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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Has nobody mentioned Barotrauma? Had a few hundred hours of fun with this, my buddy and I. Especially if you don't mind shit being a bit shiny. It is unique, and it keeps on giving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I fundamentally disagree that this distinction exists, and even if it did this is not a situation where it would apply.

But it does exist; preaching is persuading or guiding others to follow your own beliefs. If no distinction existed then we would be mechanically bound to preach what we believe, and we're not, so it's a choice.

Everyone is a hypocrite to some degree. There are levels of hypocrisy that are breathtaking, and levels that are just meh.

'Thou shalt not kill' is a biblical commandment, not a principle. It comes from the fundamental principle of harm minimisation, and the two examples you gave are different (extreme) applications of that principle, see: the trolley problem etc. It's morality for babies; looking at extreme black and white cases to be able to get a clear, consensus issue. Life is rarely that simple. Morality is never that simple.

They straight up went "when I break my own moral principles it doesn't feel as bad as when others break them against me"

I'm not sure, that seems like another extreme interpretation of something more nuanced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

This behaviour is morally no better than that of megachurch pastors who preach the immorality of gay sex and get caught paying men to fuck them in the ass.

OP didn't say they preached their morals though. Holding morals and preaching them are different things. I'd put this more in the category of people who pray secretly to a different god than the state-enforced religion, since OP is living in a capitalist society whilst not holding capitalist values.

I think there's got to be room for some grey areas in morality. I abhor late-stage capitalism, but I would not rather die than shop at a chain supermarket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I bet you say that about all broad categorisations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I actually inadvertently laughed out loud

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I don't feel like this is a strong argument, if that's what it's meant to be. If not, please disregard the following.
You don't need to watch the Olympics or the Paralympics to have compassion for your fellow human beings who are competing there. And you can simultaneously feel compassion for the cis women who feel that the playing field is not level if trans women compete with them, and for the trans women who just want to be able to compete.
I'm vehemently pro-trans, and I think that this issue has yet to be settled either way. What you seen to be doing here is an ad hominem attack on someone holding the opposite viewpoint to you (a viewpoint that, again, I hold). This doesn't help push things forward.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are different levels of lying though aren't there. This woman had a history of stirring trouble, and if the motive AND outcome of this lie were to stir up trouble on as large a scale as possible, then to not oppose this behaviour would be to invite more unrest.
The whole country just rioted based on a complete fabrication; a racist lie, cynically fabricated for the purpose of provocation. That needs to be addressed, and if she is the provocateur then she needs to be punished, because that type of behaviour is evidently destructive to society.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

DO IT YOU FUCKING COWARDS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's in the top 100%

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I used to work in France. The 30 days is just the beginning. I ended up with 44 paid holidays per year towards the end of my contract. There are different types of paid leave and I got 9 days extra because one of my children has a disability.

However, the work culture in France is extremely toxic. You face a sort of social othering if you don't conform with the unspoken rules which are even harder to understand if French is not your first language. Punishments include being managed/bored out and being "put in the cupboard" where you're given a dead end role and basically left to rot until retirement. There's a history of work related suicide in France.

Even so, you are a lot more free than in other countries. I'm not complaining. Plus, unions still have actual powers there (although they're being eroded down)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not just the British, the Irish indulge in this too.

30-year civil war at the end of four centuries of sectarian violence: "The Troubles".

The deadliest conflict in human history (WWII): "The Emergency"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not in the slightest. I'm aware that a country isn't a monolith. Unfortunately, the country as a whole celebrates its victories in sporting events. These athletes shouldn't be punished, true. But the politicians who are committing genocide should. Their ability to celebrate their nation and to receive international acclaim is unfortunately tied up in their athlete's careers.
Allowing Israel to participate is validating a genocidal apartheid ethnostate. The athletes wear that flag.

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