It's certainly a responsibility. A responsibility that, through its unique circumstances, you were not given the opportunity to accept our reject on your own volition.
I generally view that life has no meaning out of the box. We tend to think of terms like "meaningless" as a negative thing, but I see that more as a reaction to the indoctrination of a society that insists on lives having meaning. You wouldn't say a scattering of sand on the floor had "meaning," but you also wouldn't call the scattering "meaningless" in its negative connotation.
And just as we could use our finger to arrange the sand into a message and assign it meaning, we can choose to assign a meaning to our own lives. But that's still doesn't mean it started having meaning. If it did, that would be predestination, which is absurd.
I don't feel life's a responsibility. Rather a consequence of someone elses irresponsibility that you are now stuck with, doing damage control and trying to suffer as little as possible.
I suppose that would depend on how easy it is to change ones perspective, which is something I've made no claim about. If you are depressed, for example, perspective change is notoriously difficult--and in my (admittedly limited, anecdotal) experience, everyone I have known to view life as a curse has been suffering some level of depression.
What perspective change? Your brains splattered on the wall? While I am also grateful to be alive, I don't think it's that hard to imagine other people being in situations where they feel deeply unhappy about being born, and that that feeling really can't be dispelled with a simple "perspective change", unless you mean suicide.
I think you're misreading the comment you're responding to. Its parent comment said that life can be a blessing or a curse depending on how you choose to look. They responded by asking whether the word "curse" is appropriate if it can be changed based only on perspective.
I read the comment with a bit more grace. I just assumed they were skipping to the end of a journey without any of the subject's empathetic nuance. Meaning, most philosophical, spiritual, psychological, and mindset approaches all "end" with the idea that we have a choice in how we feel about things. That choice is choosing to feel things differently.
Those ends would say that suffering is a product of our own making. It is a choice. Bad things can happen to you, but your perspective on the situation creates the suffering (resistance, guilt, personalization, inability to see it as a change agent, etc.).
Who knew users of HACKER news wouldn't be in favor of suppressing technology and exchange of information whatever it might be for mainstream morality reasons.
Monkey see. Monkey do. Nothing surprising here. Once people decide to do something then they model their actions on what they've seen. Even for such innate and strong desires. So completely hands off approach, leaving it to market forces, might not be the best course of action. But banning doesn't seem like a golden bullet either.
That is super interesting culturally. Once video hosting became feasible to be offered for free people came up with the idea that posting their recordings online is a good idea. Which is fine bacause to the casual observer their face is as anonymous as their online handle. You can extract value from millions of your viewers with them knowing about you only as much as you told and shown them.
Publishing is just the first part. The other part is reactions. Most platforms let you disable them so your viewers don't see the disgusting things people say about you right there along your content. Yet many people who publish themselves decide to leave them on. Because the vile comments actually help them exploit their viewers. There's a value to being told to kill yourself in a comment on your post.
If the capability to let users generate fake porn in the comments was left to creators. Many of them would leave that option on. For the same reason they leave the comments on. Ben Shapiro could benefit a lot if some terrible person commented on his video with deepfake or him sucking someone off. Both because of the outrage and because his viewer base is more homophobic and homophoby correlates with homosexual arousal.
I don’t really see it to be honest. I feel like their best and most natural use is scams.
Maybe a different comparison you would agree with is Stingrays, the devices that track cell phones. Ideally nobody would have them but as is, I’m glad they’re not easily available to any random person to abuse.
I really love how, thanks to China, people are beginning to see how technologically suppresive American oligarchy is and who's the reason why we can't have nice things.
Nah, probably just shifting fronts of lobbying. That said new recommendations match way closer what I consider to be a good diet for myself (more calories from fats, less from carbs). Of course everything in moderation.
I'm not quite sure what official inflation index measures but you can get rough estimate of how much value dollar lost if you compare prices of bitcoin in dollars and euro at the beginning and the end of the year.
More concretely, if you converted 1btc to euro or dollar at the beginning of the year and back to btc at the end, how much fewer btc you'd end up with if you went through dollar as oppossed to euro.
I always perceived it completely opposite. Even as a few years old child.
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