Being a bodyless head with a freak long tongue is not only okay—it can be an exciting opportunity
Haha I tricked you. My dad works for Lemmy and traced your IP address- the police are on their way now
Stop talking to me or I will call the police
I didn’t mean it, pls respond
Stop talking to me or I will call the police
naturally
expected
competent
Blah blah big words blah blah sciencey stuff
Have you figured out how to get blocked yet?
Survey says I can’t find a YouTube tutorial so how am I supposed to know
anyone opposed to Trump
Just to be extra clear, myself and OOP oppose Trump. I don’t think you meant it that way, but I wanted to be clear
If you didn’t want an argument, [this] was not a strategic move
Yeah that’s what I’m saying, I made a mistake lol
Also, I don’t think OOP was saying it’s deceptive, though I might argue there’s some self-deception going on under the hood. I know ‘cognitive dissonance’ gets thrown around a lot as a buzz word but, as a therapist, it really does look like that
It sounds like my edit in the post body may have come across with a sarcastic or pompous tone, but I really did mean it genuinely
I agree with you, I just didn’t intend to come here to argue lol. Tbh I normally just block people with your opinion, but it is nice to have discussions like this every now and then, and have my positions challenged
Absolutely false. Try again. We started this conversation by me addressing this exact point. If I explain clearly what I mean, and you decide that I am “avoiding admitting” some different thing, then there’s not a lot of point to us talking to each other.
trying to make sure at least the first guy is in charge while we’re dealing with the rest of the problem, get painted as “rationalizing” or “beating around the bush” about some kind of secret love for serial-killing that must be at heart of their reaction to the whole situation.
I never implied some secret love. It is blatant support though. You can’t choose either of those options and pretend you didn’t make a calculated decision for evil. The “lesser of two evils” thing necessarily implies that you are supporting evil. You’re trying so hard to talk around it, but it is what it is.
Not at all what I meant to say with that. I barely participate in .ml spaces, and I think the censorship there is whack. I legitimately made a mistake posting this here, is all. It’s like posting something offensive to queer people on blahaj, or posting a tankie-dunk on .ml. It’s just not appropriate
This is a terrible analogy. I get that it conveys your feelings about it, but that’s it.
For a better analogy:
A badguy tells you to kill someone else, or they’ll kill you and your family, and also probably someone else too. Your choice, I assume, would be the utilitarian one- to kill someone else. This is the so-called “logical” answer to the trolley problem folks love to bring up with this topic, because less deaths = good, and the ‘someone else’ was probably gonna die either way.
The field of philosophy that discusses these questions, however, is vast, and there is no one correct answer. You and I happen to have different opinions on ethics.
I would argue that refusing to kill someone doesn’t make you responsible for the badguy’s actions. I also wouldn’t argue that people who kill the stranger are bad people- they just made what they thought was the best decision. I just disagree that that’s the best decision, and can’t justify doing the same myself.
You folks, however, seem to beat around the bush about it to avoid admitting what you did. You decided that the continued genocide of Palestinians was worth it to keep Trump out of office. That’s valid- that was the only choice you felt you had. You don’t need to rationalize it away.
It’s disrespectful to both me and yourself to not be upfront with yourself about that.
I declare blocked!
no u