maclunkey

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Cake day: August 25th, 2024

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  • The downvotes on this are both funny and telling. I like it so its good. Asking if its bad is bad.

    I’m actually starting to see the point in a weird way. If they think about as critically as a dog or a cat maybe it doesn’t make sense to hold their decisions to a higher moral standard. We don’t call it immoral when non-human animals rape other non-human animals because they aren’t capable of the level of thought required to conceptualize moral decisions. But, uh, neither are significant amounts of humans apparently.



  • I really don’t understand how people can reconcile this kind of data with a positive opinion of humanity

    40% of people saying ‘spanking children is not a moral issue’ is probably the worst datapoint here. At least 4 in 10 people are fully just animals blundering around operating on instinct and following what feels good. And that’s not even counting the other people whose idea of morality is just ‘what is my visceral reaction’ who had a visceral reaction.