FishFace
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- Comment on She's just defending her country 6 hours ago:
I compare it to nazi Germany. I don’t really condemn Germans who served in the armed forces rather than be punished for draft evasion. There were soldiers who just fought as they were told to and without doing anything clearly immoral or illegal - not all we’re out there murdering Jews or civilians, or executing prisoners, or whatever. Same with Israelis. It takes a lot of courage to go to prison by active choice, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to condemn people for not having that courage unless the alternative was themselves taking part in war crimes.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 8 hours ago:
served in the idf
Not that this affects your conclusion, she was a conscript, like every Israeli.
- Comment on Vroooooom! 2 days ago:
The door thing is not a thing on the older Teslas.
- Comment on Mocking regional accents is last form of acceptable discrimination, says MP 4 days ago:
Doing a PhD at an English university, I think I heard only one postgraduate or faculty member with a strong English regional accent. There were a couple of Scots, and a few people with mild northern English accents, but only one strong one that I remember. I couldn’t know whether this was due to discrimination, but I’m sure it contributes to ongoing discrimination, by making it hard to associate someone with a strong regional accent with intellectual authority.
I would also guess that a lot of racism in the UK is modified by accent. A brown guy speaking RP will be perceived far differently than one with a brummie accent - and that’s before you get to foreign-looking people with foreign-sounding accents.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
While different socialisation explains some of these gaps, it doesn’t seem to explain all of them. For example, in overall more equal societies, the gap in some industries increases, suggesting that some of the effect is quite a free choice.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 5 days ago:
Society will never find out, so they will have no opportunity to answer the question. Are you saying that what matters is not actual disapproval, but hypothetical disapproval?
Anyway, like I said, there are multiple ways of attacking the argument. Accepting the unpalatable logical conclusion of total relativism is one of them.
- Comment on Video gaming 5 days ago:
Nobody is labeling lolicon stuff as csam.
I see it most times this comes up.
I’m not going to give people grief over using it.
Sure. But I’m not going to take grief for not using it, nor omit an eye-rolling comment when someone else gets grief.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 5 days ago:
Is it wrong to murder a loner with no family if you don’t make them suffer?
Most people don’t actually believe the boo-hurrah theory of ethics (as it’s called by its detractors).
- Comment on Video gaming 5 days ago:
Because firstly, while they can talk how they like as long as it makes sense, they want to demonstrate how pure and holy they are by berating everyone not offering their edicts. And secondly because the literal meaning doesn’t cover everything they want to apply it to. Drawn child porn is not “child sexual assault material” but they still want to use the same term, because for them purity tests are more important than making sense.
- Comment on 'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating privacy tools 5 days ago:
I’m sure that’ll last for at least thirty seconds
- Comment on Video gaming 5 days ago:
Literally noone in the history of the world thinks that you can normalise child porn by calling it child porn. But some people, faced with the difficulty of making a real difference, seize in the only thing they feel they can control: other people’s language.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 days ago:
No.
- Comment on Computers can't do everything 5 days ago:
God, imagine the world if computers had to consent for the filth we force them to see…
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 5 days ago:
staying in power to avoid prison
What power is Farage using here? This is incoherent.
You don’t get it
I understand perfectly, you just want to talk about something I never talked about. Even when I try to meet you where you are you don’t bother replying to it.
Please don’t reply to me again if you’re going to ramble on about something unrelated.
- Comment on Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis | Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating 5 days ago:
I looked up some stats. A YouGov poll puts support for Russia in the war at 4% in the UK (as against 21% “don’t know” and the rest support Ukraine) so it’s pretty fringe. This poll is a bit harder to interpret but sure, climate change is less accepted than the idea that we should favour Ukraine in the war.
I think though that the principle stands. Mentioning the link frequently, but not all the time, is appropriate for a link that most people understand and agree exists.
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 5 days ago:
I’d rather have an organisation dependent on funding from a democratically-elected government negotiated on a regular schedule and whose board is at least nominally arms-length, than one in hock to big business.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 5 days ago:
More succinctly, the argument is: without religion, there is no source of moral authority other than the disapproval of others. Acts that have no chance of being discovered would therefore not be subject to any moral judgment and must be permissible, even if clearly wrong.
This is a contradiction with those acts being clearly wrong.
There are multiple ways of attacking this naive argument.
- Comment on Heh heh 5 days ago:
So it’s actually the bank that owns the house, they just let you live there while you pay back a large debt.
Ackshually you own the house, the bank just has the right to take it if you don’t keep up payments.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 6 days ago:
Being sane relative to someone else is completely unrelated to being a joke candidate. Next?
- Comment on Hmmmm! 6 days ago:
The past is far behind us. The future doesn’t exist!
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 6 days ago:
It’s because calling someone a joke sounds disparaging… even if they’re a literal comedy character played by a comedian. So that’s enough to put it in the wrong bin when people are making black and white judgements of “does this person wholly align with my views or not”
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
Your reply doesn’t indicate any knowledge or evidence of harm. You’ve started talking about something else.
Sure, consent is key.
- Comment on James Bond should stay white and male, says casting chief 6 days ago:
Really, the question is: why are these the only two options? Why not a new character and/or franchise?
There are new characters and franchises being created every two seconds. What does this mean?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
And you know that for a fact? I mean, obviously it could be. As far as I know there is no evidence for it, and getting that evidence will be incredibly difficult.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
I don’t have scholarly references or anything, but the standard for this varies massively across cultures. Just looking at the West, the age at which it was thought appropriate to get married used to be wayyy lower than it is now. In Ancient Greece, a particular form of pederasty was celebrated as an especially pure form of relationship.
Nowadays we have robust evidence that sexual activity between an adult and a child is severely harmful. However, even this we can’t legitimately extend too far cross-culturally, because we don’t (as far as I know) have any certainty that this isn’t conferred due to the child being the victim of a socially-defined crime. The question one could ask is: given that Ancient Greece didn’t categorise their form of paedophilia as a violation, did the children in those relationships therefore not suffer in the same way as modern victims of paedophilia? It’s an uncomfortable question, and even asking it will probably make most people nope out, but it’s very useful to be sharp about what we do and don’t know.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
I can’t answer that categorically, but that’s about what I’m inferring from what other people are saying.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
You have misunderstood me…
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
That is so weird to me that a society with much more Shame basis for stuff does not shame attraction to and relationships with minors.
Because what a culture considers immoral is not the same as whether they use shame to police immorality.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 6 days ago:
he’d say he “likes them young”
They already basically answered that.
Though in this context, maybe the best thing to do is to not translate it. Most of the audience is likely to know the word already.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 6 days ago:
perhaps their primary motivation is they don’t want Reform and will vote for whatever least worst option is presented in order
his antics over the last 2 years may very well have pissed quite a lot of his original voters off.
Let me remind you of the words you are trying to defend:
That same showing this time would lose him the vote
What “same showing” are you talking about? I think by this point it’s clear you meant something other than what you said. Since my issue was with what you said, not whatever you meant to say, it’s better we leave it here.
