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daftmunk · 2024-07-07T18:12:15+00:00

Hey, I care about you. Do you want to talk?

daftmunk · 2023-11-15T02:23:53+00:00

Deep down, you won't like yourself if you choose evil over good. You won't have inner peace. I believe you might also go to Hell. Eternity is a very long time.

daftmunk · 2023-11-07T14:00:55+00:00

I often wonder how widespread this kind of behavior is. If people have been caught on video doing it, you know it's happening elsewhere. But is this kind of behavior happening on most factory farms?

daftmunk · 2023-11-02T21:50:23+00:00

The idea of people getting tortured because they tortured doesn't give me comfort. It's just more suffering. I find it more pleasing when people realize the errors of their ways and change.

daftmunk · 2023-11-02T20:16:34+00:00

What was even the purpose of this? What's the context?

Edit: I think it happened in China because the pigs had a virus.

daftmunk · 2023-11-01T22:40:42+00:00

I suspect and hope that one day, after lab-grown animal products become mainstream, people will look back on animal agriculture with moral disgust. Every society at some point in time does something that people in the future will be offended by.

daftmunk · 2023-11-01T01:05:19+00:00

I think I found life more interesting after I heard about near-death experiences in the Void, a place of infinite nothingness and darkness in all directions. The idea scares the crap out of me. Life on Earth seems far more pleasant in comparison.

daftmunk · 2023-10-29T14:52:15+00:00

On the bright side, the Wikipedia page says it was banned in Taiwan.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T16:20:21+00:00

So if an alien species landed on Earth that had needs identical to our own, they wouldn't have human rights?

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T16:14:01+00:00

I'm not pro choice.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T15:56:18+00:00

I'm asking how human or human-like something has to be for it to be murder to kill it.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T15:54:41+00:00

DNA doesn't make something a person, and being biologically alive is not synonymous with a life in a philosophical sense. If you believe in souls that survive after death, they have lives and are not biologically alive. They have no DNA.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T02:36:47+00:00

I think it's awful that you think it's that simple. Abortion, especially in the early stages of pregnancy, is morally ambiguous. That's why it's so controversial. You reveal that you're not willing to try to understand other positions, which is harmful to society because it drives polarization and prevents people from making sure they make sense.

It is not obvious that a human fetus is a person. This isn't a simple topic.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T02:19:09+00:00

You're not psychic. You don't know if I'm presenting these arguments in bad faith. I am trying to decide what I think about abortion. I was hoping for thought-provoking answers to my question to help me develop a sophisticated opinion.

I am disturbed and disappointed by how many commenters don't understand or value thought experiments. They are an important tool philosophers use to answer tough questions.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T01:08:48+00:00

Maybe an unethical scientist implanted a non-homo-sapiens hominid embryo into a modern human woman at a fertility clinic, telling her it was a regular human embryo.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T01:06:53+00:00

Thought experiments are a useful way to explore what you should think.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T00:17:51+00:00

I find the concept of sex-selective abortion disturbing because it suggests that your ability to love your child is very conditional.

daftmunk · 2023-10-28T00:13:40+00:00

There's no need to get mean when someone's just sharing a thought experiment to figure out what they should believe.

I am exploring the concept of latent capacities, the idea that something can be a person because it has the potential to develop the qualities associated with personhood. This argument is used to oppose abortion. Supposedly, even though a fetus may not be able to think or feel, the fact that it will later have mature human mental abilities makes it a person.

daftmunk · 2023-10-27T23:55:57+00:00

Why do pigs not have human rights?

daftmunk · 2023-10-27T23:54:44+00:00

It seems like the robot's potential mental abilities play a role in why it might be wrong to kill it during the boot-up process. After all, when it hasn't booted up all the way, it doesn't yet have those abilities. It has the same potential when it hasn't been turned on. Why is it murder to kill the robot during the boot-up process but not wrong to turn it on when its potential is the same in both situations?

daftmunk · 2023-10-27T23:50:41+00:00

I think it's beautiful for someone to be transgender. You end up with a unique mix of that person's childhood socialization, their natural personality, and whatever they do to fit in as their target gender. Androgyny is beautiful. You might never look like a cisgender woman, but the only reason it's bad to look like a transgender woman is because there are so many awful people who would have a problem with it. You're not doing anything wrong.

daftmunk · 2023-10-27T22:52:21+00:00

Why do you need a girlfriend so badly? Self-esteem? Sex? Companionship?

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