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  • I met a few libertarians like that. It's not great.

  • You're making me remember a term exam I had in my only philo class, freshman world philosophy. The professor asked something like the following,

    My neighbor told me he thinks me feeding the birds in my backyard isn't good for the environment. What do you think? Is it right, wrong or something else? Use what you've learned this semester to answer.

    I thought this was brilliant because he got to have a room full of undergrads think and write about a real moral conflict he was having with another human, and also, good for having us use our educatuon as applied to a real question.

    I can vaguely remember my answer, but I don't really remember any of the world philosophy...

  • Also it's hilarious

  • Even in the USA today, Trump wouldn't have won without the anti -democratic electoral college.

    That said, it is scary how popular fascist movements can get when capitalist societies get pressured.

  • Starbucks twin tails.

  • Yeah i see the stool at the bottom but where is the spider part

  • It provides a service of figuring out what the value of spacex really is.

    Why that service is allowed to generate so much money for people is bonkers to me.

  • I've always thought that was one of the successes of Marx, is that even if his system has never existed in the world, it was such an interesting framework to work with that it spanned a whole discipline of thought. Not a failure at all in my eyes, even if it wasn't the success Marx intended.

  • What's something you know about, then? Let's talk about that

  • I got as far as foucault, and the main thing i took away was that even with wildly differing moral philosophies, two people can always come to understand each other's position if they can talk to each other long enough, though they won't always agree in the end. There is no universal truth that is true for all of us.

    Is that post-modernist philosophy?

  • The corrolary to fuck around and find out!

  • I knew someone who took an engineering ethics course in college that completely changed his career and i think made him a better person.

  • The fallacy fallacy!

  • That is a neat insight!

    There is a whole category of misunderstandings that happen when contexts collide.

    I feel like science tries to get specific so they can make predictions and explain phenomena, but using the same language the rest of us gives us things like the penguin and sparrow conflict, tomato is a fruit, strawberries aren't berries, etc.

    Meanwhile I'm over here like, not only can you call all insects "bugs", you can call spiders, small arthropods, anything that fits the general vibe of small and bug-like, so long as you're not causing misunderstandings in a scientific context.

  • Nods, France is bacon.

  • There's something about all Crows are black and everything that is not black isn't a crow

  • What is the idea and cultural associations we both think of when we hear the word 'cow' ?

  • -- Terminator 2