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I'll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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[–] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There was a person who was convinced that nobody actually enjoys music or art. They said everyone is just performatively pretending to enjoy these things for some reason. Or maybe everyone is just imagining their emotional responses to music/art, like some sort of mass delusion. I don’t remember all the particulars; this was a while ago.

I still kinda wonder if that person was just a really good troll

[–] 12022081631@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

what i have learned more than anything in my work is that it is pretty incredible how sociopaths tattle on themselves constantly

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good find.

I don't like coffee, like, at all, but that doesn't mean that other people can't derive enjoyment from coffee and that their claims of enjoyment are all lies. I'd be pretty solipsistic to believe otherwise.

[–] ShariaLawZ@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

However artichoke enjoyers are philosophical zombies

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

I remember replying to them. This was back in the very beginning Chapo chat days. Very weird account.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Lots of these opinions pop up when you start talking about Rothko

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Shit I was gonna say that guy