I'm pretty sure every epiphany they have just results in a tedious r/themotte post that implies they're the first person on Earth to realize this thing
I wish I could fast-forward a couple of centuries to when they’re finally hitting their Judith Butler *Gender Trouble* era...
On second thought, that is really optimistic of me...
Atomistically comparing animals in the food chain’s success and
failure to the constructs of economic success and failure (nevermind the
fallacious appeal to nature) kind of skips over the whole fact that our
overwhelming success as a species is owed to the social collaboration
capabilities afforded to us by our big, often misused (as the poster
demonstrates) brains.
The difference is that if sympathetics are owed, weakness is assigned
value.
This whole bit is so vague that I suspect it’s intentional. I’d bet
today’s paycheck that if you pressed this poster on what defines value
and weakness you’d uncover some racist shit real quick. Let’s just check
the recent post history.
It’s absolutely true that anti-racism as an ideology has no personal
standards for its members and demands loyalty.
Hell yeah, it’s one of those moments where I get to post a Le Guin
quote because it’s mildly related to the theme of the post!
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever
piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing,
not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another
starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue
of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns
reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning,
and you will begin to be able to think.
– The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
For real though, everyone should read more Le Guin, especially
Motters.
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I’d love to be a fly on the wall when this guy realizes that all rights are socially constructed. Will his head literally explode?
Atomistically comparing animals in the food chain’s success and failure to the constructs of economic success and failure (nevermind the fallacious appeal to nature) kind of skips over the whole fact that our overwhelming success as a species is owed to the social collaboration capabilities afforded to us by our big, often misused (as the poster demonstrates) brains.
This whole bit is so vague that I suspect it’s intentional. I’d bet today’s paycheck that if you pressed this poster on what defines value and weakness you’d uncover some racist shit real quick. Let’s just check the recent post history.
Nope, not “I don’t think moral desert is a good way to evaluate public policy” - “I don’t like the concept of ‘deserve.’”
Code-switching between science fiction and fantasy like that.
Hell yeah, it’s one of those moments where I get to post a Le Guin quote because it’s mildly related to the theme of the post!
– The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
For real though, everyone should read more Le Guin, especially Motters.
Iirc philosophytube already had a video about countering this argument 2 years ago.
E: yep, looked it up, hey at least the yt comments are a step up compared to the motte ;).
interesting but a bit silly