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  • Unsolicited advice from someone who used to be like you: Consider a person’s intent when considering your tone. You can’t just make a call regarding your outward level of courtesy merely based on subject matter. They may not know better. In a vacuum, is it “fair” to hate someone based on unintentional ignorance? Consider their intent first.

    Edit: to be clear I’m referring to the unintentional ignorance of the artist, not meldrik. Fuck that guy.






  • Depends on what you don’t know and when you didn’t know it.

    All crimes have requirements. Most crimes require that the person “know” or “intended” to engage in the criminal behavior. Sometimes the knowledge requirement is subjective, but mostly it’s objective…i.e. what would a reasonable person have known under the same circumstances. Which means that being drunk or otherwise impaired is rarely a defense to a crime requiring knowledge or awareness. Another exception when knowledge doesn’t matter is statutory rape of a minor in the US; you can legitimately think they are of age when you screw… But if they are a minor it’s rape regardless.

    The knowledge requirement pertains to factual knowledge of the circumstance (i.e. you reasonably knew the property wasn’t yours when you took it). Ignorance of the law is not a defense. Everyone has implied knowledge of every law as soon as it’s codified. Fuckin’ bullshit, especially the younger and poorer you are.


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    A majority of human interaction is some form of manipulation. I think the question should be what degree the manipulation serves the manipulator versus the mark. For example, my wife compliments me for not looking like a total piece of shit. This both helps diminish tendencies in me she dislikes (helping her) and encourages me to not be a piece of shit, which given that my wife generally looks out for my best interests, helps me as well. From the opposite perspective, gaslighting is a form of manipulation that only benefits the manipulator… Hence why it’s frowned upon.


  • From an evolutionary biological perspective, rape is seen as a mating strategy. Given the eventual extinction of Neanderthalensis, and the fact that physical attractiveness is also an important factor in modern mating practices of homo S, it makes more sense that the introduction of homo N. genes into homo S. population was less likely caused by sapiens being physically attracted to Neanderthals and more likel introduced through the sexual domination of sapien females by Neanderthal males. If that weren’t the case the physical differences between the two species would have been less pronounced. That’s my theory anyway.








  • I don’t think your viewpoint is supported by history. It is common for marginalized communities to take on the code words of those who oppress them and turn them into their own. The hate mongers use those words in an attempt to “other” their targets and separate them from society. If society embraces those words, especially the communities that are affected by them, the hatemongers lose power.

    If you are waiting on everybody to reach the same conclusions as you, you will die waiting. We all want to live in a perfect world. But perfect is different for each of us. So instead of fighting a losing battle with no real winner, look to how the community affected wants you to act. When we help others we should help them in the ways that they want, not the ways we think they should want.