Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?

• fiat_lux@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Entertaining for the people who are certain that they're not a member of an arbitrarily defined group. Whether their certainty is well-placed is a different problem, I guess.

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  • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m using the word entertaining as a verb. It’s a synonym of considering.

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    • fiat_lux@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      My mistake, I misread.

      I agree that discussion is important in deciding responses, but discussions like these are also used as testing grounds for gauging acceptability. It's how places like 'active clubs' recruit and promote far-right extremism, they start with gauging the response to lower-level discrimination and slowly escalate to larger acts.

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      • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I don’t want to live in a world where we can’t engage in thought experiments.

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