2026-09-20 00:21 UTC
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@blakestacey@awful.systems 2026-09-20 01:19
In Yud’s world, a mild, almost crunchy-granola punishment for a child amounts to denying the child’s “agenthood”. I expect that if asked, most parents who take away a toy that a child makes mischief with would say something like, “He’s got to learn the consequences of his actions”, which amounts to accepting “agenthood” now doesn’t it? I can think of ways in which parents deny the full personhood of their offspring, ways in which that is maybe even the social standard, but Yud sure has a tin ear for examples of that.
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@rhamph@awful.systems 2026-09-20 01:25
Not spite, but some secret other thing completely indistinguishable from spite. Does he really think he’s the only person in the universe so special as to have some sort of principle motivating a spiteful act? All the NPCs in the world just randomly harm themselves with zero rationale whatsoever? Smashing that toy and bragging about it actually proves to the robot god that Eliezer won’t be blackmailed, checkmate causists
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@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2026-09-20 02:32
Giving young children free access to Ayn Rand books is abuse