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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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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Artists are aristocrats who mainly make furry porn

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh I remember that take. seen-this-one

It was during the early treat printer struggle sessions, where not real jobs were sneered at by computer touchers that for some reason came here instead of staying at /r/singularity on reddit-logo where they belonged.

[–] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

don't mind me, I'm just here for the ExistentialComics page

Nihilist store robbed a gunpoint, but nothing of value was stolen

I can't

[–] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Idk what exactly happened with Based_Ball, but I remember their alts posting things like "anyone remember that based ball person? What a jerk right?" constantly and then getting instantly banned.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Idk what exactly happened with Based_Ball, but I remember their alts posting things like "anyone remember that based ball person? What a jerk right?" constantly and then getting instantly banned.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

hmm this sounds uncharitable

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I summarized, yes, and it had been a while, and I did find the take unserious, but the core of their argument truly was that no living person got to consent to being born before being born, and therefore reproducing was immoral, and it would continue to be so unless technology found a way to derive consent from the unborn before their births.

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

there was this goober named blakeus12, they were frickin insane. i mean, they literally said that america and the wholesome 100 western world wasn't better than ebil cina. i cried

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That the world needs more leftist landlords to free up their time to write theory. Or something along those lines its been a while

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Engels was a happy accident, not someone that can (or should) be cultivated on purpose. theory-gary

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[–] naom3@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Pls don’t restart any struggle sessions, but what was the “power dynamics” thing about? I think I missed it

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It was someone named LiberalSocialist who argued that sufficiently older people dating younger people were still doing something potentially wrong even if the younger person was old enough to be considered an adult.

The argument had some validity, I think, especially because older and more established people (especially in upper echeolons of society) do have more power and sway over people, say, less than half their age and can manipulate and hurt them more easily, but over time, LiberalSocialist started saying "Power Dynamics" on its own as an argument stopper and kind of a self-made meme.

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