Another good boy killed by a pit bull in a "service dog" vest who'd been allowed to roam loose in a hotel lobby. This is exactly why these dogs have the reputation they do, garbage temperaments combined with almost comically negligent ownership
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The problem with pit bull ownership is bifurcated into people who actually want vicious dogs and *intentionally* breed vicious dogs, and foolish people who adopt the dregs of this breeding process and then put them into dangerous situations to prove how misunderstood they are
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I stand with the outraged Massachusetts lesbians purely on the grounds that it's good to have types-of-guy diversity and "lesbian who insists on COVID lockdown protocols in 2026" is a critically endangered type of guy
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I think it's actually quite concerning how
many of these are obviously culturally mediated
I know that among my followers, MAID is reviled.
But I'm actually a supporter of it.
Having recently had a relative die horrifically, with pain that MAID could have alleviated, my support is stronger than ever.
First, just look at the reasons people do MAID:
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New "would you still love me if I was a worm" just dropped and I'm going to be straight with you, you're not gonna like it
The View co-host Sarah Haines complains that Patrick Clancy divorced Lindsay Clancy after she took the lives of their 3 children.
“How did the marital love end so quickly…in sickness and in health.”
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Why should my child get to live in a home largely oriented to her interests, have books read to her, have someone tell her "I love you" fifty times a day?
Because I make it so. Because she is the most important thing in the world to me. Perhaps we should encourage that mindset?
I notice none of Nikole Hannah-Jones' critics try to answer to the basic question she wrestled with, which is: Why should my daughter get to go to a better school than other people's kids just because I work for the New York Times?
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Maybe we should acknowledge that NHJ's greatest offense wasn't sending her daughter to a bad school, but indulging her own narcissism in a fantasy that she would transform that school into a great place for her kid and then *not doing any of what was required for that*?
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The great irony here is that the average person has never been more invested in issues beyond his scope than he is today
We should all commit ourselves to a daily limit of nonlocal news no greater than what would fit on the front page of a print newspaper
People are too oriented to their own communities and policy issues that they have an actual stake in, world would be better off if they fixated on distant problems like meeeee
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People are too oriented to their own communities and policy issues that they have an actual stake in, world would be better off if they fixated on distant problems like meeeee
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Impossible to comprehend. Before you have kids, your values and politics can be social, aesthetic, hobbiest, frankly arbitrary. Once you have kids you have the most straightforward and practical personal alignment tool on the planet, if only you will use it
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Of course, you can be wrong about a decision, sometimes a decision that is hard or impossible to change. You can try to predict the impact on your children and find the reality wildly outside expectations. You let yourself see it, you try to fix it, and you do better next time
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I genuinely didn't recall whether BB was a negative utilitarian, this is just always where it goes
Let me try to approach closer to your ground now that I’ve made my meta-argument:
You have, elsewhere, argued that mass habitat destruction in order to starkly reduce the number of insects is a high priority for insect welfare.
Here, you argue that insects and humans are commensurate, and insects matter more.
Does this logic lead you to conclude that the elimination of all humans, even if regrettable, would be in theory an acceptable price to pay for the elimination of all insects?
Why or why not?
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