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We have to stop the ticks. Flood the earth? Modern day ice age? I'm spitballing. There are no bad ideas.
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If you also have a baby in that 400 sq ft room they will do their darnedest to roll, wiggle and inchworm to that 3"x3" spot so they can faceplant into it.
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Certain facts of childrearing defy reason. It you have a hardwood floor in a 400 sq ft room with a 3"x3" spot requiring cleaning solution to sit on it for 5 minutes, your toddler is going to slip on it. Twice if you don't spend the next 4 minutes restraining them.
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I don't know how to explain this, but most days two kids isn't that many kids and some days two kids is SO MANY KIDS.
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If "three strikes" laws seem overly draconian to too many people, we could easily get ~the same outcomes with ten strikes.
A third of all shoplifting arrests in NYC in 2022 were due to just 327 people. That's 0.00385% of the population doing 33% of the crime!. This guy is one of them. Lock him up.
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Let us all ponder this, lest we be moral simpletons.
@simoj_ how many pounds of salami would it take for me to get you to turn your mom over to isis.
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I know someone who outruns years of unpaid child support while maintaining a meth habit & a gambling addiction because he works under the table as a handyman/carpenter, and therefore can collect assistance. He's not representative of every poor person but there are many like him.
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People who write like this have had no real contact with the poor.
"going on disability means you will not work, you will not get a raise, you will not get whatever meaning people get from work. you will be poor for the rest of your life. That's the deal. And it's a deal 14 million Americans have signed up for."
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I probably understated the "really, really loves you" bit. Like, while your kid is little it doesn't even occur to her that she *could* not love you.
You know, at the end of the day it is exactly what it sounds like. There's a little person in your house with high needs who really, really loves you and you are responsible for her being okay 24/7. Is that a delight or a horror? You tell me.
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You know, at the end of the day it is exactly what it sounds like. There's a little person in your house with high needs who really, really loves you and you are responsible for her being okay 24/7. Is that a delight or a horror? You tell me.
At the risk of (indirectly) responding to an A*lla post, we have really oversold the misery and drudgery of caring for children because of a bottomless desire for female victimhood.
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But again, I implore you, just do something else. This doesn't matter. It's not relevant to you or anyone else.
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By the way, if you really want to spend your time mulling over "which is worse, a teeny tiny amount of suffering x a bajillion bajillion, or the worst possible suffering once?" you can do Eliezer's OG post, which avoids the beaten-horse vegan connotations
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Honestly, my deepest objection is that even considering how many shrimp you'd kill another human being for is poisonous to the psyche. Just as you shouldn't consider how much $ you'd take to cheat on your spouse, etc. It's a bad hobby and compelling others to participate is bad.
@webdevMason 10^100 is a really big number tho. Why object "that would be an undesirable trade" instead of "that trade will never be offered"?. (There's a decision theory point here that decisions rest on probutils not utils and so you might be mistaken about where your "nope" originates).
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To put this hypothetical in perspective note that there are only around 10^80 *atoms* in the *observable universe*.
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IMO trying to force a sort of religious guilt on people for not forcibly rearranging their own empathy circuits according to a continuously evolving crowdsourced logic is EA's original sin. Care about what you care about, try to act on the world accordingly.
I have to be honest, even if it gets me cancelled: nothing has turned me against the effective altruist crowd more than "shrimp welfare.".
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I've already drafted an advance directive indicating I'd like to bring my pregnancy to term if applicable. I'm considering adding my intent to donate only if it does not interfere with that process, and only if brain death is declared (not "circulatory death" or "cardiac death").
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In other words, removing yourself from the organ donor registry does not mean that you can't donate your organs under any circumstances. It just permits you and/or your family more control if something terrible were to happen to you.
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This is your reminder that if you designate yourself an organ donor at the DMV, your family will not be able to intervene to prevent the donation. If you *don't,* you can clarify your wishes in an advance directive or allow your family to make the decision.
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The chief value of this post is demonstrating that the philosophy majors who promote this sort of thing are not only hopelessly blinkered, but full of contempt for people like you.
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