Sergeant Bucky Yarns

Lawyer, crafter, fangirl. She/her.

[mariamlovesyou]

losing my mind losing my mind

[randomgermancupcake]

N64 graphical glitch

[dragongirltitties]

your dog is clipping through the environment and you're laughing

[trickstertime]

[mapswithoutwyoming]

Starting to think all the backlash to the idea of the trolley problem is just people trying to hide the fact that, deep down, they know they would be too scared to pull the lever.

[astra-the-dragon]

I suppose one of the advantages I've gained from having been in the military is that I went from a suspicion I would have the conviction to make those kinds of calls, an absolute certainty that I do have it. I've held lives in my hands, but thankfully I rose to my training and my convictions. I chose the best of the options I had available to me at the time.

There is nothing shameful about being too afraid of making the decision, in my view. But yeah, it's cowardice to project your anxiety by claiming the philosophical quandary itself is meaningless.

[zaprowsdower27]

No reason to wonder. A ton of people openly bragged about how morally pure they were for not pulling the lever in 2024. They just hate it when you contextualize it like that and insist they were taking a third option to sound less terrible when their actions are 1:1 compared to the thought experiment.

[nitpickspot]

If anything, the reason I reject it is because I consider the thought experiment ITSELF to be cowardly.

All human lives are worth the same amount, and any LOSS of human life is as large a tragedy as any other amount of lost human life. You aren't doing a GOOD thing by condemning one person to die to save four more, you're not even doing a BETTER thing. It might be the more valuable thing in a coldly utilitarian point of view, but from my moral stance death is death. You don't get to compare and contrast your way out of that.

[dappercat123]

You’d be too scared to pull the lever huh?

[darkladynyara]

People hate the trolley problem because it is inherent to the problem that choosing not to act is an active choice. That's why they reject the problem itself rather than making an argument for choosing to not pull the lever. They aren't afraid to pull the lever- they're afraid to admit that their priority is keeping their own hands clean.

[doomhamster]

Hear hear.

You can tell by the "well I'M too moral and pure to think killing one person to save five is good - ". If that person had engaged with the experiment honestly they'd know that it's not ABOUT trying to establish one course as the moral one. It's not about being able to, as @darkladynyara says, come out with your hands clean; you won't. It's about making you consider what you should and would do when all the choices available are bad ones.

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[sociallyawkwardrevolution]

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

[bilgisticallykosher]

the wise anon

The wise anon.

The wicked anon.

The simple anon.

The anon who doesn't even know how to press the ask button.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Author says US publisher nixed Holocaust book after he refused to condemn Israel

Dr. Rafael Medoff says editor at Dark Horse Comics demanded book on Nazi genocide include anti-Israel genocide charges

[targetedknowledge]

[homunculus-argument]

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[sidlingmooselike]

It never fails to gobsmack me the things some of y'all believe Jews believe. I remember someone confidently saying that Jews believe they all go to the Christian version of Heaven, regardless of whether they were good people or not, because they're "chosen" and in Heaven they get a segregated all-Jews section. Like, y'all are just making shit up at this point. And you could just, idk, ask Jews, but even when a Jewish person tells you "um that's not what we believe" you think they're lying.

[saintjasperira-deactivated20250]

demonic possession wouldn’t even affect me, i would just assume it’s The Symptoms

[afeelgoodblog]

Marjorie Fiterman 102 and Bernie Littman 100 are the world's oldest married couple.

[pmamtraveller]

'Devils Horn' sunrise during a partial eclipse

[standwithdaanes]

as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.

like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?

[letmeinimafairy]

A recent commission, back to the cave. Slowly started creating some kind of a story in cave paintings in my head, a continuation of the ammonite cave.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Remaining time: 1 day 11 hours

[curiousobsession101]

Costermonger. So basically a grocer that sold produce out of a cart rather than a basket or something. Considering that irl I looked into applying to work at a nearby grocery store but decided against it because the pay was so low that it didn't even halfway cover the costs of living, this sounds pretty good.

[rogerchaffee]

July 16th, 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins set off for the moon, arriving there 3 days later. Over 1 million people watched the launch in Florida. A total of about 400,000 people worked to make this mission a success.

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

[jewish-hot-takes]

Performative disgust for Ashkenazi food is antisemitic. Yes, even if the person saying it is also Jewish (Ashkenazi or otherwise), it's still antisemitic. It also has strong classist overtones when you consider that many of the popularly mocked food items are products of people trying to use less desirable parts of an animal so as not to be wasteful. I'm not saying you have to like everything, but you also can't say the entire cuisine of my ancestors is the most disgusting thing ever.

Also when Ashkenazi Jews do the performative disgust it reads as extremely "I'm not like other Jews" pick-me.

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[targetedknowledge]

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