Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can’t decide, but it’s a depressing read.

May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.

  • @Amoeba_Girl
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    231 year ago

    If we see a child with no legs, we conclude they will never run(with the obvious objections out of the way). We should then be able to similarly imagine a mind that will never have the courage to kill themselves, or only after they have needlessly suffered for decades.

    What the fuck are you talking about you inane little hitler

    • @selfMA
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      111 year ago

      this response is almost definitely going to pop into my head the next time I unfortunately read Reddit posts

      speaking of inane little hitlers, Reddit drug understander nootropic_expert (of course) sees nothing wrong with dosing kids without their consent:

      As i’m antinatalist l wouldn’t have a kid but lets try to answer that hypothetical Q.

      So I would support my kid in funding whatever would sooth his existence. In 2023 I would try psychedelics and even chronic opioid usage if psychs wouldn’t help.

      dear reddit, as an antinatalist, [worst opinion you’ve ever seen omitted for brevity]

    • @Shitgenstein1
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      81 year ago

      (with the obvious objections out of the way)

      Rationality intensifying.

      • @selfMA
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        71 year ago

        actually fuck it I want to revisit this: these people have convinced themselves thinking machines are right around the corner, and are simultaneously able to twist their brains into knots imagining a reality in which we don’t currently have advanced assistive devices and prosthetics that are constantly getting better?

        like, I know there’s some bullshit gotcha “well you see, then the prosthetic’s running, not them” lurking here, and god damn would that be a fucking stance for the brain uploading any day now crowd to pull directly out of their ass

  • @swlabr
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    “Today I will display my mastery of LOGIC and PERSUASION by contriving a scenario in which one simply MUST mercy kill their adult progeny. The masses will PROSTRATE themselves before me in ADORATION. They will learn to REVERE and FEAR the magnitude of my brain.”

    is definitely a normal one for an ssc user.

  • @maol
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    171 year ago

    What is it about Reddit and this specific scenario? I’ve seen people talk about how the brutal truth is that disabled children are bad over and over again. If you challenge this, you’re naive and possibly offensive. It’s one of Reddit’s weird fixations (see also: father’s rights).

    • @swlabr
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      181 year ago

      I think in a cultural landscape where we’ve been fed fascist male power fantasies for so long, it’s only natural that we’ve got a bunch of people who think it’s cool and good to be “brutal” and able to make “hard choices” and “doing what’s necessary” etc. That and reddit has historically always been besieged by fascist troll farms.

      • @selfMA
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        111 year ago

        That and reddit has historically always been besieged by fascist troll farms.

        oh absolutely, and it’s very funny when they try their typical bullshit here and on mastodon and it doesn’t work as they expect (at least for now — I’ve seen various attempts from these assholes to adjust their methods to work better on the fediverse)

      • @gerikson
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        91 year ago

        Something something Sparta

    • @sc_griffith
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      121 year ago

      I mean, this is bedrock nazi ideology. gotta purge those degenerates

      • @Soyweiser
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        61 year ago

        This mensa person is also quite the idiot, thinks nazis are a race and has quite some opinions about racism (and joined the foreign legion). Check the submitted post history.

        • @maol
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          41 year ago

          The foreign legion? Fuck me…in fairness a relative of a relative also did this after a breakup but he quickly deserted.

          • @Soyweiser
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            311 months ago

            He has some weird post about how there is no racism between nazis and black people (who he calls blacks) in the legion because they dunno all shout insults at each other and it is normal they go towards skin color first? 130 iq doesn’t get the basics of racism. Really weird.

    • @EvinceoOP
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      81 year ago

      It’s an alarmingly common occurrence in real life, so I don’t think it should be surprising that it’s also something people fantasize about.

      • @maol
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        41 year ago

        That’s the bitter truth isn’t it. You’d think the raw and bloody reality would put people off.

    • @Amoeba_Girl
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      171 year ago

      I love the implication in this paragrph that the disability is not the depression but the lack of “courage to kill themselves”. I think they could probably live with that.

      • @swlabr
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        171 year ago

        Real boomer energy to look at a depressed person and lament that they don’t have the wherewithal to take care of themselves (meant both in the normal sense and in the mafia sense)

    • @maol
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      141 year ago

      Ok I thought this was about euthanasia but I clicked through and he’s basically just advocating for family annihilation??? There’s no way THIS could go wrong, huh??

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      " Q2: Suicide is not the answer to depression and equivalent ailments!

      A2: You should at least be able to accept that sometimes it is the best answer in our imperfect world. Your character in this scenario has come to believe this is one of those times. "

      I feel like there might be some other issues with your parenting if this is the case. Chronic depression rarely comes from nowhere.

  • @elmtonic@lemmy.world
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    151 year ago

    For the purposes of this argument, near term AGI or promising clinical trials for depression are off the table.

    FOX ONLY. FINAL DESTINATION. NO ITEMS ROBOT GODS.

    • @carlitoscohones
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      101 year ago

      Because that would be the first thing I thought of, “AGI.” Like, my kid is really depressed; if we only had developed a robot who could think.

    • @sc_griffith
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      31 year ago

      that is a lot of suffering and I’m glad someone in that much pain can address it how they choose

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        i’m not

        edit: i mean, to be less pithy; in the vast majority of these cases, “choice” is an illusion, there is intense pressure directed at the disabled and there is nothing to be glad about when you see a society offer death before they offer genuine help and accommodation. and i don’t even want to contemplate the particular politics of this one.

        • @sc_griffith
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          31 year ago

          yeah, the pithyness about your preference having had control over my life is not really appreciated. I understand your point of view tho

          • @Amoeba_Girl
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            41 year ago

            I understand that it’s a touchy subject but my point is that it’s a political issue and not a question of mere personal preference. It infuriates me the way this subject is treated outside of disability activists so I’ll recuse myself here. Apologies.

            • @sc_griffith
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              21 year ago

              whose personal preferences are or are not permitted to be carried out is in part what politics is, so I certainly wasn’t claiming it’s ‘not political’ or in your slightly diminutive phrasing “mere personal preference.” nor am I unaware of the history on this, or the individual realities of parents etc killing their charges, or of the systemic realities of all sorts of types, especially capitalists, being perfectly happy to substitute killing people off for support. none of that justifies trivializing intense suffering with flip comments like “oh she didn’t get over it after a few years.” that’s an unbelievably callous description of how painful just existing can be for some people, and it’s personally shocking to me how lightly you treat taking away something that would have spared a younger me from a whole lot.

              • @Zoop@beehaw.org
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                211 months ago

                This is gonna sound stupid, especially because I’m in too much pain right now to be able to find my words right to better explain myself and my thoughts, but I wanted to say I appreciate you. And agree with you. And I’m sorry you’ve suffered so much.

  • @Soyweiser
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    91 year ago

    A post in the style of ‘we should allow the Chatgpt say slurs else it will cause nuclear armageddon’ there the premise ‘slurs/justified murder of people I dislike’ is picked first and then people rationalize back to support that argument no matter how dumb and horrible their thinking actually becomes. Discussing with somebody like this is imho useless as they just think they should be allowed to ‘say slurs’/‘murder people’.

  • @Shitgenstein1
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    81 year ago

    Imagine that you are a parent, and your child has the misfortune of developing chronic depression at a young age. Their depression resists all forms of treatment, and they live in near constant pain.

    Mom and Dad breaking out the potassium chloride when you listen to too much Elliott Smith and refuse to smile for the family Christmas photo.

  • AcausalRobotGod
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    311 months ago

    Acausal fucking robot god, what did I just read?