• The illusion that we are “rational” has done more damage than good, and if we were to just embrace that emotions are not just real, but a stronger influence on people’s behaviour (and therefore reality) than any facts, we might start getting somewhere as a species.

There is virtue in minding your own business. If it doesn’t effect you directly you don’t need an opinion on it and you certainly shouldn’t share it or expect anyone who is effected to care what you think. You’re a bad person if you support people who want to use force to control how other people live their lives. You’re evil if you would use force to control how someone else lives their life.

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Killing yourself is ok. You don’t know what it’s like to be them and be in their head.

I’ll never do it. Even in darkest depths, but respect anyone’s right to say peace out.

Circumcision is multilation

Can you explain what IP is? Abbreviations don’t mean anything if you don’t know it.

From my point of view of life, it feels like the belief of “Do unto others as you would like others to do to you” is no longer something most people seem to believe in.

Absolute free speech is overrated. You shouldn’t be able to just lie out your ass and call it news.

The fact that the only people who had any claim against Fox for telling the Big Lie was the fucking voting machine company over lost profits tells you everything you need to know about our country

All drugs should be legal, but bodily autonomy is to high a purity test for everyone on planet earth.

Admit it everyone, capitalists will not let us live in peace. At least let me get high to numb the pain of existence.

So many!

Veganism and more specifically the belief that all life is more important than any non-life threatening situation.

Death penalty is a terrible but needed solution for certain crimes. For example I don’t think that it is fair for society to pay for a lifetime in prison for a mass murder. I think taking away basic human rights is something that should not happen lightly, but it is just at times.

Age of consent is kind of weird and should be more about an age gap. What I mean is that if the age of consent is say 15, then if a 14 yo and a 18 yo have sex it is illegal, while a 15 yo and a 40 yo is not. Both cases are problematic, but an 18 yo can be still childish and not fully understand the situation, still wrong but I wouldn’t necessarily call it pedophilia (Depending on the exact details) But a 40 yo having sex with a 15 yo? That is pedophilia.

There should be a wealth limit. A point at which taxes just go to 100%. I think that a system can be made so that being rich and successful is still a thing, but that no one can reach “ridiculously rich” status.

All current LLMs and diffusion models are piracy, no two ways about it. If you stand with AI generated content you should stand with piracy (looking at you, corporate assholes)

Books and media that are similar to “Subtle art of not giving a Fuck” is harmful to society, and supports apathetic beliefs. They are conservative views because they support separation of society instead coming together, and working out differences. The result can be seen in how people voted or not voted in elections. Every time I see a comment like “I’m tired” or “who cares” on social media in response to news, is screaming apathy, like they don’t even want to think about being good. Genocide happens all the time because there is lack of care for the those people. Homeless people do not get the help they need because people would rather treat them like trash. Trash, actual rubbish, is an afterthought for most people, not caring how their trash is being handled. America has a huge trash problem, where many throw theirs on the ground. Glass is highly more recyclable than plastic, yet I see more and more plastic every where, thanks oil industry. The recycling refund system in america hasn’t increased, for inflation, since its implementation decades ago. The list is endless. Apathy is every where, I see it all the time determining peoples actions and voices. First step to combat it is to be mindful of an issue and think of how it could be important to someone else, which can be hard to do, to put yourself in the shoes of someone else.

I think it’s our moral imperative to correct people, namely friends and family, who blatantly regurgitate false information.

Mostly I am referring to US Conservative talking points (or propaganda).

Many people don’t want to start arguments with people they know and prefer to keep the peace or avoid hot topics, but I think letting those kind of falsehoods go unchallenged and letting people only hear assenting opinions is a small part of what got the US into this situation.

To be clear I am not talking about correcting people on every little thing because that would make for an incredibly insufferable person to be around, but intentionally misleading or false information presented as truths.

it’s okay to tell billionaires to kill themselves

rights are not real, and convincing people they have them actually allows their sovereignty to be infringed.

You can’t direguard anyone’s humanity. Even billionaires. There are no universally bad people, negativity is always relational.

Though I do think you can weigh a billionaire’s comfort against the folks they made billions from, and that may just be potent enough for the death penalty.

However, I don’t think punishment is a humane solution. Rehabilitation and integration are always preferred. Though again, some folks integrate best as corpses.