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[pleoros]

Water Spout in Corsica via reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/0Av71i860p

[boybeetles]

I hate ethics because what the hell is this.

Real slide in my real college level ethics class

[midnight-soulless-system]

I- what the fuck

How is this even a question. This is not troles problem level shit, this is just "will you save a child for 0 consequences or are you an asshole"

[thedouglastrap]

Because I see enough people saying this and being confused: that is, in fact, the point.

This slide is meant to be an extreme example to demonstrate where act utilitarianism falls apart. Act utilitarianism is ultimately measuring how much a given single act increases happiness/reduces suffering, and saying that the most ethical choice you can make for that action is the one where that increase/reduction is the highest. It's often used as a "man ethics is easy I got this shit solved, we don't have to talk about this"

So if, to assign an arbitrary number for the sake of example, saving a drowning child is a +100,000 Happiness Units, but giving a bunny a slight feeling of happiness is only +1, then of course you save the child. But if you're giving slight happiness to 100,001 bunnies, that brings more happiness than saving the child, and act utilitarianism says you should let the kid drown. Any evil can be the ethical choice given sufficient numbers of mildly pleased bunnies. This is, obviously, kinda insane. It's an example to show that while this kind of utilitarianism can work in most scenarios (the typical trolley problem, for example), there are times where it doesn't work, so it cannot function as a universal system of ethics.

[lyry19]

oh I get it

[pocketss]

the girls...

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[mankillercalledbunny]

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

[depsidase]

[dreamyvixen]

cherche_la

[nebquerna]

for peace and quiet

[petaltexturedskies]

Alfonsina Storni, from "The Siren" in Mask & Clover: Poems

[chainmaiden-deactivated20260205]

I hope I'm one of the top 10 mutuals you'd call upon in battle

[haaarpb]

wolf comic

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[imperfectangelcollectorblog]

[drdaanvondutch]

[crustacean-menace]

Homework lady: "My dog is barking! 🙂"

The dog:

[girlmostlikely]

You literally have to just get over yourself every day

[sandmandaddy69]

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

for my cereal

[roxey]

my favorite genre of post. if only I could find more

[insomnispyro]

Tag yourself I’m Kyle playing Emo simulator

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Sculpture by John Grade, 2004

[mortalityplays]

earnestly I think the spread of the paradigm that someone is either abuser or abused, either privileged or oppressed, either exploiter or exploited, and that this is a mathematically calculable measure of ideological purity, has done more to damage basic capacity for left wing organising than just about anything else in the modern era bar active surveillance and union busting