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@ggreenwald It does. The coffee shop has every right to refuse anyone for any reason & all laws to the contrary are illegitimate.

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@HumzaYousaf Oh no, the barbarian death cultists are upset their rape habit is causing problems! Maybe you should call somewhere else home, like the 3rd world shitholes your primitive religion naturally creates? While your existence is humanity's shame, the civilized world tolerates it there.

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@RoKhanna Here are the merits, bitch.

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@BiancoDavinci Amazing

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@NicholasAHollis @RandomSprint Critics? Bell violations strongly imply nonlocality & the actual ontology of what's going on remains unknown; it's not a critique of QM to imagine we might at some point figure it out & thereby uncover a larger regime of superluminal constraints that can be manipulated.

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@RandomSprint ...science fiction that supposes the No Communication Theorem is only an approximation & a true understanding of the nature of wave function collapse allows for a clever trick that a more primitive "mysteriously correlated random events" model lacks the machinery to represent?

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@LizzyStarrrdust You don't actually have to heat it up first, you can put it in the freezer at room temperature.

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@BurtReddington @confirmedterfs @MT_6226 Lol you were too stupid to understand anything I said so just repeated your weird nonsense. Sure buddy, you get 0 say in your own medical care because the Hippocratic Oath somehow collapses multiple dimensions of risk to a total order leaving the doctor a deterministic automaton

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@megha_lilly Actually I kind of like that one. It doesn't capure looking up, it captures looking horizontally. It's idealized to emphasize the qualium of canopy-as-sky. The forest is treated as filling perceptual reality, a world in itself with its own sky; even negative space is the forest.

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@infantrydort A huge number of Man's problems come from mistaking emotions as objects of value, some good & some bad. Feeling an emotion in a particular context is good or bad based not on which emotion it is but whether it's warranted by the context. All of them have some warranted contexts.

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@BurtReddington @confirmedterfs @MT_6226 No, yes exactly. It's not "causing harm" to respect someone's own decisions about how they want to balance different types of risk in a landscape where every action carries risk. A prohibition on harming isn't a mandate to control.

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@MT_6226 You don't want me to know about tumors... because I'll want them looked at? "We're incompetent at investigating & might injure you trying, so it's best you give up on preventing deadly illness rather than rely on us to do our jobs." Ok then tech bros will & should replace you too

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan I was talking about one forcibly asserting ownership over another, i.e. a right to control him that supercedes his own will in all circumstances, which I think is the essence of "slavery". Hard to get much less broad. Yes, my points may not apply under differently defined words.

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@ShamashAran The turmoil in the Middle East was caused by us creating Israel. For us to blame them for the conflict & continually prevent them from defeating their enemies is insane--& for ppl to act like we help bc they control us & not bc they're our proxy in the theater & we share enemies.

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan There are 2 different happinesses here length limits & casual language are making hard to separate: happiness as an attitude about something & happiness as an overall state, i.e. an attitude about your life in general. You can be happy WHILE a slave without being happy AS a slave

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan Sure. I was talking in terms of the pure prototypical concept of slavery. If you broaden the word then it then it doesn't necessarily follow that all forms of slavery are wrong at all & there's a whole complex of questions about what legitimate obligations are & how they arise.

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan Yes. I don't think my feelings about things should be independent of the things themselves. I don't think "be happy" is a goal; the goal is "be such that you SHOULD be happy". If I ought to be unhappy, happiness is error. Emotions aren't values but the qualia of value judgments.

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan I think the attributes of personhood are consciousness, will, & reason, and that slavery is wrong not for inducing a state of consciousness but for usurping a will; it hurts BECAUSE it's wrong, not the other way around. The evil is in perverting a man's nature, not making him sad

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@TomcatJunkie Since you were able to see them, it's obviously camo designed to work only in space.

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan It's not beneficial to be happy in degradation, but rather degrades you more since you ratify it as good. The happy slave deserves his slavery; if he deserves it, why free him? And if he doesn't, what a terrible act it would be to transform him so that he DOES!

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@zaffy2005 @EveKeneinan What isn't being objective is blindly taking happiness as the only good. Happiness is not a good at all; it is the experience of perceiving the presence of the good. The good is good regardless. What IS good is perceiving correctly, i.e. finding happiness in good rather than evil