• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    The logical next question becomes: why do you get to live? Everything wants to live and is afraid to die. You aren’t special.

    This line of argumentation leads to nihilism at its conclusion: nothing matters, everything is permitted, kill whatever you want.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      20 days ago

      That’s a simple minded misunderstanding of nihilism. It is not a license to just do whatever with no consequences or consideration.

      Nothing matters, because there is no such thing as divine law or morality, so it doesn’t matter what you choose to matter to you. That’s entirely your opinion to have and dictate your life around. We are free to shape our own reality and morals.

      You’re right. We aren’t special in the grand scheme. Humans are just another animal in the ecosystem. But I am me and I choose to care about myself, so I choose to care about whether I live or die.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          20 days ago

          No, I fully engaged with it. You just don’t have the logical ability to figure that out so let me explain it simply for you…

          That’s entirely up to you to decide. No one can make that decision for you. If you’re that shitty of a person then that’s for you to choose to be.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            20 days ago

            Maybe it’s different for you, but people don’t always choose to care about things. Rather, it is something that happens to us, so I don’t choose to care about the screaming and bleeding of pigs as I run them over with a lawnmower. It’s forced on me by my empathy, it was never a choice. I suppose I could choose to care about the grass, but it doesn’t happen on its own.

            That’s why slaughterhouse work is associated with higher rates of self harm, violence, addiction, alcoholism, overdose, abuse, depression, and suicide. Slaughterers don’t choose to care about the animals they kill, it just happens to them. Sometimes they become so psychically wounded that they stop caring, but after that they lose the ability to care about anyone else either.

            Neither do I choose to care if you live or die. It just happens. Unfortunately.

            I do choose to block you, though, because you’re going to hurt me again if I don’t. I wonder why you chose to hurt me?