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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
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Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in ~news
Gaywallet Link ParentTo add on to what @DefinitelyNotAFae said, and because I don't see this being mentioned elsewhere, there's a few additional factors we should consider when we consider morality. First and...- Exemplary
To add on to what @DefinitelyNotAFae said, and because I don't see this being mentioned elsewhere, there's a few additional factors we should consider when we consider morality.
First and foremost, what is considered moral is often a game of weighing pros and cons. Think of the classic killing baby Hitler question - It's a hypothetical in which we know the outcome if baby Hitler lives. You can draw parallels to the Trolley problem and optimizing for minimal harm, but regardless of the reasoning it's clear that to at least some people the "morality" of something is often a form of calculus.
This is further supported by ideas like "we cannot be tolerant of the intolerant." The conditions, also known as the premise, are critically important for both logical and emotional arguments. In the logical state, they are used to reason towards an answer. For the emotional state, they are often what creates the emotion in the first place that someone is reacting to.
On the logical side, whether Luigi did something good or bad is largely a function of the premise itself. If we start from a premise that "society is functioning correctly and law and order are good things which allow society to function" it might be easy to reach the conclusion that the killing is immoral on the grounds of disrupting this system. However, if we start from the premise of "society is not functioning correctly and law and order are sometimes used by evil people to corrupt society" it might be equally easy to reach the conclusion that killing people indiscriminately is not a good thing but this particular killing might be justified on some grounds because it has removed someone who is corrupting/damaging society.
On the emotional side, the premise is more a function of the people involved. Lets take an extreme and start from the premise of someone who is a billionaire - they are in control of society, benefiting from society the way it is set up, and the killing of someone of their class represents an existential threat to their way of life. It would be easy to see how emotionally they would be strongly against this killing. On the other end, we may have individuals who have personally been effected by the system - perhaps having been crippled by medical negligence that was a direct effect of policies that this CEO put in place. It would be trivial to imagine a situation in which they are strongly in favor of this killing. I suspect most people fall somewhere between these two extremes, either critical or in support of the existing status quo, primarily a function of how much the status quo privileges them.
One other thing to note here is that for most people, morality is not universalist in the way you are suggesting here. Besides the broader societal/structural premises weighing heavily into the calculus of whether a specific action is moral rather than the universalist position of the action itself being moral, most humans also weigh their own personal gain as well as their audience into functions of morality. There was a fascinating study on morality where they compared neurotypical to autistic individuals where they created a set of "good context" and a "bad context" moral choices, and manipulated the personal premises (personal gain/loss and whether there was an audience) to see whether people would shift their moral compass based on these premises. While autistic people were more likely to take universalist stances on "bad context" moral choices and were less likely to care about whether there was an audience, both groups changed behavior in the "good context" based on personal gain/loss, indicating that personal reputation and the visibility of an action change how people conduct moral calculus and determine whether something is moral or immoral.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
Gaywallet Link ParentI mean I think it's worth revisiting with the currently engaged leadership on Beehaw - I'm generally in agreement based on what I've seen at this point. But I see membership being an issue if we...I mean I think it's worth revisiting with the currently engaged leadership on Beehaw - I'm generally in agreement based on what I've seen at this point. But I see membership being an issue if we aren't federated and we don't have folks who are really dedicated to spreading the word to the right spaces. I don't have that kind of capacity, but that doesn't mean there aren't others who do.
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
Gaywallet Link ParentThere are still issues with Lemmy and the developer's vision, but without a strong team who's willing to migrate us off to another platform which would be it's own potential issue (needs to be...There are still issues with Lemmy and the developer's vision, but without a strong team who's willing to migrate us off to another platform which would be it's own potential issue (needs to be attached to the fediverse but with better choices on permissions of offsite platforms/sites) I don't see us moving to any new platform anytime soon.
We've investigated a few Lemmy alternatives which are still on the fediverse, but none of them have truly come to fruition yet - seemingly stuck in development forever.
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Comment on Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans in ~food
Gaywallet LinkGotta say TERF-hortons is a solid burn though. Another chain to avoid I guessGotta say TERF-hortons is a solid burn though. Another chain to avoid I guess
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Comment on Gender Census 2026 in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentYou could identify as agender or apagender, if you want a label. Or just don't give a fuck, that's cool too. I'm trans but agender for the same reason I'm aromantic - I just don't understand how...You could identify as agender or apagender, if you want a label. Or just don't give a fuck, that's cool too.
I'm trans but agender for the same reason I'm aromantic - I just don't understand how anything can feel like gender in the same way that I don't understand how something can feel romantic. I like painting nails because painted nails are pretty and sometimes I want to feel pretty. I like lifting heavy things because I enjoy the confidence of being strong. I enjoy intimate moments with people I am close to, regardless of gender or whether we are dating.
I would say I'm too autistic to be having these social construct labelled emotions, but some people seem to have very strong feelings about these things and thus it's easiest to just not think too hard about it.
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New Jersey makes it illegal to interfere with reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare
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Comment on LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking project has compiled anti-LGBTQ+ US legislation stretching back more than twenty years in ~lgbt
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It's 11:00 pm. Do you know where your AI agent is?
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Comment on Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ in ~society
Gaywallet Link ParentPeople always say that we shouldn't celebrate someone passing, but when someone like this dies the world no longer has a significant figure who was involved in spreading hate and violence. I would...People always say that we shouldn't celebrate someone passing, but when someone like this dies the world no longer has a significant figure who was involved in spreading hate and violence. I would posit that the emotions of relief and jubilation are primarily directed at the outcome itself rather than the person. Were that person not objectively making the world worse, the people would not be cheering.
There's a lot of reasons to feel good about this. Anyone arguing that you should feel bad is either ignorant or dismissive of the crimes against humanity this person frequently and consistently committed.
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Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk
Gaywallet Link ParentI mean it's a social commentary on the other post, which is clearly shared by many people in these comments. To expand upon this a bit because I didn't have the heart to leave a short comment or...- Exemplary
This topic exists solely to make fun of someone. What possible gain is there? Who cares which is less mature? At least something positive can come of the other topic. What positive outcome is there here?
I mean it's a social commentary on the other post, which is clearly shared by many people in these comments.
To expand upon this a bit because I didn't have the heart to leave a short comment or jump into the fray on the other topic, but feel prompted to now:
The other post was extremely childish. OP was angry that people enjoyed something they didn't enjoy. They spent the effort to write up a post explaining they were angry and to actively judge people who enjoyed a thing they didn't. They even went above and beyond that, ascribing active malice to people who take part creating the thing that they do not enjoy, because they felt the need to justify their anger - to prove to others that they were correct.
I cannot state enough how fucking cringe that was. And that people weren't in the comments calling out OP for such a useless post. An equally inflammatory post. A post which garners no more meaningful discussion than this post. The other topic also existed solely to make fun of someone. These two topics are the same, just one is slapping you in the face about it rather than disguising itself.
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Comment on Nations previously opposed voted for Chat control, next vote July 6th in ~society
Gaywallet Link ParentYou might find this an interesting read. It's from a few months ago, but it has most of the pertinent information.Last I heard, almost all tech companies were against it?
You might find this an interesting read. It's from a few months ago, but it has most of the pertinent information.
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Comment on Nations previously opposed voted for Chat control, next vote July 6th in ~society
Gaywallet Link ParentI mean the mechanism is passing a law that explicitly provides privacy to something like this. The problem is that legislators can be bought and a large number of individuals in the world want...It’s infuriating that there’s no mechanism to prevent repeated attempts that have failed.
I mean the mechanism is passing a law that explicitly provides privacy to something like this. The problem is that legislators can be bought and a large number of individuals in the world want more police.
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Comment on US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, ruling against Donald Trump's order in ~society
Gaywallet Link ParentOh no, he has previously used that exact same framing to imply that they wouldn't want to restrict any firearms. He actually cites that exact case when setting up this framing 😂Oh no, he has previously used that exact same framing to imply that they wouldn't want to restrict any firearms. He actually cites that exact case when setting up this framing 😂
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Comment on US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, ruling against Donald Trump's order in ~society
Gaywallet Link ParentUnsurprisingly all of the dissenting opinions all relied on "textualist" interpretations. In order to interpret the constitution, however, they need to frame the language in the time they come...Unsurprisingly all of the dissenting opinions all relied on "textualist" interpretations. In order to interpret the constitution, however, they need to frame the language in the time they come from. How do they do this? Well, they fall back on even older systems of law. They discuss what a "domicile" is, taken from the context of feudal law... you know, when kings rule over things? The explicit rejection of which is the entire premise of this country? Well no worries, we can use feudal interpretations of law to interpret the constitution! Surely what kings' wanted in their system of law applies to the United States!! 🤦♀️
Well.. Kavanaugh didn't at least. He just argued that the constitution couldn't have predicted our current day problems and should be open to interpretation of new technology or current-day problems (4th amendment and search/seizure involving cars, for example). Interesting choice as it's kind of anti-textualist despite his history of textualist rulings (such as with dobbs v jackson).
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Comment on US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentSince when do they not just move onto the next issue? Since when is removing one right enough? If trans sports is settled, we're headed right back to the issue of medicine in trans health. Banning...Since when do they not just move onto the next issue? Since when is removing one right enough? If trans sports is settled, we're headed right back to the issue of medicine in trans health. Banning medical care is right back in the crosshairs (not that it wasn't in the first place, they've been slowly pushing the needle on this since Trump got back in office - literally the first month of '25 there was an executive order on medicaid reimbursement and gender affirming care).
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Comment on US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in ~lgbt
Gaywallet Link ParentA vote on a post ensures visibility and is not an endorsement of an opinion. I'd say it's a bit more complicated when it's a comment as a vote could signal endorsement of the opinion or a desire...A vote on a post ensures visibility and is not an endorsement of an opinion. I'd say it's a bit more complicated when it's a comment as a vote could signal endorsement of the opinion or a desire for it to be visible; the content of the comment matters a lot more - if it's objective or factual or something you might say give an exemplary to it's likely the latter, but if it's subjective or on a charged issues it's more likely the former.
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Comment on US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in ~lgbt
Gaywallet LinkNot included in this article- Kavanaugh's decision includes a footnote which states this only applies to trans women, not trans men.Not included in this article- Kavanaugh's decision includes a footnote which states this only applies to trans women, not trans men.
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US Supreme Court lets states block trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports
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Comment on ‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the rise of basedsploitation in ~movies
Gaywallet LinkPaywalled. From the little I did read, it sounds like there's some altright film producer that's just making white supremacy violence porn. Not sure why they decided to call it "basedsploitation"...Paywalled. From the little I did read, it sounds like there's some altright film producer that's just making white supremacy violence porn. Not sure why they decided to call it "basedsploitation" rather than just calling it what it is other than perhaps for engagement bait.
I agree with 99% of what you're saying here (hello fellow medical professional), but I have to note that UHG is a publicly traded, explicitly for-profit company. Their financials tell you everything you need to know about just how "zero-sum" this particular company is. There's a huge difference between how UHG operates and how medicare or medicaid operate. The government isn't looking to make a profit off health insurance, but UHG most definitely is and some of the deplorable policies you mentioned are a direct cause of that, no matter who you attribute the "blame" to.