You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
bluh i feel gross and want to shower but there are no clean towels
and Dad is taking his sweet time on getting his stuff out of the washer so i can wash some
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
"Whether you are a progressive, a reactionary, or anything in between, I highly recommend the recent documentaryYour Mommy Kills Animals, about the animal-rights movement. In it there is a clip of Ingrid Newkirk in which she makes the following proposition: animal rights is a social justice movement. All social justice movements in the past have been successful. Therefore, the animal rights movement will inevitably succeed.
This is pure Whig history. It postulates a mysterious force that animates the course of history, and operates inevitably in the progressive direction. Note the circular reasoning: social justice succeeds because social justice is good. How do we know that social justice is good? Because it succeeds, and good tends to triumph over evil. How do we know that good tends to triumph over evil? Well, just look at the record of social-justice movements."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Note the circular reasoning: social justice succeeds because social justice is good. How do we know that social justice is good? Because it succeeds, and good tends to triumph over evil. How do we know that good tends to triumph over evil? Well, just look at the record of social-justice movements.
animal rights is a social justice movement. All social justice movements in the past have been successful. Therefore, the animal rights movement will inevitably succeed.
idk where in that sentence it says that "social justice succeeds because social justice is good", it's simply stating that other movements that, according to her, are similar have almost always been successful in the past.
Of course, the statement does skip over the fact that the animal rights movement is very different from other social justice movements in that it is about, well, animals.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Of course, [Ingrid Newkirk's] statement does skip over the fact that the animal rights movement is very different from other social justice movements in that it is about, well, animals.
Animal rights is very different from other social justice movements in that animals can't speak for themselves.
Of course, [Ingrid Newkirk's] statement does skip over the fact that the animal rights movement is very different from other social justice movements in that it is about, well, animals.
Animal rights is very different from other social justice movements in that animals can't speak for themselves.
there are varying degrees of intellectual impairment; some intellectually disabled people are quite capable of speaking for themselves
i'm not sure there is a unified social justice worldview, but i think it's generally held that people with disabilities should be treated with respect and that programmes should exist so that people with disabilities should be able to do the same things everyone else can do, as far as is possible
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Sat in Subway and internally cried while drinking a soda and then went to the grocery store to buy stuff for sandwiches.
this is my life.
they make everything un8oring
This is pure Whig history. It postulates a mysterious force that animates the course of history, and operates inevitably in the progressive direction. Note the circular reasoning: social justice succeeds because social justice is good. How do we know that social justice is good? Because it succeeds, and good tends to triumph over evil. How do we know that good tends to triumph over evil? Well, just look at the record of social-justice movements."
also problem of induction but that's a given
Animal rights is very different from other social justice movements in that animals can't speak for themselves.
Where do intellectually disabled humans fit into the social justice worldview?
OwOalso very true
Are you implying that intellectually disabled persons cannot self-advocate?
i'm not sure there is a unified social justice worldview, but i think it's generally held that people with disabilities should be treated with respect and that programmes should exist so that people with disabilities should be able to do the same things everyone else can do, as far as is possible