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Nematode's avatar

Zizian "rationality": If you scare the hoes, become the hoes 🧘🏻‍♂️

Brian is the man, great convo.

Utilitarianism is a scourge on the earth. Like Libertarianism, the theory is perfect and it does have usefulness in conceptualization, but all depends on core axioms and definitions that are usually just equivocated in the mad scramble for a simplifying formula in a frighteningly complex and actuality of existence. Is all "suffering" equivalent? Are "utiles" of "pleasure" the goal of existence and is the concept even coherent?

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Al Barnes's avatar

Ziz = Raskolnikov on puberty blockers and Estrogen.

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Brian Chau's avatar

Maybe, but there's not much evidence the guilt ever caught up with Ziz

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Al Barnes's avatar

Nor much evidence Rask would refuse a nice plate of roast beef ;).

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Scott Tucker's avatar

What’s so pernicious about EA is not just that you can do whatever you want with the statement “the ends justify the means.” Nor that they are able to dress it up as virtuosity. The worst part is that they point to future counterfactuals that were avoided - something that by definition can’t be proven or their record tracked.

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