cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552
Just capitalism doing its thing
What does this have to do with capitalism? Did we just switch from "everything bad is communism" to "everything bad is capitalism"?
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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One of the benefits of living and working in a liberal society is that stuff like this can get publicly published, discussed and rejected if deemed bad. Under totalitarian regimes that public forum is absent, which is why some of the worst ideas/atrocities of the Soviet Union only came to light years after they had happened (instead of being rejected before they could happen). When it comes to human rights, liberalism > communism, and it's not even close.
that paper has GOT to be a thinly veiled gruesome fetish manuscript, involving at least a couple corpses.
there are far too many fucked up hentai plots that have the same lines
either way dude needs the nsa as his isp for a good bit
The spice must flow. The Tlielaxu will have their Axolotl Tanks.
Seems like a super-nerdy medical idea that would work without capitalism and has nothing to do with capitalism.
A lot of things terminally online people claim is capitalism has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, sounds like a dumb hypothetical you're having with your nerdy friends or a staff member of Hitlers cabinet discussing the next big thing after eugenics.
we need the original author's names.
they need to be on a list somewhere for... additional oversight.
just saying you don't come to this 'scientific conclusion' in a vacuum, someone needs to check the rest of their.... social circle.
Well it was a woman philosopher and likely written with the dichotomy in mind that we accept brain dead organ donation while reviling paying people to sell one their kidneys/part of their livers/one of their lungs and also accept surrogacy while reviling this modest proposal.
Lois Lowry. Wasn't this a thing in The Giver?
man I read that so long ago, but I don't remember this....
The only thing I took away from reading it in elementary school was the discovery that my english teacher couldn't identify a pedophile if given a map, a copy of the criminal indictment for pedophilia and a big flashing neon sign that reads "pedophile"...
whenever I encounter people like that it makes me wonder if they're pedos....
I think this specific one is more down to shifting cultural attitudes, but yeah broadly I certainly agree. Some people...
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