balderdash9

@balderdash9@lemmy.zip

I’m mostly half-serious.

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balderdash9,

I think someone else in this thread said it best. The more power you have the more temptation there is to fulfill your whims. Why do you think billionaires live the way that they do?

At least, that’s how I see human nature. I made this post because I think there’s room for reasonable debate.

balderdash9,

The Ring of Gyges is a hypothetical magic ring mentioned by the philosopher Plato in Book 2 of his Republic (~375 BC). It grants its owner the power to become invisible at will. Through the device of the ring, this section of the Republic considers whether a rational, intelligent person who has no need to fear negative consequences for committing an injustice would nevertheless act justly.

So many ideas trace their roots back to ancient Greece/China. I guess there’s nothing new under the sun.

balderdash9,

An ecological disaster

balderdash9,

There’s more nuance to this subject than you’re implying. It is not the case that either we can’t make any reference to race/ethnicity or else Lemmings don’t care about racism. Making reference to race or cultural insignia doesn’t automatically make something racist.

In other words, there is a middle ground here. Blackface is an obviously hurtful representation of black people that harkens back to when white people saw them as inferior. On the other hand, many middle eastern men wear this particular head covering and there is nothing hateful about it’s inclusion into the picture.

balderdash9,

I’ll tell ya hwhat

balderdash9,

Meanwhile, me in the kitchen burning toast

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/890deaf2-70dd-4635-8cde-62aeb02cef7c.webp

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/d59cb5dc-fa7d-433b-94b6-e8f3d65576f0.webp

balderdash9,

mood

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/1c32d054-b6d1-405c-99cd-4bbca7e02089.webp

balderdash9,

The original YOLO

balderdash9,

I read and write in academic philosophy for a living. Philosophers causally throw around Latin phrases in their writing (and, sometimes embarrassingly, even when speaking):

  • Many from historical figures (e.g., Kant’s a priori/a posteriori, Berkeley’s “esse ist percepi”, Descartes “cogito ero sum”, Leibniz’s “salva veritate”, etc.)
  • Forms/rules in logic (e.g., “modus ponens”, “modus tollens”, “reductio ad absurdum”, etc.)
  • Informal fallacy names (e.g., “ad hominem”, “tu quoque”, “ad populum”, etc)
  • As well as a myriad of other commonly used terms you’re expected to know when reading philosophy (e.g., prima facie, mutatis mutandis, a fortiori, eo ipso, ex nihilo, sui generis, ceteris paribus, ad hoc, non sequitur, etc. etc.).

This is not a random list. Every one of these Latin phrases sees heavy use in today’s philosophical literature.

balderdash9,

When I first got on Lemmy I only posted OC. But Ive since realized two things: 1) creating content takes time/effort and 2) no one cares or notices that you’re just doing OC.

So now I sprinkle in reposts if I haven’t seen them on here before.

balderdash9,

Why would they have to tell you? Everyone knows!! /s

balderdash9,

I felt that

balderdash9,

That was the weirdest video essay I’ve ever seen. Liked and subscribed lol

balderdash9,

risky click of the day

balderdash9,

Some of the popular ones that are OC, yeah.

balderdash9,

idk why, but this made me laugh hard

balderdash9,

Judas moment

balderdash9,

It has begun.

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/8bed7935-0e77-4b0d-9b79-57fd1e851b69.webp

balderdash9,

damnboihethiccboi

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/47369345-e7af-4289-b66c-dfbd4aa6a01f.webp

balderdash9,

dat alien bussy

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