Balerion

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[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly? Nothing except a lot of pointless suffering. Eugenics isn't just immoral; it literally does not work. The nazis did their damnedest to kill all people with schizophrenia during the Holocaust. Schizophrenia numbers were back up to normal within a couple decades.

See this video (linked to the correct timestamp) for more on why eugenics doesn't actually do anything.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Both are unjustifiable. Governments should never get to decide who's allowed to reproduce.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

OP, you're a nazi. I would advise you to [redacted because I'm not sure how much disgust I can express before I risk being banned].

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"I have too much to do, so I'm going to take a nap." Galaxy brain logic there, self.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're so willing to die on the hill of invalidating others' relationships.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, but there are degrees of abusable. There's a difference between "yes, you could abuse this thing" and "this thing will inevitably be abused." In my opinion, hate speech laws fall into the latter category. I know of too many cases of them being abused... and worse, they don't even seem to do much to prevent hatred. See this article.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Say what you like, but I just can't think of any way to write hate speech laws that isn't incredibly abusable. Handing the government an excuse to punish to people is inherently dangerous. While it's certainly necessary in some instances, I think we should be very, very careful about adding to the list of things you can get thrown in prison for.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You claim these laws aren't a problem, then mention that governments are in fact abusing them literally right now.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There are people whom I met online but transitioned into having an in-person relationship with. My experiences of them online were not inaccurate or even incomplete. Again, fucking skill issue.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I think speech that depicts a real person being abused--e.g CSEM, revenge porn--should be prohibited. Credible threats should also be illegal. Otherwise, I don't think there should be many state-enforced restrictions on speech. I think hate speech laws are a pretty bad idea, because the people in power will inevitably use them against marginalized people. Laws intended to protect the vulnerable can easily be used to oppress them further. We're seeing this with pro-Palestinian groups being labeled hate groups right now in the name of "protecting" people from "antisemitism." (Antisemitism is a real problem, don't get me wrong, but a lot of people who get prosecuted for it haven't actually done anything except support Palestine.)

I do think that communities should enforce their own speech prohibitions, though. For example, social media platforms shouldn't tolerate racism. Even if you think racists have a moral right to spread their racism (they shouldn't), you have to understand that some forms of speech inherently suppress others. If you've got a neo-nazi screaming racial slurs at an event, obviously the people of color there will not feel safe to speak up, and their voices will not be heard. You have to decide whose speech you want to protect.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Heads-up: You can disable the LLM response by typing -ai at the end of your searches.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Whatever, dude. If you can't experience someone's full humanity via the internet, that's a you problem.

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