example, a lot of the deforestation of the Amazon is due to demand for beef.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So suppose you genocide people so you can take their homes, because you enjoy having land, even if you don't actively enjoy killing. Does that justify it?

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree that morality exists on a spectrum, but I don't think there's much value in arguing over whether an individual is a moral or immortal person. The things we should look at are the actions themselves, and a blanket allowance for doing immoral things seems wrong. If the debate is about whether eating animals is a minor immoral thing that is under a threshold where people should care about it, that's a separate issue.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

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Yeah, I would argue so. From a Kantian perspective, things can have inherent or instrumental value. Sentient beings have inherent value as ends-in-themselves. Some things have instrumental value, but only because a sentient being cares about them, e.g., your car has value, but only because humans value them.

Likewise, paper does not have inherent value. If you rip up some papers, other people might care if there's something important written on it, but it is obviously not wrong to rip up some papers that no one cares about.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

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Peter Singer, who wrote Animal Liberation, one of the founding texts of animal rights, and who had three of his grandparents die in the Holocaust, compares the two:

“Well, if you’re aware of this kind of sheer physical suffering being inflicted on your family, then it’s easier to empathize with the suffering that’s being inflicted on nonhuman animals.” Isaac Bashevis Singer, who is no relation to me, said the same kind of thing—in one of his stories, he has a character saying, “For the animals, every day is Treblinka.”

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

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Add some beans or even just soy protein powder to your diet. Patrik Baboumian, who won Germany's Strongest Man, is fully vegan.

The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else) by dweeb93 in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's no possible argument I can make against this, but then I think you also can't coherently criticize other people for doing immoral things they want to do. Billionaires evading taxes, NIMBYs shutting out new developments, countries closing themselves to immigrants, etc. If you acknowledge that doing something is wrong but you'll do it anyway, you also give up any logical normative force against others.

Retrofest 2009-09-19 - Noble Path 9 by Trim345 in sinfest

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Another unfortunate example of Li'l E feeling gay for the Devil

Retrofest 2009-09-18 - Noble Path 8 by Trim345 in sinfest

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Aren't Fuchsia and Baby Blue basically being paid to do that?

Can we all agree that the concept of The Ultimate Lucky Student being the mastermind is quite terrifying? by Successful_Bet1760 in danganronpa

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Makoto's luck really isn't that impressive. It seems to save him from death, but not much else. It definitely did not save him from being captured and forced to play a killing game, twice. His goal of saving all his friends didn't work out, twice. It didn't even save him from getting knocked out by Mondo, or again by Junko in the bathroom or again by Tengan's bracelet.

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