Oh, I agree. I’m very glad they’re not mutually exclusive! But neither imply the other, both are virtues that can be pursued independently, and I believe that pursuing both at the same time is very “good.”

So, the closest thing I’ve had to a childhood hero is Spock from the 60s Star Trek show. As I’ve grown older and more aware of of the world around me, I’ve realized elevating rationality to a virtue by itself isn’t enough to form a coherent ethos. In fact, I think individuals are actually very bad at rationality. Everyone who puts rationality on a pedestal, from Zizians to SBF to Reddit atheists to Elon Musk to Randian libertarians, is really just forgetting how subjective rationality can be.

I firmly believe that compassion is just as important as rationality when it comes to building strong, honest societies. You need both. We want ethics that are internally consistent, sure, but rationality and internal consistency don’t themselves give ethics purpose.

Putting aside the discussion about bodies and objects, the primary concern is consent - which also applies to objects anyway. Would you steal a dead person’s wallet “because they don’t need it anymore”?

Why wouldn’t you? There are very few instances in which one can assume they have consent over another person’s body.

I mean, I’m a booba enjoyer myself, I’m not trying to shame anyone. Just want to help everyone feel welcome, especially when the message is some support they need to hear

Too many guys appreciating boobs are scaring away the women that this message is probably really intended for. It’s body acceptance and positivity for busty women

Is there porn for dolphins that isn’t porn of dolphins?

I’m sure the reverse exists 😂

Absolute boomerbait waste of time, but I do like the irony of using AI to make the case that the past was better because tech bad

Ah, ok. Didn’t know much reading-between-the-lines I needed to do there lol

People like RFK confuse skepticism with going against conventional thinking. Flerfers and anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists aren’t skeptical, because then they’d be open-minded about evidence. But they think they’re being skeptical because they’re going against the status quo.

Unfortunately bucking the status quo becomes an identity issue, and not only does evidence not matter anymore, but grifters come out to prey on people who just want to be skeptical.