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.
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.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m using the word entertaining as a verb. It’s a synonym of considering.
fiat_lux@kbin.social 11 months 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.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t want to live in a world where we can’t engage in thought experiments.
fiat_lux@kbin.social 11 months ago
And I'm sick of living in a world where thought experiments are used to casually label people as dumb, disposable, but they're ok because they mention superheroes and that makes the whole thing outlandish. Until the atrocities occur, again and then it's "why didn't someone do something sooner?".