sun_the_second
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It's a weird vision of dignity that suggests prioritizing what Nietzscheans will think is "going out on your own terms" while hiring a professional isn't. Suppose I value not having my family clean up my headless corpse more than I value the opinions of tough guys.
"You ask a grown-up for permission" - as if you don't do that every time you exchange money for goods and services.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
everyone who qualifies through some bureaucratic checklist will get killed by their doctors because the checklist absolves everyone of moral responsibility
I am yet to see anyone* being "killed by their doctors" whose lives weren't already contingent on continued medical care, unless very esoteric definitions of killing are applied (such as "offered euthanasia and had it accepted"). I call that "abandoned by their doctors", and in the end someone is always getting abandoned as long as we have scarcity and conditions that can't be cured.
*Organ harvester Georg who commits murder and covers it up obviously does not count.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
The defense is "I am not giving more than an inch because I prefer it that way". It doesn't have to be based on principles. In fact principled arguments are the brittle ones as we can see here in the first place - they hold until they don't, and then suddenly the conservative, lacking a branch to grab on and having no practice in digging his heels in in any arbitrary spot, "has no defense".
Instead of staking everything on being or not being a whore, perhaps some people should learn to haggle.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
As others mentioned, the vast majority of those partaking in euthanasia are the elderly and (I presume) infirm, rather than depressed young women. The negatives are far smaller and more narrow than the positives.
We will most of us be old and infirm one day, barring miracle medical advances. Yet only a small fraction of us will be the exact fraction of depressed that having euthanasia makes a difference between pushing through it or getting MAID.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
Yes, that's what those advocating that some particular change is a slippery slope say.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
I thought the post was talking about people stuck in comas on indefinite life support, or simply put "vegetables". Everything I'd heard on this forum before would suggest that people were mostly against spending doctor-hours and money on such hopeless and fruitless cases.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
13d ago
If the option of euthanizing Mom for killer migraines wasn't available, would actual migraine treatment be more available?
Personally I'm in favor of actually fighting against encroachment on the cases which you think are too far, rather than relying on outraged Christian pro-life gesticulating and "slippery slope" blanket denial then acting like Surprised Pikachu when that wasn't enough.
sun_the_second
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13d ago
I'm yet to see anyone try to reconcile "it is ghoulish to euthanise grandma" and "it is ghoulish to keep grandma on abysmal QALY life support that costs $100,000s for 2 more decades". Perhaps we should reintroduce death by exposure. If it's hunger and the elements killing grandma, then no one is staining their hands with sin, right?
sun_the_second
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14d ago
I agree on that. But classifying "teens sexting" as non-CSAM does present additional difficulty in determining whether any random picture of dubious origin is a result of a minor being sexually exploited, doesn't it? I suppose you could assume any such picture that leaks out of private conversation counts, slamming the distributor.
sun_the_second
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14d ago
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/juvenile/sexting.htm
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol32/iss1/1/
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-28255225
Such a case was also discussed somewhere on the motte but I couldn't immediately find it.
sun_the_second
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14d ago
Central enough to produce real felony charges, apparently.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
16d ago
Russia does not have a planned economy. The state does like to extort, terrorize and rob business owners who get big enough, but you can have that in capitalism. In communism, there is categorically no such thing as a business owner.
People need to learn other words for "incompetent centralized state" than "communism", or you just look like the mirror of one braincell leftists who call everything they don't like "nazi fascists", except you're not winning.
fellas, is it gay when a woman speaks in a piece of fiction
Ok, I mean, I get the desire for gritty warband-society fiction, but having zero women is not a natural or optimal state of most societies. The Harry Potter example is strange - I have never seen a single complaint that it has too many female characters for the male readership's taste, until now, I suppose. And superhero comics? Really? You mean those superhero comics that famously don't have women acting with agency on par with men, ever?
A future of "everyone is suiting up in hazmat or staying home in a manner reminiscent of COVID paranoia but justified" does not sound appealing either. Also it's not just hazmat but a thousand other precautions against any number of threats. It just won't be viable to live in a community larger than the Dunbar number, although I see how some people would see that as a plus.
"Land of the free" was coined in the era where the average TTK per capita was quite a bit longer than what the author is proposing.
sun_the_second
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18d ago
As I understand the strait did not need American escorting until the decisive victory of America. If true, then for how long does America need to expend extra effort escorting ships through the strait before it stops looking like America gained something?
sun_the_second
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20d ago
Welcome back, Tropico 2!
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20d ago
Started a fresh Quasimorph save recently as well. It is, as usually, a bit tiresome that some upgrade branches are bottlenecked by things like raw ore which seem to only be found in a very select few stations in the inner system, or half a year of travel away.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
22d ago
Your thought process kind of sounds like all the trans people who end up calling themselves some stripper name like Lola or Lilith or Brayden.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
23d ago
So... did you get laid?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
23d ago
I haven't checked all of those links but from what I recall of your previous LLM Evangelion smut, it was just watering the prompt down with meaningless (and very aislop-coded) prose. If that's your criteria for good authors I suppose you can stick with AI. Any amateur "bad" human author would add more creative input on accident, let alone if he tried.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
26d ago
Cowards! I see it as a very good laugh.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
27d ago
The warrior class in the past seems to have been a lot more at ease with naked conquest. It wasn't until mass citizen-conscript armies were a thing that "defending things" became the go-to casus belli.
The warrior class is still there but you can't conscript those en masse, there aren't enough of them. Hence the frustration that young men are being "lumps".
sun_the_second
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27d ago
I think it's less about the economic zone thing and more about all those things you listed not actually being "defended" by aggressive adventures across the globe.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
28d ago
I count personal concern as something that immediately threatens your person. Being concerned that they might hurt someone, or themselves, is more like civic concern.
No, I don't draw any meaningful difference between the patient throwing the switch and the doctor doing so. Whoever's will is being done is the one doing the killing.
"Doctors killing people" is as far as I can tell a rhetorical trick by pro-lifers to paint a picture of uncaring monsters who strap you into a chair and jab you with the death syringe as soon as you admit any shred of bad quality of life. Plus maybe the useful autists carrying water for them.
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