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 ⁨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.

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  • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • 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?".

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      • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OP didn’t perform a snap. No one irl did.

        You have to be able to discuss hypotheticals if you want to know what kind of person you are.

        The fact that this hypothetical makes you uncomfortable is ok, it just means you have compassion and that’s valid.

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