yeahiknow3

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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It was truly a piece of shit. Imagine trying to play a game with a cheap touchpad. Worst controller I’ve ever owned.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Assuming civilization (i.e., democracy) survives, it will happen. Democracy is almost ineluctable in promulgating moral progress. That’s one of the chief reasons that it’s under such sustained attack. Can’t have the poor and ignorant learning right from wrong.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes. There were countless folks of every generation since time immemorial begging their fellow humans to use basic reasoning to see the evil of their actions. To no avail. It took thousands of years of social progress and education to convince (a plurality of) people of the most rudimentary and blatant moral facts. Because the average human is dumb as shit about everything that matters.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yes, I agree. In about a century folks will look back on modern humans as irredeemable monsters. And they would be right! This is an objective fact, and downvotes don’t change normative reality. More’s the pity.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (53 children)

The only reason that “morals are deeply contextual” is that average people are dumb as shit in all the ways that matter. Moral reasoning is similar to mathematics, but whereas we have formalized math, which people study in school for 12+ years (and are still terrible at it), morality is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-and-do-your-best endeavor.

That’s why there’s such a discrepancy between the opinions of ethicists and those of average people. Why we had slavery for 10,000 years, why Trump was elected. Why billionaires, religions, and cruise ships exist. Because average people are dumb as shit in all the ways that matter, and no discipline in the world reminds us just how close the average human is to a mindless animal than ethics.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not all religious people are evil, just like not all ignorant people are evil. But all ignorance and all religion and prejudice and celebrity worship and cults and gambling and extended-cab pickup trucks are certainly evil.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

lock up every religious people [sic] for this crime

Religiosity isn’t a crime. There’s a shitload of evil in this world, and almost none of it is (or can ever be) “criminalized.”

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