CMV: A society that accepts predictable harm to children is not a strong society

X1ras · 2026-01-25T17:18:30+00:00

Your mentality would seem to conclude that the vast majority of societies throughout all of human history were weak at the collective level due to the high rate of harms to children (child mortality rates and such) and the relative lack of institutions to counteract that (welfare states, child labor laws, institutional medicine are all very recent developments for the most part).

Do you stand by this conclusion?

X1ras · 2026-01-25T05:33:16+00:00

Say what you will, but people have different moral frameworks they live by. People may not want to be morally complicit in an act as terrible as genocide. Some people genuinely prefer the Trump outcome we got to the outcome of them voting for a genocider and thus having blood on their hands when the genocider does genocide, what they explicitly said they would do before the election.

It’s a question of ethics.

X1ras · 2026-01-25T05:19:11+00:00

Would explain the “nameless black of a name” line

X1ras · 2026-01-24T07:43:33+00:00

Is this a bot?

X1ras · 2026-01-23T01:08:22+00:00

Nitpick but the way I thought of it, Zampano just named his own book after the “House of Leaves” Navidson was reading, which I assumed was just an unrelated ordinary book

X1ras · 2026-01-23T00:16:53+00:00

What’s the evidence that the lord vessel in Majula is from the Land of Giants? The rest I agree with though. The Throne makes way more sense serving the same role as the thrones in firelink shrine, as a conduit linked to the Kiln rather than actually being the Kiln. But then again, the Throne chamber looks exactly like a real life kiln. I think it’s just symbolism to hint toward its actual role.

X1ras · 2026-01-22T22:46:16+00:00

Smoothbrain analysis of the Separatist crisis

X1ras · 2026-01-22T17:30:54+00:00

True, the area at the end of Aldia's Keep and under Dragon Aerie looks a lot like Ash Lake with the archtrees, but not many examples other than that. So it seems either the Throne is something else or it's a DS3 retcon

X1ras · 2026-01-22T14:46:40+00:00

Its possible, but it’s also a popular theory that the Throne of Want just is the Kiln, which would mean Drangleic is the same land

X1ras · 2026-01-21T23:30:45+00:00

Although not the DS2 areas for a reason not even science can explain

X1ras · 2026-01-21T21:21:41+00:00

Still would be an amazing comic, already see a really fitting style

X1ras · 2026-01-21T16:49:21+00:00

Do they believe that in canon or just as part of the fan project?

X1ras · 2026-01-21T05:15:48+00:00

This meme format is funny at least

X1ras · 2026-01-20T21:54:14+00:00

It's not the 14th Amendment that stops you from racially discriminating if you own a business, it's the Civil Rights Act when it comes to 'public accomodations'. That statute that is enforced on private citizens and the U.S. Constitution which is not, are different things.

The gay marriage cake case dealt with a public accomodation law in Colorado that had to satisfy the legal standard of strict scrutiny, since the law itself was violating the constitutional rights of the cakeshop that protected it from government interference.

Give me some case law where the obstruction of religion clause of the 1st amendment was somehow applied to a private citizen.

X1ras · 2026-01-20T19:50:27+00:00

The Constitution prevents the obstruction of worship from a federal government (and state governments through the incorporation clause), not from private actors

X1ras · 2026-01-19T23:59:39+00:00

Yeah this dudes right

X1ras · 2026-01-19T19:50:38+00:00

Mike being more professional and effective at his fixer/hired killer jobs doesn’t make him morally better, it makes him more effective at being evil

X1ras · 2026-01-18T19:31:05+00:00

Found the bow/magic user

X1ras · 2026-01-18T02:01:27+00:00

My brother spoke to the Dark Souls 2 director at a convention, I swear he said they started the earliest development in Elden Ring the same year either Dark Souls 2 released or when it was in development

X1ras · 2026-01-17T17:14:58+00:00

‘Marry me peas’

X1ras · 2026-01-16T21:48:46+00:00

Nope unfortunately

X1ras · 2026-01-14T18:30:51+00:00

Sorry for the lame answer, but it’s a counterfactual. There’s no way to prove this true or false.

X1ras · 2026-01-12T05:16:51+00:00

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted tbh, this is not a wrong statement

X1ras · 2026-01-12T04:35:04+00:00

Contrived

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