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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I was listening to a podcast on moral philosophy (wouldn’t you wanna be as cool as me??), and one suggestion that’s stuck with me was the morality of, trigger warning,

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    ‘life like child sex robots’.

    As in, would we as a society want to permit such things, knowing that they could potentially save humans from actual harm if they offer an outlet that scratches an itch? On the other hand, would they bring forth more harmful desires in a greater number of potential perpetrators, leading to even more harm?

    Anyway, I’m glad it’s not my job to contemplate such disturbing topics.





  • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.worldtoich_iel@feddit.deich🥒iel
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    2 years ago

    Having just a very basic vocabulary in German, translating one word at a time would have been fine, except my brain just decided that what this man was contemplating on this Nepalese train, and what he had just pushed through the juicer was in fact a Gurkha.