Big words from someone who needs a history lesson.

The nazis had all kinds of ideologies. Some were pagan. Many were Christians. Some didn’t have a religion. There is certainly not a single underpinning system of ethics in place - because if there were it would undermine the logical contradictions that reactionary groups need in order to work.

Also, Hitler was vegetarian, so by your logic the most moral diet is the carnivore diet?? Try again.

I can’t either, it’s ok ❤️

o7

Hooray 🎉

I’m sure any of us will gladly answer questions if you have any

Anything that precedes sex is technically foreplay

AI overall? Generally pro. LLMs and generative AI, though, I’m “against”, mostly meaning that I think it’s misused.

Not sure what the answer is, tbh. Reigning in corporations would be good.

I do think we as a society need to radically alter our relationship to IP law. Right now we ‘enforce’ IP law in a way that benefits corporations but not individuals. We should either get rid of IP law altogether (which would protect people from corporations abusing the laws) or we should enforce it more strictly, and actually hold corporations accountable for breaking it.

If we fixed that, I think gen AI would be fine. But we aren’t doing that.

Yep! Got it in one :)

Veggies probably will be too, unfortunately 🥲

Never a better time to grow your own

Actually banana for eggs can work if you know what you’re doing. In many baking recipes, the egg is used as a binder. Pectin (found in fruit) can work as well, but you need to alter the recipe in very specific ways to make it work.

It’s not a poverty thing, it’s a vegan thing. It’s Nutritional Yeast, which tastes kind of cheesy

They forgot the *.

It’s funny as <wildcard>, meaning funny as anything!

Well I don’t think you’re the OP. He’s made some pretty sweeping claims that I’d like to address with him.

But as for your comment, I’ll happily oblige 😊

Like one of the primary good criticisms against utilitarianism is that you cannot actually practice it and instead end up implementing some other ethics system on a day to day basis.

As an individual? Probably not, no. But countries and organizations ought to determine their laws and/or policies based on utilitarianism, yes.

Individuals will probably follow the moral codes of their communities, and only actually use utilitarian principles when it’s time to evaluate whether the rules are working as intended.

How do you calculate the utilons of any decision? Like seriously how?

Badly, I assume. But it’s closer to “good” than any other system will get you.

Yeah? Maybe we mean different things when we say that word though.

To me, I mean that I enjoy food the way other people enjoy whatever it is that they’re passionate about. So I have a few fancy kitchen gadgets and a well-stocked spice cabinet, and I’d budget for and save for a trip to a nice restaurant the way other people budget for sneakers or makeup or whatever. I don’t think that’s a weird thing to ‘admit.’

I’m a foodie and I make those kinds of meals. I just probably use more spices than average.

I will never accept a philosophy that is anti-justice.

Big words from someone who doesn’t seem to have a lot of practice with the philosophy of ethics. Tell me, what even is justice??

If you’re anti-utilitarianism, how would you ground a coherent ethical framework?

As bad as utilitarianism is, deontology seems far worse. And virtue ethics requires a metric for choosing virtues… which will bring you either to deontology or utilitarianism depending on your answer.

Now I really need to know, who is she-ra? Are there mental changes, too, or just physical ones?

I think the show kind of hints at there being some mental changes, but not quite to the level of a different consciousness. But I can’t be sure exactly 🤷‍♀️

Fair enough. But your coffee probably does taste like other people’s coffee smells

Right? Poor Adora 💔

She already feels like people like She-Ra more than her…

I’m pretty sure the ♂️ symbol is meant to indicate femboys