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Oh, I agree. I'm very glad they're not mutually exclusive! But neither imply the other, both are virtues that can be pursued independently, and I believe that pursuing both at the same time is very "good."

So, the closest thing I’ve had to a childhood hero is Spock from the 60s Star Trek show. As I’ve grown older and more aware of of the world around me, I’ve realized elevating rationality to a virtue by itself isn’t enough to form a coherent ethos. In fact, I think individuals are actually very bad at rationality. Everyone who puts rationality on a pedestal, from Zizians to SBF to Reddit atheists to Elon Musk to Randian libertarians, is really just forgetting how subjective rationality can be. I firmly believe that compassion is just as important as rationality when it comes to building strong, honest societies. You need both. We want ethics that are internally consistent, sure, but rationality and internal consistency don’t themselves give ethics purpose.

Putting aside the discussion about bodies and objects, the primary concern is consent - which also applies to objects anyway. Would you steal a dead person's wallet "because they don't need it anymore"?

Why wouldn’t you? There are very few instances in which one can assume they have consent over another person’s body.

I’ll stand corrected on the anarchist comment. But if one lives in a capitalist country, one inevitably supports capitalism, right? Even if it’s against their will. This sounds more and more like Original Sin.

The ML usage of the term liberal comes from Classical Liberalism, right? Please correct me. Also I hate how y’all think I’m personally evil because I haven’t Read Theory. Y’all are my first exposure to MLs and I don’t have any control over what my society has taught me. (I’m not defending what my society has taught me, I’ve been deconstructing for a long time and not stopping.) Is naivete a sin?

Two kinds of people in the comments: those who think credit scores are bad, and those who think social credit systems are good

Marxists-Leninists (as in, the ML in lemmy.ml) use the term “liberals” to describe anyone living under a Western capitalist system. Especially MLs on Lemmy, they consider any username not from the Tankie Triad to be liberal (or anarchist, which is somehow worse).

You’re in the rhino pooping pic?

What pic?

Facebook vibes

I’ve really grown to like Behind the Bastards and Evans seems pretty based. Why lol?

They take yuan in the USA now??? Opens my Bank of America app

Oh, so boomer-tier memes are praxis lol. Gonna hit me with a Minion meme next?

Upvote-farming choir-preaching tribeslop garbage. Is this praxis?

Love how lo-res this image is. 2000s vibes. I like to think that this is an Elder Meme that has been living on some obscure open directory for the past 20+ years

Came here to complain about this not being a shitpost, then I saw the brown snow 😐

Fr bro 😪

In the 70s and 80s, Nazi groups in America were very fringe, so the comedy comes from the juxtaposition that such a wackjob extremist group would take root in somewhere as banal and Midwest as viewed at the same time. Now if you’ll excuse me, Carrie Fisher is coming after me with a battle rifle, I have to drive my used Cop Car with Cop Shocks and Cop Suspension through a shopping mall

I looked more closely and their heads have the same shading as the dots on the card back. OP posted an MtG meme and didn’t even realize it lol

This reminds me of a heuristic I heard about once, about “punching up” and “punching down”. I heard about it used in a stand-up comedy context but it seems to make sense in a lit of other places as well. Punching down almost always seems unjust, punching up almost always seems just.

Yeah I saw that in your bio. Thanks for building that 😊 Life’s been stressful lately but it’s on my nightstand

Well, as someone who hasn’t Read Theory, the last line in the meme seems to disdain use of violence in a very general way. It was just confusing, but I see now that it’s just not well worded

So I’m not in tune to the same news you are, I guess… when did the US invade North Korea? Please don’t be snarky. I’m asking in good faith, I’m genuinely curious and trying to be open-minded.