Lanthanae
@Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting that you took this post to be entirely about romantic/sexual relationships, especially since a partner should not be solely responsible for assuaging your lonliness.
Even if everyone had a partner/spouse male loneliness would still be a massive issue because men aren’t socialized in a way that equips them to have emotionally intimate platonic friendships. If my wife was my ONLY friend, I’d still be very lonely. Furthermore, even if I wasn’t dating someone, I wouldn’t be lonely because of the friends I have.
- Comment on if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice? 4 weeks ago:
Is it ok to manipulate them to save their souls?
No, because souls don’t exist.
What about if someone doesn’t want kids, but you know they would be happier with them?
If I actually knew that for a fact then yeah, literally yes that would be ethical. The reason that feels wrong is because there’s literally 0 possible situation in real life where you can be certain about that, and in the vast, vast majority of situations the person saying that is correct about themselves.
What about giving up sex, drugs, and rock n roll? What about starting sex, drugs, and rock n roll?
Sure. If you had sufficient certainty that you can correctly, by reason alone, identify it as a truth that this would maximize their well being. Like the children example though, I don’t think there’s any real world scenario where you could be.
Yes, people are stupid. And medicine is complicated and difficult to understand. And in systems like American healthcare, there’s a ton of bullshit on top of everything. But it’s very rare to be ok to deny them their agency to make a decision.
I’m not saying we should deny people agency as a rule. Doctors are also failable humans who would make bad decisions if we established as a rule that it’s ok for them to override patient agency.
I’m just saying that even though it’s immoral to establish a culture in the medical system of doing so, individual instances of doing so can absolutely be moral. Probably they should still be condemned anyway to prevent the establishment of such a culture, though.
Of course, IME in the US, it won’t be the patient refusing treatment; it’ll be their insurance company that does so. And if not them, then finances in another form.
If there’s one thing we can confidently conclude is immoral here I agree that it’s insurance companies lmao.
- Comment on if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice? 4 weeks ago:
I think thus just boils down to whether you think Kantian or Utilitarian ethics is more correct.
I think it’s not just ok, but morally obligatory to do your best to promote people’s well being, even via manipulation, regardless of if they are hellbent on fucking themselves over. Human beings are deeply, deeply imperfect, and we do not always make good rational decisions. With respect to medical care specifically, if someone refuses something that is objectively a clear benefit regardless of potential unknown context, then they are not doing so rationally.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah you’re still not even contradicting what I’m saying, you just think you are. You’re arguing against positions I don’t hold lmao.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 5 weeks ago:
You’re missing my point and arguing against a strawman here. All I’m arguing is that the things AAA studios focus on (like hyper-realism) are not the things that make a game fun, and AAA studios sound be putting fun as the focus.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 5 weeks ago:
Many people (including me) consider the best game of 2024 to be Balatro.
Balatro. A game made by one guy who legitimately didn’t even think anyone other than his friends and family would buy it.
AAA studios do not understand what people enjoy at all.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 weeks ago:
Trying to understand theology is a waste of time because it’s all made up.
Made up, sure, but still very useful to understand because so many people believe it.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve run a full DJ setup with speakers, a mixer, soundboard, laptop, etc. off a single line of 6-8 daisy-chained extension cords more times than I can count.
…uh…how have I never learned of this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Maybe people won’t pay money for it. Maybe they will. The problem isn’t that people may or may not pay money–it’s that you’ve placed your sense of worth in monetary value.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Read some existentialism, no joke. I don’t agree 100% but I read a bunch of Beuvoir over the weekend and one thing I did like was it made me internalize the idea that coming up with a project I care about and achieving it is worthwhile in and of itself regardless of if it “could” be done by someone/something else.
Think about it this way, there are mathematicians from 500 years ago who did a lot of stuff by hand for hours that I could work out with a calculator in seconds today. But does that mean all their work was worthless? If I create a fairly shitty drawing, but I’m proud of my having created it, am I wrong to be proud simply because my friend who is a great artist could make a better one in half the time?
It’s not just about the journey, but it’s not just about the destination either–its about the journey to the destination, and placing value only in one of those things will cause you to be at a loss for the rest of your life.
- Comment on What is the purpose and meaning of time? 1 year ago:
Why do you assume there is one?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No. It quite literally means that you also cannot be discriminated against for that. In fact, the protections that make it illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals are the exact same protections that prevent discrimination because of your being straight, and if you were to repeal the former, the latter would be lost as well.
You have it, quite literally, entirely backwards.
- Comment on Are people just potatoes? 1 year ago:
No people are human beings. Nott potatoes.
This is supposed to be a community for actual questions, not semi-rhetorical questions that just serve as the lead in to a bad joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Ok I’ve done that and didn’t figure out a line of reasoning for your assertion. Would you be willing to help me understand where you’re coming from now?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
How so?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
So the only question is what is the most rhetorically effective way to convince leftists that being rhetorical effective is actually really important 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Daryl Davis has done more to dismantle the KKK than all the antifa folks combined ever will
Homie what do you think “antifa” is? Working to dismantle the KKK is one of the most antifa things there is.
- Comment on Why does “come here” bother me so much? 1 year ago:
Follow up question, have you had a discussion with him about this? Have you two attempted to approach and solve this problem as a team already?