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- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 days ago:
I basically agree with this, with one important distinction worth mentioning that being black is not a willful choice, but having billions of dollars absolutely is. I would argue that if someone has so much money there is no possible way for them to spend it all in their and their progeny’s lifetime, the only ethical thing to do is give the excess that can’t be spent away.
In general, though, I understand not all ultra wealthy are equally bad, and those who just inherited their money and sit on it aren’t anywhere near the level of those that actively influence policy for the negative. Yes there is nuance there, and yes stereotyping the whole group is reductive.
The general sentiment in OPs comment is usually rooted to in the notion that there is really no way to run a business that makes billions of dollars without underpaying or overcharging people along the way, and there is no way to justify having 100bn+ dollars all for yourself when there are so many people without. If that means those offences are extreme enough to justify murder is another question, and I agree should probably not apply categorically to all rich people equally with no deeper discussion.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 days ago:
That’s fair. The line is clearly harder to draw than I am making it seem. For the sake of argument, can we both agree that a line exists somewhere? Or would you putting forward that there is never a situation in which killing someone is morally justified no matter what the situation is?
And a follow up question, would you instead prefer that for certain extreme offenders, a life imprisonment sentence is used? I believe an argument could be made that, as the prison system exists in many countries now, this may be worse.
Or perhaps more broadly, for someone guilty of rampant repeated murder with no demonstrated indications of potential remorse or reform, what would be the ideal punishment or societal repercussion?
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 days ago:
I get what you are saying and it is a slippery slope, but it is very doable to draw clear, objective lines around it. “Anyone with so much money there is absolutely no way they got it without heavy worker exploitation, ie 10bn+” for example. Nothing even remotely close to the average working class individual or even minor wealthy individual
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 days ago:
I’m not sure this is categorically true. If you are in a situation where another person is clearly and obviously killing everyone around you one after the other and you could stop them by killing them, I think most would argue it is morally ok to do so. Same for a situation of like a home invasion where someone means to do immediate harm to your family and loved ones. Murder in self defense is often considered morally ok. When people in the world through their actions are killing people in enormous numbers, it is not too hard to see how someone could make a parallel to self defense.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
While I mostly agree, for many kinds of ads there isn’t a great way to correlate particular ads with efficacy, so there absolutely are as campaigns that the c suite is convinced are working that are just practically not at all.
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 1 month ago:
Maybe a hot take but I think this year has been one of the best for gaming in a long time. We got Claire obscur, kcd2, Hades 2, silksong so far
- Comment on "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 month ago:
Yeah I mean you are probably right. In my defense, though, without having spoilers, the game is emphatically NOT pro King Arthur and the main likeable factions are the ones I would describe as Irish
- Comment on "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 month ago:
I am having a great time. It’s janky, but fun. It is EXTREMELY nostalgic for early Skyrim in terms of its leveling mechanics, character development, sense of humor, and jank. Just swap the tone from Nordic to early Irish dark fantasy.
- Comment on Canal loving guy here 2 months ago:
Boaty chill
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 months ago:
While I agree with you for most alternatives to Spotify, I have yet to not be able to find any song from anyone on SoundCloud particularly in more niche genres. I obviously don’t know everything you listen to but the reason you describe is the exact reason I can’t always use Spotify
- Comment on Did Ukraine provoke Russia by building a dam? 3 months ago:
It’s pretty telling if “the death of civilians is bad” amounts to an impasse/agree to disagree situation
- Comment on NYC street names 4 months ago:
We have a 69th and cumming in my city. It’s a tourist destination too
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 4 months ago:
Most of the forest lands here are at least marginally less racist though
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 4 months ago:
Disco Elysium can totally be pacifist
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 4 months ago:
Our office allowed voting to elect a committee to determine what return to office should look like. I was elected to it. They also hired external contractors to mediate basically. Some people came into it thinking everyone should go back to office, but by the end of it we settled that being in office should be required for certain types of work activities and not for others, and apart from the required activities for in office employees could be wherever. We drafted this up into a formalized agreement and everyone was happy with it.
Then the president who did that program retired and the new guy immediately scrapped the whole thing and forced everyone back into the office overnight without any discussion from the committee or other employees.
- Comment on Sounded great when I was young 5 months ago:
Once I have acquired the recommended bag of mushrooms I believe I would like to go trip with you, that sounds like it would lead to the best conversations
- Comment on When you are really dumb and don't realize it 5 months ago:
I mean even if you genuinely thought that’s what it was asking for, just ceiling is extremely nonspecific
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 5 months ago:
If you like portal you may also like superliminal. It’s the only game I’ve found that scratches the similar itch